My Osborne-1 now has its #game disks back and I can play #WizardOfOz (a #BASIC game), Munchkin (a #PacMan clone) and #chess with it.

#CP/M #Z80 #RetroGaming

Today, the copies of the second edition of the first volume of the textbook series "Media Technology Knowledge" that I edited have finally been delivered:

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111036540/html

#MediaArchaeology #Logic #Archaeology #InformationTheory #Memory

A #BASIC #OneLiner #demo for the #C64: Plasma Effects and #ChipTunes included:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTqWw62zllY

#RetroComputing #Commodore64 #DemoScene

Now, this is one helpful online tool to convert #C64 prg files not only into #PETSCII text files but also apply the usual PETSCII macros to them. (And vice-versa you can copy&paste text files and save the as .PRG!)

https://stigc.dk/c64/basic/convert/

#RetroComputing #BASIC

An #arcade #game in #BASIC for your #BBCMicro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm-ZpJDHWnI

#RetroComputing

"Demands of the Game Labs Network to universities: Better conditions for research, teaching, and study with digital #games" - a position paper I wrote with some German colleagues:

https://spielformen.net/index.php/journal/article/view/75

#GameLab #GameLabs

"AtarinoPico" - an #Atari #8bit hardware #emulator at the size of a stamp:

https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Retrospektive-Thema-214694/News/Atari-Heimcomputer-1474474/

#RetroComputing #Preservation

An interview with Rolf-Dieter Klein and his #1980s TV show about how to build your own #HomeComputer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xcwc4zv_lA

#Z80 #NDRKleinComputer

Just published:

My chapter on "The Universe als a Cellular Automaton" for the collection "", edited by Harald Zaun:

https://www.wiley-vch.de/de/fachgebiete/naturwissenschaften/expedition-in-die-raumzeit-978-3-527-41460-4

#Cosmology #CelluarAutomata #Astrophysics

Today I received a fully functional #NEC PC 6001 (1981) #8Bit #HomeComputer from Japan, including several manuals and a German greeting card.

#RetroComputing