Many of the better museum exhibits tend to tie in things to people's daily life in the present. I searched an anachronistic term, "game of thrones."
Many of the better museum exhibits tend to tie in things to people's daily life in the present. I searched an anachronistic term, "game of thrones."
During the presentation, they load Spacewar! from paper tape, and two members of the audience can battle it out.
It's pretty amazing to play one of the first graphical computer games ever, on a computer first released 50 years ago.
Also, I absolutely love this demo. It's really a work of art.
It really puts to shame my humble plan to finish my Osborne 1 emulator and put it on the web.
Samson was demonstrating four part audio synthesis of Bach organ pieces. It turns out that during the restoration project, they came across some of his original data tapes encoding the music, but the software was long lost, so he recreated his hack 50 years later, with the additional constraint that he had to reconstruct his data format and remain compatible with it!