re: #439 Walter L. Newton

Well, if you have the inclination, then download a C64 emulator and get that ROM image of “Encounter.” You will see my first attempts at parsing out the foul language… that is so funny… because that’s just what I did with Infocom games. And they got smarter and smarter with the “canned” responses to snide input.

I would have loved working on that team back then, but my programming career took me to database programming and financial packages.

But thank Infocom and Commodore for a great beginning.

Game programming back in the 80’s, from talking to a couple people who were working in the industry back them, apparently was not very lucrative and intensely unsteady work *_*

Unless you were one of those engineer gods from the Atari days who had the mad assembly language skills, in which case you formed Activision and became gazillionaires