Video Games in East Germany: The Stasi Played Along
Note that the "GIF" at the top of the article is an actual embedded C64 emulator, where you can play "Raid over Moscow", took me a bit to recognize that.<p>Also interesting IMHO:<p>- the Stasi's hilarious German translation of English game titles (Samantha Fuchs - Entkleidungspoker)<p>- the fact that at least some people in the Stasi weren't complete technological dummies, this is a pretty good prediction for 1988 (which in "GDR technology years" is more like 1978): "In the future, he wrote, software would no longer require any physical medium to be disseminated. Which in turn would mean that it could no longer be intercepted during border controls. "<p>- the fact that freely exchanging software in the GDR was completely legal, because copyright did not apply to software: "The Leipzig District Court had ruled in a landmark decision in September 1979 that it considered software to be "neither a scientific work nor a creative achievement."<p>Lot's of other interesting and well researched details I didn't know about even though I grew up in the GDR and learned programming in a computer club there similar to the ones described in the article.