Jason Scott, creator of BBS: The Documentary, has released to YouTube a teaser trailer for Get Lamp, a documentary of text adventures.
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Woz Interview: “The Apple II was coded by hand”
Courtesy Slashdot comes a lengthy interview with Steve Wozniak at the site 10 Zen Monkeys. In addition to talking about the iPhone, Digital Rights Management (DRM), his favorite pranks, and his recent appearance on the television show The Colbert Report (video clips available at 10 Zen Monkeys), Woz also discusses how he coded the Apple […]
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The History of Zork
Via Slashdot comes a six-page feature on the history of Zork, a classic series of text-based adventure games (or interactive fiction). The article looks at Zork‘s predecessor, the original Colossal Cave game; and Zork’s impact on gaming to follow. Full interviews with Zork’s designers, excerpted in the article, are also available online. In related news, […]
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Vintage Computer Festival East 4.0
Vintage Computer Festival East 4.0 is occurring this weekend in Wall, New Jersey. The event will feature hardware, speakers, and presentations of classic computing from the 1940s forward. The festival’s organizer, Evan Koblentz, writes in his blog, Technology Rewind: “Any computer wiz older than 30 knows about the legendary MOS Technology 6502 processor — the […]
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Jobs & Gates on the Apple II
At this week’s All Things Digital conference, Walt Mossberg emceed a joint interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The entire session is captured in seven videos at the site AllThingsD and begins with the two icons reminiscing about their companies’ origins. Specifically, the first video segment, from time indices 6:53 to 9:11, the contributions […]
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Significant IT contributions since 1967 survey
Computerworld magazine, which turns 40 years old this year, is surveying its readers to determine the most significant IT people and products of the last four decades. Among the product candidates are both the Apple II and VisiCalc, the world’s first electronic spreadsheet; and VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin is among the choices of people who […]
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An evening with Apple II industrial designer Jerry Manock
The Computer History Museum of Mountain View, California, USA, will host an evening with former Apple industrial designers Jerry Manock and Robert Brunner. This is “a unique opportunity to hear fascinating personal stories and perspectives from Jerry Manock, designer of the Apple II, Apple III and the original Mac, and Robert Brunner, head of Apple’s […]
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Steve Wozniak on his gaming past
At Gamasutra.com is an interview with Apple II inventor Steve Wozniak. The transcript focuses on his gaming past: “his experience developing Breakout for Atari, as well as Steve Jobs’ gaming habits, and the influences of video games on the personal computer industry.”