Forth: The Best Programming Language for the End of the World? A Case Study on A.D. 2044 (1991) - Roland Pantoła’s Interactive Fiction
A media-archaeology case study of Roland Pantoła's 1991 Polish Atari 8-bit adventure game A.D. 2044 (Sexmission), examining how he extended the Forth programming language to build his own game engine and how the game works as political satire of late-communist Poland.- doi
- 10.1145/3720553.3746673
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- 979-8-4007-1534-1
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- Forth: The Best Programming Language for the End of the World? A Case Study on A.D. 2044 (1991) - Roland Pantoła’s Interactive Fiction
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- https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3720553.3746673
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- Krzysztof A. Ziembik, Bartosz Gołda, Piotr Marecki
- doi_url
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3720553.3746673
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- CC BY 4.0
- summary
- A media-archaeology case study of Roland Pantoła's 1991 Polish Atari 8-bit adventure game A.D. 2044 (Sexmission), examining how he extended the Forth programming language to build his own game engine and how the game works as political satire of late-communist Poland.
- keywords
- 80’s, 90’s, Atari 8bit Platform, Communism and Postcommunism, Computer Game, Digital Preservation, Disasters or Crises, Forth Programming Language, Game Engine, Gamedev in Poland, Graphical Adventure, Homebrew Game, Interactive Fiction, Media Archeology, PTODT, Point and Click, Political Satire, Program Development, Retrocomputing, Text Adventure, UBU Lab, User Interface
- published
- 2025-09-15
- conference
- HT '25: 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Chicago, IL, USA, September 15-19, 2025
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- 156–164
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- https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3720553.3746673
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- Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in interaction design
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- Krzysztof A. Ziembik, Bartosz Gołda, Piotr Marecki
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- https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3720553
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- 2025-09-15
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- Krzysztof A. Ziembik, Bartosz Gołda, and Piotr Marecki. 2025. Forth: The Best Programming Language for the End of the World? A Case Study on A.D. 2044 (1991) - Roland Pantoła’s Interactive Fiction. In Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT ’25), September 15–19, 2025, Chicago, IL, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3720553.3746673
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