Paolo AmorosoWhen software was fun. I miss the quirky and passionate small software houses and bedroom programmers of the 1980s, who were not yet as glamorous as "studios" or "indies".
Weekend EditorOnce upon a time, in 1980s Boston, there were some *peculiar* little companies.
3 of them once came to my attention:
Mark of the Unicorn: sold games and such, still exists doing music software.
BD Software: supposedly "brain-damaged software", made a C compiler in 1979. Still exists as BDSoft, doing other things.
MARC: I've almost totally forgotten, but I think it was some kind of OS thing.
It was widely suggested they merge, and call the result "MARC of the Brain Damaged Unicorn", with a logo of a broken-off unicorn horn stuck in an oak tree.
It was a different time.
(Back before the suits.)