Cosmic Osmo came out after Myst by around a year or so. The Manhole was originally offered by Cyan directly through mail order on, I believe, 12 800K disks, and that led to Activision picking it up (I think this was just before they went insane and became MediaVision - Dan Shafer probably has many tales of that time).
Manhole and Cosmic Osmo had a similar effect on me. I was already fascinated by Hypercard, since at the time I was a big apple junkie (despite not having a mac at that point) and I actually bought Dan's book and read it cover to cover even though I had no way to use the knowledge at the time. That book, Manhole, and Cosmic Osmo were really the things that started me on the road to where I am now (in a boring IT management job - go figure). It's too bad that the market these days doesn't really seem to have any place for brilliant, imaginative, playful software like those original Cyan games. >----- ------- Original Message ------- ----- Even before Manhole, the very first Hypercard game >the Rand brothers created >was Cosmic Osmo I believe. Originally on disk, it >later came out on CD-Rom. >That's when I was bitten by the programming bug and >started checking out this >freebie thing called Hypercard that came with my >Mac SE. :-) >Lynn P. > >_______________________________________________ >use-revolution mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolu >tion _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
