This month on Open Apple, we sit down with legendary Apple II programmer, Bill Budge. In addition to being an icon of Apple II gaming and graphics, he is the number-one-requested guest by listeners of the show. Mike and Quinn are very excited he was able to make some time to talk to them, and […]
Pinball Construction Set
Bill Budge to give Pinball Construction Set ‘postmortem’ at GDC 2013
Bill Budge will be making an appearance at GDC 2013 to give a “Classic Postmortem” on his hit software title Pinball Construction Set.  From the GDC 2013 news item: … Bill Budge, father of the seminal Pinball Construction Set will lay out one of the earliest examples of an in-game editor – a title that game […]
Bill Budge posts Pinball Construction Set source
Bill Budge has posted to github the source code to his seminal hit Pinball Construction Set, according to this Y-Combinator item. Â Some sharp eyes in the comments thread noticed that although the code is for the Atari 800 version of the program, it was developed on an Apple II, a common practice in those days […]