Eventually, the content of CD-ROM that the work shipped with was no longer readable outside of emulators and “period machines”.Ĭonsidering that only two hypertexts from early Storyspace were ported to Storyspace 3 and are available today on modern Macs ( afternoon, a story and Patchwork Girl), the decision to bring back the experience of Figurski at Findhorn on Acid was the right one, was the just one, and should constitute a precedence. Newer versions of Windows and Mac operating systems became less and less friendly to Storyspace. It so happened that Richard Holeton’s funny, crazy, ultra-postmodern satire Figurski at Findhorn on Acid was published in 2001, just about the time when its platform of choice started its descent into obscurity. And Storyspace, a beloved writing and reading platform from the “Golden Age of Hypertext” – from the early noughties to the release of modernised and redesigned Storyspace 3 in 2015 – might have been called just that: abandonware. There is never a right or wrong way to translate, migrate, or emulate works built in abandonware. “The new Figurski…– blueprints for media translation”Įlectronic Literature Lab Research Affiliate To watch the videoclips recorded via Zoom and edited by Joel Clapp, go here. The Archival version of Figurski can be accessed at. Speaking at the launch was prominent hypertext scholar Mariusz Pisarski. and the launch of the archival version Holeton commissioned the lab to produce. On July 9, the lab celebrated two major events relating to Richard Holeton’s hypertext novel, Figurski at Findhorn on Acid: the 20th anniversary of its publication on the Storyspace platform in 2001 on CD-ROM by Eastgate Systems, Inc.
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