From the German #BASIC manual of the #Sharp MZ80K ... about LENghts, strings & girths:

#PaperWare

Can you imagine a funnier sunday morning activity than reading a badly scanned #HP9830 ROM #assembly listing in search for the #BASIC tokenizer tables?

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/a6/6e/52/8c4a67aa704f77/US4012725.pdf

Out now: RETURN magazine no. 62 with my essay on #BASIC dialects for 1970s and 1980s #GameConsoles and a review for Jörn Cölschs book "Dark Side of #C64 #Games":

http://www.simulationsraum.de/blog/2025/08/14/return-62/

Just published: #DigitalTalk64 the last remaining real #diskmag for the #C64 - issue 116!

I contributed an essay about the #GOTO controversy and some more #HomeComputer photographies from the 1980s.

The disk image can be downloaded soon from: https://digital-talk.github.io/

#RetroComputing #Commodore64

Save the date:

From September 1st to 6th, the "#Games Week" will take place at the #UniBonn, to which I and the #C64 Lab will contribute a lecture and workshop on September 2nd:

"Talk(ad)venture & Mitspiel-Werkstatt | Computerspielgeschichte spielen? #RetroGames als epistemische Objekte"

https://www.fiw.uni-bonn.de/gamelab/de/game-week-bonn

#GameStudies #RetroGaming #MediaStudies

I've just uploaded a scan of my (xeroxed) manual for the "C7420 Home Computer Module" to @internetarchive.

The C7420 is a #BASIC cartridge with #Z80 CPU and RAM expansion for the Philips #G7400 (#MagnavoxOdyssey2) #Videopac+ video game console.

I did not find any manual for that online - neither Enlish nor German. So, here you are:

https://archive.org/details/C7420-heimcomputermodul-basic

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:

https://inc-x.net/mylisting/?PIN=53281

#RetroComputing #PaperWare

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 ...

#RetroComputing #Synthesizer #FMSynthesis

Yesterday @TheMediumIsPizza's and my essay on #ToyComputing with #Minecraft has been published on @Paidia:

http://txt3.de/paidia11

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