Melanie Lorraine Swalwell

The Remembering and the Forgetting of Early Digital Games: From novelty to detritus and back again

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The Popular Memory Archive: Collecting and Exhibiting Player Culture from the 1980s

Memories of playing games with computers have an important role in terms of documenting people’s personal relationships with computing history. This paper presents and discusses the Popular Memory Archive (PMA), an online portal of the “Play It Again” game history and preservation project, which addresses 1980s games, produced in Australia and New Zealand. As well as providing a way to disseminate some of the team’s research, the PMA taps into what is, effectively, a collective public archive by providing a technique for collecting information, resources and memories from the public about 1980s computer games. The PMA is designed to work with online retro gamer communities and fans, and this paper reflects on the PMA as a method for collecting and displaying the memories of those who lived and played their way through this period.

journal of visual culture The Remembering and the Forgetting of Early Digital Games: From Novelty to Detritus and Back Again

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New/Inter/Media

The rise of interest in digital media technologies over the last decade has rekindled a range of earlier debates on the relations between different media. In this paper, I want to inquire into the relation between intermedia and what has, for some years now, been termed simply ’new media’. While some writers have objected to this term, pointing to the continuities between newer media and earlier media forms, the present context brings other resonances to the fore, including the way in which intermedia forms become ’established’ and familiar. Dick Higgins’ proposal to continually ’follow one’s nose’ out of such established forms ’towards trying the frontiers of this or that’, suggests that intermedia works themselves constitute, at least for a time, new media.~ But what about the reverse scenario: is new media intermedia?

Creating Disk Images of Born Digital Content: A Case Study Comparing Success Rates of Institutional Versus Private Collections

ABSTRACT Although libraries maintain collections of material on computer disks in climate controlled environments, a significant amount of digital heritage is in private collections. In this study we compared the outcomes of creating disk images of the State Library of South Australia’s born digital collections with those of a private collector to gauge the effect of long term storage conditions. The failure rates of both collections give cause for concern, and the results from the private collection are alarming.

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