Flashback, tracks from the past – ERICADE.RADIO

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.

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?)

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.

The fly-over states in the USA are those that the planes flying above will just pass, on their way to bigger cities in more populated areas. And the latter part of July and the first weeks of August are like that. Vacation, less stuff going on… But that does not mean less to do! In this show DJ Daemon talks about the demo parties we have had this year, the upcoming ones, wonders if Workbench is becoming too bloaty for his taste, reports great news for everyone loving a certain game this show has stolen its title from and celebrates the Amiga 1000…

This show was recorded from a remote location.

The program:

00:00 Flashback – tracks from the past – Show intro

00:12 DJ Daemon speaks about the show and the movie going on in the background. 28s

00:36 Alexander Brandon – Streetwize

03:20 DJ Daemon speaks briefly about Jazz Jackrabbit and Alexander Brandon. 35s

03:52 Algar – ! Lust For Life !

06:52 DJ Daemon mentions the Revision-, Forndata-, Gubbdata- and Shadow- demoparties. 01:06

07:53 Anders Lundqvist – On the run

13:15 DJ Daemon speaks talks about demoparty.net. 35s

13:47 BigBadBoo – Dance With A Daemon

20:03 DJ Daemon explains what a “Daemon” is. 40s

20:40 Chuck Homic – Chuck’s Song #8

25:58 DJ Daemon speaks about some new functions coming to the website. 45s

26:38 BST – 1995-BYTver

30:38 DJ Daemon speaks about the 36 year anniversery for the Amiga 1000. 57s

31:34 Darkman007 – Chipo Five

34:49 DJ Daemon speaks about Workbench 3.2 and the many diskettes it has. 54s

35:40 DigiDz – Destiny

38:01 DJ Daemon wonders if we should continue having a live DJ. 54s

38:52 Djarty – Four wheel drive

42:12 DJ Daemon talks about the start of the station. 51s

43:01 e!ghtbm – Rainbow crash 80s

46:12 DJ Daemon speaks about Flashback – a game soon to get a sequel. 57s

47:06 Goluigi – Luscious late night in legoland (Read title seductively)

49:11 DJ Daemon promises NOT to read anything seductively. Then hates a bit on AmigaAMP. 52s

50:00 Jaim of Fuj – Chippie

52:22 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening. 51s

53:11 Jogeir Liljedahl – Comm-jazz

57:10 DJ Daemon speaks leds you out into the good night. 20s

57:28 Maxsoft of Whelpz and Dark team – Amiga power

The fly-over states in the USA are those that the planes flying above will just pass, on their way to bigger cities in more populated areas. And the latter part of July and the first weeks of August are like that. Vacation, less stuff going on… But that does not mean less to do! In this show DJ Daemon talks about the demo parties we have had this year, the upcoming ones, wonders if Workbench is becoming too bloaty for his taste, reports great news for everyone loving a certain game this show has stolen its title from and celebrates the Amiga 1000…

It took some time, but now, the podcast episode that covers Edison Party 2021. It ran from the 9th until the 11th of July 2021 and DJ Daemon was there in person, broadcasting live. This episode will give you the whole tracked music compo from the last position to the winner, with a short note about each artist. As you come to expect by now.

Note: This show was recorded from my family’s vacation spot in Sälen and was kinda difficult to get done. What you’re listening to here, is the second revision, removing two errors. Thanks to Bittin_ for noticing one of them. The only remaining error is that I call “Leftovers”, “Leftover”.

Also a fun notice: I didn’t get the joke of the title “Hexputs” until after the broadcast. It’s a reference to a Swedish copper- and metalpolish.

The program:

00:00 Flashback – tracks from the past – Show intro

00:08 DJ Daemon speaks: Ahoy there mateys… No! No! Nobody likes that anymore…. Just stop… Ehhmm… What have badly made pirate hats, a barn filled with geeks in northern Stockholm and newest and the coolest tracked music in common? That would be Edison Party 2021 – the piracy themed demo party that ran from the 9th of july until the 11th.

00:46 Drax – AMBIVALENCE by DRAX

03:03 DJ Daemon speaks. 39s

03:39 Morbid of Five Finger Punch – Leftovers

06:43 DJ Daemon speaks. 31s

07:09 Edvind of MemoryLeek – Demon Chicken Boss Fajt

09:01 DJ Daemon speaks. 23s

09:18 Synesthesia of Defekt ^ Rift – Ghost ship

11:48 DJ Daemon speaks. 24s

12:07 Soya of Censor Design – Strange Range

14:36 DJ Daemon speaks. 31s

14:52 e!ghtbm – Retrosuperfuture-87

18:36 DJ Daemon speaks. 25s

18:57 Slaze of Defiance – Bionic symbiote

22:08 DJ Daemon speaks. 42s

22:36 Vedder – Glorious disaster

26:14 DJ Daemon speaks. 29s

26:38 OrreBorre of The Art Of Never Getting Anything Done – Captain Medley

28:24 DJ Daemon speaks. 29s

28:49 Fegolhuzz – Suzanne Router

31:34 DJ Daemon speaks. 30s

31:59 Bonefish and Mygg of iNSANE – 2 days later final

34:44 DJ Daemon speaks. 32s

35:12 Stinsen – Hexputs

38:13 DJ Daemon speaks.56s

39:06 Drax – B. O. Beyond by DRAX

42:21 DJ Daemon speaks. 30s

42:47 The ERICADE Radio Network – Interview with FSFreak, organizer at Edison 2021

54:19 DJ Daemon speaks. 43s

54:59 Drax – draxmania!

58:26 DJ Daemon speaks. 27s

58:50 Jingle – We love the demo scene

58:58 Drax – HARLEY by DRAX

It took some time, but now, the podcast episode that covers Edison Party 2021. It ran from the 9th until the 11th of July 2021 and DJ Daemon was there in person, broadcasting live. This episode will give you the whole tracked music compo from the last position to the winner, with a short note about each artist. As you come to expect by now.

GubbData 2021 is still running as I write this, but the demo compo was yesterday and gave six artists a change to really show their Amiga tracker talents. In this show I play them all and also comment on GubbData and the compo.UPDATE: This final results are now in:First place – Slaze – Temporal AnomalySecond place – Vintrospective – An answering moodThird place – Caramel of Proxima – JargonautSlaze – Stringfellow Hawke, played in this episode, won 2nd place in the Airwolf compo.

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.

So Tina Turner may not need another hero, but we need more villains! Interesting villains, and the retro games sometimes deliver the goods. Who wants another mustache twirling bozo who just wants to tie your wife to the railroad tracks? A proper villain has to have a reason to be who he or she is or we don’t want them. And here we celebrate some of the … ok… sorry for the misuse of the term.. “good” ones.

So meet the villains of this episode:

Andrew “I’m right – damn the consequences” Ryan – Bioshock 1.

Donkey “But Mario is the evil one” Kong – The Donkey Kong series.

Sarah “I will bathe in your blood, but I’m the victim here” Kerrigan – Starcraft 1 and 2.

Robo “He’s just like Hitler” Hitler – Castle Wolfestein.

Wallace “Long, intellectual rant on why all is perfect and you suck” Breen – Halflife 1 and 2.

Shodan “I’m god, now you curl up and die” – System Shock 1 and 2.

(Ghost/Zombie/Whatever) Pirate “The incel of piracy” LeChuck – The Monkey Island series.

00:00 Flashback – tracks from the past – Show intro

00:12 DJ Daemon speaks: Games are often stories – and stories need heroes and villains. The boring and uninteresting are a dime a dozen and we don’t care. But in this episode, we give you seven retro game villains that have a reason to be what they are, do what they do while shoving very little remorse.

00:36 Pip Malt – Bacon Cookies

03:47 DJ Daemon speaks: I don’t care much for the “evil for evil’s sake”. It’s a boring a useless trope, that is fit for lesser bosses and the occasional end boss when the focus is not the evil and the villain. But a good villain has a rationale, a drive, and a motivation. Some are into greed, some are corrupted and unleash hidden flaws when life goes bad for them, some have ulterior motives and no idea as to why everyone hates them, and some would have been good if only “insert plot element here” would not have happened. So today we go under the sea, into the jungle, among the stars and into the blood drenched walls of a certain castle. And we wade through the corpses and the destroyed landscape to find the nature of evil wherever it may be.

04:50 Falcon of Pulse and TDR – Her Spirits Rise

09:53 DJ Daemon speaks: Would you kindly consider a bit of wisdom from yours truly: · “A man choose, but the slave of an idea has to obey”. In Bioshock you come to an underwater city built on the idea of total freedom.

11:11 Noiseless – Addiction

15:54 DJ Daemon speaks: If you ever played Donkey Kong, you know that mr Kong is the villain-Gorilla stealing the hero’s girlfriend and then proceeds to throw barrels at him to kill him. And the hero, Jumpman is trying to rescue his lady, named “lady”.

16:57 Sidewinder of Porphyria – in the Eyes

20:28 DJ Daemon speaks: In StarCraft, three races battle it out… in space. Classic premise if you ask me. It’s the humans, the huge comodo-dragon-like Zerg and some weird mage class aliens called the Protoss.

21:33 Laxity of Vibrants – Progressive Jodling

24:41 DJ Daemon speaks: In castle Wolfenstein you fight the nazis. This was before a thousand other games took up this plot and made it a bit boring. The end boss is – I kid you not – Robo-Hitler. It’s like regular Hitler, but now he’s a robot.

25:44 Parity Error – Wish of Freedom

30:38 DJ Daemon speaks: In Halflife Wallace Breen is the elusive administrator that set up the catastrophic experiment that led to earth coming under attack from an alien race. His solution is to negotiate peace with the efficiency of Neville Chamberlain.