Shirl wrote:
Apple's first Lisa game was most likely the MAZE program written by Steve
Capps, the author of the ALICE game. I recall reading a ST. MAC maqgazine
article about MAZE which talked about its origins on the Lisa. I believe
ALICE came after MAZE.
If you Google for information about Andy Hertzfeld's program Switcher for
the Mac 512K, you'll find various anecdotes about its creation. One of them
involves a letter from Bill Gates to Andy, saying how delighted he was with
the demo version of Switcher, and how he had wasted far too much time playing
Amazing (Steve Capps' maze game, that Andy used to demo Switcher).
You should try to contact Steve Capps directly and see if he has the Lisa
version. If he does, you may not be able to run it since it most likely was
written for the LISA MONITOR environment which is super rare. This
environment was Apple's internal development environment for the Lisa
predating the LISA WORKSHOP environment. The other Lisa environment from
Apple was the LISA OPERATING SYSTEM which was used by the LISA OFFICE
SYSTEM.
That doesn't surprise me too much. I've looked at Alice for the Mac with
ResEdit, and it does all sorts of naughty things, like writing the title
screen directly to video memory, and not using the Mac's system of resources.
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