abstract:Moondust is a 1983 generative music video game created for the Commodore 64 by virtual reality pioneer, Jaron Lanier. Moondust was programmed in 6502 assembly in 1982,Manes, Stephen, Time and Technology Threaten Digital Archives .
Having made some money from sellingMoondust, hecontinued to work ona “post-symbolic” visualprogramminglanguage (VPL) for manipulatingobjectsinthree-dimensionalspace.
From there, he caught a ride up to Santa Cruz, where he spent a few months engineering sounds for video games before developing an unusual game known as Moondust a cult hit that used the motions of the joystick to generate the soundtrack.