Adopting an Orphaned Platform: The Second Life of the Sharp MZ-800 in Czechoslovakia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F22%3A10435098" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/22:10435098 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv24650dc.8" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv24650dc.8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv24650dc.8" target="_blank" >10.2307/j.ctv24650dc.8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Adopting an Orphaned Platform: The Second Life of the Sharp MZ-800 in Czechoslovakia
Original language description
Based on oral history interviews, archival material, and paratextual analysis, the chapter chronicles the second life of the Japanese Sharp MZ-800 8-bit computer in late 1980s and early 1990s Czechoslovakia and investigates the practices and meanings that emerged around this machine in the local do-it-yourself community. Despite its incompatibility with major platforms at the time and its relative obscurity in the rest of the world, Czechoslovak users made it into a formidable gaming machine by producing around 200 ports of existing games and dozens of original titles. The chapter uses this case to argue that despite the deepening globalization, 1980s Europe was a loosely interconnected patchwork of distinctly local markets and user communities that adopted (mostly) foreign technologies and adapted them to their own needs and ambitions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Perspectives on the European videogame
ISBN
978-94-6372-622-1
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
91-110
Number of pages of the book
236
Publisher name
Amsterdam University Press
Place of publication
Amsterdam
UT code for WoS chapter
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