I have just published the concluding article for my series about the months in gaming history that launched Vintrospektiv back in December. I announced that I would be writing this in my farewell e-mail, and in a way it marks the final entry of Vintrospektiv as I originally envisioned it. However, as I also said, […]
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After some deliberation, I have decided to discontinue Vintrospektiv. Originally, I had planned on looking back after one year, which would be the end of December, and then make up my mind about how to proceed – but I am so far from any hope to earn money at all, let alone be able to […]
Continue Reading Nach einiger Überlegung habe ich beschlossen, Vintrospektiv nicht mehr weiterzuführen. Ursprünglich hatte ich vor, nach einem Jahr, also Ende Dezember, zurückzublicken und mir zu überlegen, wie ich weitermachen sollte. Ich bin aber so weit von jeder Hoffnung entfernt, überhaupt Geld zu verdienen, geschweige denn genug, um davon leben zu können, dass nicht mehr davon auszugehen […]
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Way back in the summer of 1989, while on a vacation in Düsseldorf, I worked as a backup graphics artist at Rainbow Arts on the promotional (AdWare) game Sunny Shine on the Funny Side of Life – then called Sunny Shine: The L&M Game. It’s a long story. I created one of the locations and […]
Continue ReadingSince FeedBurner has ended its e-mail subscription service (that wasn’t very good anyway), I have switched to follow.it, which seems to offer some advanced features and is much more customisable for the subscriber. So why not go ahead and subscribe to my articles and video info bits via e-mail? You can find the button on […]
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Gubbdata is an annual demo party held since 2015 (online for the last two times). I’ve just entered one of my old songs that I wrote around 1991 into the “Other Music” (i.e., non-C64) competition. The song is called An Answering Mood and was composed on an Amiga with ProTracker 2.3 (or maybe 2.4). While […]
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While I was thinking about where to post my original Zork I maps from the late eighties or early nineties (as a reaction to this post on Reddit), I decided I might as well upload them here so that they will be preserved for interested parties. I might also link to them every now and […]
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Am 6. April wird um 18 Uhr die 46. Ausgabe der Radiosendung „Herzblut Freie Szene“ gesendet, die immer am ersten Dienstag des Monats im Rahmen der „Berliner Runde“ ausgestrahlt wird und sich mit performativer Kunst in allen ihren Facetten beschäftigt. Diesmal bin ich als Gast dabei und unterhalte mich eine Stunde lang mit dem Moderator […]
Continue ReadingI originally anticipated the move to English as a longer process, but it turned out that this bilingual limbo does not work very well in either language: German readers are confused by the English parts, while English (and international) readers feel alienated by the German parts, to put it very simple. As a result, the […]
Continue ReadingSeit Mitte Dezember habe ich bei meinen Twitter- und Instagram-Auftritten täglich ein wenig unnützes Wissen gepostet: bei Instagram mit einem Foto aus meiner Sammlung, bei Twitter nur als kurzen Text. Zu diesen Aktivitäten gab es extrem wenig Resonanz (insgesamt 2 Kommentare und 1 neuen Follower bei Instagram sowie 2 neue Follower bei Twitter), daher habe […]
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