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My book makes direct use of material from these four installments: Further info on the early travails of shareware can be found in that Jay Lucas magazine column that was called “Freeware” and then later changed to “Shareware”.The Scientific American article is called “White, Brown, and Fractal Music” and can be found here:.(And I was interviewed for a follow-up piece written by another journalist at the same publication 24 years later: “Freeing Cap’n Magneto: How Austinite’s quest to overcome adversity inspired 1980s cult classic videogame”, published at ).

#Microman game 1993 software

I also got information about Evans from “Masterpieces of fantasy: Software wizards thrive on games” in Austin American-Statesman, Thursday 5 March 1987, pages G1 and G5.Jim Knopf/Button’s memoir of his early shareware days is at.The Fluegelman quote in MicroTimes is from May 1985, p18-26.Further Fluegelman backstory comes from TODAY Magazine Vol 02 Num 03, Jan/Feb 1983, p15.

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The 1982 PC Mag interview (which contains also the “2,000 extra brains” quote) with Fluegelman was is the Feb-Mar 1982 issue, p64-8.

Fluegelman’s book about writing with computers was called Writing in the Computer Age: Word Processing Skills and Style for Every Writer.

My interview with Don Daglow, November 2019.

For more on PLATO’s history, see The Friendly Orange Glow by Brian Dear, published 2018.

My interview with Brand Fortner for The Life & Times of Video Games episode 2, Airfight.

My interviews with the creators of Maze, and the Polygon article I wrote about it.

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Steven Levy, first published in 1984.

Similarly, if you’re doing research and you can’t find something I’ve cited, ping me and I’ll send it to you. And either way I may be able to help you find it. I saved something on the order of 99% of the materials that I consulted in writing this book, so unless noted otherwise its absence in the sources lists below is likely an oversight. If I have missed something here, feel free to reach out directly to me on rich at mossrc dot me to ask about it.