![]() Throughout the 2000s, positive childhood experiences with this versatile computer have been bringing many authors back to the platform. The popularity of the Commodore 64 made it the most important platform of the demoscene’s early years. The youth’s endless fascination with this new technology quickly gave rise to a vibrant subculture with its own events, magazines and publications. In Finland, where it sold the most units per capita in the world, it was labelled the “National Computer”.Īlongside playing games, thousands of young people started experimenting with programming, drawing pixel graphics and writing music on the computer. The Commodore 64 was released in 1982 and quickly became massively popular. Many families bought their first home computers in the mid-1980s. Finland and the Nordic countries are the birthplaces of the demoscene. In Finland, the demoscene was born around the Commodore 64 computer, from where it later spread onto other platforms. The demoscene is a computer hobbyist subculture born in the 1980s that focuses on creating impressive visual demonstrations, or “demos” for short, using programming, music and graphics.
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