>yea, i have an old compute! magazine that had a write-up about him. his game
>was some strategy scenario with the us<->ussr or something like that. he was
>talking about the future of gaming.
"Balance of Power" saw at least two different versions, and I'm aware of
versions for the Mac, Amiga, and PC, I'm sure there was a version for the
Atari ST, and possibly some of the 8-Bit platforms.
The PC version is interesting, came on 5.25" low density disk, and includes
a crippled version of Windows 1, that can only be used to play the game.
The Mac version will only run correctly on OLD machines such as the Mac
Plus, in fact it wants that size screen.
As for Chris Crawford I know that he wrote a book, that centered around
"Balance of Power", on the design of computer games. I think it was
published by Microsoft Press around 1990.
Zane
>
>In a message dated 9/3/98 7:45:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>sinasohn_at_ricochet.net writes:
>
>> Speaking of characters, btw, anyone know what ever happened to Chris
>> Crawford? He wrote some really popular game for the Atari 8-bit computers,
>> then went on to develop a hit game for the Mac (something about running the
>> world or something? Sorry, I was never really into games.) He was another
>> neat person. A physicist turned programmer
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