I think it's great to see the material played back on a monitor of correct vintage. That the documentarty video was produced using a mobile phone adds piquancy to proceedings.
best Simon On 2 Dec 2011, at 13:48, IR3ABF wrote: > hi > > I found three pieces produced with a VIC20 in my personal archive: > > 1: "4 = ANGST - La Vie Russe", 1987 an animation about the then new epidemic > AIDS > > http://burgerwaanzin.nl/vic20/4=angst.mp4 > > 2: "OOSTENRIJK", 1987 an animation about the troubled historical past of > Austria > > http://burgerwaanzin.nl/vic20/oostenrijk.mp4 > > 3: "SCHIZOFRAMES", 1987 balancing the border between sane and insane, an > animation for a VIC20 computer and a cathode ray-tube television set > > http://burgerwaanzin.nl/vic20/schizo.mp4 > > Animated lettering system written in ASM 6502 injected directly into > memoryspace, recorded and played back with cassette tape, video recordings > from old weared and teared Betamax recordings, my medium of choice from that > days. > > NB Lack of affordable equipment gave rise to film these excerpts with a > handheld samsung smartphone > > best > > Andreas > > > Sent from my eXtended BodY > > On 2 dec. 2011, at 13:20, Simon Biggs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
