The examples of "practice formerly known as art", linked to below, were not produced using a BBC as these machines were not readily available in Australia. They predate the release of the BBC and Commodore 64 by a couple of years. However, the machine used (a homebuilt S-100 based system with Z80 CPU) was a similar specification. These are stills from realtime animations, initially written in hexadecimal, then machine code and latterly C. I have QT versions and should upload them sometime. They are very crude but have a certain charm indicative of their time and my naivety.
http://www.littlepig.org.uk/videos/pieces79/pieces79.htm http://www.littlepig.org.uk/videos/pieces81/pieces81.htm http://www.littlepig.org.uk/videos/pieces82/pieces82.htm Anyway, although I wasn't a BBC user I would see myself as belonging to that generation of practitioners who began engaging computers at the end of the 1970's and which would include the Altair, BBC, Commodore and other early PC users. Thus, the 30 year anniversary for the BBC Micro has some resonance for me. best Simon On 2 Dec 2011, at 11:38, IR3ABF wrote: > > hi Marc and list > > UK had its BBC Micro, while at the same time in continental Europe, Commodore > introduced the famous VIC20, the *Volkscomputer* with about the same specs > apart from its slower microprocessor, both equiped with the famous 6502 > > the acronym i.e. ARM is somewhat misleading as it suggest an A(dvanced) > R(educed instruction set) M(icroprocessor) which was certaintly not the case > with the 6502, which had a huge set of ASM 6502 machine instructions as was > the first commercially succesfull Apple IIe > > I wonder how first generation programmers (like I did with the VIC 20) used > the Acorn in The UK to create, well pieces of the practice formerly called > art? I remember there was and there still is a lively demoscene using asm > 6502 or derivates as language of choice > > Would be nice to somehow showcase these early examples at -for instance- > Furtherfield? > > And to juxtapoint contentinental versus UK approaches and trying to point to > a certain distinction between the two, as for instance: subject matter, > technical point of view, art historical context, the role of BBC compared to > educational programs from ZDF, NOS nl (which happened to broadcast 6502 code > hidden in television transmission signal in the 1980ties), the role of > influential technical publishers like Data Becker, Germany and finally the > impact of the commercial take-over around 1989 by AOL et al US which gave > rise to the mainstream popularity of Home Computers (PC's) > > Just wondering > > Best > > Andreas > > > Sent from my eXtended BodY > > On 2 dec. 2011, at 11:55, marc garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The BBC Microcomputer and me, 30 years down the line. >> >> "The BBC has an article on the BBC Microcomputer, designed and >> manufactured by Acorn Computers for the BBC's Computer Literacy project. >> It is now 30 years since the first BBC Micro came out — a machine with a >> 2 MHz 6502 — remarkably fast for its day; the Commodore machines at the >> time only ran at 1MHz. While most U.S. readers will never have heard of >> the BBC Micro, the BBC's Computer Literacy project has had a huge impact >> worldwide since the ARM (originally meaning 'Acorn Risc Machine') was >> designed for the follow-on version of the BBC Micro, the Archimedes, >> also sold under the BBC Microcomputer label by Acorn. The original ARM >> CPU was specified in just over 800 lines of BBC BASIC. The ARM CPU now >> outsells all other CPU architectures put together. The BBC Micro has >> arguably been the most influential 8 bit computer the world had thanks >> to its success creating the seed for the ARM, even if the 'Beeb' was not >> well known outside of the UK." >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15969065 >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Simon Biggs [email protected] http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ @SimonBiggsUK skype: simonbiggsuk [email protected] Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.movingtargets.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
