Halcyon Days (book)
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Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Games Programmers is a digital book edited by James Hague and published in 1997. [1] The book was originally formatted using HTML and sold via mail-order, shipped on a floppy disk by Dadgum Games for USD$20. In 2002 Halcyon Days was made freely available on the web. The book continues to be sold by Dr. Dobb's Journal[2] on a CD-ROM also containing Susan Lammers's Programmers at Work.
The introduction to Halcyon Days was written by John Romero.
Many of the interviews in Halcyon Days are cited in Wikipedia entries for game designers.
[edit] References
- ^ The full HTML Halcyon Days book in HTML
- ^ Dr. Dobb's Journal CD-ROM Library from SD Media Group
[edit] External links
- An Interview with James Hague: Game Developer and Classic Video Game Historian from Jim Lawless' personal web site
- "Fan Captures History of Games' Early Creators" from Wired News (1997)
