Just published:

A book chapter about the procedural graphics and sound generation in the early LucasFilm #Games "Rescue on Fracatalus", "The Eidolon", "Koronis Rift" und "Ballblazer":

http://www.simulationsraum.de/blog/2026/04/13/film-games/

#Fractal #LucasArts #GameStudies #RetroGaming

Got all the pieces together for the #C64 USB keyboard adapter and it works perfectly - with the #emulator as well as with any word processor!

#RetroComputing #RaspberryPi #Commodore64

(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!

#C64 #ComputerArchaeology #RetroComputing

Today the boards came from the factory to build two #C64 USB keyboards to use with emulators (and as a cool retro keyobard). Waiting for two 3D printed houses.

https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/C64_Keyboard_to_USB_b1fedb09.html

#RetroComputing #Commodore64 #PETSCII #3Dprinting

Yesterday Jeff Shrager, who programmed the first #BASIC #ELIZA in 1973 (published in 1977) postet a small text on his weblog with memories about the implementation cotext back than (at his Junior High School) and how he first learned about ELIZA:

https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/blog/jeff-shragers-recollections-on-his-basic-eliza

#RetroComputing #ChatBot #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

More #AI generated #games for the #Atari800

https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2026/03/ia-impulsa-nuevos-juegos-para-atari.html

#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #VibeCoding

#Robotron #AI Dashboard:

http://davepl.com:8796/

#RetroGaming #ArtificialIntelligence

There will be a book on the #Atari #8bit computers from Pawel Grabarczyk in the #PlatformStudies series this autumn:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/830569/at-the-end-of-the-rainbow-by-pawel-grabarczyk/

Just published: "Glaswelten", edited by Margarete Vöhringer and Christof Windgätter - a book on the materiality of glass in culture, history, art, and science:

https://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/programm/details/glaswelten

I contributed a chapter about glass as a medium within media used in elektronics - from silicon to silicon dioxide to quartz glass.

#MediaArchaeology #MediaGeology #MicroElectronics #semiconductors #chemistry #physics