Ancient machines at the Alternative Party 2002

Kuten moni tietää, olen myös demoskeneaktiivi. Edesmennyt Alternative Party oli hauska, erikoinen ja vahvan poikkitaiteellinen demoparty, jossa panostettiin vahvasti digikulttuuriin, ei vain skenehenkeen. Blogijuttu englanniksi.

As some may know know, I've been pretty active in the demoscene and the Alternative Party was one of the the great events in Finnish demoscene. It was kind of artistic party, with strong emphasis to the digital culture, not just the demoscene itself. As result these parties were full of unusual, weird people, lots of strange hardware and sometimes amazing guests. One of these events was the Alternative Party 2002, 11.–13.1.2002, hosted by Kulttuuriareena Gloria, at Helsinki, Finland.


So here's some hardware from the party instead the usual drunken sceners.

MSX SVI 728 and ZX Spectrum. These were among the more popular home computers in Finland in the 80s. MSX actually found very strong foothold here. Neither were any match for the C64 though.

These Game Boys were used to compose and play music.

Robert J. Mical, aka RJ Mical, is one of the creators of the Amiga, as well as Lynx and 3DO consoles. He was of the first very prominent visitors at AltParty.

Have some demoscene art.

Commodore 64 Game System on top of an Amiga.

Tatung Einstein computer.

Telmac TMC-600 and Finlux Dragon32. Two very unusual, pretty rare machines.

Amstrad was one of the runner ups for the C64.

Here's one unusually painted Amiga 500 for you.

Magnavox Odyssey (1972) was the world's first home video game console system. Created by the legendary Ralph Baer.

Sega SC-3000 home computer.

SAM Coupe was a failed attempt to create a kind of "super Spectrum". It used Z80 CPU and tried to be bring 16 bit like power to 8 bit machines, but well, it failed, totally. Actually a couple times, as various companies tried to save it.

Commodore's first computers were actually very good business machines.

Hm. Something...

Laserdisc based games were a huge hit for a short time in the 1980s arcades. They tried to appear in home LaserDisc systems as well but guess what. They failed to.

Dragon 32 was a popular home computer in the UK, and it had a limited fanbase in Finland as well.