Enjoying Michael Steils fantastic “Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk“! #C64 #6502CPU

Jens Schröter is now presenting software cracking practices on the #C64 using the Freeze Frame cartridge: "Freeze Frame. Cracking between Practice and Technology". Copy protection mechanisms turned out to serve as an incentive for the development of a cracking culture. Technologies are insofar fields of conflict - and modules like Freeze Frame are "inscriptions of oppositional practices" with real political effects #retrocomputing

@me_ talks about emulation history of the most emulated CPU on earth: "The Search for Perfection. MOS65xx and C64 Emulation Over Time". Fascinating how easy this works! However, optimizing performance and keeping the Emulation accurate at the same time is not that simple ... #retrocomputing #C64 You can join a workshop on Sunday!

@me_ Looking forward to Jesper Juul's talk on "The Five Lives of the Commodore 64"! So great to learn more about the cultural history of a home computer #retrocomputing #C64

@tub64 is now presenting the musical properties of the #C64 which made it such an outstanding machine, including some features that were not intended by the designers #retrocomputing #sidtunes

and now: Playtime! #retrocomputing #C64 #SIDtunes #retrogaming #chiptunes

Second day starts with Melanie Swalwell directly from Melbourne! She talked about “Theorising 1980s Homebrew Game Development“ and presents aspects from her book on “Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality“ (2021). The activities on the #C64 are only one of many many possible examples #retrocomputing #retroprogramming #homebrew #digitality

Now Martin Wendt takes us into imaginary adventures, old and new: “How the C64 started Point-and-Click adventures. A journey through the history of technical achievements on a guided tour“ Actually it was not the C64 to start them but Lucasfilm. And now the original technology is bring reenacted to create “Caren and the Tangled Tentacles“! #C64 #ManiacMansion #ZakMcKracken #retrocomputing #retrogaming #tentacles

Some slides and photos from my own presentation today: "Notions about the Past, Present, and possible Futures of Disk Magazines" - about mags vs. zines, about research on diskmags, about a "disk book" ... and a look 40 years ahead 😉 #retrocomputing #C64 #diskmags #zines cc @rettinghaus

My personal title award gots to Melanie Fritsch, who talks about "Me and My Brotkasten. Adressing Fannish Affect and Nostalgia in Historical Platform Research". How does "Alltagsgeschichte" works? How is research affected by the researcher's nostalgia (acafans)? And how does all this work in the case of C64 home computer culture? #retrocomputing #C64

Now Patryk Wasiak from Warsaw: "The C-64 tools in gamedevs and crackers’ toolkits". It is so interesting to learn about the workarounds when you had only a tape drive available but wanted to start a program that was developed for floppy disk drives! And there were cheat covers ... #C64 #retrocomputing #hacking #cracking

@hekabeohnename is presenting on the topic "Mapping the past: possibilities and boundaries of creating and using a historical DACH games database". The collection was conceptualized together with @Eugen_pfister @thgie @addrich @l17r and consists of a collaborative spreadsheet listing thousands of games. Collecting the data needs actually a lot of groundwork to fulfil the scholarly requirements of historians sufficiently! #retrocomputing #C64 #retrogaming (datasheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10GvW3KmuR9lbjwcdMp4YWJmqdTATkcrDahEKw5f9AKM/edit)

Today's final talk by @stefanhoeltgen: "A Localization of the Past, Present, and Future of Commodore". Practicing #retrocomputing needs people and physical places! So what about creating a real #Commodore #Museum in Germany? This is a vision how that could look 🤩 #C64

The C64 Symposium continues on Sunday morning with two exciting hands-ons: @me_ will teach you how to write your own 6502 emulator, while @stefanhoeltgen and me are code golfing with C64 BASIC V2.0. Details tomorrow! #retrocomputing #C64 #retrocoding #retroprogramming #emulation #codegolf #basic