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Computer games are all games that are played using a computer to display the board, generate events, and provide other players to play with or, generally, for any other game relevant aspect. The entertainment industry is a wide term to encompass any business generating profit from their activities related to the entertainment sector.
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The MITS Altair 8800, released in 1975, is often considered to be the first true personal computer (Wolf 2008). Its operating system was created by two guys from a young company (then still called “Micro-Soft”) who offered it as a product to MITS before they had actually written it. These young men (Bill Gates and Paul Allen) soon went on to also sell IBM an operating system (MS-DOS, written in 8086 assembly) for their x86-based computers. While this does not mark the first time that hardware and software became two separate...
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Hildmann, H., Hebgen, B. (2018). Computer Games and the Evolution of Digital Rights. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_232-1
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