On 2013-05-05 01:22:11 +0000, sicklittlemonkey said:
Yes, that helps. Mystery solved! ; - )
So it is the same Symeon Wu, and there's a picture of the guy who signed and stamped those disks in the PDF of the memoriam here:http://www.taiwandc.org/twcom/tc66-int.pdfI wonder if the disks were manufactured in Taiwan. There's still an ASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC trading in Taiwan. The CEO is Yun Woo - Symeon's daughter perhaps? The story continues ... http://www.taiwantrade.com.tw/MAIN/en_front/searchserv.do?method=listProductCompanyDetail&company_id=986&locale=2
Impressive sluething! I'd made it part of the way (having deciphered the "Symeon Wu" part just from having several examples), but that's quite thorough. The bio doesn't make any connection to computer company work, but he'd have been in the right place at the right time. Super Invader, at least, is known to be a Japanese import, but maybe Astar Int'l was serving as intermediary between the author and Creative Computing / California Pacific.
Incidentally, Super Invader was named the Most Popular Program Ever as of April 1981 in Softalk. (Not my scan, and I don't know whose scan it is.)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/391444/Vintage/Magazines/Softalk/found/Softalk_1981_04-readerschoice.jpg
-Paul