Amnesia Remembered: Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact: 2

Aycock, John

 
9781800738676: Amnesia Remembered: Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact: 2
ISBN 10: 1800738676 ISBN 13: 9781800738676
Casa editrice: Berghahn Books, 2023

Sinossi

Our modern culture is increasingly expressed in the form of digital artifacts, yet archaeology is in its infancy when it comes to researching and understanding them. The study and reverse engineering of digital artifacts is no longer the exclusive domain of computer scientists. Presented by way of analogy to the process of archaeological fieldwork familiar to readers, the 1986 Electronic Arts game Amnesia is used as a vehicle to explain the procedure and thought process required to reverse engineer a digital artifact. As a go-to reference to learn how to begin studying the digital, Amnesia is shown to be a multi-layered artifact with a complex backstory; through it, topics in data compression, copy protection, memory management, and programming languages are covered.

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Informazioni sull?autore

John Aycock is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is the author of Retrogame Archeology: Exploring Old Computer Games (Springer, 2016). His research interests include studying the implementation of "retro" computer games and technology, which he has been doing in collaboration with archaeologists and others.

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Editore
Berghahn Books
Data di pubblicazione
2023
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1800738676
ISBN 13 
9781800738676
Rilegatura
Rilegatura all'americana
Numero di pagine
194
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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