Piwi and the Floating Mountains
Piwi and the Floating Mountains’s development began during my time at GriN but was cut...
The disruptive product timeline
The product timeline of both Director and Flash illustrates some sort of weird –but shared–...
A brief Macromedia leadership overview
In 1990, the leadership at MacroMind underwent a significant change. Marc Canter, the chairman, and...
Multiuser Server – an asynchronous adventure.
The navigation for the Living Stone intranet, Lis@ (around 2001). It had full MultiUser server...
The Secret Life of Mac Files
There was a time—not too long ago in the grand scheme of tech history—when files...
Pixels to Dust: the Video Game Crash of 1983
The early 1980s were a thrilling time for video games. The Atari 2600 dominated living...
Atari, E.T., and a sandy grave.
The Day the Pixels Died: A Story of Atari, E.T., and a Grave in the...
A retro console power survival guide!
Not long ago, I finally got my hands on an original Japanese Famicom—a true gem...
Circling vultures… and Director
The Mysterious M-Machine In 1995 (around the same time Director 4.x led the authoring-tool market)...
All your base are belong to us
In the world of gaming, few phrases have achieved memetic immortality quite like “All your...
Flexing the HyperCard arm
An introduction: the origin of my Shakespearean love story “HyperCard.” Was the answer.“What?”, I asked...
The D7 revelation and a word on Javascript
The D7 revelation – venturing beyond the realm of the proprietary? “It takes Director out...