[game_preservation] Monthly update coming...soon

[Henry Lowood]

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.

Henry

Devin Monnens wrote:

> 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 :)

>

> -Devin

>

> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Andrew Armstrong 

> <andrew at aarmstrong.org <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>

>     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 :)

>

>     Actually, it is worth discussing the games/articles on the mailing

>     list though. I should post up some of the more interesting ones.

>

>     Andrew

>

>     Devin Monnens wrote:

>>     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:

>>

>>     http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4013/the_history_of_rogue_have__you_.php

>>

>>     -Devin

>>

>>     On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Andrew Armstrong

>>     <andrew at aarmstrong.org <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>>

>>         The IGDA wiki is down, thus I've not been able to do the

>>         monthly roundup. Sorry about this!

>>

>>         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.

>>

>>         Andrew

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>>     Devin Monnens

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