Re:Arctic Adventure: A Lost 1981 TRS-80 Adventure Game
by RaftPeople on Thursday February 01, 2024 @12:39AM
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> did you "notice" the lack of feedback at the time?
Not really, I wasn't expecting it either. I was having fun creating them and thrilled that a company was willing to sell them, and that people bought them. That alone felt validating that my hard work had produced something of at least reasonable quality.
Even though I hadn't expected it, it was pretty exciting to talk to someone that played one (and liked it).
I ask only because I sold a program through the mail on floppy disk, to maybe 5 or 10 users, in the early 90s. I never got feedback, but thinking back I didn't really expect any, so I didn't miss it.
Now of course it's different, but back then, short of writing me a letter (which would be an unrealistic expectation even then) they had no route to feed back.
Put another way, I never sent feedback to any author either, do I guess I had no expectations.
(The obligatory tip of hat to Scott Adams - the first program I ever ran on "my" first computer (my dad's apple ][).
We all live in a pond making ripples, and we very seldom see what those ripples effect. Mr Adams made ripples that are unimaginable - as he built on the ideas of others, so have so many been inspired by his work to forge their own path in tech.
A true giant of history.