Description

Show Notes

News

• Kieren's "Atari 8-bit Vs. Arcade" videos
• Kieren's "A-Z of Atari 2600 Games: Volume 1" book, at Amazon US and Amazon UK
• Kieren's video tutorial on the AtariMax Max Flash Cart
• "Let's Go Dizzy! The Story of the Oliver Twins" book
• Jaguar Sector III & Lynx Sector groups on Facebook
• Sacramento Indie Arcade, April 8th, West Sacramento, CA
• pro(c) ATARI magazine, issue 11 (h/t The Real Bounty Bob)
• Tape Preservation Project, at atari.area
• "A8CAS" project at SourceForge
• "Keep those XL's/XE's humming" (home of "WAV2CAS", "CAS2WAV", and "XEX2CAS") at Ernest R. Schreurs' website

Rescue on Fractalus!

• Published by
  • Atari Corp (1987)
  • Epyx (1984, US) & Activision (1985, UK)
• Developed by
  • 
    Lucasfilm Ltd.
    • David Fox (programmer)
    • Loren Carpenter (programmer)
    • Charlie Kellner (graphics)
    • Gary Winnick (graphics)
    • James St. Louis (graphics)
    • Douglas "Crock" Crockford (graphics)
    • Peter Langston (sound, and team lead)
    • Charlie "Dragon" Kellner (sound)

Info:

• 
  Rescue on Fractalus!:
  • "Rescue on Fractalus!" entry at MobyGames
  • "Rescue on Fractalus!" (XE Cart) entry at AtariMania
  • "Rescue on Fractalus!" (Epyx (US) disk) entry at AtariMania
  • "Rescue on Fractalus!" (Activision (UK) disk & tape) entry at AtariMania
  • "Behind Jaggi Lines" entry at AtariMania
  • "BALLBLAZER and Rescue on Fractalus! The Lucasfilm Computer Division Games Project is born - A very brief personal history", at Peter Langston's website
  • Atari/Lucasfilm Games Press Kit, at Peter Langston's website
  • "Rescue on Fractalus! video from 1984 press conference", at David Fox's website
  • "Tomorrow’s Promise" article at ElectronDance website
  • "Changing Lives: David Fox" interview (part 1) & "Changing Lives: David Fox" interview (part 2), at ElectronDance website
  • "Atari Unveils Lucasfilm Games - Star Wars company touts 'edge of the art' sound, graphics" InfoWorld article (June 4, 1984), at Google Books
  • "The Making of Rescue on Fractalus!" Retro Gamer article (November 2007), at David Fox's website (PDF)
  • Review of "Rescue on Fractalus!" at Super Adventures in Gaming (2013)
• 
  Fractals and fractal landscapes:
  • "Fractal landscape" at Wikipedia
  • "Fractal" at Wikipedia
  • "Benoît Mandelbrot, The Father of Fractals", a "Big Brains. Small Films." IBM documentary video
• 
  Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Lucasfilm Computer Division, LucasFilm Games / LucasArts:
  • "Loren Carpenter" at Wikipedia
  • Loren's 1980 "Vol Libre" fractal landscape computer-generated film
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, "Genesis Effect" scene (mountain split at 1m 49s)
  • "Genesis Effect" scene with Industrial Light & Magic commentary
• 
  Miscellanea:
  • "Jump Scare" article at TV Tropes
  • "Rescue on Fractalus!" at TV Tropes
  • "The Influence of the UNIX Operating System on the Development of Two Video Games" Bell Communications Research paper, at Peter Langston's website (PDF)
• Legacy:
  • Unfinished 7800 "Rescue on Fractalus!" prototype, at AtariAge
  • "Koronis Rift" at Wikipedia
  • "The Eidolonn" at Wikipedia
  • "Fractalus" (currently alpha) for Windows
  • "Fallen Angels" for Jaguar, at AtariAge forums

Downloads:

• XE Cart
• Epyx (US) disk
• Activision (UK) disk & tape

Where to Buy:

• B & C ComputerVisions
• Best Electronics

Other Reviews and Info:

• ANTIC Podcast Interview #37: David Fox
• 7800 Game by Game podcast: "The Prototype Games!"

Advanced Pinball Simulator

• Published by
  • Codemasters (1989)
• Developed by
  • The Oliver Twins: Philip & Andrew Oliver (designers)
  • Hassan Mehmet (Atari code)
  • Terry Lloyd (Atari graphics)
  • David Dunn (Atari sound)

Info and Downloads:

• "Advanced Pinball Simulator" entry at AtariMania
• "Advanced Pinball Simulator" info & story at Oliver Twins' website

Other Reviews and Info:

• ChinnyVision review of various ports of "Advanced Pinball Simulator"
• "Advanced Pinball Simulator", Amstrad CPC reviews, at MobyGames
• "Advanced Pinball Simulator", ZX Spectrum reviews, at MobyGames
• "Advanced Pinball Simulator", Commodore 64 reviews, at MobyGames