NEUROBLAST Cyberdelia Special

Celebrating HACKERS anniversary with San Francisco's DNA Lounge!

NEUROBLAST HyperCard DiskZine Cyberdelia Special is a cyberpunk-centric and HACKERS (1995) love letter entertainment tech-stack zine of music, art, and game materials, built and compiled in ancient Apple HyperCard software on a vintage iMac G3 (grape) in August 2023. Made in celebration of DNA Lounge's HACKERS screening and Cyberdelia after-party. Editor: James Sime. 

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(best viewed running on a classic pre-2000s Apple Machintosh, or in your favorite Mac Emulator, or online running in-browser via an emulated Apple os9 thanks to Archive.org and @HyperCardOnline. Be patient while everything boots up and loads!)

https://archive.org/details/hypercard_neuroblast-cyberdelia

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Featuring:

CYBERDELIA - A massive, sprawling, Floppy Disk-bursting article and orgasmic dither-picture-show featuring years of Cyberdelia celebrations at San Francisco's legendary DNA LOUNGE. Including delightfully 1-bit memories of Cyberdelia's creation and the herculean effort to bring these parties to the public. Written by NEUROBLAST's featured special guest... promoter, programmer, and SF Bay Area icon jwz / Jamie Zawinski the owner of DNA LOUNGE. 

Also Featuring:

01. DISPATCH FROM THE CYBERPUNK CITY. Guest introduction column by SF Bay Area icon and the owner of DNA LOUNGE, jwz / Jamie Zawinski. 

02. NEGCON. WipEout, the anti-gravity combat racing video game, was first seen by the public in the movie HACKERS. This issue also includes a full-length feature on the legendary neGcon controller for WipEout and the Sony Playstation. The greatest controller ever made? Perhaps! With contributions from some of the greatest WipEout players on the planet, including Nazz (UK), Jörg Ponten (Germany), Xtriko (Portugal), Techno Mike (South Carolina, USA), Giufa_Online (Europe), and NEUROBLAST's own Slip Stevens (SF Bay Area, USA).

03. THE JACK-IN. Grab some bite-sized tastes of delicious obscure cyberpunk medias to melt your circuit-boards presented by a huge number of NEUROBLAST contributors in The Jack-In. 

04. LIQUID LOUNGE. An original cyberpunk and HACKERS-inspired Cocktail Recipe to dull your senses and expunge surplus braincells by Kirsten Baldock, "RISC IS GOOD."

05. ACID BURNING. A never-before-reprinted excerpt from Orange Krush's rare 1995 HACKERS xerox celebrity fan zine. 

06. BLADE RUNNER RPG. A Voight-Kampff examination of the recently released BLADE RUNNER Table Top RPG by (possible replicant) Joe Rauch.

07. ROBOTS IN LOVE. Interview with artist and designer Aaron Farmer about his clubwear fashion label and the debut of his 2023 Fall / Winter line "Cybergyptian".

08. RETRO MODS. An article on Retro Game Console Modding culture with HYPER BEAM LABS' Josh Richardson. 

09. HACKERS OST. Join NEUROBLAST's Listening Party of the HACKERS Original Movie Soundtrack with Candice Dayoan.

10. AT THE ISOTOPE. Comic review of the cyberpunk vampire ninja action comic BLEED THEM DRY from Vault Comics. Review by Isotope Comics owner James Sime.

Other NEUROBLAST Features:

01. A tribute to digital media pioneer and zine maker Jamie Levy. 

02. A history of HyperCard.

03. NEUROBLAST HyperCard DiskZine Manifesto.

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This issue's featured pixel / dither artists: Giuseppe Longo (Mis-BUG), Aaron Farmer, and James Sime. 

As well as dither photography and other dithered artwork (for purposes of review). 

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View online here: 

https://archive.org/details/hypercard_neuroblast-cyberdelia