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The video game industry was quick to industrialise. Where literature, music and cinema had chance to explore their artistic potential away from monetary preoccupations, video games were born into the arcade where, Cinderella-like they had to earn their keep on the bar floor, minute by minute, credit by credit. Atari, one of the earliest video…
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“ You may have heard of "free” software before. One common belief is that it’s free of cost. The majority of free software is available without cost, but “free” really refers to freedom not price. Specifically, the freedom to run, study, modify and distribute the software. If you have all of these freedoms, then the…
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internetarchive: September 13th, 1985 – Japanese electronics company Nintendo releases the game Super Mario Bros. in Japan for the Famicom computer system. The game was a sequel to 1983’s Mario Bros. Over the course of its life the game would sell over 40,240,000 copies worldwide, making it the 2nd bestselling video game of all time.…
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internetarchive: July 23rd, 1985 – Presenting to an excited audience at the Lincoln Center in New York City, a team of engineers from the Commodore corporation show off their latest 8-bit computing product, the Amiga. Software demos include showing off Amiga’s music making capabilities, animation programs, business applications, and much more. Even pop artist Andy Warhol…
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Likewise, Bill Gates and his Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen innovated at the boundaries of the law before founding Microsoft. The pair had obtained an administrator’s password at the company where they were employed in order to use the time-shared computers for personal projects. Today, these activities are illegal and subject to serious prosecution under existing…
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So, why talk about another 3D printed chess set? Because in this case, it’s not the chess set that is the focus of production, but rather the variations in the game itself. Western chess is actually just one variant of a game whose family tree includes the much older games of chaturanga (Indian), shatranj (Indian…
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fyprocessing: rroseu: This is a WIP/first project for the online Coursera course, “Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps,” which is run by several professors at Goldsmiths University of London. More info on the vimeo page (and by that I mean info about my code bugs and mishaps). I’ve signed up for many online…
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The Classical Theatre of Harlem had a hit last summer with its rousing production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheatre, in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park; on July 4, the company returns to the recently refurbished outdoor stage for a three-week run of “Romeo N Juliet.” The director, Justin Emeka, adapted the…