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Doing Windows, Part 4: The Rapprochement
We’ve seen how the pundits had already started speculating like crazy long before the actual release of IBM’s TopView, imagining it to be the key to some Machiavellian master plan for seizing complete control of the personal-computer market. But said pundits were giving IBM a bit more credit than perhaps […]
Game #74: Sorcerer’s Kingdom (Genesis) – Understandably Forgotten (Finished)
Game 74 Title: Sorcerer’s Kingdom Released: June 1993 (February 1992 JPN) Platform: Genesis Developer: NCS/Masaya (& Technical Wave) Publisher: Treco Genre: RPG Exploration – Top-down Combat – Turn based (strategic) Series – Standalone It’s difficult to pin down a development company for this one even though they received full credits — as best I can tell they were a bunch […]
Doing Windows, Part 3: A Pair of Strike-Outs
Come August of 1984, Microsoft Windows had missed its originally announced release date by four months and was still nowhere near ready to go. That month, IBM released the PC/AT, a new model of their personal computer based around the more powerful Intel 80286 processor. Amidst the hoopla over that […]