Adopting an Orphaned Platform: The Second Life of the Sharp MZ-800 in Czechoslovakia

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Adopting an Orphaned Platform: The Second Life of the Sharp MZ-800 in Czechoslovakia

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Adopting an Orphaned Platform: The Second Life of the Sharp MZ-800 in Czechoslovakia

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Perspectives on the European videogame

ISBN

978-94-6372-622-1

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

91-110

Počet stran knihy

236

Název nakladatele

Amsterdam University Press

Místo vydání

Amsterdam

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

—