Computer, Enhance!

Jul 02 2024 5 ep. 43 mins 28
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Companion podcast to computerenhance.com

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Jul 02 2024 56 mins  
“I think I was there ten minutes and he had already decided to hire me, and I was never so happy in my life.”— Brian Moriarty, on Dan Horn hiring him to work at Infocom.In the spring of 2022, I interviewed Brian Moriarty about his life leading up to, and including, the creation of the Infocom classic Trinity. This is the fourth episode produced from those sessions. Unfortunat

The World's First CG Commercial

Jun 12 2024 43 mins  
“The great thing about the old machines that I really miss is that, if you spent a year with it, you could master the machine. You could control it down to the cycle level. If you really got into it, you could do the impossible with those machines if you learned it well enough.”— Brian Moriarty on learning to program in assembly language on the Atari 800.In the spring of 2022

A Tale of Two Radio Shacks

Jul 19 2023 44 mins  
“Everything having to do with the store or anything else in my life disappeared down the maw of that computer.” — Brian Moriarty on his first encounter with the TRS-80 Model IIn the spring of 2022, I interviewed Brian Moriarty about his life leading up to, and including, the creation of the Infocom classic Trinity. This is the second episode produced from those sessions. Unfo

The First Magic Door

May 17 2023 57 mins  
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How to Play Trinity

May 13 2023 13 mins  
Starting next week, I will be (slowly) posting episodes from my long-form interview with Brian Moriarty on the making of the Infocom classic game Trinity. The episodes will be full of spoilers, so the experience of playing Trinity for the first time might be significantly diminished if you listen to the podcast prior to playing the game.Since Trinity is unfortunately “abandonware