Ep. 53
53. The creation of a station
One year on the AIR! Celebration is in order. DJ Daemon tells you the story of a station that loves the demo scene and the tracked tunes.
🎙 Flashback, tracks from the past
We have covered the demo scene since 2020, and play all the great chip tune music as well. Join us to hear tracked music combined with commentary from the geek-of-all-trades: DJ Daemon. He was once known as Daemon in the Amigaworld, and brings you stories about Amiga, retrocomputing, C64, demos, the demo scene and all things nerdy in the retro world. <br><br>We play tracker music composed on Protracker, Screamtracker, Fasttracker and Impulsetracker. It's music composed on Amiga and the retro-PC. Genres such as Chiptune, Synthwave and Retro electro.
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Ep. 50
50. By the modem light's red glare part 1
This is the first episode in a two episode story about the Bulletin Board System (BBS) era seen from a Swedish perspective. Follow DJ Daemon through the late 70s, through the Wechselmann-indictment to the discussion about Anita Bondestam and her weird moped analogy. It covers the era between 1978 to the early 1990s.
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Ep. 47
47. The basics of the home computer revolution
In the early 1980s, the people of Sweden had to be taught to program! This was the next step. In many ways, this ended up bearing fruit and the 8-bit computers taught a generation to become developers, demo creators and it-architects. But it didn't happen the way everyone expected: through the joys of Basic.
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Ep. 46
46. Do you grok the lingo?
All hobbies and fields create their own slang. The retro world has a gigantic library of words for the skilled, the unskilled and various computers and programs. DJ Daemon digs through words and the cool explanations that really makes you understand the attitude of true hackers. Not the kind that breaks into stuff, but the hackers that builds, programs and creates. Sit down and take a guess what hackerwasser is, why the net isn't dead yet and why Amiga users feel persecuted (no, we don't! Or do we?)
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Ep. 45
45. The fallout connection
Fallout, how I love thee! Let me count the ways 1,2,Tactics,3,New Vegas,4… Let's just end there…DJ Daemon was inspired by Fallout to create his own voice acted radio station, but wisely choose to create this one instead. It's sad if you voice act some old man screaming in the radio from a bunker, and no one will get that it isn't you for real. I mean, that's a ruined reputation right there. Really dodged a bullet, there…Corrections: Fallout 1 was released in 1997, not 1995 as stated in the intro.
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Ep. 41
41. Postcards from summers past
I had no idea what I was doing when I started this episode. I called it “Happy summer days” and started sourcing the tunes. When I recorded the intro it was meant to be about a specific summer, but I quickly expanded the scope and ended up thinking about a personal story with something about retro computers or retro technology from my favourite summers in the 90s and 00s. I left the intro as it was, as I think it's kinda fun how the story takes a life of its own and veers off on a different course during the show. I talk Amigas, Commodore, PC, MAC, Internet, BBSes and off course some tidbits from my life.
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Ep. 39
39. Don't copy that floppy
Ok, we covered the pirates. Now let's talk DRM or Digital Rights Management. It's the manual lookups, the code wheels, the servers that cannot validate your game and the bloody dongles…
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Ep. 38
38. Smokerings from heaven
Tonight, we go to the big Jazz club in the sky … Or maybe it's the cloud where all the great Amiga, Atari and PC jazz-tracks can be found. DJ Daemon remembers one of Swedish radio's best: Leif “Smokerings” Andersson and pays tribute to him. Are our parents that played records on vinyl and listened to the radio in the 50s any different than us, who played games and listened to computer music in the 80s?
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Ep. 19
19. Battle of the nerds
Nerds and geeks are peaceful right? Nope! We battle as much as anyone else, but seldom in a fisticuffs fight. You know, it's all about words and feeling superior because we have an HP 48 calculator, an Amiga instead of an Atari or because our favorite demo group just won in the great demo party. DJ Daemon dives into why we need to form groups or “cliques” where we feel elevated and enlighted as opposed of those other “troglodytes” of the competition.
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Ep. 17
17. Standing on the brink in the eve of destruction
The 80s ended more than 30 years ago, but it was an interesting time in the eye of an impressionable youth such as me. I was 5 when it started and 15 when it was over. In between we had the closing chapter in the cold war, a battle between home computers, a combat where silence met the truth of an incident in a village near Kiev and off course the monumental clash between east and west as the borders fell. Most of this is presented through the eyes of the child I was back then.
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Ep. 13
13. There and back again, a story of five games
Storytelling is key in some games but pretty optional in others. IF it needs a story it often ends up making or breaking the whole game itself. DJ Daemon sorts out four major storytelling mechanisms that are commonly found in the business.
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Ep. 9
9. Tropes in retrogaming
Tropes! The way we put game mechanics into tiny little boxes and the love or hate them.So, what's a Trope?– "a significant or recurrent theme; a motif."Example: "A movie is often built around the "Hero's journey"