Edge Online has posted an extensive interview with EA founder and early Apple employee, Trip Hawkins.  The long piece has been serialized and posted over several days.  Among other things, Hawkins talks about his time at a young Apple Computer; founding Electronic Arts and dealing with “superstar” programmers such as Richard Garriott, Dan Bunten, and Bill Budge; and […]
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Jeff Atwood’s ‘I Was a Teenage Hacker’
Jeff Atwood, who blogs at ‘Coding Horror’ recalls his teenage hacker years (which many of us can identify with) hacking, phreaking and pirating software with his Apple II and the subsequent tangle with the law and how it changed his life.
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GET LAMP raw interviews posted
Documentary director and tech historian Jason Scott announced today that the raw interview footage from his most recently released film, GET LAMP: An Interactive Documentary, has been posted and is available for viewing over at the Internet Archive.  Generally speaking, these interviews are extended versions of what you saw in the film, or items that for […]
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Woz hired to advise Jobs biopic
According to this Reuters report, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has been hired to act as an advisor on the new Steve Jobs biopic. No, not that one. This is the film currently being written by Aaron Sorkin and backed by Sony Pictures. Woz’s role is being described as that of “tutor†for the technical aspects […]
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Happy Birthday, Brutal Deluxe!
On the 20th birthday of the French IIGS programming group, Open Apple podcast co-host Ken Gagne sits down with Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini to chat about the group’s history, what the Apple II and BBS scenes were like in France in the 1980s, how they acquired the rights and assets to popular licenses and […]
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Prince of Persia source code rescue
The attempt to rescue the Apple II Prince of Persia source code from Jordan Mechner’s original diskettes is scheduled to happen today.  Digital archivist and indy doc filmmaker extraordinaire Jason Scott volunteered to fly out to California today to make the magic, and also conscripted 16sector’s Tony Diaz to assist.  You can read up on the background […]
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Jordan Mechner’s Deathbounce released
Before Prince of Persia, before even Karateka propelled him to game developer stardom, Jordan Mechner wrote Deathbounce — a game similar (maybe too similar) to the arcade smash-hit Asteroids.
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Jack Tramiel dies
Update: Jack’s passing has been confirmed. Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore Portable Typewriter Company which later became Commodore Business Machines and then Commodore International, has reportedly died. Though the major news services have yet to pick up on it, posts are beginning to appear on the popular Atari boards and on Twitter. Tramiel at one point was interested in […]