Schmoozer and Another Fine Mess worked right away (though I had to convert the latter into a.
I downloaded most of them from Macintosh Garden, an abandonware site which in the past two weeks seems to have mysteriously vanished into the ether. SIT files with an old version of Stuffit Expander 4.0.1 that I was running.
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When I was a little kid in 1992, I thought these games were the coolest and most exciting adventures imaginable.Īt first it was nearly impossible to figure out how to extract these games from the. The games ranged from outright shoddy and half-assed (Schmoozer) rife with errors and typos, to stunning (Another Fine Mess and The Enchanted Scepters) for their time, anyway. These were “World Builder” games created with a program called “World Builder” which was used to make simple text-adventure games mixed with still “backgrounds” (mostly created with primitive programs like Mac Paint.) There would be simple commands like North, South, East, West, a list of inventory, and various weapons. The Enchanted SceptersKarth of the JungleZoonySchmoozerAnother Fine Mess by Ray Dunakin
After two months of tinkering, frustration, I have managed to get the following World Builder games up and running on a Mac Quadra 650 environment (System 7.5) running in Basilisk II emulator.
He also hosts a traffic podcast with Smilin’ Mark McKay on. And, as Atlantans, we all know that conditions on the roads can change their tunes at any time.ĭrive safely this holiday season, my friends.ĭoug Turnbull, the PM drive Skycopter anchor for Triple Team Traffic on 95.5 WSB, is the Gridlock Guy. All of these achievable steps build in more time and leeway for when traffic goes wrong. Keep your hands off the phone and your eyes on the road. Then tune in to 95.5 WSB for traffic updates 24/7.Īfter all of that preparation, the next steps are even more simple. Download the WSB Triple Team Traffic Alerts App to check what lies ahead on your commute and to hear reports my team and I record, which play automatically when you drive in the path of trouble. Prepare for your commute or trip by plotting out the directions on your GPS app before just blindly following them. So as we continue in the fall traffic pattern and gear up for Christmas holiday, we all need to take a breath. That error usually results in spectacular wrecks and those crashes usually spur more behind them. When drivers take advantage of the presumed void and floor it, they leave themselves and those around them very little margin for error. The mixture of changing speeds is just that. Mix in the line of commercial freight trucks and the table is set for trouble to erupt with the wrong catalyst. All drivers are encountering traffic in directions against the normal rush hour grains. Drivers from out of town are unfamiliar with the lay of Metro Atlanta. We’ve just come off of an extremely busy Thanksgiving travel holiday and this phenomenon holds true in getaway traffic patterns, both day and night. A fair share of the wrecks on the WSB Jam Cam involve multiple cars jacked up and into the left median walls - right next to the fast lanes. As I dismount from the WSB Skycopter each evening, Mike Shields and Alex Williams happen on a sudden string of crashes late in the rush hour. And those gaps open the door for aggressive drivers to zoom in, over-react and over-correct in the night time, and then pile into the jams. Multiplying these slight overreactions in the dark over thousands of drivers translates to far bigger delays.Īfter 6:30 p.m., as more people exit the road system, the lines of delays lessen or perforate. When tail lights are brighter, reactions are more reactive and harsh.
But why is the late-PM drive traffic swell endemic to the fall pattern and not also in the height of spring?Įarly darkness from late October through December simply makes brake lights show with more contrast.