Re: The Passing of the Mad Overlord

Am 04.09.24 um 16:30 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:

(Infocom was betting big on creating a relational database) and their
ongoing financial issues (because people didn't want to buy games
without pretty graphics) pretty much sealed their fate.

Cornerstone had a design 10 years ahead of its time basically not really runnable on computers back then with a decent performance. To my knowledge the RDB was basically programmed in a lisp like language just like their games running on a VM.
This worked for them for the games because they just needed to port the VM (z-engine) to another platform and could release all their games so far on it.
But for the database it was a hog, the db was dog slow compared to d-base which was the standard relational db for the market they were aiming for, it was dead from the beginning and dragged them down!
They had to sell out after the corner stone fiasco to Activison which was their end!