Fall 2025 Event Pictures and Videos

This post is an early experiment with sharing pictures and videos, in this case from the Fall 2025 Event. And also an early collaboration with the Travis County Historical Commission blog and Richard Denney in particular. Rich is a historian, one of the original UTCC staff working with the DEC-10 in HRC, and a photographer. Many of the photos here in the DecwarOrg blog and on the TCHC blog are by Rich, and we will repeatedly say Thank You for Rich's work: photos, articles, discussion, and feedback. TCHC blog and Rich are the role models for DecwarOrg blog. Here are two TCHC posts of special historical computing interest. First the new TCHC post

https://traviscountyhistorical.blogspot.com/2026/04/ut-austin-computation-center-and-decwar.html 

and second, a TCHC post about MCC and Austin's AI history

https://traviscountyhistorical.blogspot.com/2023/05/a-history-of-ai-winter-and-austin.html 

Mk Haley and Eric Freeman are faculty in the UT School of Design and Creative Technologies, and Noah Smith is a UT Aerospace Engineering alumni. Mk, Eric, and Noah collaborated on the Fall 2025 Event, spontaneously forming DecwarOrg along the way. The website and this blog are building on that. Roughly speaking, DecwarOrg began taking shape around the nucleus of the Event, and things have been growing spontaneously from there.

Below are a few pictures of attendees experiencing a bit of living history, thanks to Eric's DecwarJS reconstruction. Eric's work brings the seventies technologies from UTCC all the way up to the present day, making them completely accessible. Eric's code and workflows are cutting-edge and provide a great experience for everyone interested in the history. At the same time, anyone interested can also simultaneously get hands on with the original fifty year old code and environment. Both the modern and the vintage are available side-by-side, open for use together, separately, or in ways we haven't foreseen yet. In particular, both the modern and vintage approaches together are an ideal foundation for future AI applications, with AI players bringing to life the sights and sounds of eighteen players battling across the galaxy back in 1982. In short, the Org is working with something very special here, and is sharing that, and welcoming everyone to participate in the next chapters of this surprising, thought-provoking, and historic fifty-year story.

In the entrance to the event, arcade-like terminals with DecwarJS running.

Old-timers from the eighties were also playing remotely, from other states and countries.

Eric watches over his DecwarJS work in action.

Here's a video walk through of the event.

And two videos that were created for and shown during the event. The first is an intro to some of the history, and the second was designed for use with a projector to help establish the vibe during the event.