Monday, September 29, 2014

Releasing the book on cult computer – UNT

In connection with Jimmy Wilhelmsson found out that he would become a father for the first time, he got a craving to revisit what he grew up with during the Seventies and Eighties. Somewhere sown also the seed for the book Generation 64, which comes out at the end of the month.

He laid namely noticed that people who were of his age and situation, that is around 40 years, and worked in various Technology and Innovation seats, almost always started his interest in computers in the same way: with the home computer Commodore 64th

– They saw then that the computer was more than just a word processor and was interested in rather than the programming behind and what a computer could do, says Jimmy Wilhelmsson.

“Generation 64″ are based on 30 people and the Commodore 64 changed their lives. Jimmy Wilhelmsson says that it is not meant to be scientific in any way, but he would still like to see what impact the Commodore 64 had.

In addition to being the world’s best-selling home computer Commodore 64 he describes as the world’s first social computer. This is because a community emerged around it, where people started programming and share software with one another.

A large part of it was that users of pirated or “cracked,” as it was called, game cartridges and spread them between each other. Not just because they wanted to play a lot of games but for the fun lay in the challenge to gather in groups and crack them. Some wrote, for example, if the code in the game to put his own signature or name which then spread further.

– which of course is a bit controversial because it means that there may well be pirate culture that helped to given a great deal of technology and gaming Sweden says Jimmy Wilhelmsson.

What have people for the benefit of the Commodore 64 today

– There’s nothing to get up and play today but there is an important sense of history. Unless otherwise be interested in the game console to see that their own parents also sat up in the evenings and play. Parents, in turn, felt when they threw away their lives, not that they gave birth to it-Sweden.

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