including Softdisk Magazette, Softdisk Publishing, Softdisk, Inc., Softdisk Internet Services, Softdisk, L.L.C., and Magazines On Disk. Softdisk is the former...
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work as a freelance programmer. Softdisk, a computer company in Shreveport, Louisiana, hired Carmack to work on Softdisk G-S (an Apple IIGS publication)...
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in Keen Dreams was developed by id and published as a retail title by Softdisk; episodes four and five were released by Apogee as the shareware Commander...
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was founded on February 1, 1991, by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and...
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Mind Shear Software and published by Softdisk. After Mind Shear Software's release of Ironseed in 1994, Softdisk Publishing reached out to them with the...
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Catacomb Abyss (category Softdisk)
3-D) is a fantasy themed first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Softdisk and released in November 1992 for DOS. It is the fourth entry in the Catacomb...
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In September 1990, John Carmack, while working at programming studio Softdisk, developed a way to implement smooth side-scrolling in video games on IBM-compatible...
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division from Softdisk's art department, and persuaded Tom Hall to come in at night and help with game design. Romero and the others left Softdisk in February...
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Dangerous Dave (category Softdisk)
Apple II, 16-color, Softdisk Dangerous Dave's Risky Rescue, 1993, DOS, EGA, Softdisk Dave Goes Nutz!, 1993, DOS, EGA, Softdisk Dangerous Dave Goes Nutz...
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Apogee Software, the team planned to quit Softdisk and start their own company. When their boss, Softdisk owner Al Vekovius, confronted them on both...
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is a vehicular combat game developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in April 1991. Hovertank One is set during a nuclear war. In Hovertank...
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Catacomb 3-D (category Softdisk)
graphics. It was developed by id Software and originally published by Softdisk under the Gamer's Edge label, released in November 1991. The player takes...
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Romero, designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack, left their jobs at Softdisk to found id Software. After making a prototype game in Dreams to develop...
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replaced by the character Dangerous Dave of earlier Softdisk games. This led Carmack and others at Softdisk to resign and form their own company, id Software...
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It was founded in February 1991 by four members of the software company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and...
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Computer Science. In 1987, Hall worked at Softdisk Inc., where he was both a programmer and the editor of Softdisk, a software bundle delivered monthly. Along...
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science. Cloud acquired his first full-time job as a computer artist at Softdisk in 1985. He was hired by id Software on March 10, 1992 to work as an assistant...
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Catacomb (video game) (category Softdisk)
Catacomb is a 2-D top-down third-person shooter developed and published by Softdisk. It was originally created for the Apple II, and later ported to IBM PC...
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Softdisk was a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Founded in 1981, its original products were disk magazines (which they termed...
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Romero, designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack, left their jobs at Softdisk to found id Software. After making a prototype game in Keen Dreams to develop...
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Diskworld (redirect from Softdisk for Mac)
Macintosh computer system, published by Softdisk beginning in 1988. It was a sister publication of Softdisk for the Apple II, Loadstar for the Commodore...
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Kroz (category Softdisk)
#20". Softdisk. June 1988. Retrieved 11 March 2020. "Big Blue Disk #29". Softdisk. March 1988. Retrieved 11 March 2020. "Big Blue Disk #35". Softdisk. September...
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Commander Keen in Keen Dreams (category Softdisk)
side-scrolling platform video game developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in 1991 for DOS. It is the fourth episode of the Commander Keen series...
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Loadstar (magazine) (category Softdisk)
launched as a sister publication of Softdisk, based in Shreveport, Louisiana. It was the second platform for which Softdisk produced a disk magazine, after...
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Softdisk (ISSNĀ 0886-4152), originally Softdisk Magazette, was a disk magazine for the Apple II computer line, published from 1981 through 1995. It was...
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Tiles of the Dragon (category Softdisk)
developed by id Software and published by Softdisk. It is one of eleven games id Software created for Softdisk, who paid $5000 for it as part of id Software's...
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Rescue Rover (category Softdisk)
a puzzle video game that was developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in 1991. The game was distributed as shareware, with the first 10 levels...
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next major game after finishing their contract with their former employer Softdisk. After an initial suggestion for a science fiction game by Hall titled...
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Shadow Knights (category Softdisk)
created by id Software and published by Softdisk in 1991. Shadow Knights was the first game created for Softdisk, who paid $5000 for it as part of id Software's...
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the 1990s demoscene as Necros. The game was released and distributed by Softdisk in 1994. The game was written with Borland Turbo Pascal for DOS and the...
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