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Romero > Another view of 7450 Lakeshore Drive in Shreveport, LA. The house was right on Cross Lake and had a moor and boat dock off the back. There's a huge backyard as well.

Romero > Here's a view of Cross Lake and the island we used to go kneeboarding around.

Romero > The extremely venerable Softdisk headquarters - it looks like a dump. The streets on both sides went up a hill and the streets behind the building were even with the roof......which is where the employees parked their cars!

The garage door with the black accordian bars was where Al Vekovius used to park his Mercedes.

Good ole 606 Common Street. The coders and artists were actually in a much nicer building just down the street on Milam Ave.

Romero > There it is - all in blue!

Uhhmmmmm.....it looks like a prison...

Romero > This is the roof of Softdisk where everyone parked. The tall building to the right is the Fairmont Apartments.

Romero > The view of Softdisk's roof then the street going down to the lower Softdisk parking lot entrance.

Romero > The is one of the "legendary" letters that Scott Miller (CEO of 3D Realms; back then Apogee Software) wrote me trying to get me to contact him so we could work together.
You'll see he changed his name at the end of the letter because he was paranoid that Softdisk would be screening all mail that was delivered to their employees to prevent poaching.
The reason Scott wanted to contact me is because he saw my PC game Pyramids of Egypt (which was a conversion from the 1985 Apple // version) published on Big Blue Disk and wanted to know if I would do a derivative of that game for him to publish.
He wrote a few more of these kinds of crazy letters before I contacted him (one of them said, "Please write back! I'm 65 years old!" LOL!)

Romero > Here's the letter Scott wrote me just after we got in touch over the phone about possibly doing some work with him. You can see that I told him they don't go through personal mail and it was okay to send it directly to me at work.

Romero > Here's the first offical letter written from id Software to Apogee Software detailing our plans to develop the first Commander Keen trilogy.

The signatures are: John Romero, John Carmack, Tom Hall, Jay Wilbur and you'll see we were calling ourself Ideas From The Deep at the very beginning - that was a company that myself and Lane Roathe started in February 1989.

IFD is still around today: http://www.ifd.com and Lane Roathe is still operating it!

The view of Softdisk's roof then the street going down to the lower Softdisk parking lot entrance.

> The view of Softdisk's roof then the street going down to the lower Softdisk parking lot entrance.

The view of Softdisk's roof then the street going down to the lower Softdisk parking lot entrance.

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