Comment Re:The Amiga was a blast to program (Score 1) 289
Glad you enjoyed my little game, Mattpw.
Comment Re:The Amiga was a blast to program (Score 1) 289
Both of those classic games are Kellyn Beeck designs. Kellyn designed both the gameplay and the graphic design. I am trying to lure Kellyn Beeck back into game design.
Comment Re:The Amiga was a blast to program (Score 1) 289
It was a fun time to be in the game industry. Once developer could still design and code the bulk of an A title.
Comment Re:The Amiga was a blast to program (Score 1) 289
Thanks, Evilldler! Makes me feel all warm inside.
Comment The Amiga was a blast to program (Score 5, Interesting) 289
Here's a playthrough of my bestselling Amiga game The King of Chicago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17xQQ-PMPBs
It sold 50k copies for Cinemaware - not bad for 1987.
Some reviews: http://channelzilch.com/doug/kocblurbs.htm
I'm still proud of it.
Comment Made some bucks off PLATO conversions to micros (Score 1) 162
In the early '80's I made good money from CDC for a few years by converting PLATO ed games to every micro under the sun - Atari 800, TRS-80, Apple II, C-64. My partner Mike Johnston and I bankrolled development of our game ChipWits with money we saved from those contracts. The games we ported were pretty dry - Decimal Darts and such.
Comment Re:From one generation to another (Score 1) 383
The 1960's: "I played at Woodstock!"
The 1980's: "I wrote a hit game for the Amiga!"
Apple Attempts to Patent Pre-Existing Display Software Idea 256
Nuclear Elephant writes "Apple appears to be taking ideas from commercial software already being sold and is attempting to patent the
concepts as their own. According to Apple Insider, Apple has recently filed a patent application for a notification screen on the iPhone. The only problem with this is that Intellisync has been using this concept in their popular iPhone notification screen software for over a year now, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that this is a clear rip-off. Apple recently became famous (or infamous) for stealing other people's ideas when they rolled out their Dashboard in Mac OS X, which had many similarities to a desktop widget program named the Konfabulator, which later became Yahoo widgets. The case here isn't a simple hijacking of an idea, however — Apple is applying for a patent on Intelliscreen's concept, which could be detrimental to the original manufacturer of the software, who is actively selling it for Jailbroken iPhones"
