Nick Montfort @nickmofo@mastodon.social

perl -pE'BEGIN{say"you ok?";$p=" something$/"}$m=$_;s/.*i(\047m| am| was)\b/really/i;s/.*you.*/what about i/i;s/.*always.*/can i be specific/;s/[?.!,].*//;s/\b(i|me)\b/you/gi;s/\bmy/your/i;.2>rand?s/.*/huh/:s/$/?/;($_="you had said$p")if.1>rand;$p=": ".$m'

My computer-generated book Golem is available as a free (CC BY-SA) e-text https://nickm.com/poems/montfort__golem.txt and is also a beautiful codex book object https://deadalivemagazine.com/press/golem.html

Just published, my computer-generated book Golem https://deadalivemagazine.com/press/golem.html

My gratitude to Dead Alive & Augusto Corvalan for the stunning book design!

Coming in a few days from Dead Alive's New Sight imprint, available for pre-order now!

“Like all great art, unraveling the secret of Nick Montfort’s Golem…reads us into its riddle.…Golem is an astonishingly rich work of text generation” @zachwhalen

“A rewarding expedition on the branching paths that connect grammar and code…sonorous lexical and syntactic counterpoint” @aparrish

https://deadalivemagazine.com/press/golem.html

Could someone please tell me what ⦳ and ⦴ are used for?

I assume it's not "look over there, it's the empty set!"

In Brazil's main newspaper, Folha de S.Paulo, I argue that microblogging itself and National Novel Generation Month as initiated by @darius are more important to computer-generated literature than particular technologies like GPT-2 and -3 https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2021/01/robos-ja-escrevem-de-poemas-e-microcontos-no-twitter-a-romances-inteiros.shtml

In case you'd like to see a 30-minute video of a one-line Applesoft BASIC program generating a 50,000+ word novel

https://archive.org/details/montfort-1001-basic-games-for-nanogenmo-2020

My poem for New Year's 2021 https://nickm.com/poems/ny2021/

Several reviews of Amazing Quest...

Fellow IF Comp author & frequent reviewer Joey Acrimonious gives it 5/5: https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=of92yiv7g2eopvb1&review=56652

Patrick Mooney offers a 5/10 review and two Python implementations: https://tmblr.co/ZQ8Z_wZA4Vq9Gm00

Wade Clark considers the game via BASIC and home computing: https://importantastrolab.blogspot.com/2020/12/ifcomp-2020-spiel-amazing-quest-by-nick.html

Ant ported the game to BBC Micro BASIC and offers a line-by-line explanation: https://ahopeful.wordpress.com/2020/10/04/ifcomp-2020-amazing-quest-nick-montfort-c64-basic/

I've written a Q&A about Amazing Quest, my controversial (or maybe just despised?) #C64 BASIC game which just was rated 98th out of 103 in the Interactive Fiction Competition

https://nickm.com/post/2020/12/amazing-quest-qa/

Please enjoy 1001 BASIC Games, A Novel #NaNoGenMo https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2020/issues/73

The generating code is a one-line Apple //e or //c program of maximal length:

20DATAALL,WORK,AND,NO,PLAY,MAKES,NICK,A,DULL,BOY:FORI=0TO9:READA$(I):NEXT:?:?"1001 BASIC GAMES":?:FORI=0TO999:FORJ=0TO999:NEXT:?N$"DEAR READER:":?:?" 10 REM";:FORJ=0TO4:?" "A$(RND(1)*10);:NEXT:LIST:?:N$="NEXT, ":NEXT:?"LAST:":?:?" 0 GOTO

A quick check on GitHub shows that Apple ][js seems to handle a paste event, but I can't see how to send it one, because CTRL-V will just be passed in as CTRL-V, just as CTRL-G produces the BEL character

Is there any Apple II emulator for Linux that supports copy-and-paste, so I can easily input short BASIC programs? I don't see support for it in MAME, linapple (which I can't get fully working anyway), or the otherwise lovely Apple ][js https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2/

I just fixed a problem with video tearing by setting the parameter "TearFree" to "true."

Next I suppose I'll need to fix my hard disk by setting "MangleData" to "false."

Arg, flatpak. I can't get my flatpak installation of Atom to open files outside my home directory (sandboxing is supposed to be a feature, I know) and I can't tab-complete command-line arguments

cal (ncal) is no longer installed by default in Ubuntu 20.10?

Please apply for Generative Unfoldings commissions, up to 15 of $1000 will be awarded for free/open-source generative art, to run live in an in-browser exhibition

Deadline for sketches/prototypes: November 1

I'm delighted to be curating this exhibit and on the jury with 4 amazing artists

https://arts.mit.edu/cast/symposia/generative-unfoldings-call/