Transversalist for Computer Archaeology, Media Science, Game Science, Medial Humanities, Toy Computing – more: http://about.me/hoeltgen
#Games #MediaStudies #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #BASIC #ComputerHistory #MediaArchaeology #ComputerArchaeology
| Homepage | http://stefan-hoeltgen.de |
| Blog | http://www.simulationsraum.de/ |
| Computerarchäologie | http://www.computerarchaeologie.de/ |
| AG Spiele | https://fedihum.org/@agspiele |
Ernst Neubeck created a database with #Commodore #BASIC and #assembly #typein listings (mostly tools for #C64, #VIC20, and others) he found in German magazines. You can browse it online by typing in names, titles, oder keywords and download as scans or prg files:
Today a #Yamaha CX5M #MSX computer with a Yamaha YK20 keyboard arrived. Bought from "Kleinanzeigen" for 200 Euros the system looks nealy new and works perfectly!
Sadly the sender used the original boxes as shipment packaging (with Gaffa tape)!
Next step will be to put the music software (https://www.sequencer.de/blog/yamaha-cx5m/4916) on one of my msx SD cartridges ...
Yesterday @TheMediumIsPizza's and my essay on #ToyComputing with #Minecraft has been published on @Paidia:
Today the former #Atari programmer @strandreporter sent me his Atari 8-bit setup, containig an 800XE, two 1050 #floppy drives, an Atari Touch Tablet, masses of #paperware and a box full of disks (with his own works and other stuff). I am very thankful!! I'm looking forward digging through the material!
I recently publishe a paper about one of his #games ("The Castle"): http://txt3.de/ritter
Last week I learned Wolfgang Nake had died on July 17th. Wolfgang has dedicated is retirement time to reenact the early #Atari TTL games - especially #Pong. We cooperated in talks, exhibitions, and in papers many times. I am very sad he died only 70 years old! One of my forthcoming essay collections on #ComputerArchaeology will be dedicated to him and his work.
In my weblog I wrote a short obituray on him:
http://www.simulationsraum.de/blog/2025/08/01/wolfgang-nake-1954-2025/
myCPU version 2.1, seen at VCFe 8.0 (2007). myCPU is a 8bit CPU build from 74HCxxx series discrete logic gates: http://www.mycpu.eu
Your next chance to explore vintage and retro computing in Germany will be at the VCFe Hünfeld on August 2nd/3rd: https://www.huenfeld.de/vcfe
#VCFeHistory #VCFe8.0 #VCFe #VCFeZuse #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing
Today the will be a block seminar on economic simulation #games for the #Commodore64 at University Bonn. I had introduced the different topics, sub-genres, and theoretical backgrounds to #simulation, #gaming, and economics for the last 10 weeks and now there will be a hands-on part for the partitioners on the real machines from the #MediaStudies department:
The US patent of the #HewlettPackard HP9830 computer contains the complete #BASIC interpreter source code for the system:
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/a6/6e/52/8c4a67aa704f77/US4012725.pdf
Nearly forgot about those micro-controllers that contained a #BASIC interpreter to easily use in single-board computers, like the "BERT" computer from the German #Hobbythek TV show:
https://www.mikrocontroller.net/topic/441920
Are there more like this #Zilog Z8671 and #Intel 8052 BASIC µC?
Save the date: on 11th+12th september there will be the "Historizig G.A.M.E.S. conference" in #Bern (switzerland). I'll be there with a talk about #BASIC #game #programming in the #1970s and #1980s
Website with program: https://dhbern.github.io/content/projects/ch-ludens/20250911-historicizing-GAMES/
Just published:
My chapter on "The Universe als a Cellular Automaton" for the collection "", edited by Harald Zaun:
VCF Europa