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<font face="Georgia">Ouch, that hurt, Devin! I just completed an
article for IEEE Annals in the History of Computing on the relationship
between Spacewar! and Pong. Actually, there isn't much out there on
Spacewar! A helpful piece in Edge recently was the piece by Leonard
Herman (though, look hard for the attibution) on Ted Dabney.<br>
<br>
Henry<br>
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Devin Monnens wrote:
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cite="mid:9d1cf2d50905060909m7bc37654l2c97501bc56d379a@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Edge has a Making of Spacewar article? Is that original or
is it just a republication of the one in Supercade? That article has
been around in various forms for awhile, and of course there's the old
Stone article. I can't imagine there would be anything new to say about
Spacewar in a gaming mag that hasn't been said already... That said, I
still think there's more to say about Spacewar, but it ultimately
involves more research (hence my interest in game software on mainframe
computers :)<br>
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-Devin<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Andrew
Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Yeah, some of those articles
and others - such as Edge's "Making
of...Spacewar!" need to get added to the magical database I'm creating,
heh (well, that I'm still designing). I don't want to post much more in
the way of "articles on old games" on the blog as I proposed before,
unless someone is able to help find them :)<br>
<br>
Actually, it is worth discussing the games/articles on the mailing list
though. I should post up some of the more interesting ones.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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<div class="h5">Well, it's end of the semester here, so things
are kind of
crazy. I did notice though there was an article on Rogue on Gamasutra:<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4013/the_history_of_rogue_have__you_.php"
target="_blank">http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4013/the_history_of_rogue_have__you_.php</a><br>
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-Devin<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Andrew
Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org" target="_blank">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The
IGDA wiki is down, thus I've not been able to do the monthly roundup.
Sorry about this!<br>
<br>
Remember though, there's plenty to discuss with the projects. We're
kind of understaffed, it appears, since most don't have any active
interest right now, or in fact any disinterest even. It seems I'll have
to go out and find new members for some of them or start them myself.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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