Good news for anyone who previously missed out on my book The Secret History of Mac Gaming. As of yesterday you can now order an Expanded Edition from Bitmap Books. It'll be shipping from November 8th.
https://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/products/ ... ed-edition
New version revises the text layout and makes several corrections, but more notably it adds a timeline of key moments in Mac gaming history from 1984 - 2000, as well as two icon galleries, a foreword by Graeme Devine (co-creator of The 7th Guest, former id Software designer), around 60 new images, and around 6,000 words of additional content (stories behind the creation of The Dungeon of Doom, Snood, and Stick Man Games's games, plus some other stuff).
You can find loads of photos and more info at the product page linked above, but if you have any questions just let me know.
And if you have the first edition but aren't interesting in buying another physical copy, stay tuned for a sort of digital add-on pack available direct from me later this year. It'll have just the 6,000 words of new chapter content (with notes on where it fits in relation to the existing text) plus a text-only version of the timeline and a list of corrections, presented in a barebones, no-frills Kindle/ePub/PDF format.
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Re: Secret History of Mac Gaming Expanded Edition
Even more off-topic:
I just stumbled across https://www.bitstampede.com/2020/11/09/ ... ns-sheppy/ -- I'm almost a year late!
Mossy, any chance you could arrange an interview with Eric? He's had an awesome career as a tech writer, ported a bunch of games to the Mac, and even did the wonderful conversion of Bernie ][ The Rescue into Sweet 16. I'm still nagging him from time to time to complete the update of Sweet 16 to be 64-bit native, modernOS compatible
Since Eric has a solid grasp of narrative and has been involved in many of the formative Apple-adjacent things in the tech world, I think the two of you would get on well
I just stumbled across https://www.bitstampede.com/2020/11/09/ ... ns-sheppy/ -- I'm almost a year late!
Mossy, any chance you could arrange an interview with Eric? He's had an awesome career as a tech writer, ported a bunch of games to the Mac, and even did the wonderful conversion of Bernie ][ The Rescue into Sweet 16. I'm still nagging him from time to time to complete the update of Sweet 16 to be 64-bit native, modernOS compatible
Since Eric has a solid grasp of narrative and has been involved in many of the formative Apple-adjacent things in the tech world, I think the two of you would get on well
Re: Secret History of Mac Gaming Expanded Edition
Possibly. I'm just days (or even hours) from welcoming my first child into the world, but I might be able to set something up with him after I'm settled into parent life — assuming he's up for it.
Author of The Secret History of Mac Gaming — available via http://secrethistoryofmacgaming.com/ — and Shareware Heroes: The renegades who redefined gaming at the dawn of the Internet — available via https://sharewareheroes.com/