No. 10 (2023): Special Issue: Digital Nostalgia and Creative Technology
Articles

Retro-programming and the nostalgia for creativity in the 8-bit microcomputer era

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  • Patryk Wasiak,
  • Marcin Cabak
Patryk Wasiak
Independent Researcher
Marcin Cabak
Institute of Pedagogy, University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33008/IJCMR.2023.09

Published 31-07-2023

Copyright (c) 2023 Dr. Patryk Wasiak and Dr. Marcin Cabak

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Abstract

In this article, we investigate a small community of ‘retro-programmers’ who use 8-bit microcomputers for coding. Writing code for old computers is embedded in the imagery of digital nostalgia. As we will demonstrate, investigating nostalgia for vintage computers as tools for creative coding, offers an insight into the cultural logic of the contemporary perception of old digital technologies.

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