No page is complete without a collection of links. This
has been a tradition since the earliest days of the web, and though search
engines have gotten better and better over the years, there's still nothing
better than human research to recommend a site. Here's a modest collection of
links to sites I visit and like.
THE PEOPLE
Dan
Lawrence, the author of DND. The link leads to
his home, and projects, page.
Jeff Lomicka,
creator of Kirchep Svhenk and contributor to DND. The link leads to Jeff and
Cricket's homepage.
Jim "Brons"
Burrows, the man who has the historical distinction of "pulling the
trigger" on the DND ban. Don't hold it against him, though -- it was the
legally responsible thing to do at the time. His home page features a plethora
of sections, including his family, his historical cheesecake art gallery, and
his work with VideoGuide.
Bill Knight, and RO
Software. The link appears to be dead at the moment?
Steve Segreto, author
of ADND. The link leads to pictures and his ADND page.
Megan Gentry,
long-time DEC engineer, now working for Compaq. Megan's been a DND fan for
years and has helped me tremendously in my research.
Chuck
Cranor, author of the UDD port and all-around DND historical
guru.
Jeff
Makey, provider of the RSTS version of DND, the first to publicly balk
DEC's 'ban' in the interest of history. Thank you, Jeff!
FELLOW ENTHUSIASTS AND RESEARCH
SITES
Ray Shoop's Mainframe
Games Page was a godsend for me, and my source of the DEC internal thread
banning DND. He has a wealth of mainframe games, ports, and information on his
site.
Erik Bolsų's B A L R O G site has an
excellent history of roguelike games, and Erik and I have chatted back and
forth extensively about obscure early roguelike and DND-like RPG's. There is
no more complete history of the evolution of the Roguelike game than
Erik's.
The ChungKuo BBS does a fantastic job
preserving the classic games and making them available for public play. DND
and RND can be found here, among others.
I was going to develop a Telengard site, but Pete beat
me to it and did an excellent job. His Telengard site is the
definitive, authentic deal.
The Avatar home page features a
plethora of information about the early RPG, and access to NovaNet to play it.
NovaNet continues to host such obscure games as Orthanc, Oubliette and
Avatar.
