RCR Episode 180 - Playing today's games in 1000 years

Retro Computing Roundtable

English - November 04, 2018 14:54 - ★★★★★ - 76 ratings
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Previous Episode: RCR Episode 179 - Having no topic didn't help

Next Episode: RCR Episode 181 - Getting and Regretting

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Playing today's games in 1000 years

To what extent should "we" expect to be able to play the games of today in 1000 years.
What challenges might there be? To what extent can the experience survive? Is there anything
we can do to make this work?

Topic and feedback notes:

Playing today's games in a thousand years
Crypt of Civilization
The Long Now
Oldenburger Computer Museum
HCC computer club

Retro Computing News:

Conserve the Sound
CHIP-maker NTC now defunct
Gigatron, TTL microcomputer
Return of the Obra Dinn
1959 Wurlitzer Sideman
Mr Wonderful helped kill the educational computer games industry [AV Club]
The rise and fall of The Learning Company [Theoutline.com]
Apple Logo source code on github (within the PDP-10 ITS repository)
Tweet: Lars Brinkhoff found the source code and compiled it.
Tweet: Lars announces GitHub location.