Incline Stamps Back — free documentary about the birth of the Hungarian cracking/demoscene

[Rincewind]

As the title says. Now with full English subtitles, and I'm pretty sure they recorded the master to a real VHS tape, then digitised it back. Prestigious!

A must-watch for C64 and Amiga enthusiasts, and for anyone who loves the 80s. I've personally lived through it in Hungary, and these were glorious times indeed

From Commodore 64s smuggled across the Iron Curtain to cracked games on cassette tapes sold at flea markets, floppy disk swapping via postal mail, hacked phone booths connected to US BBSes, and copy parties packed to capacity, Stamps Back tells the story of how teenagers in Hungary ignited a computing revolution in the 1980s with illegally copied video games from the West, and began the Hungarian demoscene.

Trailer



Full movie (144 mins)

 

[Melan]

Oh man. I've got to watch this. I didn't personally participate in the OG thing, but was an avid diskmag reader, and later contributor. Wild times.