Interview with David Fox in Halcyon Days (1997)

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Chance would have it I have stumbled upon a free book from 1997 that deals with retro gaming. This being 2017 I got dizzy pondering all the loops of meta-implications.

Anyhoo, it’s a collection of interviews with 28 programmers who were doing stuff in the 70s. I didn’t know there was quite a vibrant gaming industry back then. I thought cutthroat gaming industry started more or less with ZX Spectrum in Europe and with Apple II in the States.

Boy, I was wrong. And the things those dudes were doing with limited hardware is mind blowing. Assembler was the order of the day and they were actually using everything down to a last bit of memory. We kids have it easy today. :slight_smile:

One of the interviewees is also mr. Fox of Thimbleweed Park and it’s quite an interesting read.

http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/

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Thx, really interesting dive into the past. He also mentioned Broderbund in the interview, which immediately brought back the memory of Myst into my head as they were their publisher.

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Mostly on Rescue On Fractalus(which is a good game!) while the only mention of Zak comes up when he talks about other games he worked on(so he at least managed to bring it in) this interviewer: :-1:

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Thanks! There’s even an interview to Brian Moriarty there, which I hadn’t read before!