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Episode: Battling Obsolescence – Keeping an 80s laser tag system alive (39c3)
Description: Keeping old projects working can be an uphill battle. This talk explores how the laser tag system Q-Zar (Quasar in the UK) has been kept alive since the company behind it failed in the 90s. The challenges encountered, the lessons learnt, and how those can be applied to our own future projects to maximise the project lifetime.
Looking at the effects of obsolescence in the context of a laser tag system from the 1980s Q-Zar (Quasar in the UK), what needed to happen to keep it going to enable people to continue playing. What lessons we can learn from that...