MOB Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 A relic from The Chaosium archives... Rick came across the original layout board for page 134 of 1990's 'Cthulhu Casebook'. The Star Elder Sign – which first appeared as the 'Arcane Symbol' in Call of Cthulhu 2nd edition (1983) – is literally cut and pasted in, with glue. Kids, that's how layout was done back in those days... 12 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill the barbarian Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 (edited) The first time I did cut and paste I thought the Mac I was using was just the bee’s knees, daddio! But that is just ancient! Edited September 5, 2020 by Bill the barbarian 1 Quote ... remember, with a TARDIS, one is never late for breakfast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandilarasM Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 A relic indeed! Thanks for sharing this piece of history! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Meints Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 The Arcane Symbol (as it is referred to in the 2nd ed. rules) was drawn by the legendary Gene Day in 1982. It's a subtle detail on the page, but I didn't notice that the word "Handouts" in the header next to the page number had been pasted over the previous header of "Insta-Plots". I had forgotten about this one page diagram which is on page 133. The Insta-Plots diagram allowed you to construct an adventure idea. Of course the irony for me is that when I constructed my first plot it read as "You found something weird which opens a gate to Detroit", and in an instant I was basically home again... 8 Quote Hope that Helps,Rick Meints - Chaosium, Inc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 22 hours ago, Bill the barbarian said: The first time I did cut and paste I thought the Mac I was using was just the bee’s knees, daddio! But that is just ancient! The Apple published programming manual (an actual physical book) contained lots of examples centred around writing a word processor. We all tried, turned out to be surprisingly difficult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill the barbarian Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 10 minutes ago, EricW said: The Apple published programming manual (an actual physical book) contained lots of examples centred around writing a word processor. We all tried, turned out to be surprisingly difficult. Were you meaning a pre-Mac Apple Computer. Man, you might will have been using word star and that was not fun at all! 1 Quote ... remember, with a TARDIS, one is never late for breakfast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Bill the barbarian said: Were you meaning a pre-Mac Apple Computer. Man, you might will have been using word star and that was not fun at all! Not quite that long ago 🙂. I had a Mac LCII. Owned a Mac II for a little while. Very different environment from today, everything was low level PASCAL and low level API calls, or Hypercard. No Swift or Objective C. It was actually a lot of fun - smaller, more compact environment, programmers from that era really have a sense of mastering the entire machine. Edited September 6, 2020 by EricW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill the barbarian Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, EricW said: It was actually a lot of fun - smaller, more compact environment, programmers from that era really have a sense of mastering the entire machine. That is how I feel about DTP products. The ones that came out just slightly after the cut and paste methods demoed by Rick and MOB above! I am sure the same axiom would apply to both.styles however: know the older way even if you know the modern, The benefits are immense! Edited September 6, 2020 by Bill the barbarian 1 Quote ... remember, with a TARDIS, one is never late for breakfast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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