You might have noticed in your news feed recently a piece by David Cassel for TheNewStack.io , titled “Software Developer Tracks Down Code for a Beloved 41-Year-Old Text Adventure” (2021-04-25). The piece was based on “an email interview,” which is a bit of
journalistic newspeak that means “David sent me an email 36 hours before deadline; I responded.”
( Not that there’s anything wrong with that! )
Anyway, it’s a good piece of promotion. But I did tell David at the time that since
I’d gone to the trouble of writing up a long-form reply, I’d probably put it up on my blog
at some point… And now here it is.