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Jordan Mechner to reboot Karateka

In an interview posted on Kotaku today, Jordan Mechner detailed his intentions to reboot Karateka, the popular Apple II title originally published by Br0derbund.  Mechner explains his interest in revisiting the game: “It’s been eight years since my last game, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time in 2003… I was really itching to get back […]

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The Digital Antiquarian Robot War tournament

Jimmy Maher, whose excellent blog posts over at the Digital Antiquarian should be required reading for any aspiring computer historian, is trying to put together a Robot War competition.  He writes: “I’ve recently had occasion to write a bit about Silas Warner, Muse Software, and Robot War (http://www.filfre.net/tag/muse). The latter is a bit outside of […]