RE: https://mastodon.social/@fergycool/116261124531604297

it always amazes me seeing photos of the physical edition, which i spent weeks designing the cover and layout for. every object i photographed for the cover is from the games and computer junk i grew up with - even that cocktail napkin from Leisure Suit Larry :D

for new followers or anyone else as excited as i am about 80s and 90s computing, Mages & Modems can be found here in print and ebook editions: https://tomotama.com/books

if you're wondering about the cover design: it's a re-imagining of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows 3.1, full of my childhood clutter. at the top are diskettes i grew up with, like Stunts, PKWare Utilities (shareware), MS-DOS 3.3 for Amstrad, Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego, Leisure Suit Larry 1, and a free copy of F-PROT Anti-Virus i got in a box of blank disks :)

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