#johncalhoun — Public Fediverse posts

Still just blown away that John Calhoun, the guy who made Glider (and several other games in this post on Mac games I'm researching and writing) is still active online with his blog/site https://www.engineersneedart.com and he's put a bunch of the old Soft Dorothy stuff over at GitHub: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTales-Vol1.

Also, shout out to @setsideb who wrote about John and his projects a while back here: https://setsideb.com/john-calhouns-lost-mac-games

#JohnCalhoun #MacGames #90s #90sGames #1990s #SoftDorothy #SoftDorothySoftware #Glider #Glypha #Pararena #MacPerforma #OldMacGames #ClassicMacGames

John Calhoun’s Lost Mac Games
While the original Mac isn't often considered a top gaming platform, there were neverthless some very nice games for it. One of those was John Calhoun's classic shareware title Glider. (Glider can be played on Infinite Mac's emulation of System 6—look in the Games folder in the Infinite Mac disk on the De
https://setsideb.com/john-calhouns-lost-mac-games/
#indies #retro #ClassicMac #Glider #indie #InfiniteMac #JohnCalhoun #macintosh #retro #UnfinishedTales

John Calhoun’s Lost Mac Games
While the original Mac isn't often considered a top gaming platform, there were neverthless some very nice games for it. One of those was John Calhoun's classic shareware title Glider. (Glider can be played on Infinite Mac's emulation of System 6—look in the Games folder in the Infinite Mac disk on the De
https://setsideb.com/john-calhouns-lost-mac-games/
#indies #retro #ClassicMac #Glider #indie #InfiniteMac #JohnCalhoun #macintosh #retro #UnfinishedTales

John Calhoun’s Lost Mac Games
While the original Mac isn't often considered a top gaming platform, there were neverthless some very nice games for it. One of those was John Calhoun's classic shareware title Glider. (Glider can be played on Infinite Mac's emulation of System 6—look in the Games folder in the Infinite Mac disk on the De
https://setsideb.com/john-calhouns-lost-mac-games/
#indies #retro #ClassicMac #Glider #indie #InfiniteMac #JohnCalhoun #macintosh #retro #UnfinishedTales

John Calhoun’s Lost Mac Games
While the original Mac isn't often considered a top gaming platform, there were neverthless some very nice games for it. One of those was John Calhoun's classic shareware title Glider. (Glider can be played on Infinite Mac's emulation of System 6—look in the Games folder in the Infinite Mac disk on the De
https://setsideb.com/john-calhouns-lost-mac-games/
#indies #retro #ClassicMac #Glider #indie #InfiniteMac #JohnCalhoun #macintosh #retro #UnfinishedTales

John Calhoun’s Lost Mac Games
While the original Mac isn't often considered a top gaming platform, there were neverthless some very nice games for it. One of those was John Calhoun's classic shareware title Glider. (Glider can be played on Infinite Mac's emulation of System 6—look in the Games folder in the Infinite Mac disk on the De
https://setsideb.com/john-calhouns-lost-mac-games/
#indies #retro #ClassicMac #Glider #indie #InfiniteMac #JohnCalhoun #macintosh #retro #UnfinishedTales

Is this where the idea of a rat race comes from?

"In John B. Calhoun’s early crowding experiments, rats were supplied with everything they needed – except space. The result was a population boom, followed by such severe psychological disruption that the animals died off to extinction. The take-home message was that crowding resulted in pathological behaviour – in rats and by extension in humans. For those pessimistic about Earth’s “carrying capacity,” the macabre spectacle of this “behavioural sink” was a compelling symbol of the problems awaiting overpopulation."

https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/22514/1/2308Ramadams.pdf
#ratrace #JohnCalhoun