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Re:Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive by DonHopkins on Sunday April 16, 2017 @09:10PM (#14128591)
I ran into Jonathan Gay at CGDC, and upon realizing who he was, I squatted down, raised up my arms up above my head, flapped my hands, and chanted "Nya nya nya nya nya!"

Dark Castle was so cool, I totally forgave him for writing Flash.

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Re:Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive by pmarreck on Sunday April 16, 2017 @09:49PM (#14128736)
TIL the author of Dark Castle went on to write Flash. (Didn't it start out as some Macromedia thing?)
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Re:Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive by DonHopkins on Sunday April 16, 2017 @09:56PM (#14128757)
Jonathan Gay [1] and Charlie Jackson [2] founded FutureWave Software [3], and developed a drawing program called "SmartSketch", to which they added animation features and renamed "FutureSplash Animator" to challenge Macromedia Shockwave [4], which Macromedia (nee "Macromind") then bought and renamed "Macromedia Flash".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gay

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Jackson_(software)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureWave_Software

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave

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Re:Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive by pmarreck on Monday April 17, 2017 @12:12AM (#14129180)
wow, that's awesome!

Also, any old Dark Castle fans should note that "Return to Dark Castle" exists and was finally released a few years ago https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/return-to-dark-castle/id4107... (possibly the longest wait for a game sequel ever?)

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Re:Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive by jnwatson on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:51AM (#14129591)
That is the second sequel. The first one was Beyond Dark Castle, a truly excellent game.
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Re:Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive by pmarreck on Monday April 17, 2017 @10:05AM (#14130935)
Ah good point. Yeah, finished both of those back in the day.
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