theater – Post Position https://nickm.com/post Nick Montfort Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:45:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://nickm.com/post/wp-content/stuff/cropped-favicon-32x32.png theater – Post Position https://nickm.com/post 32 32 Hello, Globe https://nickm.com/post/2016/04/hello-globe/ https://nickm.com/post/2016/04/hello-globe/#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:45:17 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=4415 Continue reading "Hello, Globe"

]]> On Saturday, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death (and, happy birthday, too, Will), I delivered to Twitter, via post-haste dispatch, the following four Commodore 64 BASIC programs, versions of the famous “Hello world” program:


400 ? chr$(147)"hello world":for a=1 to 500:next:? chr$(19)"brave":new:rem #c64

400 ? chr$(144)chr$(79)chr$(84)"hello world":rem #c64

400 ? "hello world"chr$(4^3+(2*b or not 2*b)):rem #c64

400 for a=0to255:? chr$(147)spc(a)"(QRQ) hello world":next:? chr$(147):rem #c64

Type ’em in to a for-real Commodore 64 or to this Web-based emulator here. No special characters are involved, so entering these programs should be easy; lowercase letters will appear capitalized and the few capital ones will appear as graphical symbols.

Let me know what you think … and if you see the relationship to four of Shakespeare’s plays.

]]> https://nickm.com/post/2016/04/hello-globe/feed/ 2 Curious Conflations of Performance and Writing https://nickm.com/post/2014/01/curious-conflations-of-performance-and-writing/ https://nickm.com/post/2014/01/curious-conflations-of-performance-and-writing/#respond Mon, 20 Jan 2014 01:46:16 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3455 Continue reading "Curious Conflations of Performance and Writing"

]]> In Nashville, Husky Jackal Theater has presented Terminator the Second, which enacts the story of Terminator 2 with a text composed entirely of lines from Shakepeare’s plays. Video is available.

Also, I have been watching a certain TV show set during the Korean War with a certain fan fiction author, and I believe the guys making passes at guys, wearing dresses, mugging with guys, etc. have suggested a new possible genre of writing that would have to be called S\*L\*A\*S\*H.

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