Comments on: The Bee

By: Justin Blanton | Revolution In The Valley

Justin Blanton | Revolution In The Valley — Fri, 06 May 2005 17:11:26 +0000

[...] t proud to be a small part of that today. I was informed by Richard (who has some similar anecdotes of his own) that I could essentially read the entire book online, but I opted [...]

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:06:44 +0000

Right, Ziggy Gets Out. Well, of course, I still have it but more importantly, the story was so good as were the drawings that I gave permission for CAST to use it in some educational reading software they made with Scholastic so it will live on forever. Not sure what the software or bookset was called though but it’s probably findable somewhere.

New title: Ziggy Finds a way to finally get paid right for his hard work. Pees on authors’ computers and trots off with new publisher.

By: Roxanne

Roxanne — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 05:12:10 +0000

Richard! What about Ziggy’s stack? It CAN’T be lost forever!

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:07:29 +0000

I’m happy to put the file up for folks to download. I have no way to run it anymore, having not installed OS 9 on this machine as I never run Classic anymore and this box won’t start up in 9.

However, any brilliant flash programmer can take The Bee apart and redo it as a flash animation.

By: emck

emck — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:04:52 +0000

great story so would you say you were hyperfocusing on the bee and hypercard…

you should try to put your animation up on the web.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:58:57 +0000

Great, a perfect setup for more stories and boy do I ever have ‘em. The one upside to getting old. The downside is memory is like a bad USB connection.

By: David N.

David N. — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 07:33:06 +0000

Nice story. You keep surprising me with your multi-talented, creative history. I am getting more and more curious what the future will bring :-)