{"id":1739,"date":"2010-06-01T23:56:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T21:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2025-06-01T23:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T21:43:34","slug":"unexpected-c64-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/06\/01\/unexpected-c64-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected C64 reference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/05\/01\/optimera-sthlm\/\">OPTIMERA STHLM<\/a> conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/icaaq\">Isac Lagerblad<\/a>, really surprised me when he brought up an image of me and my fellow hackers in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commodore_64\">C64<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commodore_64_demos\">demo group<\/a> named <a href=\"http:\/\/kjell.haxx.se\/horizon\/\">Horizon<\/a> from back in the days of 1990. I&#8217;m the guy in the middle in the lower row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see it happen at 02:35 into the part 4 clip, where you&#8217;ll go if you click on the image (Isac&#8217;s talk is in <em>Swedish<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bambuser.com\/channel\/stiftelsen\/broadcast\/792841\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"469\" height=\"376\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/optimera-curl-c64.jpg\" alt=\"OPTIMERA STHLM sudden tribute to Daniel for cURL with C64 reference\" class=\"wp-image-1740\" title=\"OPTIMERA STHLM sudden tribute to Daniel for cURL with C64 reference\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/optimera-curl-c64.jpg 469w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/optimera-curl-c64-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/optimera-curl-c64-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The original picture is a very old scan and isn&#8217;t a lot better:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kjell.haxx.se\/horizon\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kjell.haxx.se\/horizon\/data\/90vhz.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Horizon 1990\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was honored and flattered by this unexpected &#8220;tribute&#8221;. Thanks Isac, it was really fun to see!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And before anyone asks: me and my brother Bj\u00f6rn got our first Commodore 64 1985 and that is what got me into computers. I&#8217;ve not stopped enjoying them since then. We did a lot of demos, a few games and we had a great time and got similar minded friends all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at the OPTIMERA STHLM conference, Isac Lagerblad, really surprised me when he brought up an image of me and my fellow hackers in the C64 demo group named Horizon from back in the days of 1990. I&#8217;m the guy in the middle in the lower row. You can see it happen at 02:35 into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/06\/01\/unexpected-c64-reference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unexpected C64 reference<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[276,277,278],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-c64","tag-horizon","tag-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27216,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/27216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}