https://github.com/savetz/translux
Trans Lux, Atari BASIC art by Hal Glicksman
https://github.com/savetz/translux
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Trans Lux, Atari BASIC art by Hal Glicksman
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/savetz/translux
- Owner: savetz
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-04-22T16:55:57.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-04-22T17:05:15.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-09T00:06:05.854Z (9 months ago)
- Size: 776 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# TransLux
Trans Lux, Atari BASIC art by Hal Glicksman (Atari 8-bit)
Hal Glicksman sent me an email on Jan 28, 2018:
>In 1983 an artist invited me to make an artwork for a small magazine called EYE. Each invited artist would create 100 signed prints that would be collated and bound into 100 issues. The theme of the issue was "Available Light" and I wrote an Atari program called "Trans-Lux." I printed the code out 100 times on a dot matrix printer and signed each copy. The pages were bound into the magazine with tractor feed holes still attached. I had forgotten completely about the magazine and did not have a copy. I was alerted to a copy for sale by Google search and had to pay for a copy of my own work.
>I would love your help recreating this work on an Atari emulator with a web interface. I have not touched an Atari or written BASIC for more than 30 years. I would love to see it again and there is a chance it may be shown in and art exhibition.
Hal wrote back the next day:
>Here are some photos of your Youtube video of Trans Lux with a diffuser in front of the screen. It did not take much to keep artists happy in those days, especially if they were stoned. Computers were a complete mystery to them, and it was also before Photoshop or screen savers.
Video of the program in action: https://youtu.be/2aa_DkAcmdc
I interviewed Hal for ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast in 2017. Listen to it, he's an interesting guy. http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-304-hal-glicksman-datamost