µPFor the next session of my seminar "Games - Media - Theory" which is about #simulation and #celluarAutomata I finally soldererd 4 of my 8 @adafruit #GameOfLife boards.
Next semester I'll teach the block seminar "#Chiptunes - Klangerzeugung und Musikproduktion mit dem #Commodore64" at the department for #MediaStudies at University Bonn.
OUT NOW:
"Commodore 64 - Past, Present, add Future of a Home Computer" - a collection of 17 chapters on the C64, based on the 2014 conference!
Order your copy from the publisher:
https://www.projektverlag.de/wissenschaft/Computerarchaeologie/Commodore-64
#C64 #Commodore64 #ComputerArchaeology #ComputerHistory #RetroComputing
(Don't!) Stop the press: Our book " #Commodore64 – Past, Present, and Future of a #HomeComputer" is now in print!
18 chapters, 380 pages, full-color!
Just published as book and #OpenAccess PDF:
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7115-5/computerwohnen/
... with a chapter from me about the question "What is a home computer?".
#MediaArchaeology #ComputerArchaeology #ComputerHistory #MediaStudies
I just booked a trip to #Cambridge (UK) for March next year to visit the archives of the "The Center for Computing History" - hoping to find some interesting stuff about the britisch #BASIC development and programmer communities of the 1970s and 1980s.
With the help of a friend and his #Applesauce #Floppy extraction tool I was able to reconstruct 4 more damaged version of the #C64 #BASIC #game "Schanze" I am going to examine for its step-by-step creation. I am able now to compare 13 version (incl. 2 fragments from damaged files)!
On November 7 and 8, the "Working Group on Computer and Computing History" of the Society for Computer Science is organizing the conference "Computers in Germany: Recent Research in Digital History and #ComputerArchaeology." The conference is organized by Martin Schmitt (from @unipotsdam) and myself. The venue is the Heinz #Nixdorf Museums Forum in Paderborn.
The event is public and admission is free. We look forward to many visitors!
#Microsoft just released their #MOS6502 #BASIC source code as #opensource
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic/
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation has fully granted our application for a publication cost subsidy for the volume 'What was Artificial Intelligence? contours of a research field 1975-2000 in Germany', which is based on the conference that took place at HU Berlin in 2022.
The book is edited by Martin Schmitt (Uni Paderborn) and me and will be published in the #ComputerArchaeology series this year.
