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That sounds like a very interesting story! Care to share (if possible) how you ended up showing your game to Bill Gates when you were 14? Hiw old was he at tha
by saganus 9y ago
That sounds like a very interesting story!
Care to share (if possible) how you ended up showing your game to Bill Gates when you were 14? Hiw old was he at that time?
- nihonde 9y agoI was (maybe) a freshman at Lakeside High School at that time, which is his Alma Mater. I believe the occasion was the opening of the Gates-Allen Math and Science Building. The year would have been 1987 or so.
- hypercardonline 9y agoWhat was the stack you demoed? You still have it lying around?
- nihonde 9y agoIt was a space travel game not unlike a very rudimentary (and 1-bit) version of Faster Than Light. It could be on a floppy somewhere. I still have the original 128k Mac that I built it on, but it's in storage. Edit: Fun thing that I just remembered—the game had a picture of your space ship that showed damage to various areas during battles. The image was scanned on an ImageWriter (Thunderscan!) from a magazine photo of a Delorean, and then I used MacPaint (Fatbits!) to erase the wheels and make the undercarriage look like a space ship. Pretty awesome for those early days, if I do say so myself.
- hypercardonline 9y agoIf you ever get the stack of that disk, please do upload it. I'd love to see it!
- saganus 9y agoAwesome! Thanks for sharing. PS. Sorry for the duplicated post. I was on my phone and for some reason I thought the first post wasn't sent correctly.