February/march 1995 GAME DEVELOPER MAGAZINE GAME PLAN GGAMEAEM The No Editor Larry O’Brien
[email protected] Go Logo Senior Editor Nicole Freeman
[email protected] Production Editors Barbara Hanscome
[email protected] here may never be a game with a over your home’s Ethernet backbone (that Nicole Claro “Windows ’95 Compatible” logo, is, is it mail-enabled)? Second, can you
[email protected] not even from Microsoft. embed an Excel spreadsheet of your Editorial Assistant Diane Anderson Microsoft, by arrogant fiat, has inventory in the middle of your character
[email protected] decided that the seemingly literal sheet (that is, does it support OLE 2.0)? Contributing Editors Alex Dunne phrase, with it’s seemingly Do you have a tabbed dialog that walks
[email protected] straightforward purpose, should you through the game (that is, do you Chris Hecker
[email protected] be held hostage to the whims of have Wizards)? Finally, does it work on a David Sieks Tsome Redmondian marketing genius. different operating system, with a different
[email protected] Windows ’95, the new operating system base architecture including a different Wayne Sikes from Microsoft, will roll out later this year tasking model (that is, Windows NT)?
[email protected] and, largely due to the bundling agree- In other words, to be “compatible” Editor-at-Large Alexander Antoniades ments Microsoft has with clone makers, with Windows ’95, your game has to be a
[email protected] will quickly gain its greatest marketshare mail-enabled, en-Wizarded OLE Server Cover Photography Charles Ingram Photography in the home computer market.