Text Art and BBS Scene related Merchandising

ASCII & ANSI Text Art, BBS, Demoscene and Oldskool DOS related Merchandise


I own all of the products below myself and can recommend every single one of them to anybody who was either part of it in those days or who simply wants to know what the "geeks" were doing before the realm of the Internet when they still "owned" the computer.
     
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Pirates of the Bulletin Board System
Be Cool, be Elite, be a Pirate and have some fun hehe.
Mouse Pad: $9.95 , Mug: $12.48
Magnet (sml/lrg): $4.95/$6.95, Postcard: $2.49

BBS
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The deviantART ASCII and Ansi Versions are available as Mouse Pad, Magnet and Postcard. They are not available as a mug, but you can buy a set of 4 coasters for each of the two motives instead. A set of 4 coasters cost $20.25.

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Mindcandy Vol.1 DVD
 - PC Demos -
Side 1: Kickin Oldskool
Future Crew, Triton, Cascada, Space Pigs, Orange, Complex ...
Side 2: Newer Demos using 3d Acceleration.
Mindcandy Vol.2 DVD
 - AMIGA Demos -
Finally Available - over 3 hours of old school Amiga Demos from the Amiga 500 demos "Hardwired", over "Desert Dream" to the last Demos for the A1200.
Digital Memories DVD
 - C64 Demos -
Commodore 64 Demos, Artwork, Game Crack Intros and SID Music Examples. The collection for every scener who has very rich "digital memories" about the little "Brotkasten" which translates "Lunchbox" as the C64 was dubbed by its owners in Germany.
     
Freax Volume 1.
The Brief History of the Computer Demoscene
by Tamár Polgár
(aka TomCat of Madwizards)
From the C64 Cracker Scene to the Amiga Demo Scene.
PC Demoscene will be covered in Freax Vol.2
coming soon
Freax The Art Album Freax - The Art Album
Freax The Art Album shows a unique selection of pixel graphics from the Demoscene made on computer platforms as such as PC, Amiga, Atari ST, Schneider CPC, C64, ZX81 and in various categories like ASCII, ANSI, disk covers and comics. "Freaks the Album" is a fascinating documentation coming on 296 pages, in full-colour and the DIN A4 format.
Demoscene
The Art of real-time

edited by Lassi Lasajaevi
The first (but really) brief history of the Demoscene. Covers more PC Demoes and also Computer- / Demoparties like "The Gathering" in Norway.
     
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BBS - The Documentary
3 Disk DVD Set
Documentary by Jason Scott from textfiles.com.
The Sysops, Users, Software and the Scene. ASCII and ANSI Art, the FidoNet, Hacking, Phreaking, Anarchy and Warez (HPAC).
Watch it online, free.
Triumph of the Nerds
DVD - An irreverent History of the PC Industry by Bob Cringely feat. Bill Gates,
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak,
Ed Roberts and IBM.
Dark Domain
PC DVD-ROM
Collection DVD from
Artpacks.Acid.Org by
ACiD Productions includes all ACiD Art Packs, Magazines and more.
Buy directly from ACiD
 
On the Edge
Book - The spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore by Brian Bagnall. A book about a company which had huge success between 1976 and 1994 in the Home Computer business, a company that still holds the record for the computer that sold the most (C64) and the first who sold over one million computers.
Best of: 2600
A Hacker Odyssey (Hardcover)
by Emmanuel Goldstein

a collection of the most interesting, relevant, controversial and fascinating articles published in the hacker magazine "2600" between 1984 and 2008.


deviantART Print
(ANSI or ASCII)

Prints, Mousepad, Magnets and Coasters Available. Created by Roy/SAC
(that's me) :)
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deviantART Shop
War Games
DVD Movie, Geek Classic!
Matthew Broderick plays a teenager who hacks into the Pentagon's defense system and sets World War III into motion with his acoustic coupler and 8bit home computer (and blue boxing).
Track Down
DVD Movie! For years Kevin Mitnick – the most notorious computer hacker in the nation - had eluded Federal agents while using the latest electronic gadgetry to break into countless computers and gain access to sensitive and valuable information.
Hackers - Wizards of the Electronic Age
DVD Docu. Hackers is a classic documentary about the midnight programmers that created the personal computer revolution. Steve Wozniak, Richard Stallman and others are interviewed.
 
Revolution OS
2 DVDs Docu. The inside story of the hackers and computer programmers who created open source, GNU and Linux. Interviews with Linus Torvalds, Richard M. Stallman and much more.
Pirates of Silicon Valley
DVD Movie! Dramatization of the tangled history of Apple Computer and Microsoft, based on a book by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine.
Video Game Revolution
DVD Docu by Greg Palmer. Video Game history--from the simple, white-on-black images of the 1960s to the sophisticated 3-D graphics of 21st-century games.
Video at Google Video
 

Free Demo Compilations available for Download

I bought years back the "ACE Demo Collection" CDs Volume 1 to 4. They are not available for purchase anymore, you can download them for free at Scene.org among a list of other compilations beyond PC Demos, including Amiga Demos, C64 Demos, Atari ST Demos and more.
See the Listing of available Compilations at Scene.org.

I am already on the pre-order/notification list for Freax Vol.2 Book, which will cover the PC Demoscene. I can't wait to get my hands on that one.
If you know of other related products you can recommend, let me know. There is not much and I try to get my Hands on anything I can get.

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