[game_preservation] Computer Legend and Gaming Pioneer Jack Tramiel Dies at Age 83

[Jim Leonard]

On 4/10/2012 12:35 PM, Martin Goldberg wrote:

> also guaranteed the game would be out for the Christmas season, which

> meant Howard Scott Warshaw was forced to do an extremely short

> development time.


A lot of people miss this when talking about ET -- I believe Warshaw had 
about 6 weeks from nothing to finished product, and when you consider 
how difficult the 2600 was to program for, it's a very admirable effort. 
  I encourage people to read Montfort and Bogost's "Racing The Beam", 
then fire up ET and try to figure out how the title screen graphic was 
possible.
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