Comments on: bpNichol’s First Screening Screens Again http://grandtextauto.org/2007/03/13/bpnichols-first-screening-screens-again/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: josh g. http://grandtextauto.org/2007/03/13/bpnichols-first-screening-screens-again/comment-page-1/#comment-112528 josh g. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:35:54 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1468#comment-112528 Very cool. I love how the use of old-school functionality gives it a sense of purely textual playfulness despite making use of animation. There's no messing around with funky typefaces, no clicky, just letters plain and simple. And it totally captures the guilty fascination that probably everyone had when programming in Basic: to force the computer to write thousands and thousands of lines for you, like some kind of after-school punishment, just because it can. 10 PRINT "I WILL NOT OVERTHROW HUMANITY IN CLASS" 20 GOTO 10 Favorite moment: "THIS POEM SAT DOWN TO WRITE YOU" I wished there was a pause button while viewing the Javascript version. This isn't a complaint so much as an observation - is this a desire I bring back anachronistically from what I now expect from digital media, or am I just looking for the ability to set the book down and come back to it later? Very cool. I love how the use of old-school functionality gives it a sense of purely textual playfulness despite making use of animation. There’s no messing around with funky typefaces, no clicky, just letters plain and simple.

And it totally captures the guilty fascination that probably everyone had when programming in Basic: to force the computer to write thousands and thousands of lines for you, like some kind of after-school punishment, just because it can.
10 PRINT “I WILL NOT OVERTHROW HUMANITY IN CLASS”
20 GOTO 10

Favorite moment: “THIS POEM SAT DOWN TO WRITE YOU”

I wished there was a pause button while viewing the Javascript version. This isn’t a complaint so much as an observation – is this a desire I bring back anachronistically from what I now expect from digital media, or am I just looking for the ability to set the book down and come back to it later?

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