Halcyon Days (book)
Subject | Software Development |
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Genre | Non-fiction |
Publication date
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1997 |
Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers is a digital book edited by James Hague and published in 1997.[1][2] The book was originally formatted using HTML and sold via mail-order, shipped on a floppy disk by Dadgum Games for USD$20.[3] In 2002 Halcyon Days was made freely available on the web.[1][4] The book continued to be sold by Dr. Dobb's Journal, on a CD-ROM also containing Susan Lammers's Programmers at Work,[5] until Dr. Dobb's shut down at the end of 2014.
The introduction to Halcyon Days is written by John Romero [6] who told Wired News the interviews were "like hearing messages from old gods."[7]
Halcyon Days has since become a common reference for writings on game history, including Racing the Beam (MIT Press, 2009),[8] Retrogame Archeology (Springer, 2016),[9] and "The Pinball Wizard" (The Digital Antiquarian, 2013).[10]
Interviewees
- Ed Averett [1] (Magnavox Odyssey²)
- Danielle Bunten Berry [2] (M.U.L.E., The Seven Cities of Gold)
- Stephen C. Biggs [3]
- Adam Billyard [4]
- Bill Budge [5] (Raster Blaster, Pinball Construction Set)
- Chris Crawford [6] (Wizard, Scram, Eastern Front, Legionnaire, Patton Versus Rommel)
- Steve DeFrisco [7]
- David Fox [8] (Rescue on Fractalus!)
- Jon Freeman & Anne Westfall [9]
- Gary Gilbertson [10]
- Marc Goodman [11] (The Bilestoad)
- Dan Gorlin [12] (Choplifter)
- Tom Griner [13]
- Steve Hales [14] (Fort Apocalypse)
- John Harris [15]
- Eugene Jarvis [16]
- David Lubar [17]
- Scott Ludwig [18]
- Archer MacLean [19]
- Jeff Minter [20]
- Brian Moriarty [21]
- Doug Neubauer [22] (Solaris, Star Raiders)
- Philip Price [23]
- Warren Robinett [24]
- Ed Rotberg [25] (Battlezone, Blasteroids, S.T.U.N. Runner)
- Warren Schwader [26] (Sammy Lightfoot)
- Paul Shirley [27] (Spindizzy)
- Tim Skelly [28]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The full HTML Halcyon Days book
- ↑ Classic Gaming review
- ↑ Accidental Innovation, Part 2
- ↑ "Halcyon Days now online," Atari Age forums, 2002
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