{"id":14654,"date":"2025-10-07T08:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14654"},"modified":"2025-07-21T08:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:51:39","slug":"imphobia-demoscene-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14654","title":{"rendered":"Imphobia demoscene magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 90&#8217;s were an amazing time to learn to code. Especially in Europe, hundreds and even thousands of people would gather for weekend-long, round-the-clock caffeine fueled coding sessions to flex their latest graphics programming tricks on Amigas, Commodores, PC&#8217;s, and other hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hugi.scene.org\/online\/hugi36\/hugi%2036%20-%20international%20diskmags%20adok%20imphobia.htm\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hugi.scene.org\/online\/hugi36\/hugi%2036%20-%20international%20diskmags%20adok%20imphobia.htm\">Imphobia <\/a>was the leading PC demoscene diskmag of the first half of the 1990s. Founded in 1992, it issued until 1996. In that period, 12 issues were released.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"634\" height=\"395\" data-attachment-id=\"14658\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=14658\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/10\/0f7a.61939.jpg?fit=634%2C395&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"634,395\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0f7a.61939\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/10\/0f7a.61939.jpg?fit=634%2C395&amp;ssl=1\" data-id=\"14658\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/10\/0f7a.61939.jpg?resize=634%2C395&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/10\/0f7a.61939.jpg?w=634&amp;ssl=1 634w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/10\/0f7a.61939.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/10\/0f7a.61939.jpg?resize=433%2C270&amp;ssl=1 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"243\" height=\"182\" data-attachment-id=\"14655\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=14655\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/07\/imphobia03_title.jpg?fit=243%2C182&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"243,182\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imphobia03_title\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/07\/imphobia03_title.jpg?fit=243%2C182&amp;ssl=1\" data-id=\"14655\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/07\/imphobia03_title.jpg?resize=243%2C182&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14655\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Early issues of Imphobia run in\u00a0DOSBox except issues 6 and beyond where the graphics are not displayed correctly, probably because of the use of an obscure video mode. Nevertheless it&#8217;s possible to read the articles. All Imphobia issues are available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scene.org\/dir.php?dir=\/mags\/imphobia\">scene.org<\/a> and can be seen at <a href=\"https:\/\/demozoo.org\/productions\/tagged\/imphobia\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/demozoo.org\/productions\/tagged\/imphobia\/\">Demozoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 90&#8217;s were an amazing time to learn to code. Especially in Europe, hundreds and even thousands of people would gather for weekend-long, round-the-clock caffeine fueled coding sessions to flex their latest graphics programming tricks on Amigas, Commodores, PC&#8217;s, and other hardware. Imphobia was the leading PC demoscene diskmag of the first half of the 1990s. Founded in 1992, it issued until 1996. In that period, 12 issues were released.\u00a0 Early issues of Imphobia run in\u00a0DOSBox except issues 6 and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14654\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artdesign","category-cool","category-technicalprogramming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3Om","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14654"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14660,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14654\/revisions\/14660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}