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The Secret History of Mac Gaming: Expanded Edition

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The Secret History of Mac Gaming: Expanded EditionDer Macintosh hat Videospiele verndert. Er forderte das Medium heraus, mehr zu sein als nur ein Kinderspiel und schnelle Reflexe. Er machte die Interaktion zwischen Mensch und Computer freundlich, einladend und intuitiv. Mac Spiele fhrten zu vielem, was heute fr PC Spieler selbstverstndlich ist, und brachten einige der grten Franchises der Videospielgeschichte hervor darunter Myst, Halo und SimCity. Er ermglichte es jedem, mit Leichtigkeit Spiele und

Der Macintosh hat Videospiele verändert. Er forderte das Medium heraus, mehr zu sein als nur ein Kinderspiel und schnelle Reflexe. Er machte die Interaktion zwischen Mensch und Computer freundlich, einladend und intuitiv. Mac-Spiele führten zu vielem, was heute für PC-Spieler selbstverständlich ist, und brachten einige der größten Franchises der Videospielgeschichte hervor - darunter Myst, Halo und SimCity. Er ermöglichte es jedem, mit Leichtigkeit Spiele und spielerische Software zu entwickeln, und gab unabhängigen Entwicklern ein Zuhause für ihre Produkte.

Der Macintosh begrüßte ungewöhnliche Ideen und ermutigte zum Experimentieren. Er förderte leidenschaftliche und kreative Gemeinschaften, die Entwickler inspirierten und herausforderten, es besser zu machen und dem Mac-Mantra zu folgen: "Think different".

Der preisgekrönte Journalist und Spielehistoriker Richard Moss erzählt in seinem Buch The Secret History of Mac Gaming anhand von Archivmaterial und rund 80 Interviews mit Schlüsselfiguren dieser Ära die Geschichte dieser Communitys und der Spieleentwickler, die in einem Ökosystem überlebten und gediehen, das von der Außenwelt weitgehend ignoriert wurde. Es ist ein Buch über Menschen, die in erster Linie ihrem Herzen und erst in zweiter Linie den Markttrends folgten und zeigten, wie clever, skurril und geradezu wunderbar Videospiele sein konnten.

The Secret History of Mac Gaming enthält außerdem Gastkapitel von Craig Fryar, Apples erstem Mac-Games-Evangelisten und Mitentwickler des Spielehits Spectre, sowie eigens angefertigte Illustrationen für die Trennblätter und das Cover von Grafikdesigner und Pixelkünstler JJ Signal, die alle in der wunderschönen 1-Bit-Ästhetik der frühen Macintosh-Spiele gehalten sind. Das 480 Seiten starke Buch The Secret History of Mac Gaming zeichnet sich durch auffällige farbige Seitenränder, einen mit Pantone-Farben bedruckten Hardcover-Einband und ein farblich gekennzeichnetes Lesezeichenband aus. Wie bei allen Bitmap-Books-Büchern wird eine fadengeheftete Bindung verwendet für zusätzliche Haltbarkeit und lithografisch auf hochwertigem Papier gedruckt, um die prächtigen Bilder so zu präsentieren, wie sie es verdienen.

Diese neu erweiterte Ausgabe enthält rund 70 Seiten zusätzlichen Inhalt, darunter ein Vorwort des Miterfinders von The 7th Guest und ehemaligen id Software- und Apple-Mitarbeiters Graeme Devine, eine kommentierte Zeitleiste, über 60 zusätzliche Bilder, eine Icon-Galerie und mehr als 6.000 zusätzliche Wörter in den Kapiteln - zusätzlich zu den 115.000 Wörtern der ersten Ausgabe -, die eine Vielzahl zusätzlicher Spiel- und Entwicklergeschichten abdecken, darunter die Geschichten hinter Snood, Chaos Overlords, The Dungeon of Doom und mehr. Außerdem wurde das Design auf der Grundlage von Leserfeedback überarbeitet und aktualisiert, um ein besseres Leseerlebnis zu bieten.

Mit Beiträgen von

Robyn and Rand Miller, Patrick Buckland, John Calhoun (Glider), Andrew Welch, Ben Spees, Matt Burch, Ian and Colin Lynch Smith, Steven Tze, Mark Stephen Pierce, Jonathan Gay, Bill Appleton, Steve Capps, Charlie Jackson, Peter Cohen, Trey Smith, Dave Marsh, Joe Williams, Brian Greenstone, Craig Erickson, Rick Holzgrafe, Chris De Salvo, Ray Dunakin, Cliff Johnson, Glenda Adams, Rebecca Heineman, Eric Klein, Marc Vose, Yoot Saito, Alex Seropian (Bungie).

Enthaltene Spiele

3 In Three / 3D Hearts Deluxe / 3D Klondike / 3D Tic Tac Toe / A Mess O’ Trouble / A-10 Attack / Airborne! / Airburst / Alice aka Through the Looking Glass / Amazing! / Another Fine Mess / Another World / Apache Strike / Apeiron / Aquazone / Arcomage / Ares / Armor Alley / Artillery / Asteroids / At The Carnival / Avara / Baker’s Dozen / Balance of Power / Baron: The Real Estate Simulation / Barrack / battle-girl / Battlezone / Beyond Dark Castle / Big Bang Board Games / Big Bang Chess / Billy Frontier / Bloodsuckers / Bolo / Bomber / Boogaloopers / Bosconian / Brickles / Bubble Trouble / Bugdom / Bugdom 2 / Burning Monkey Solitaire / Burning Monkey Solitaire 2: Monty Zuma’s Revenge / Bus’d Out / Cairo ShootOut! / Cap’n Magneto / Centaurian / Chaos Overlords / ChipWits / Chiral / Choplifter / Clan Lord / Classic Cribbage / Classic Gin Rummy / Color Dark Castle / Continuum / Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel / Creepy Castle / Cricket / Cro-Mag Rally / CrossCards / Crystal Caliburn / Crystal Crazy / Crystal Quest / Crystal Raider / Cythera / Daleks / Dark Castle / Deep Angst / Déjà Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas / Déjà Vu: A Nightmare Comes True / Derrat Sorcerum / Descent / Despair / Diamonds 3D / Dogfight City / Drakmyth Castle / Duke Nukem 3D / Enchanted Scepters / Enigma / Enigmo / Eric’s Cascade / Eric’s Solitaire Sampler / Eric’s Ultimate Solitaire / Escape Velocity / Escape Velocity: Override / EV Nova / Exile: Escape From The Pit / F/A-18 Hornet / F/A-18 Hornet 2.0 / F/A-18 Hornet 3.0 / F/A-18 Korea / Falcon: The F-16 Simulator / Ferazel’s Wand / Firefall Arcade / Flight Unlimited / Fokker Triplane Simulator / Forty Thieves / Frankie’s Dungeon / GATO / Glider / Glider 4.0 / Glider PRO / Glypha / Gnop! / Grand Slam: World Class Tennis / Gravitar / Grid Wars / Gridz / Ground Zero / Half-Life / Halo: Combat Evolved / HangMan / Harry the Handsome Executive / Hearts Deluxe / Hellcats Over The Pacific / If Monks Had Macs / Ingemar’s Skiing Game / Inigo Gets Out / iPuppet Presents: Colin’s Classic Cards / Ishidō: The Way of Stones / Jared: Butcher of Song / Jump Raven / KGA Golf / Kill Monty / KTA Tennis / Legacy / Letterforms & Illusion / Links Pro / Little Brick Out / Little Pythagoras / Lunatic Fringe / Lunicus / M4 Tank Simulator / Mac Spudd! / Mac Tuberling / MacBugs! / MacCricket / MacGolf / Macintosh Football Manager / MacJesus / MacSki / Madden NFL 2000 / Maelstrom / Make Millions / Marathon / Marathon 2: Durandal / Marathon Infinity / Maze / Maze War / MazeWars / MazeWars+ / MicroLeague Baseball / Microsoft Flight Simulator / Mighty Mike aka Power Pete / Mike’s House / Millionaire: The Stock Market Simulation / Minotaur: The Labyrinth of Crete / Montana Solitaire / Mormonoids From The Deep / Myst / Myst III: Exile / Myth II: Soulblighter / Myth: The Fallen Lords / Nanosaur / Nanosaur 2: Hatchling / NetherWorld / NetTrek / Nightfall / Oni / Operation Desert Storm / Orbiter / Otto Matic / P’tong / P51 Mustang Flight Simulator / Pararena / Pararena 2.0 / Pathways Into Darkness / Pax Imperia / PGA Tour Golf / PGA Tour Golf II / Phraze Craze Plus / Pillars of Garendall / Psychotic: The Escape / PT-109 / Quarterstaff / Racing Days / Radical Castle / Ray’s Maze / Realmz / Reversi: The Eclipse / Riven: The Sequel to Myst / Rogue / Scarab of Ra / Seaman / Senseless Violence 1: The Survival of the Foetus / Sentinels of Ceth / Shadowgate / Shanghai / Shufflepuck / Shufflepuck Café / Sid Meier’s Civilization II Gold Edition / SimCity / SimStapler / SimTower: The Vertical Empire / SketchFighter 4000 Alpha / Sky Shadow / Skyfighters 1945 / Snood / Solarian II / Soldiers of the Sun / Solitaire Royale / Solitaire Till Dawn / Spaceship Warlock / Spaceward Ho! / Spaceway 2000 / Spades Deluxe / Spectre / Spelunx and the Caves of Mr Seudo / Spin Doctor / SPLAT’ERS / Squire: The Financial Planning Simulation / Stella Obscura / Strategic Conquest / Strategic Conquest 3.0 / StuntCopter / Sub Battle Simulator / Sultan’s Palace / Super Marathon / Super Maze Wars / Supertris / Swoop / TaskMaker / Tetris / Tetris Max / The Colony / The Dungeon of Doom / The Dungeon Revealed / The Fishin’ Hole / The Fool and his Money / The Fool’s Errand / The Hotel Caper, or The Rescue of Daring Drake / The Journeyman Project / The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time / The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time / The Journeyman Project TURBO / The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime / The King of Chicago / The Manhole / The Missions of Starship Reliant / The Odyssey / The Playroom / The Quest / The Settlers III / The Tower / Titanic: Adventure out of Time / Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six / Tomb Raider Gold / Tomb Raider II / Toxic Ravine / ToySight / Transylvania / TRISTAN / Trust and Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot / Tunin’ Glue / Twisted! / Tycoon: The Commodity Market Simulation / Un-Breakout / Uninvited / URU: Ages Beyond Myst / Wacky Wheel / Weekend Warrior / WingNuts: Temporal Navigator / Wolfenstein 3D / World Builder / World War II Skyfighters / Xenocide / Yogurt Commercial / Yoot Tower / Zero Gravity

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Elisa
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★★★★★ 3
Sadly, DNF
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I read this thru KU. I LOVED the synopsis. And then I began reading... and it was a DNF at 68% after picking it up and putting it down several times because I really loved the main female character. *****SPOILERS***** Pros: The world is unique, intriguing and fun. The primary female character is bad-a** but not a b*tech or a mary sue. The primary female has depth. I really want to know what happens to her even tho it's been weeks and I don't remember her name. The villains to the point I read are pretty good -- an ever present threat of mysterious and possibly many culprits. Cons: Way, way too many points of view. I stopped counting at 7. It's the prime reason why I don't care about most of the characters or remember their names even when I like them. There's just too many points of view so almost none of the characters have enough book space for the author to properly develop them. This literally killed the book for me. Actually it killed my desire to read. For weeks. The main male is more villain than hero. He agreed to marry the main female then locks her up & eschews her for her sister, all while bad mouthing her as unfit to rule when he never spent any time with her getting to know her. He is actually unfit to rule as he is blind to the woes of his own kingdom and starts off a peace mission to secure a ceasefire through marriage by murdering an inn full of people in her country for no real reason. Plus, he constantly makes promises he does not keep. And it's gross of him to pine for the sister behind the main female's back. ***** As much as I really wanted to see what happened to the main female character, it wasn't enough for me to keep trying to slog thru this book. There was a lot of potential here that just fell short. Hence, 3 stars.
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MaryBeth K
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★★★★★ 5
Fae Courts with High Intrigue
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This book is one that just builds and builds and then surprises you to no end. You may think you know the villains and then you are jolted in another direction. Princess Reyna is a real gem, strong of character, a fierce fighter, and loyal to her family and kingdom. Just when you think she and Lorcan, well you know, the plot is flipped. Can't wait to see where this goes in book two.
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Kindle Customer Maureen
San Leandro, US
★★★★★ 4
Slow, sorry but good
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This was a slow moving book. Lots of character pov chapters, lots of superfluous descriptions and endless courtly appearances stalled this book to start. Once you get into the heart of the story, it takes off. Before you know it the book is done. My favorite character is Reyna. She is so strong. She is true to herself. She gets into a lot of trouble with her headstrong ways but it's entertaining. I have high hopes for Lorcan. He is honorable to a fault. Thane had turned out to be better than I thought but i still don't like him. Eislin is useless. Great plot twists at the end. I'm looking forward too book 2.
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Faifre6
Louisville, US
★★★★★ 5
Very detailed! Beautiful world building! Strong Heroine!
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Starts off a little slow and confusing with different POV’s, but starts to all come together towards the middle to make an elaborate plot line and makes it all worth it. Beautiful world building and attention to detail as well as great writing. The cliffhanger was gut wrenching! Can’t wait for the next book!
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Isabelle
Battle Creek, US
★★★★★ 4
Interesting
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This was a very captivating book once you got into it thoroughly. But the third person perspective was a bit hard to get used to. But as you got into it and followed the different characters, it was interesting and filled with intrigue, conflict and forbidden love. I can’t wait to read the next one and to complete the series.
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