Grapevine (disk magazine)
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Grapevine was a disk magazine for the Commodore Amiga published by the demo scene group LSD. The first eight issues each came on a single floppy disk, but as the magazine became more popular and more articles were submitted by its readers, it required two to three disks per issue after that point. The editor of Grapevine was known as Parasite, later Pazza/LSD.
Grapevine existed at a time when Internet use was not widespead in its native UK or abroad, and hence editions of the magazine were hotly traded amongst the demo scene. LSD sent out hundreds of floppy disk copies on each release.
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Breadth of Topics
Grapevine accepted articles not only about the demo scene itself, as most scene disk magazines did, but on a diverse range of subjects including gaming, music, sports, humour, comics, and even pieces of original fiction and poetry.
Secret articles
Several issues of the magazine contained "secret" articles. To access them, press Esc and type in the corresponding password, followed by Enter:
- 08 - "recoded"
- 09 - "party"
- 10 - "bust"
- 11 - "quartz"
- 12 - "bastard"
- 13 - "ho ho ho"
- 14 - "late"
- 15 - "secretmenu"
- 16 - "wombatateam"
- 17 - "party"
- 18 - "xmas"
- 19 - None (by looking at the data files with a hex editor, "HI ROMBUST, THERES NO SECTRET ARTICLE!" [sic] appears in the code, where the password should be)
Revival
An attempt was made in 2005 to revive Grapevine, in the form of a web-based magazine. However, this was done unofficially by a group not connected to the original, known as Ellessdee.
The usage of the original disk magazine's name, as well as Ellessdee being a corruption of the original creator's name (LSD), brought strong criticism from other members of the demo scene, including the original team.
The revival web site, as well as that of Ellessdee's, was subsequently shut down. The exact reasons for this are in dispute.
External links
- Aminet - demo/mag archive - Contains various Grapevine downloads.
- Recovered articles from the Ellesdee revival, including some information about the closure
- scene.org discussion thread on the Grapevine Revival
