# Interview with David Fox in Halcyon Days (1997)

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**Created:** [December 20, 2017, 7:54am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/interview-with-david-fox-in-halcyon-days-1997/2168 "2017-12-20T07:54:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xabaras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/8491ac/32.png) [@Xabaras](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Xabaras)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 7:54am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/interview-with-david-fox-in-halcyon-days-1997/2168/1 "2017-12-20T07:54:11Z")

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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. 🙂

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

[http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/](http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/)

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**Author:** ![rarog4k](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/rarog4k/32/1359_2.png) [@rarog4k](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/rarog4k)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/interview-with-david-fox-in-halcyon-days-1997/2168/2 "2017-12-20T09:12:06Z")

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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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**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/interview-with-david-fox-in-halcyon-days-1997/2168/3 "2017-12-20T13:09:08Z")

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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: 👎

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**Author:** ![Ignacio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ignacio](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ignacio)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/interview-with-david-fox-in-halcyon-days-1997/2168/4 "2017-12-25T20:36:26Z")

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