by Melanie Swalwell | May 12, 2015 | flinders.edu.au
Last month, we were lucky enough to have a visit from Alan Laughton, of the Microbee Software Preservation Project (MSPP). MSPP is a collaborator in the project we have been undertaking with the State Library of South Australia, “Computer Disk Collections at the...
by Melanie Swalwell | May 7, 2015 | flinders.edu.au
Marty Gauvin (Tier 5 and Flinders University Council) officially launched our new Computer Archaeology Lab last Thursday, 30th April. You can read the press release about it here. Several media outlets (including The Advertiser and ABC Perth) were good enough to pick...
by Melanie Swalwell | Apr 30, 2015 | flinders.edu.au
There will be a lunchtime research seminar of the Dept of Screen and Media, on Monday 4th May from 1pm, featuring papers by two scholars, Graeme Kirkpatrick (UK/Sweden) and Melanie Swalwell (Flinders), working in the emerging field of game history. You are welcome to...
by Melanie Swalwell | Apr 28, 2015 | flinders.edu.au
On Wed 29th April, Graeme Kirkpatrick will give a lecture at Flinders entitled “How gaming became sexist: a study of UK gaming magazines 1981-1995”. The abstract is below. 2pm in Sturt Theatre. All welcome! Graeme is visiting Adelaide as one of the international...
by Melanie Swalwell | Feb 18, 2015 | flinders.edu.au
I got my first look inside our Computer Archaeology Lab today, part of the new Flinders Tonsley campus. We’ve started moving our computers from the main campus to here, unpacking boxes, stacking shelves, and setting up our disk imaging stations. There are lots of...
