Amnesia Remembered

Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact

John Aycock (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

210 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-867-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Part I:Pre-Excavation

Introduction

Chapter 1. Reconnaissance

Chapter 2. Evaluation

Chapter 3. Strategy and Research Questions

Part II: Excavation

Chapter 4. Fragments

Chapter 5. Publisher Logo

Chapter 6. Text Encoding

Chapter 7. Interpreter

Chapter 8. Text Encoding, Revisited

Chapter 9. Parser

Chapter 10. Finding Locations

Chapter 11. Copy Protection

Part III: Post-Excavation

Chapter 12. Analysis

Conclusion

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	Digital Archaeology: Documenting the Anthropocene
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-867-6 / 1800738676
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-867-6 / 9781800738676
Zustand	Neuware