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technologizer by harry mccracken a smarter take on tech skip to content about archive newsletter misc contact search for search search about contact newsletter archive misc search my 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza posted by harry mccracken nbsp february 16 2026 over the last few weeks i created a computer game set in the arctic or maybe i ve been working on it since 1981 it all depends on how you count all i know for sure is that i programmed the original version of arctic adventure in radio shack trs 80 level ii basic when i was in high school it s possible i did at least some of that work in 1980 though it was published in 1981 in 2021 i put a debugged and slightly expanded version on the web and in late january and early february of this year i used anthropic s claude code to treat my ancient trs 80 level ii basic code as raw material for a fancy modern edition of arctic adventure the new version even adds one meaningful feature the 1981 edition didn t have at all graphics who else do you know who s been banging away at the same project for that long even if intermittently my 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza read more my 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza read post my 1981 basic adventure s third lease on life posted by harry mccracken nbsp august 4 2025 i m not sure if i ve ever mentioned my arctic 81 website here on technologizer it s home to arctic adventure a text adventure game i wrote in level ii basic for the radio shack trs 80 when i was in high school it was published in a book of type in adventures in 1981 though my triumph was lessened by the fact that i never got a copy of the book after i was informed that a devastating bug had somehow snuck into the print version i kind of wanted to forget the whole thing arctic adventure indeed slipped to the back of my brain until 2021 when having procured a copy of the book i typed it in fixed the bug expanded the gameplay and figured out how to make it all work in a web browser its relaunch got quite a bit of attention from people charmed by the notion of me finally debugging it after 40 years anyhow i m bringing this up now because there s breaking arctic adventure news a clever programmer named jim gerrie has ported the game to the radio shack mc 10 an ultracheap home computer from 1983 that i only vaguely remember jim went back to the code from the book as the basis of his adaptation so this new version is actually much closer to the 1981 original than my 2021 revision i have it up and running on arctic 81 where it s accompanied by some information on the mc 10 arctic 81 also has an even earlier game i wrote maybe when i was still in junior high a slot machine simulator along with a 1980 text adventure by my friend charles it may be a quixotic little site but i wish more people who lived through the basic era shared their creations and stories if these memories aren t documented they ll be lost to history it never occurred to me that the software i wrote in the glory days of 8 bit computing might interest anyone a few decades into the future so i didn t bother to file it away but i do have two cassettes containing a puzzle game i programmed for my atari 400 atari expressed interest in publishing it but i didn t manage to implement their suggestions for improvements i have failed to get that one to load on an actual atari computer however it s apparently possible to digitize and then decode old program tapes using modern software running on a non vintage pc remind me to give it a try sometime if it leads anywhere i ll post the results on arctic 81 my 1981 basic adventure s third lease on life read post the raccoons who made computer magazine ads great posted by harry mccracken nbsp april 22 2025 do you mean to tell me you never play microsoft flight simulator at your local pub art by erick ingraham from a december 1984 pc connection ad when i got my first job in technology journalism my grandmother used to call the magazine where i worked your catalog i winced but in retrospect she wasn t that far off back then if you wanted to buy a computer product this was the early 1990s before the web changed everything the odds were pretty decent that you started by buying a computer magazine if you remember the computer magazines of this era at all you recall how thick they were hundreds and hundreds of pages an issue in the case of the most successful ones the majority of those pages were ads not editorial content and a sizable chunk of those ads were catalog y in the extreme pages and pages were devoted to lists of products and prices in teensy type with 1 800 numbers you could call to place an order about a gazillion mail order houses did business this way the april 1991 pc world for instance includes advertisements for outfits such as advanced computer products arlington computer products bulldog computer products computer bazaar fast micro kenosha computer center nsi computer products paradise computer products telemart and united computer express only the names and slightly varying levels of ad design proficiency served to distinguish most of them but i regarded three of these companies as the industry s giants whether they were the biggest revenue wise i m still not sure it was their sustained prominence in major magazines with multi page spreads that made them feel like behemoths the raccoons who made computer magazine ads great read more the raccoons who made computer magazine ads great read post my mid aughts pc world techlog tech blog available again at last posted by harry mccracken nbsp november 22 2024 apologies for the continued self indulgent excavation of my own work but after indexing my time com columns and preserving my tweets i m back with links to the 952 posts i wrote for my pc world blog techlog between 2004 and 2008 until now i ve considered them to be more or less lost at some point after i left pc world the publication decided to pull the plug on its blogs which were hosted on an increasingly archaic platform called moveable type i m not postive when it happened possibly during a redesign of the site in 2012 but it was ages ago and i might have been the only outsider who noticed or cared even the wayback machine s copies of the blog were broken due to its inability to deal with the navigation menu we d constructed if you found one techlog post there was no obvious way to click around to all the other ones all you got were broken links recently though i made a discovery by manually editing the wayback urls it was possible to get to all my blog posts after all they were all there just hidden as if they d been stored in rooms without any doors or windows my mid aughts pc world techlog tech blog available again at last read more my mid aughts pc world techlog tech blog available again at last read post my twitter archive 2007 2024 preserved and de elonized posted by harry mccracken nbsp november 17 2024 on march 7 2007 i tweeted though it wasn t yet called that for the first time i remember feeling like i was late to the platform if i understand how member id codes work i was the 817 268th person to sign up i didn t really figure twitter out until some point in 2008 once i did it became one of my primary modes of communcation i had loads of fun and my share of glory early on for example techrepublic named me as the 1 techie to follow i can t prove it as any evidence long ago vanished from it website i came up with the idea for twtrcon a conference about using twitter for business that drew the likes of mc hammer and martha stewart as attendees and then there was animoji karaoke the twitter fad i launched over the years i pretty much accomplished everything i wanted to on twitter except hitting 100 000 followers a dream that seemed within my grasp until i was almost there and my count began to slowly roll backwards but from the start of the elon musk era using twitter i m done with calling it x has felt like habituating a once wonderful restaurant whose new chef has been intentionally poisoning the stew as musk wrecked the joint i tweeted less and less until my feed consisted of little more than sporadic complaints about twitter and heartfelt salutes to recently deceased celebrities even tweeting links to my own stories felt increasingly pointless the site sends few clicks nowadays which would seem to belie the theory that it s some sort of essential news source for hundreds of millions of people my twitter archive 2007 2024 preserved and de elonized read more my twitter archive 2007 2024 preserved and de elonized read post behold the lost time com technologizer columns posted by harry mccracken nbsp february 29 2024 okay maybe lost is overstating things still i tend to forget about most of the stuff i write the moment i m done with it so i certainly don t have vivid recollections of writing my weekly technologizer column for time com which i did from september 2010 until february 2012 but when i was freeze drying the technologizer website i created an index of every technologizer post it dawned on me that the index was far from complete because quite a few of the words i wrote under the technologizer banner were published on time com not technologizer com and at first before i joined time s staff they appeared every tuesday later shifted to thursday in time com s business section technologizer on time wasn t too different from technologizer com i probably stuck more consistently to addressing a big mainstream audience and tried to cover the big topics of the day smartphones tablets social networking the evolving pc and various things that seemed interesting at the time such as quora onlive and blekko my wonderful editors jim frederick whom i still can t believe is gone and later doug aamoth barely touched what i wrote i think most of the headlines are mine and nearly all of the topics are though jim did ask me to write about a dust up behind the scenes at techcrunch it wouldn t have occurred to me to cover that and the piece turned out quite well behold the lost time com technologizer columns read more behold the lost time com technologizer columns read post how to freeze dry a website posted by harry mccracken nbsp february 22 2024 dall e 3 gets most of the credit or blame for this it hardly seems possible that it s been nearly sixteen years since i pressed publish on my first technologizer post back then the iphone had been on sale for less than a year android phones chrome bitcoin instagram snapchat tiktok oculus and the ipad didn t exist yet the current version of windows was vista circuit city and compusa were still in business and elon musk was not yet ceo of tesla let alone twitter another thing that s happened since 2008 is that the some of the software i used to build the site and later to update it have long since tumbled into the abyss of obsolesence it s not just that the wordpress theme i chose and customized in 2008 no longer works with modern versions of php even the more modern one i used for new posts from 2014 onward won t my webhost has been letting me use an ancient version of php but they now charge me a monthly fee for the privilege and their dunning letters have grown only more urgent along with knowing my themes were obsolete i also grew worried that the site s many venerable plugins might stop working which led me to put off critical wordpress updates how to freeze dry a website read more how to freeze dry a website read post copyright 2026 by harry mccracken powered by wordpress a harry land network site scroll to top