Writing and musings from Shawn Struck on "geek culture" like video games, technology, web design, tabletop games and more.
Showing posts with label apple II. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apple II. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Classic Macs, Memories & Facts, Simulated Hijacks
Multimedia artist Jesse English is more well known for his creation called the Sincerity Machine-- a working ink-ribbon typewriter reworked to actually type in Comic Sans-- but he also considers himself a bit of a new media archeologist. So when he was trying to look up a barely remembered game he played on an AppleII in his 7th grade social studies class. He remembered it was part of a larger lesson plan on terrorism, and reproduced it here:
Using an emulator to create artwork that would look similar to the artwork style that would be generated for Mac Classic is pretty impressive. Also impressive is that a mere 3 weeks later, he found the game in question, and did a Let's Play run of it!
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