Author: Art Margolis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Troubleshooting & Repairing Your Commodore 64
Author: Art Margolis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality
Author: Melanie Swalwell
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262044773
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer users. From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, low-end microcomputers offered many users their first taste of computing. A major use of these inexpensive 8-bit machines--including the TRS System 80s and the Sinclair, Atari, Microbee, and Commodore ranges--was the development of homebrew games. Users with often self-taught programming skills devised the graphics, sound, and coding for their self-created games. In this book, Melanie Swalwell offers a history of this era of homebrew game development, arguing that it constitutes a significant instance of the early appropriation of digital computing technology. Drawing on interviews and extensive archival research on homebrew creators in 1980s Australia and New Zealand, Swalwell explores the creation of games on microcomputers as a particular mode of everyday engagement with new technology. She discusses the public discourses surrounding microcomputers and programming by home coders; user practices; the development of game creators' ideas, with the game Donut Dilemma as a case study; the widely practiced art of hardware hacking; and the influence of 8-bit aesthetics and gameplay on the contemporary game industry. With Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality, Swalwell reclaims a lost chapter in video game history, connecting it to the rich cultural and media theory around everyday life and to critical perspectives on user-generated content.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262044773
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer users. From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, low-end microcomputers offered many users their first taste of computing. A major use of these inexpensive 8-bit machines--including the TRS System 80s and the Sinclair, Atari, Microbee, and Commodore ranges--was the development of homebrew games. Users with often self-taught programming skills devised the graphics, sound, and coding for their self-created games. In this book, Melanie Swalwell offers a history of this era of homebrew game development, arguing that it constitutes a significant instance of the early appropriation of digital computing technology. Drawing on interviews and extensive archival research on homebrew creators in 1980s Australia and New Zealand, Swalwell explores the creation of games on microcomputers as a particular mode of everyday engagement with new technology. She discusses the public discourses surrounding microcomputers and programming by home coders; user practices; the development of game creators' ideas, with the game Donut Dilemma as a case study; the widely practiced art of hardware hacking; and the influence of 8-bit aesthetics and gameplay on the contemporary game industry. With Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality, Swalwell reclaims a lost chapter in video game history, connecting it to the rich cultural and media theory around everyday life and to critical perspectives on user-generated content.
Commodore 128
Author: John Heilborn
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780672225543
Category : Commodore 128 (Computer)
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780672225543
Category : Commodore 128 (Computer)
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Advanced Digital Troubleshooting
Author: Alvis J. Evans
Publisher: Sams Technical Publishing
ISBN: 9780672225710
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher: Sams Technical Publishing
ISBN: 9780672225710
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Troubleshooting and Repairing the New Personal Computers
Author: Art Margolis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780830602094
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780830602094
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Microcomputers and the Reference Librarian
Author: Patrick R. Dewey
Publisher: Westport, CT : Meckler
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Westport, CT : Meckler
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Handbook of Diagnosing and Solving Computer Problems
Author: William E. Perry
Publisher: T A B/T P R
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher: T A B/T P R
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Subject Guide to Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3126
Book Description
Television Symptom Diagnosis
Author: Richard W. Tinnell
Publisher: Sams Technical Publishing
ISBN: 9780672226274
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher: Sams Technical Publishing
ISBN: 9780672226274
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Cumulative Book Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3344
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3344
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.