Podcast speedrun

A brief overview of Speedrun

Discover the world of speedrun with Niniste, a speedrunner and streamer, Sacha Bernard, a teacher and doctoral student, Pippeau from MO5.com, and Jennyfer, a video game sociologist. We explore the definition, history and challenges of speedrunning, as well as its categories and grouping spaces such as Speedon and Twitch. Why choose

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The game within the game

The game within the game - How success has changed the way we play. With Julie le Baron and Grégoire Hellot

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Clichés about Geeks

Dive into a special rebroadcast entitled "Geek Clichés", where we explore the persistent stereotypes surrounding geeks and video games, with our special guests @afrogameuses and @Ladyninh. Together, we deconstruct misconceptions such as "Video games are for little boys

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The history of the Amiga and its community

In the company of Batteman (@BatteMan on Twitter) and Glames (@BoingAttitude on Twitter), Bruce and sseb22 retrace the history of the Amiga, talk about the software and hardware productions of the prolific Amiga community and the BOING paper magazine created by Glames on Amiga news.

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Micral hunting N

by Pierre Mounier-Kuhn Historian CNRS, Sorbonne University and CentraleSupélec In 1990, while beginning my thesis on the history of computing in France, I organised an international symposium on the subject at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, embellished by an exhibition at the Museum of the same name. Alongside the French and foreign pioneers

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In search of R2E engineers and technicians: Yann Lanoë, Frédéric Cousin

By Hervé Le Bouler. Let's return to the lives of those involved in the R2E era with two new points of view. One is from a young engineer fresh out of school, Yann Lanoë, who began his professional career in technical management in François Gernelle's team. The other, Frédéric Cousin, a technician with

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In-depth analysis of the Micral N electronic boards

By Philippe Dubois, Chairman. In this eleventh article, we return to the analysis of the electronic boards of our Micral N, which has progressed enormously thanks to the joint work of Jean-François, Sylvain and Arthur. All their work has been progressively recorded on a page hosted on the

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In search of R2E engineers: Jacky Dubois

By Hervé Le Bouler. Let's take a break between two technical articles to talk a little about the stories, the slices of life of the players from this extraordinary era working in the creative and fertile companies that built the IT revolution in France. R2E is a case in point.

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Checking that the Micral N is working properly and starting up for the first time

By Philippe Dubois, Chairman. In this, our eighth article, we're going to get a little more to the heart of the matter, because after studying and reverse engineering the Micral N's boards and even replacing a few components, we're finally going to get our almost 50-year-old model up and running for the first time.

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The MO5 Micral N restoration team

In this, our sixth article, we take a look at the members of the MO5 association who are working to restore our Micral N and get it up and running again! Jean-François Del Nero: Jean-François is our chief technical engineer. Give him anything with a bit of electronics in it, and he'll fix it, put it back together and make it work again.

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