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Text Adventure Author and Paleontologist Mike Taylor Joins the Show

Stray Pointers
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May 16, 2025

Mike Taylor, author of the VIC-20 text adventures Magic Mirror and Nosferatu as well as the Commodore 64 game The Causes of Chaos joins the show.  We talk about those early adventure games, his evolution as a software developer, Perl, paleontology, and his book about the 11th incarnation of Doctor Who.

Mike's contact information on Mastodon:
@mike@sauropods.win
https://sauropods.win/@mike/  


Mike's website:
https://www.miketaylor.org.uk/  


Mile's text adventure games:
https://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/advent/mm/  

Mike's paleontology blo Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week:
https://svpow.com/ 


Mike's Reinvigorated Programmer blog in which he discusses everything except sauropod vertebrae:
https://reprog.wordpress.com/ 

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