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Title: ZX Spectrum Demoscene
Condition: New
ISBN-10: 8323348626
EAN: 9788323348627
ISBN: 9788323348627
Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 03/01/2022
Description: This book describes three phenomena in digital media. Firstly, it concerns the 8-bit personal computer ZX Spectrum produced by the British company Sinclair Research since 1982. As a publication about a specific platform, it falls into the mainstream category of platform studies and it pays special attention to how the computer was used for creative purposes. Secondly, the story about the platform will also be presented from the perspective of the community that flocked around it. Therefore, it is mainly a book about people who identify with the ZX Spectrum. We do not describe all the users of the platform here (players, people using apps), rather we adopt the demoscene criterion (which we explain below). And the last and third phenomenon discussed in our book deals with the decentering of digital media or discovering digital phenomena from beyond the hegemonic center. Therefore, even though the ZX Spectrum was created in Great Britain the use of the computer in the country of its birth will not interest us. Thanks to its creator, Sir Clive Sinclair, the ZX Spectrum was designed as a computer primarily for educational purposes. As it often happens, the work detached itself from its creator and took on a life of its own. In our narrative, we will focus on the acquisition (cloning) and creative use of the computer in Eastern and Central Europe.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: PL
Item Height: 239mm
Item Length: 159mm
Item Width: 16mm
Item Weight: 300g
Author: Yerzmyey, Robert Straka, Piotr Marecki
Genre: Technology & Engineering
Topic: Computing & Internet
Release Year: 2022

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