Re: what about pong?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article rubywand@swbell.net writes...

>ben johnson wrote:
>> 
>> I'm trying to determine what interests there is out there for PongLife,
>> as a HyperStudio magazine.
>>     Glad that we're back?  Mad that I gave up a long time ago?  Afraid
>> that we won't produce, now that we've started again?  Don't know what
>> we're talking about, and just hope we'll go away?
>>     Or, should we try to get an alt.ponglife forum, and keep it out of
>> here, entirely?
> 
>     It's hard to say. What is a "Ponglife"?

    It was an (amateurish) electronic Apple II publication that was in
the form of a Hyperstudio stack. Auri Rahimzadeh conceived it and was
mostly in charge of putting it together, he called in "Ponglife" and
associated it as a 1WSW freeware product (back around 1993?). 

    The very next issue (#2) he renamed it "PowerGS" and disassociated 
it (and himself) from the 1WSW group and got the help of Bret Victor to 
do graphic-art and generally make it look more professional. A couple of
issues followed, though by issue number 4 or 5 (the one which had an
interview with Steve Wozinak) the publication got put hold indefinitely.
It's been well over two years since then, so I'd assume Auri has given
up on bringing out more issues. At least not unless Auri has changed his
name to Ben Johnson and decided to revert the publication back to it's
original name. ;-)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca