One-Line C64 BASIC Music
Local sound artist/electronic musician Keith Fullerton Whitman released an extraordinary piece on the b-side of his November 2009 cassette hallicrafters, inc. The piece is called 10 poke...
View ArticleComputational Literacy: Get with the Program
Mark Sample has posted five basic statements, ahem, I mean 5 BASIC statements, on computational literacy. I must point out that while they are all programs, the third and fifth ones actually include...
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10 PRINT Reading / Release Party
Our first event for 10 PRINT is scheduled for: Monday November 12, 2012 7pm at the Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA. This means, of course, that the book will be printed and...
View ArticleJudy Malloy on 10 PRINT
Over on her site Authoring Software, longtime e-lit author and BASIC programmer Judy Malloy has written a news story about the release of 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10. I’m quoted, along with...
View ArticleIt’s a Good Word. Maine.
Just back from several travels, I’ve found that there’s a video record online of me, Patsy Baudoin, and John Bell presenting 10 PRINT at the University of Maine way back in April of this year. In our...
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C64 BASIC Workshop at MIT, January 29, 2-5pm
I am moved by the holiday spirit of MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) to announce a Commodore 64 BASIC programming workshop using original hardware. [Update: The workshop is now fully...
View ArticleA “Programs” Writeup
Matthew Battles has a nice post about the “Programs at an Exhibition” show, up now on the metaLAB blog.
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Happy 50th to BASIC
Dartmouth is celebrating the 50th anniversary of BASIC tomorrow with several events, including the premiere of a documentary on BASIC that I hope to see soon. I teach two classes tomorrow; those and my...
View ArticleAnother Nod to BASIC
Doug Orleans pointed me to “Lost Lessons from 8-Bit BASIC,” a blog post that makes the case that there were real, practical advantages to the much-maligned BASIC programming langauge, at least in the...
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“The Era Canto,” a Poem for 2015
Happy New Year! My New Year’s poem for 2015 is a one-line BASIC program for the Commodore 64: “The Era Canto.”
View ArticleTiny Trope Tank Productions
Recently, at the suggestion of our writer in residence, Milton Läufer, we in the Trope Tankt have been producing digital files for discussion at meetings. These productions, almost always computer...
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Exquisite Corpses are Now on Display
In 1984, a type-in program appeared in the French Hebdogiciel—no surprise there, since this weekly publication was all about type-in BASIC programs! This one, however, was not entirely unlike the...
View ArticleAmazing Quest Q&A
Amazing Quest should be completely open to the interpretation of players, to their appreciation of it, and, if they choose, to their rejection of it. I refrained from discussing anything about the game...
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