Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality

by Melanie Swalwell

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262044773
• ISBN13: 9780262044776
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"