Grapevine (disk magazine)

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Grapevine was a Disk magazine for the Commodore Amiga [1] published by the demoscene group LSD. [2] The magazine was published between 1991 and 1995. [3]

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History

The first eight issues of Grapevine were published on a single floppy disk. As the magazine became more popular and more articles were submitted by its readers, it grew in length, and required two to three disks per issue. The editor of Grapevine was known as Parasite, later PaZZa/LSD. Several co-editors helped with the magazine under PaZZa's guidance, including Scud/LSD, Torch/LSD, and KEND/LSD. The magazine was originally coded by Monty Python, and then re-coded with a mouse-driven interface later in the series by Shagrat, Fish/LSD, watchman/LSD, and others. Artists regularly made custom art covers for the magazine's title page. Echo/LSD (Graham Gray/Spoon Wizard) and Mub/LSD wrote original background music.

Breadth of topics

Grapevine was mainly a magazine for those within the demo scene, so some articles made little sense to outsiders. Nonetheless, it was well received. [3] PaZZa's musings usually consisted of a tongue-in-cheek look at everything and anything, and usually ended in the disclaimer "all spelling mistakes copyright me!"

Revival

An attempt was made in 2005 to revive Grapevine in the form of a web-based magazine by a group not connected to the original, known as EllesDee.

The use of the original disk magazine's name, as well as EllesDee being a corruption of the original creator's name (LSD), brought strong criticism from some members of the demo scene, including the original team. [4] Some original LSD members were approached for permission to start the revival project, and the first issues contained submissions from KenD/LSD.

The revival website, as well as that of EllesDee, was subsequently shut down.

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References

  1. Reimer, Jeremy (April 29, 2013). "A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene". Ars Technica. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  2. "About LSD Grapevine Magazines". Stone Oakvalley Studios. 19 November 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Grapevine #16". Internet Archive. 29 July 1993. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  4. Scene.org