Version History

Version 1

The game was produced using both digital and analogue techniques and distributed in a limited run. It came in a three-ring binder, for expandability, and had a CMYK cover illustration which was printed in Dr. E.P. Scarlett ‘s Photo / Off-set Lithography shop. No dice were included with the game.

Version 2

In this version, 2,000 units of the game were produced and sold across North-America. Again it was shipped in a three-ring binder, which had a cardboard insert added to the narrow side & shrieked wrapped, to make it resemble a boxed game. The content was written, and edited and digital desktop published with the latest technology and tequniques at the time.

The Computer

  • AST Research 268 premium 2M of Ram
  • 40M Hard Drive
  • Cannon IX-12 Image Scanner
  • HP Laserjet III

The Software

Application Purpose
PC-Write 3.0 Word processing
Lotus 1-2-3 2.1 Table generation
dBase IV Star map and coordinate conversion
PC Paintbrush IV Image Scanning
Arts & Letters Logo generation
PageMaker 3.0 Page Layout & Composition

PC-Write© is a copyright of Quicksoft. Lotus 1-2-3™ is a registered trademark of Lotus Development Corp. dBase™ is a registered trademark of Ashton Tate. PC Paintbrush™ is a registered trademark of Zsoft Corporation. Arts & Letters™ is a registered trademark of Computer Support Corporation. PageMaker™ is a registered trademark of Aldus Corporation. LaserJet™ is a registered trademark of Hewlett-Packard Corporation.

Version 3

All of the original text and images from version 2 were added to by additional artists and writers. This revised content was being prepared for the next version when the production team took a hiatus. Many years rolled by with the original files & hardcopy artwork being transported back and forth across Canada.
In 2018 the content was dusted-off and the remastering of all the art and text began again.

Compute Hardware

Cloud Services

  • Stackbit, Static Site Creation (Legacy)
  • Netlify, Static Site Generator & CDN host (Legacy)
  • GitHub, content repository and version control
  • Google Cloud, development environment
  • Firebase, Global CDN Hosting and Serverless Functions

Development packages used

Software & Apps

Version 4

In 2026, the site underwent a major technological evolution to enhance performance, portability, and long-term maintainability. Leveraging the advanced agentic coding capabilities of Google Antigravity and Google Gemini, the entire site architecture was refactored into a high-performance, 100% static build. This transition involved the removal of legacy Jamstack wrappers (Stackbit) and framework-heavy dependencies (Gatsby) in favor of clean, semantic HTML and optimized CSS. All internal links were audited and converted to relative paths, ensuring complete site autonomy. The project was successfully rehosted on Firebase, utilizing Firebase Hosting for global distribution and Firebase Functions for dynamic localized features like full-text documentation search and secure mail integration via Mailgun.