The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction: Editions, Translations, and Emulations: The Multimedia Accompaniment to the Print Edition

Loading Screen of the Unauthorized Emulation of afternoon



This video of the unauthorized emulation of the 1990 Edition of Joyce's afternoon, a story illustrates the differences in "material condition" that affects the reader's experience with a work. We see that the work's icon is contained inside a "System" folder along with a System Folder instead of appearing on the computer's desktop. Clicking on the icon elicits no sound. The pace is fast. 

The title screen offers the same two choices as the 1992 Mac Edition, "Begin a new reading" and "Resume previous reading," but there are two loading screens: one for a "total number of places"—what is called "spaces" in the 1992 Macintosh Edition—and another for "Total links." The pace again is fast, taking a mere five seconds to load.



 

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