Read at your own pace, create new threads at your leisure, and have fun. The selected book of the month will have a schedule but you don't have to observe the schedule. There are specific channels for the monthly selections as well. Feel free to discuss anything in that server. We have started a Discord server for additional discussion. If you believe your post was removed in error, please contact the mods! Each book is read over the course of a month, typically with one or two check-ins each week posted by a mod.Ĭan I post about other books? Most activity is for books selected (by vote) for the current month, but you can post about any previous selection anytime.ĭon't post about other topics until you read the FAQ if you post about a random book we delete your post.
Discussion schedules are posted shortly thereafter. Winners are posted a week or so before the end of the month. The book with the most upvotes is selected for the next month's read. Anyone can suggest a book to read (you DON'T have to lead the discussions if you suggest a book - the mods will do that!). You may still be able to find his old Facebook page here.How do we pick books? About halfway through each month, we create a thread for suggestions for the next month's read.
Sadly, Art passed away on September 4, 2017. He later remarried to Rose Laguitnay and retired in the Philippines. "Taipan: A Historical Adventure for the Apple Computer", Art Canfil, Jim McClenahan, & Karl Albrecht, 1986įor many years, Art Canfil lived in Half Moon Bay, California and had a daughter named Adrianne. Unfortunately, Art never made a cent from the Avalanche release.īatavia is the old Dutch name for present-day Jakarta. But apparently someone told him, for a few minutes later he came running up and shook MY hand and said, 'Taipan's my favorite game!' One of the highpoints of my life." While there, I saw and shook hands with and introduced myself to Steve Wozniak, one of the main original investors in EA. This was held in the Stanford Court Hotel in San Francisco. The illustrations were done by Chrisann Brennan, former girlfriend of Steve Jobs, and mother of Jobs' daughter Lisa - the namesake of the forerunner of the Macintosh.Īrt Canfil relates: "A few months after it came out, I was invited to the founding party for Electronic Arts. Berg of Mega-micro Computers, a hidden snippet that's revealed by reading the data value of memory location USR(34).Īrt Canfil co-authored a book that gives not only the TRS-80 code but also some excellent background information. Trivia buffs will note that the Apple port was coded by Ronald J. However, the better-known commercial release was published by Avalanche Productions and ran on the Apple ][. The original version of the game was programmed by Art Canfil in 1979 using a TRS-80.
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