You’ve probably heard by now that Facebook has snatched up Oculus Rift, the Kickstarter-funded VR interface. Oculus Rift was a particularly noteworthy Kickstarter, a real breakthrough success story–it raised 2.4 million dollars, far more than its humble goal of 250,000. Naturally, there is outrage among the community of folks who supported its campaign, and also, of course, plenty of apologists.
In the first installment of my interview with Brenda Romero, we chat about her early days at Sir-Tech and programming the C-64. We also talk about her favorite arcade game, Tron, and how she ended up running the Wizardry hotline.
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This week’s episode features a retrospective of a hidden gem from the 90s, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos. If you’re looking for more Dungeon Master-experiences like Legend of Grimrock, you’ll love it. Plus, how many other CRPGs have Patrick Stewart as a voice actor?
You can buy Lands of Lore I and II from GOG for only $5.99. Use this link, and the show gets a cut!
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I guess you guys have probably noticed I’ve been playing around with the Matt Chat format. Mostly this is just to avoid stagnation; I feel like I should always be trying to find ways to improve the show or just change it up enough to keep it fresh. I also have to admit it’s been fun playing around with Blender and some of Vegas’s more advanced features.
However, some folks have objected strongly to the changes in the latest video. It seems that I may have went overboard, rendering a moving 3D background of a circuit-textured tunnel throughout the video. Even I thought it might be a bit distracting and tried to slow it down, but apparently not enough. Only now do I realize that I didn’t need any such thing–I’m already providing two points of interest for viewers: the talking head and the gameplay footage. If you get bored with one, you switch to the other. Adding a third thing just makes it look too busy.
In my third and final installment with Stewart Cheifet, host and producer of Computer Chroncles, we chat about the impact of games on the computer industry, hilarious antics behind the scenes, and Stewart’s thoughts on piracy, net neutrality, and more.
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Stewart Cheifet, host and producer of Computer Chronicles, is back this week to talk about his experiences with the landmark television program. We chat about Commodore, Atari, Apple, IBM, and Microsoft. We also get more behind-the-scenes stories, such as how Steve Jobs told off Stewart in a board meeting, and how Jack Tramiel didn’t know jack about computers!
You can watch classic episodes of Computer Chronicles at archive.org.
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