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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

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication

Result continuities

  • Project

  • 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