GRgregsadetsky·Jul 17, 2026Submission
Soft Dorothy Software: Unfinished Tales (Vol 1)
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SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTales-Vol1
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SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTales-Vol1
First part of a collection of Soft Dorothy Software scraps and game experiments from the late 80's and early 90's.
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First part of a collection of Soft Dorothy Software scraps and game experiments from the late 80's and early 90's.
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| Sep 2024 | 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Oct 2024 | 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2024 | 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Jan 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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6 sourcesVery cool. I wonder if these get picked up and completed eventually by some enthusiastic coders.
I collected a pair of disk images of games of my own "that weren't". I should (maybe this Fall) gather sources to create volume 3 ("The Color Games"). (I was posting them chronologically, starting with the B&W games, and kind of ran out of steam when I got to the color games. Fall seems to the the time of the year when I pursue these indoor projects that look backward.)
I also received permission to post sources for a pair of games that I co-worked-on with a friend in the U.K. — games that also were not. I should get that together this Fall too and push to The 'Hub.
https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTa...
https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTa...
In Games That Weren't: Preserving Cancelled and Unreleased Video Game HistoryYeah, the drive was 20 or 40 MB, I think. Easily moved it all to an SD card.
If anyone cares about old shareware game source code, I used the opportunity of recovering some old code to create a number of disk images (that you can mount from a modern Mac emulator like Basilisk II for example). Here is one (I think you can find the other three or so from this one):
https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTa...
In Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filamentAgree. I used to fast-prototype games — and if they were kind of fun in even their rough stage, I might be on to something.
To be sure, there were a lot more game prototypes that got swept into the bin. Often for the same reasons the author mentioned (specifically there were several I knew were going to be too much of a time investment to do properly).
EDIT: I have already posted the first two volumes (disk image) of unfinished games. I can easily create a third volume. Here is volume 1:
https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTa...
In What I Learned Failing to Finish a Game in 2024Miniature golf was a game I began twice for the Macintosh back in the 1990's but never ended up completing/shipping.
I've just recently been trying to recover my nearly 35 year old sources and create disk images for use on an emulator. The first B&W attempt at MiniGolf is here: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTa...
The second attempt (when I was a better programmer) was in color ... will make it on Volume 2. (I'm currently trying to put that disk image together.)
In A MiniGolf game for Palm OSShow HN: Soft Dorothy Software – Unfinished Tales (Vol 1)
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