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Too Much Fun - The Five Lives Of The Commodore 64 Computer

by Jesper Juul

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 The surprising history of the Commodore 64, the best-selling home computer of the 1980s—the machine that taught the world that computing should be fun.The Commodore 64 (C64) is officially the best-selling desktop computer model of all time, according to The Guinness Book of World Records. It was also, from 1985 to 1993, the platform for which most video games were made. But although it sold at least twice as many units as other home computers of its time, such as the Apple II, ZX Spectrum, or Commodore Amiga, it is strangely forgotten in many computer histories. In Too Much Fun, Jesper Juul argues that the C64 was so popular because it was so versatile, a machine developers and users would reinvent again and again over the course of 40 years.First it was a serious computer, next a game computer, then a computer for showcasing technical brilliance (graphical demos using the machine in seemingly impossible ways), then a struggling competitor, and finally a retro device whose limitations are now charming. The C64, Juul shows, has been ignored by history because it was too much fun. Richly illustrated in full color, this book is the first in-depth examination of the C64''s design and history, and the first to integrate US and European histories. Containing interviews with Commodore engineers as well as an insightful look at C64 games, music, and software,Too Much Fun will appeal to those who used a Commodore 64, those interested in the history of computing and video games and computational literacy, or just those who wish their technological devices would last longer.
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Four Shades Of Gray - The Amazon Kindle Platform

by Simon Peter Rowberry

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 This first book-length analysis of Amazon''s Kindle explores the platform''s technological, bibliographical, and social impact on publishing.Four Shades of Gray offers the first book-length analysis of Amazon''s Kindle and its impact on publishing. Simon Peter Rowberry recounts how Amazon built the infrastructure for a new generation of digital publications, then considers the consequences of having a single company control the direction of the publishing industry. Exploring the platform from the perspectives of technology, texts, and uses, he shows how the Kindle challenges traditional notions of platforms as discrete entities. He argues that Amazon''s influence extends beyond "disruptive technology" to embed itself in all aspects of the publishing trade; yet despite industry pushback, he says, the Kindle has had a positive influence on publishing.Rowberry documents the first decade of the Kindle with case studies of Kindle Popular Highlights, an account of the digitization of books published after 1922, and a discussion of how Amazon''s patent filings reflect a shift in priorities. Rowberry argues that while it was initially convenient for the book trade to outsource ebook development to Amazon, doing so has had adverse consequences for publishers in the mid- and long term, limiting opportunities for developing an inclusive and forward-thinking digital platform. While it has forced publishers to embrace digital forms, the Kindle has also empowered some previously marginalized readerships. Although it is still too early to judge the long-term impact of ebooks compared with that of the older technologies of clay tablets, the printing press, and offset printing, the shockwaves of the Kindle continue to shape publishing.
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Who Are You? - Nintendo''S Game Boy Advance Platform

by Alex Custodio

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 "GBA is the progentitor of handheld gaming platforms today. Who are You? offers fresh ways of thinking about the production, circulation, and actual use of a video game platform"--
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Racing The Beam - The Atari Video Computer System - The Atari Video Computer System

by Ian (Professor, Georgia Institute Of Technology) Bogost e Nick (Associate Professor Of Digital Media, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) Montfort

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 The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that 'Atari' became the generic term for a video game console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges. This book offers a study of this influential video game console from both computational and cultural perspectives.
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Media Snatcher - Pc/Core/Turbo/Engine/Grafx/16/Cdrom2/Super/Duo/Arcade/Rx

by Carl Therrien

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 An in-depth exploration of a neglected video game platform of the 1990s and a reflection on the way we construct the cultural history of video games.In The Media Snatcher, Carl Therrien offers an in-depth exploration of NEC''s PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16, a little-studied video game platform released in the late 1980s. The PC Engine was designed to bring technological expandability to the world of game consoles; The Media Snatcher''s subtitle evokes some of the expansions and the numerous rebranded versions of the system released by NEC, including the first CD-ROM add-on in video game history. The platform makers hoped that expandability would allow its console to remain at the cutting edge and even catch up with such perceptually rich media as cinema and anime. More than a simple shape-shifter, the PC Engine became a media snatcher.Therrien examines the multidirectional interactions of video game technologies, commercial structures, and cultural dynamics. He considers, among other things, hyperbolic marketing and its impact on how we construct video game history; glitches, technological obsolescence, and the difficulty of conducting media archaeology of the recent past; the emergence of male-centered power fantasies through audiovisual rewards; the rise of original genres such as visual novels; and the sustained efforts to integrate PC Engine software in the sprawling media landscape of Japan (where the PC Engine found much of its success). Avoiding the usual techno-industrial glorification, Therrien recounts the bold technological aspirations of the platform makers and the struggles to make the actual technology realize its potential.
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Super Power, Spoony Bards, And Silverware - The Super Nintendo Entertainment System

by Dominic Arsenault

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 How the Super Nintendo Entertainment System embodied Nintendo''s resistance to innovation and took the company from industry leadership to the margins of videogaming.This is a book about the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that is not celebratory or self-congratulatory. Most other accounts declare the Super NES the undisputed victor of the "16-bit console wars" of 1989-1995. In this book, Dominic Arsenault reminds us that although the SNES was a strong platform filled with high-quality games, it was also the product of a short-sighted corporate vision focused on maintaining Nintendo''s market share and business model. This led the firm to fall from a dominant position during its golden age (dubbed by Arsenault the "ReNESsance") with the NES to the margins of the industry with the Nintendo 64 and GameCube consoles. Arsenault argues that Nintendo''s conservative business strategies and resistance to innovation during the SNES years explain its market defeat by Sony''s PlayStation. Extending the notion of "platform" to include the marketing forces that shape and constrain creative work, Arsenault draws not only on game studies and histories but on game magazines, boxes, manuals, and advertisements to identify the technological discourses and business models that formed Nintendo''s Super Power. He also describes the cultural changes in video games during the 1990s that slowly eroded the love of gamer enthusiasts for the SNES as the Nintendo generation matured. Finally, he chronicles the many technological changes that occurred through the SNES''s lifetime, including full-motion video, CD-ROM storage, and the shift to 3D graphics. Because of the SNES platform''s architecture, Arsenault explains, Nintendo resisted these changes and continued to focus on traditional gameplay genres.
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Peripheral Vision - Bell Labs, The S-C 4020, And The Origins Of Computer Art

by Zabet Patterson

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 How the S-C 4020—a mainframe peripheral intended to produce scientific visualizations—shaped a series of early computer art projects that emerged from Bell Labs.In 1959, the electronics manufacturer Stromberg-Carlson produced the S-C 4020, a device that allowed mainframe computers to present and preserve images. In the mainframe era, the output of text and image was quite literally peripheral; the S-C 4020—a strange and elaborate apparatus, with a cathode ray screen, a tape deck, a buffer unit, a film camera, and a photo-paper camera—produced most of the computer graphics of the late 1950s and early 1960s. At Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, the S-C 4020 became a crucial part of ongoing encounters among art, science, and technology. In this book, Zabet Patterson examines the extraordinary uses to which the Bell Labs SC-2040 was put between 1961 and 1972, exploring a series of early computer art projects shaped by the special computational affordances of the S-C 4020. The S-C 4020 produced tabular data, graph plotting and design drawings, grid projections, and drawings of axes and vectors; it made previously impossible visualizations possible. Among the works Patterson describes are E. E. Zajac''s short film of an orbiting satellite, which drew on the machine''s graphic capacities as well as the mainframe''s calculations; a groundbreaking exhibit of "computer generated pictures" by Béla Julesz and Michael Noll, two scientists interested in visualization; animations by Kenneth Knowlton and the Bell Labs artist-in-residence Stan VanDerBeek; and Lillian Schwartz''s "cybernetic" film Pixillation.Arguing for the centrality of a peripheral, Patterson makes a case for considering computational systems not simply as machines but in their cultural and historical context.
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Minitel - Welcome To The Internet

by Julien Mailland e Kevin Driscoll

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 The first scholarly book in English on Minitel, the pioneering French computer network, offers a history of a technical system and a cultural phenomenon.
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Flash - Building The Interactive Web

by Anastasia Salter e John Murray

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 How Flash rose and fell as the world''s most ubiquitous yet divisive software platform, enabling the development and distribution of a world of creative content.Adobe Flash began as a simple animation tool and grew into a multimedia platform that offered a generation of creators and innovators an astonishing range of opportunities to develop and distribute new kinds of digital content. For the better part of a decade, Flash was the de facto standard for dynamic online media, empowering amateur and professional developers to shape the future of the interactive Web. In this book, Anastasia Salter and John Murray trace the evolution of Flash into one of the engines of participatory culture. Salter and Murray investigate Flash as both a fundamental force that shaped perceptions of the web and a key technology that enabled innovative interactive experiences and new forms of gaming. They examine a series of works that exemplify Flash''s role in shaping the experience and expectations of web multimedia. Topics include Flash as a platform for developing animation (and the "Flashimation" aesthetic); its capacities for scripting and interactive design; games and genres enabled by the reconstruction of the browser as a games portal; forms and genres of media art that use Flash; and Flash''s stance on openness and standards—including its platform-defining battle over the ability to participate in Apple''s own proprietary platforms. Flash''s exit from the mobile environment in 2011 led some to declare that Flash was dead. But, as Salter and Murray show, not only does Flash live, but its role as a definitive cross-platform tool continues to influence web experience.
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The Future Was Here - The Commodore Amiga - The Commodore Amiga

by Jimmy Maher

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 Exploring the often-overlooked history and technological innovations of the world's first true multimedia computer.
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Codename Revolution - The Nintendo Wii Platform - The Nintendo Wii Platform

by Steven E. Jones

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 Nintendo's hugely popular and influential video game console system considered as technological device and social phenomenon.The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinvention in video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed Revolution during development, signaled a turn away from fully immersive, time-consuming MMORPGs or forty-hour FPS games and back toward family fun in the living room. Players using the wireless motion-sensitive controller (the Wii Remote, or "Wiimote") play with their whole bodies, waving, swinging, swaying. The mimetic interface shifts attention from what's on the screen to what's happening in physical space. This book describes the Wii's impact in technological, social, and cultural terms, examining the Wii as a system of interrelated hardware and software that was consciously designed to promote social play in physical space.Each chapter of Codename Revolution focuses on a major component of the Wii as a platform: the console itself, designed to be low-powered and nimble; the iconic Wii Remote; Wii Fit Plus, and its controller, the Wii Balance Board; the Wii Channels interface and Nintendo's distribution system; and the Wii as a social platform that not only affords multiplayer options but also encourages social interaction in shared physical space. Finally, the authors connect the Wii's revolution in mimetic interface gaming-which eventually led to the release of Sony's Move and Microsoft's Kinect-to some of the economic and technological conditions that influence the possibility of making something new in this arena of computing and culture.
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Now The Chips Are Down - The Bbc Micro

by Alison Gazzard

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 The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses.
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I Am Error - The Nintendo Family Computer / Entertainment System Platform

by Nathan Altice

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 The complex material histories of the Nintendo Entertainment System platform, from code to silicon, focusing on its technical constraints and its expressive affordances. In the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System videogame Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, a character famously declared: I AM ERROR. Puzzled players assumed that this cryptic mesage was a programming flaw, but it was actually a clumsy Japanese-English translation of "My Name is Error," a benign programmer''s joke. In I AM ERROR Nathan Altice explores the complex material histories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (and its Japanese predecessor, the Family Computer), offering a detailed analysis of its programming and engineering, its expressive affordances, and its cultural significance.Nintendo games were rife with mistranslated texts, but, as Altice explains, Nintendo''s translation challenges were not just linguistic but also material, with consequences beyond simple misinterpretation. Emphasizing the technical and material evolution of Nintendo''s first cartridge-based platform, Altice describes the development of the Family Computer (or Famicom) and its computational architecture; the "translation" problems faced while adapting the Famicom for the U.S. videogame market as the redesigned Entertainment System; Nintendo''s breakthrough console title Super Mario Bros. and its remarkable software innovations; the introduction of Nintendo''s short-lived proprietary disk format and the design repercussions on The Legend of Zelda; Nintendo''s efforts to extend their console''s lifespan through cartridge augmentations; the Famicom''s Audio Processing Unit (APU) and its importance for the chiptunes genre; and the emergence of software emulators and the new kinds of play they enabled.
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The Media Snatcher - Pc/Core/Turbo/Engine/Grafx/16/Cdrom2/Super/Duo/Arcade/Rx

by Carl (Adjunct Professor, Universite De Montreal) Therrien

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Codename Revolution - The Nintendo Wii Platform

by Steven E. Jones

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Four Shades Of Gray - The Amazon Kindle Platform

by Simon Rowberry

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Minitel - Welcome To The Internet

by Julien (Indiana University - Bloomington) Mailland e Kevin (Assistant Professor, University Of Virginia) Driscoll

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Designed For Hi-Fi Living - The Vinyl Lp In Midcentury America

by Janet (Visiting Fellow, City University Of London) Borgerson e Jonathan (William A. Kern Professor, Rochester Institute Of Technology) Schroeder

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 How record albums and their covers delivered mood music, lifestyle advice, global sounds, and travel tips to midcentury Americans who longed to be modern.
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Super Power, Spoony Bards, And Silverware - The Super Nintendo Entertainment System

by Dominic (Assistant Professor, Universite De Montreal) Arsenault

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The Moral Brain - A Multidisciplinary Perspective

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An Economist In The Real World - The Art Of Policymaking In India

by Kaushik (The World Bank) Basu

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 An economist's perspective on the nuts and bolts of economic policymaking, based on his experience as the Chief Economic Adviser in India.
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I Am Error - The Nintendo Family Computer / Entertainment System Platform

by Nathan (Phd Student, Virginia Commonwealth Universitycommonwealthuniversity) Altice

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Minitel - Welcome To The Internet

by Julien (Indiana University - Bloomington) Mailland e Kevin (Assistant Professor, University Of Virginia) Driscoll

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 The first scholarly book in English on Minitel, the pioneering French computer network, offers a history of a technical system and a cultural phenomenon.
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Cognitive Unconscious And Human Rationality

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 Examining the role of implicit, unconscious thinking on reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, and its neurocognitive basis, for a genuinely psychological conception of rationality.
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