‘Game History’ Archives
Doom Archaeology
I've been doing some digging around in the original Doom development directory since I'm working on consolidating all my data in a sane arrangement. The Doom source that was released years ago wasn't the nice raw development directory otherwise you would have all seen the NeXTSTEP DoomEd source, Doom map source files, and what I have here: [...]
Nasir Gebelli Interview Clip
August 8, 1998 was a night to remember. I hosted an Apple II Reunion and invited many Apple II pioneers and it was quite a turnout: over 40 legends showed up along with many game industry folks and the atmosphere was electric. In one area you had Steve Wozniak talking about the Apple II hardware, in the conference room you had stacks of old [...]
Hungarian Surprise!
Unknown to me and maybe even id Software way back when, 12 years ago a couple Hungarian DOOM novels were written and released (bottom two books). Of course I know all about the English DOOM novels by Daffyd ab Hugh but these are a surprise to me. Scans of these books are posted in my DOOM photo section. The top two books comprise Masters of [...]
Happy 15th, Wolfy!
Yup, it's Wolfenstein 3-D's 15th birthday today. Still no great source port on the horizon that i know about - it'd be cool to see Wolfy with multiplayer running on Vista. C'mon guys, someone's gotta do it. I wish I could but I'm already too busy making my MMORPG. Anyway, blow out the candles on the virtual cake and have a bite of air [...]
DOOM Named as One of Ten Most Important Games
At the 2007 GDC Henry Lowood, curator of the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University, announced that DOOM is one of the 10 most important games of all time. Mr. Lowood had a four-person committee made up of Warren Spector, Steve Meretzky, Matteo Bittanti (academic researcher) and Christopher Grant (game journalist) [...]
Happy Birthday, Heretic and HDB!
It's birthday time again and this fine December 23rd celebrates the birth of both Heretic (1994) and Hyperspace Delivery Boy! (2001). Both of these guys were released to the world at the very edges of the day: Heretic was uploaded at 11:30pm and HDB was uploaded at 2:30am. When Heretic was released it wasn't to any web sites - they barely [...]
Apple-NeXT Merger Birthday!
It's been 10 years since Apple merged with NeXT and then later brought us the awesome OS X. I still remember seeing OS X in action for the first time and how the Finder displayed directories in NeXTSTEP format and the rotating CD for the new Wait cursor.....YES! I was totally convinced at that point that some version of Mach was at the core of OS [...]
