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100	1		_aAycock, John. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRetrogame Archeology _h[recurso electrónico] : _bExploring Old Computer Games / _cby John Aycock.
264		1	_aCham : _bSpringer International Publishing : _bImprint: Springer, _c2016.
300			_aXIX, 222 p. 172 illus., 20 illus. in color. _bonline resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
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505	0		_aIntroduction -- Memory Management -- Slow, Wildly Incompatible I/O -- Interpreters -- Data Compression -- Procedural Content Generation -- Protection -- Obfuscation and Optimization -- Endgame.
520			_aDrawing 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.
650		0	_aComputer science.
650		0	_aComputer programming.
650		0	_aMultimedia information systems.
650		0	_aComputers.
650		0	_aCommunication.
650		0	_aSociology.
650		0	_aMass media.
650	1	4	_aComputer Science.
650	2	4	_aProgramming Techniques.
650	2	4	_aHistory of Computing.
650	2	4	_aMedia Research.
650	2	4	_aMultimedia Information Systems.
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776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783319300023
856	4	0	_zLibro electrónico _uhttp://148.231.10.114:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30004-7
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