It would be great for the movie theater to be able to play any video synchronized across multiple players so you can watch it together, like the awesome movie theater in Cursor Camp. Then we could all watch the extremely weird original SimTower movies together, in their 8-bit error diffusion dithered glory:
Yoot interviewed many interesting people for MACWORLD Japan, like Joanna Hoffman, Bill Atkinson, Steve Wozniak, Douglas Engelbart, and Alan Kay. Here's a transcript of Yoot Saito's interview of Alan Kay that he shared with me and I cleaned up and linked out:
A Journey Through Computing History with Yoot Saito and Alan Kay
Yoot towers wisely,
Alan constructs the future --
foundations of change.
Introduction
In this captivating interview from 1993, recently unearthed and previously published only in Japan, renowned game designer Yutaka "Yoot" Saito of MACWORLD Japan engages with computing pioneer Alan Kay in a deep exploration of technology's past and future. This dialogue, captured on a cassette tape and transcribed, spans the evolution of personal computing, highlighting groundbreaking advancements and visionary ideas that have shaped modern technology. Yoot Saito, celebrated for his innovative approach to game design, and Alan Kay, known for his seminal contributions such as the development of the graphical user interface and the concept of the Dynabook, offer profound insights into both the historical trajectory and the potential futures of the digital world. This interview serves as a treasure trove of historical anecdotes, philosophical reflections, and forward-looking innovations, capturing a moment when two brilliant minds discussed the dynamics of technological progress.
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I'd love to find all of Yoot's original interviews published in MacWorld Japan. Yoot was very active introducing and working with technology and researchers from the US with Japan in the early days of the Mac, and he pioneered psychological chat based AI games using voice recognition and synthesis, like Seaman.
Seaman - Sega's Strangest Expedition Into Artificial Intelligence:
I found a couple of MacWorld Japan CDROM archives on Internet Archive, but my Mac says it can't mount the iso files. It appears to be an old HFS file system -- does anybody know how to to mount these treasures on a modern mac, with an emulator maybe? Or have the actual magazines lying around?
It would be great for the movie theater to be able to play any video synchronized across multiple players so you can watch it together, like the awesome movie theater in Cursor Camp. Then we could all watch the extremely weird original SimTower movies together, in their 8-bit error diffusion dithered glory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8o7gg87k4
Condom Duck:
https://youtu.be/qq8o7gg87k4?t=211
Psycho Party:
https://youtu.be/qq8o7gg87k4?t=381
Cursor Camp (recent hn discussion and neil.fun link):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949939
https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/
Also, LGR did these great reviews of SimTower and Yoot Tower, which he truly loves, so he disclaims that they are not exactly non-biased:
LGR - SimTower - PC Game Review (15 years ago):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ToEDrhxo0
LGR - Yoot Tower: The Sequel to SimTower (5 years ago):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqNECXCd9iU
Yoot interviewed many interesting people for MACWORLD Japan, like Joanna Hoffman, Bill Atkinson, Steve Wozniak, Douglas Engelbart, and Alan Kay. Here's a transcript of Yoot Saito's interview of Alan Kay that he shared with me and I cleaned up and linked out:
https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower/blob/main/Y...
A Journey Through Computing History with Yoot Saito and Alan Kay
IntroductionIn this captivating interview from 1993, recently unearthed and previously published only in Japan, renowned game designer Yutaka "Yoot" Saito of MACWORLD Japan engages with computing pioneer Alan Kay in a deep exploration of technology's past and future. This dialogue, captured on a cassette tape and transcribed, spans the evolution of personal computing, highlighting groundbreaking advancements and visionary ideas that have shaped modern technology. Yoot Saito, celebrated for his innovative approach to game design, and Alan Kay, known for his seminal contributions such as the development of the graphical user interface and the concept of the Dynabook, offer profound insights into both the historical trajectory and the potential futures of the digital world. This interview serves as a treasure trove of historical anecdotes, philosophical reflections, and forward-looking innovations, capturing a moment when two brilliant minds discussed the dynamics of technological progress.
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I'd love to find all of Yoot's original interviews published in MacWorld Japan. Yoot was very active introducing and working with technology and researchers from the US with Japan in the early days of the Mac, and he pioneered psychological chat based AI games using voice recognition and synthesis, like Seaman.
Seaman - Sega's Strangest Expedition Into Artificial Intelligence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV0zpPSXOx4
Yoot Saito on His Classic Sega Game Where You Take Abuse from a Fish:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/yoot-saito-on-his-classic-se...
I found a couple of MacWorld Japan CDROM archives on Internet Archive, but my Mac says it can't mount the iso files. It appears to be an old HFS file system -- does anybody know how to to mount these treasures on a modern mac, with an emulator maybe? Or have the actual magazines lying around?
https://archive.org/details/macworld-japan-vol-1-1995-01
https://archive.org/details/macworld-japan-vol-2-1995-09
MACWORLD-VOL-1-1995-01.iso: Apple Driver Map, blocksize 512, blockcount 460003, devtype 0, devid 0, driver count 0, contains[@0x200]: Apple Partition Map, map block count 2, start block 1, block count 2, name Quick TOPiX by OMI, type Apple_partition_map, valid, allocated, readable, contains[@0x400]: Apple Partition Map, map block count 2, start block 3, block count 460000, name MACWORLD-ROM Vol. 1, type Apple_HFS, valid, allocated, readable