Steve Chamberlin tells the story of the birth, death, and afterlife of the slickest shareware Tetris for the Macintosh.

Hear Steve’s interviews about Floppy Emu, Tetris Max and more on the RetroMacCast episodes 317, 351, and 358.

More about Steve’s various projects and items for sale at bigmessowires.com: Floppy Emu, Mac ROMinator II, Plus Too FPGA Macintosh, and homebrew CPU.

Visit famed Tetris Max music composer Peter Wagner and check out his 2020 remake of Bricklayer/T-Maxx.

Original story text from Steve’s web site.

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Why did the original Macintosh team disband immediately after 1984–and where were they five years later? Checking in on Steve Jobs, Burrell Smith, Andy Hertzfeld, Randy Wigginton, Steve Capps, and Bill Atkinson.

From Macworld February 1989.

Andy Hertzfeld’s Frox Demo (1990)

Bill Atkinson talking about PhotoCard

Buy gorgeous nature photography work by Bill Atkinson

Atkinson Interview - Triangulation 244, 247

Don Melton Safari stories: text, podcast

Andy Hertzfeld demonstrating Eazel’s file manager for Linux

The Machine that Changed the World - The Paperback Computer

General Magic Documentary

Love Notes to Newton

Douglas Adams’ delightfully irreverent take on HyperCard from MacUser December 1987.

As elegant and intuitive as the classic Mac environment may have been, life went downhill fast if you needed more than two serial ports or your SCSI chain went south. The one and only Douglas Adams shares a personal horror story. Source: MacUser, November 1991.

[Full text available at Douglas’ website][html].

From Doug Clapp’s The Macintosh Reader, PDF page 171-176, a rare interview with original Macintosh hardware designer/wizard Burrell Smith. An extra special thanks to vintageapple.org for scanning and uploading this and many other old Macintosh books.

Burrell’s contrary statement on PC Board Aesthetics at folklore.org.

A bonus episode to keep my tiny listener base company while they’re stuck inside because of you-know-what. Stay safe.

From folklore.org: I’ll Be Your Best Friend, We’ll See About That, and Pineapple Pizza.

Interview with Collette Askeland, PCB design and layout sorceress, at Drop III Inches.

Steve Jobs threatens to pull the sound hardware out of the original Macintosh design.

Original text available at folklore.org.

Download SoundLab, Talk Demo, and Hendrix at Macintosh Garden.

R.I.P. Larry Tesler, 1945-2020. With audio from Larry’s presentation on the development and testing of the Lisa user interface, and Bill Atkinson speaking about making modal interfaces useful.

You can hear more about Larry’s days at Apple from the Steve Jobs Legacy Panel, 2011.

Written by Larry Tesler, Macworld September 1985.