C64 Disc-cover Gallery

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Spent a day to scan my (unfortunately not big) collection of old c64-covers, gathered some info and put a page up.
Have fun browsing this. :D

http://www.loozabeats.de/c64covers/

Please tell me if there is something wrong or not working, 60% of the work was copy-and-paste-mayhem in 80 HTML files… I am exhausted.

PS:No, this is not about Boxcovers of games or something, but about this rather unique artform which was done to provide paperbags for certain demos/mags and similar. afaik this was unique to the c64 scene, because amiga and pc never used 5 1/4" floppydiscs.

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cool, didn’t know about this. I have a c64 with a tapedrive…

Although recently I’ve been given an old c128 with the diskdrive… Haven’t got around to actually play with it. I’m not even sure if it works :)

Rather use emulation on my pc nowadays anyway.

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Never heard of this before either, but I was never in the 64 scene though. Cool. Nice site. Great work :)

I used to print all the covers to my amiga demo disks. I even had a colour printer :yeah: Costed about 400€ at the time and the printouts were soooo crappy :)

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Definetly goes into the category of ‘subculture’, very interesting read!

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hmm, ive got soo much covers lying somewhere around here…

nice site looza ! :)

mlon

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either sort the good ones out and scan them yourself or send them to me per snailmail, I scan them and send them back to you if you want them back.

I mean this. I had about 250 (as I wrote), dumped alot of them some years ago and now I regret it.

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Impressive scanning and the material as well. Well written info on the site as well. Had no idea of this subculture either. Thanks for sharing with us. :)

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then gimme a link :) (seriously, I am pissed my google-pagerank is still zero. :angry: )

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this sure brings back some memories… I made my share of covers aswell actually. Crappy as hell, but nice for the period I guess (we’re talking 1989 here!). Actually I may still have some covers in my old shit packed away on the attic… will have to check that some time!

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wow, nice to see you here ! renoise user too ?

and my time in that scene was really 91-95, so I didn’t have a complete overview about those covers anyway. I guess alot of good designs popped up after 95 with all those polish people entering the scene.

and I made a few covers too, crap as anything I did on C64 (and I really mean that, I had fun in that scene, but my contributions where just … yuck. Had to move to PC to get something decent done.)

altough I did one thing (that did not get too far spread unfortunately though), a splitscreen demo with a friend from school, he had the upper half of the screen and I had the lower half, you could switch the parts with a tap on space, if one part was running the other one faded to grey and paused. both parts also had their own music.

Oh and I made a musicdisc with about 10 different ways to visualize the rastertime taken. like top-down, vertical, growing/shrinking and stuff like that.

those were the times. I also started to get back into DMC 5.0 using Vice, want to do some 64ish FX sounds to use in some projects.

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Oh yes, I’m a Renoise user… once a tracker always a tracker I guess… B) Anyway, still use Cubase but Renoise plays a great part in what I do.

Regarding those covers. Indeed the quality of the covers much improved over the years… in '89-'90 it was really basic stuff flying around. I did a couple of covers for Deadline and Noise as far as I can remember…

Cheers.