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Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality
The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer users. From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, low-end microcomputers offered many users their first taste of computing. A major use of these inexpensive 8-bit machines--including the TRS System 80s and the Sinclair, Atari, Microbee, and Commodore ranges--was the development of homebrew games. Users with often self-taught programming skills devised the graphics, sound, and coding for their self-created games. In this book, Melanie Swalwell offers a history of this era of homebrew game development, arguing that it constitutes a significant instan...
John Passfield
A twenty-one-year-old would-be writer, John Passfield, spends his last few months as a garbage collector on the streets of his home town, St. Thomas, Ontario, in the summer of Canada's Centennial year, 1967. As he works, he captures the imagery of his life so far -- and of his upcoming marriage and pending career as a high school teacher -- to the imagery of the great books he is reading, all while in pursuit of building the perfect load of garbage.
Thru the Garden Gate
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John and Cassandra
Author John Passfield contemplates writing a novel about the mythological figure Cassandra. Suddenly, he finds himself in the presence of her tormentor, Apollo, the god who -- seemingly as a whim -- has brought a catastrophic curse down on the head of an innocent human. John sees Cassandra as a mythical creature whose helpless situation epitomizes all that is wrong on the planet Earth. What a chance to confront a representative of the gods, ask him to explain such actions, and demand an immediate end to all the agony in the world! Special Bonus This edition of Fair Is Fair includes a special bonus -- a 56-stanza poem by "John the Character," in which John reflects on his encounters with Apollo and Cassandra in verses at once humorous, whimsical, and sometimes angry. The Novels of John Passfield Together, this novel and the accompanying journal and notebook comprise the thirty-first installment in an ongoing novel-writing project in which the author is exploring the concept of form and meaning in the novel, and of the novel as a form of expression in the 21st century. All of the published journals and notebooks are available for free download from the author's website.
The Making of Jumbo
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John and Santa: The Cowboy Shirt
A charming story of Christmas magic from the author of John Passfield: Saturday Morning, nominated for the 2022 ReLit novel award As writer John Passfield is driving home from a December book-discussion meeting and thinking about the Christmas topics that were discussed---in particular, Dickens, who wrote a novella which transformed the world's conception of Christmas---he suddenly finds himself sitting in a sleigh pulled by Rudolph and eight tiny reindeer. What an excellent opportunity to ask San-ta about a seventy-year-old mystery---the mystery of the missing cowboy shirt!
Pompeii
Author's PrefacePompeii: Vesuvius Dominus – a novel On the afternoon of AD 79, a white cloud appears above Mount Vesuvius and begins to deposit a layer of ash on the nearby town of Pompeii. Gradually, the people of Pompeii become aware that an awesomely destructive natural force has unleashed its full fury against the lives that they have established in their community. As they are swept up in the destructive experience, three people – Pliny the Younger, Pliny the Elder and Julia – consider the premises by which they have been living their lives. The Making of Vesuvius Dominus – a reflective journal This journal records my reflections on the process of the crafting of the novel as it...
Lord and Lady Macbeth
Lord and Lady Macbeth are being stung, not by scorpions, but by imagery, the medium by which human beings think at the deepest levels. And the kingdom which they seek to conquer and control is not just Scotland, but the kingdom of the mind. Imagery enlightens, but it also obscures; imagery is loyal, but it also betrays; imagery is visible on the surface, but manifests itself at hidden depths. Their mutual struggle -- to live in prose while thinking in imagery -- affects the two Macbeths in different ways. The Project Together, this novel and the journal and notebook that accompany it, comprise the twentieth installment in an on-going novel-writing project in which the author is exploring the...
Beethoven the Ninth Immersion
Beethoven: The Ninth Immersion - a novel On his deathbed, the composer, Ludwig van Beethoven, reviews the imagery of his life, as he fades in and out of consciousness, focusing on the time when he had immersed himself in the writing of the Ninth Symphony. Is the meaning of his life to be found in the memories which resist - with agonizing stubbornness - his attempts to arrange them into patterns, or is the meaning of his life to be found only in the purely-musical patterns of the Ninth Symphony? (The novel is best read with the Ninth Symphony playing faintly in the background, gradually swelling up in volume until it drowns out the novel by the end of the reading experience.)The Making of Th...
