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This is about the 'Good Old Days' article in the first issue of No Sense where Ant thought that the scene of the eighties sucked. This is my own opinion about the scene of yesterday.
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I understand Ant, since all the 'new' sceners wasn't members of the scene back then, so they don't understand the greatness of the old fashioned demos and intros. It was FUN reading all those scrolltexts where people tried to break new 'longest scrolltext records' and of course you looked for some spelling errors as there was a lot of them back then (Just as in this article). Since I wasn't a swapper I didn't get my hands on a new demo/intro as fast as today, so when I got a new demo, it lasted longer. I can't say that I'm the most experienced scener from that time as I just copied the demos and intros from friends who swapped, so I guess I haven't seen ALL of the stuff from 88-91 but the things I've seen was something to enjoy; look at, read the texts, listen to the great Amiga music, admire the 'good-looking' logos etc.
The scene of today (in Sweden, mostly) sucks because there are too much 'thanks - daddy - for - the - modem - traders' and way too few 'productive' sceners. Nearly all new sceners start their career as traders and after their first phonebill, their parents get angry and instead of continuing trading, they start a new 'eliteboard', which are all TDFTM-traders dream. A couple of years ago all the new sceners' highest dream was to learn coding and code an own production. If they couldn't learn coding they tried to do something else creative. Even getting the possibility to write a few lines in a scrolltext was something many dreamed of.
In the good old days the ones that did something creative were the elite, but nowadays there is the ones that can't do anything at all except getting high phonebills that has the honour to be 'elite'. I had respect for the elite a few years ago but the elite society of today is just a bunch of cOoL dEwDs, who haven't done anything creative for the scene at all. All of you swappers have my deepest respect since you (I guess, anyway...) watch all the stuff you receive, and are active in the demo scene, which most of the traders don't give a shit about.
The party feeling on the old 'copy parties' was better and the main thing wasn't to go to a party, win the competitions and go home with more money than you had before you arrived. It was to go there, get some new friends, get some new demos, and if you won the competition, you was a hero instead of a rich scener. So, today you have to tempt with really BIG amounts of prize money to get many attendants to a party.
I totally agree with Note who wrote the 'A Threat towards the Scene' article. The scene goes more and more commercial, which leads to nearly no releases between the parties. Okay, I can understand that people have used much time to develop a demo and of course there are always nice with some extra cash, but don't let the wallet control the scene. Before all the big parties the honour was enough for everyone.
Everything follows the PC; more and more hardware demanding programs and demos are coming one after another. 4MB Fast memory is required to get almost every new demo to work. Everyone doesn't have the money needed to buy an accelerator card or a memory expansion, so more and more people can't see the new productions. Then people get tired searching for something that you can watch with an unexpanded A1200. Just before the A1200 was introduced every demo worked on an A500 with just 1MB of memory.
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