Preserving Digital Art and Games for 100 Years!
summary
A tool called OCCAM automatically constructs execution environments and actually builds virtual machines or Docker containers from simple requirements and runs old DOS art and games inside a browser using DOSBox, a VNC server and a JavaScript VNC client. The system takes two years of engineering but succeeds: the ZZT engine and thousands of ZZT worlds run in-browser. Claim: preserve creation tooling and provenance, not just disk images.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Digital archivist role
- 3:11Code as art and challenge
- 3:56ZZT in art history
- 5:04Why interactive media is hard
- 6:10VM image limitations
- 7:13Preserving ZZT's potential
- 8:17Dynamic VM builder tool
- 10:07Adapting tools for future tech
- 11:11Archival tool demo
- 11:56Takeaways and call to action
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