256B on the C64 for 8K
A tiny program for the big screen; a classic computer driving the latest, cinematic display. My contribution to the Art Exhibition for Creativity & Cognition / Design Interactive Systems 2019 is a 256-byte executable for the Commodore 64, written in 6502 assembly, for the auditorium's 8K di...
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| author | Montfort, Nick |
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| description | A tiny program for the big screen; a classic computer driving the latest, cinematic display. My contribution to the Art Exhibition for Creativity & Cognition / Design Interactive Systems 2019 is a 256-byte executable for the Commodore 64, written in 6502 assembly, for the auditorium's 8K display. This non-interactive program will produce graphical effects using only the character-based facilities of the Commodore 64's VIC-II and producing sound via the system's SID. I describe its relationship to my practice and concrete poetry, retrocomputing, sizecoding, the demoscene, and platform studies. The program's output is suitable for presentation as a "short" with other short experimental motion pictures/executable artworks or prior to one or more longer works. Bridging the border of time and different eras of computing, the program will be run on an original hardware NTSC Commodore 64 (not in emulation) with the video output upscaled. Keywords: Concrete poetry; visual poetry; non-interactive; demoscene; sizecoding; retrocomputing; Commodore 64; platform studies and practices; computer history |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1230872024-06-26T00:21:42Z 256B on the C64 for 8K Montfort, Nick Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing A tiny program for the big screen; a classic computer driving the latest, cinematic display. My contribution to the Art Exhibition for Creativity & Cognition / Design Interactive Systems 2019 is a 256-byte executable for the Commodore 64, written in 6502 assembly, for the auditorium's 8K display. This non-interactive program will produce graphical effects using only the character-based facilities of the Commodore 64's VIC-II and producing sound via the system's SID. I describe its relationship to my practice and concrete poetry, retrocomputing, sizecoding, the demoscene, and platform studies. The program's output is suitable for presentation as a "short" with other short experimental motion pictures/executable artworks or prior to one or more longer works. Bridging the border of time and different eras of computing, the program will be run on an original hardware NTSC Commodore 64 (not in emulation) with the video output upscaled. Keywords: Concrete poetry; visual poetry; non-interactive; demoscene; sizecoding; retrocomputing; Commodore 64; platform studies and practices; computer history 2019-11-25T20:23:23Z 2019-11-25T20:23:23Z 2019-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781450359177 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123087 Montfort, Nick. "256B on the C64 for 8K." Proceedings of Creativity and Cognition 2019, San Diego, California, USA, ACM Press, June 2019. © 2019 The Author http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3325480.3329174 Proceedings of Creativity and Cognition 2019 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf ACM Press Prof. Montfort via Mark Szarko |
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