AliceX: First Mac Game Returns to the iPhone
Last week, Steve Capps released an iPhone game to the App Store called AliceX [App Store]. This $1.99 game, however, carries special significance for long time Mac users as AliceX is based on the very first Mac game: Alice: Through the Looking Glass.
Original Mac packaging (Folklore.org)
Folklore.org has documented the story behind Through the Looking Glass which started as a Lisa game.
Steve Capps is perhaps most well known for his part in programming the Finder for the original Macintosh and subsequent work on the Newton OS. Capps has since founded a user interface design company called onedoto.
App Store Link: AliceX, $1.99 [Note: not compatible with 1st generation iPod touches]
Original Mac packaging (Folklore.org)
Folklore.org has documented the story behind Through the Looking Glass which started as a Lisa game.
"You've got to see the new game that Steve Capps wrote", he told me while he was connecting his hard drive up to my Lisa. He booted up into the Lisa Monitor development system, which featured a character-based UI similar to UCSD Pascal, and launched a program named "Alice". Steve Capps was the second member of the Lisa printing team, who started at Apple in September 1981. I had seen him around but not really met him yet.
The game was even featured in the original Steve Jobs Mac announcement (2min 40sec) back in January, 1984. The iPhone version of the game contains the "classic" Alice pieces as well as "hip hop" and "bush memorial" pieces. Instructions, video and a simple javascript version of the iPhone adaptation of the game is available.Steve Capps is perhaps most well known for his part in programming the Finder for the original Macintosh and subsequent work on the Newton OS. Capps has since founded a user interface design company called onedoto.
App Store Link: AliceX, $1.99 [Note: not compatible with 1st generation iPod touches]
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37 months ago
What can I say? ******* EPIC!
Okay calm down there!
I still play alice on my 512K Macintosh every now and then. It really is addictive. I wonder how the control scheme works.
Okay calm down there!
I still play alice on my 512K Macintosh every now and then. It really is addictive. I wonder how the control scheme works.
37 months ago
the original Mac packaging of the game was apparently commanding $100 on eBay a year ago.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=460272
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http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=460272
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37 months ago
I remember watching eBay for Alice. I'm pretty excited about the iPhone version, I'll have to download it after work :)
37 months ago
... I think she'll know ... :cool:
Nothing like a little nostalgia to fire up the masses.
Nothing like a little nostalgia to fire up the masses.
37 months ago
Just a note: this is NOT compatible with the first gen iPod touches. I already bought it (using iTunes store credit) before realizing this.
37 months ago
I'm holding out for an iPhone version of Battle Chess.
well, no battle chess yet, but...
http://toucharcade.com/2009/01/27/classic-game-of-archon-coming-to-iphone/
Archon is coming.
37 months ago
What can I say? ******* EPIC!
Okay calm down there!
I still play alice on my 512K Macintosh every now and then. It really is addictive. I wonder how the control scheme works.
This is great news but the name "AliceX" cracks me up. They will sell tons to those thinking it's from the makers of Debbie does Dallas! :o
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