Retrogame archeology [electronic resource] : exploring old computer games / John Aycock.
Aycock, John Daniel, 1970- author.
2016
GV1469.15
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Title Retrogame archeology [electronic resource] : exploring old computer games / John Aycock.
Author Aycock, John Daniel, 1970- author.
ISBN 9783319300047 (electronic book)
3319300040 (electronic book)
9783319300023
3319300024
Published Switzerland : Springer, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xix, 222 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number GV1469.15
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.8
Summary Drawing on extensive research, this book explores the techniques that old computer games used to run on tightly-constrained platforms. Retrogame developers faced incredible challenges of limited space, computing power, rudimentary tools, and the lack of homogeneous environments. Using examples from over 100 retrogames, this book examines the clever implementation tricks that game designers employed to make their creations possible, documenting these techniques that are being lost. However, these retrogame techniques have modern analogues and applications in general computer systems, not just games, and this book makes these contemporary connections. It also uses retrogames' implementation to introduce a wide variety of topics in computer systems including memory management, interpretation, data compression, procedural content generation, and software protection. Retrogame Archeology targets professionals and advanced-level students in computer science, engineering, and mathematics but would also be of interest to retrogame enthusiasts, computer historians, and game studies researchers in the humanities"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Available in Other Form Retrogame archeology.
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Introduction
Memory Management
Slow, Wildly Incompatible I/O
Interpreters
Data Compression
Procedural Content Generation
Protection
Obfuscation and Optimization
Endgame.

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