3 Sep
1998
3 Sep
'98
12:19 p.m.
yea, i have an old compute! magazine that had a write-up about him. his game
was some strategy scenario with the us<->ussr or something like that. he was
talking about the future of gaming.
In a message dated 9/3/98 7:45:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
sinasohn(a)ricochet.net writes:
Speaking of characters, btw, anyone know what ever
happened to Chris
Crawford? He wrote some really popular game for the Atari 8-bit computers,
then went on to develop a hit game for the Mac (something about running the
world or something? Sorry, I was never really into games.) He was another
neat person. A physicist turned programmer
3 Sep
3 Sep
12:37 p.m.
Finding old characters like Chris Crawford? Sheesh, doesn't anyone
try a web search (via www.hotbot.com, etc.) before asking a question
of the endlessly patient oracle known as this mailing list? Crawford
is still quite active as an old wise man in the gaming industry.
If his page(s) don't show up in the first twenty hits, you're not
using the right keywords.
- John
2 p.m.
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, John Foust wrote:
Sheesh, doesn't anyone try a web search (via
www.hotbot.com, etc.)
before asking a question of the endlessly patient oracle known as this
mailing list?
That reminds me, oh oracle, who designed the Scelbi-8H (was it Nat
Wadsworth?) and where is he now? The last reference to somebody named Nat
Wadsworth that *might* be the right guy was a blurb in QST about a heart
attack he had in 1993, but survived.
Has anybody attempted to create a "wahtever happended to" list of our
heros?
-- Doug
8:11 p.m.
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
That reminds me, oh oracle, who designed the Scelbi-8H
(was it Nat
Wadsworth?) and where is he now? The last reference to somebody named Nat
Wadsworth that *might* be the right guy was a blurb in QST about a heart
attack he had in 1993, but survived.
Has anybody attempted to create a "wahtever happended to" list of our
heros?
That's what you're supposed to research when you create your Nerd Trading
Cards (tm).
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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2:23 p.m.
yea, i have an old compute! magazine that had a
write-up about him. his game
was some strategy scenario with the us<->ussr or something like that. he was
talking about the future of gaming.
"Balance of Power" saw at least two different versions, and I'm aware of
versions for the Mac, Amiga, and PC, I'm sure there was a version for the
Atari ST, and possibly some of the 8-Bit platforms.
The PC version is interesting, came on 5.25" low density disk, and includes
a crippled version of Windows 1, that can only be used to play the game.
The Mac version will only run correctly on OLD machines such as the Mac
Plus, in fact it wants that size screen.
As for Chris Crawford I know that he wrote a book, that centered around
"Balance of Power", on the design of computer games. I think it was
published by Microsoft Press around 1990.
Zane
In a message dated 9/3/98 7:45:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
sinasohn(a)ricochet.net writes:
> Speaking of characters, btw, anyone know what ever happened to Chris
> Crawford? He wrote some really popular game for the Atari 8-bit computers,
> then went on to develop a hit game for the Mac (something about running the
> world or something? Sorry, I was never really into games.) He was another
> neat person. A physicist turned programmer
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7:56 p.m.
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Zane H. Healy wrote:
"Balance of Power" saw at least two
different versions, and I'm aware of
versions for the Mac, Amiga, and PC, I'm sure there was a version for the
Atari ST, and possibly some of the 8-Bit platforms.
FYI, there was an Apple ][ version.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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7:49 p.m.
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998 SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
yea, i have an old compute! magazine that had a
write-up about him. his game
was some strategy scenario with the us<->ussr or something like that. he was
talking about the future of gaming.
_Balance of Power_ perhaps?
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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