Halcyon Days (book)

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Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers
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AuthorJames Hague
Subject Software development
Genre Non-fiction
Publication date
March 1997

Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers is a digital book edited by James Hague and published in March 1997. [1] [2] The book was originally formatted using HTML and sold via mail order, shipped on a floppy disk by Dadgum Games for USD $20. [3] In 2002, Halcyon Days was made freely available on the web. [1] [4] The book continued to be sold by Dr. Dobb's Journal , on a CD-ROM also containing Susan Lammers's Programmers at Work, [5] until Dr. Dobb's shut down at the end of 2014.

Contents

The introduction to Halcyon Days is written by John Romero [6] who told Wired News that the interviews were "like hearing messages from old gods". [7]

Halcyon Days has since become a common reference for writings on game history, including Racing the Beam (MIT Press, 2009), [8] and Retrogame Archeology (Springer, 2016). [9]

Interviewees

See also

References

  1. 1 2 The full HTML Halcyon Days book
  2. ↑ Classic Gaming review
  3. ↑ Accidental Innovation, Part 2
  4. ↑ "Halcyon Days now online", Atari Age forums, 2002
  5. ↑ Erickson, Jonathan (August 1, 1998). "Lessons Learned". Dr. Dobb's Journal .
  6. ↑ "John Romero's .plan". Blue's News. 13 March 1997.
  7. ↑ Alderman, John. "Fan Captures History of Games' Early Creators". Archived from the original on October 24, 2012.
  8. ↑ Bogost, Ian (March 31, 2009). Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System . MIT Press. p.  160. ISBN   978-0-262-01257-7.
  9. ↑ Aycock, John (2016). Retrogame Archeology: Exploring Old Computer Games. Springer. p. 14. ISBN   978-3319300023.
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