Amaya Toman Bruce Daniels ba shine kawai manajan ƙungiyar da ke da alhakin software na kwamfutar Lisa ba. Har ila yau, ya goyi bayan aikin Mac, shi ne marubucin editan rubutu tare da taimakon wanda "Team Mac" ya rubuta lambar su akan Lisa, har ma na ɗan lokaci ya yi aiki a matsayin mai tsara shirye-shirye a cikin wannan tawagar. Ko da bayan ya bar tawagar, Lisa lokaci-lokaci yakan ziyarci abokan aikinsa. Wata rana ya kawo musu wani labari mai ban sha'awa.
Wani sabon wasa ne wanda Steve Capps ya rubuta. Ana kiran shirin Alice, kuma nan da nan Daniels ya ƙaddamar da shi a ɗaya daga cikin kwamfutocin Lisa. Allon farko ya yi baki, bayan wasu dakika kadan sai ga allo mai girma uku dauke da farar fata da aka yi tazarar al'ada. Daya daga cikin alkaluman ba zato ba tsammani ya fara birgima a cikin iska, yana bin diddigi a hankali kuma yana girma yayin da yake gabatowa. A cikin ɗan lokaci kaɗan, duk sassan da ke kan chessboard an daidaita su a hankali suna jiran mai kunnawa ya fara wasan. An kira shirin Alice bayan sanannun yarinya daga littattafan Lewis Carroll, wanda ya bayyana akan allon tare da baya ga mai kunnawa, wanda dole ne ya sarrafa motsin Alice a kan chessboard.
Makin ya bayyana a saman allon a cikin babban, ƙawata, salon salon Gothic. Duk wasan, bisa ga tunanin Andy Hertzfeld, yayi sauri, sauri, nishadi da sabo. A Apple, da sauri sun amince da bukatar samun "Alice" akan Mac da wuri-wuri. Ƙungiyar ta amince ta aika ɗaya daga cikin samfuran Mac ga Steve Capps bayan Daniels. Herztfeld ya raka Daniels zuwa ginin da tawagar Lisa ta kasance, inda ya hadu da Capps da kansa. Na karshen ya tabbatar masa cewa ba zai dauki lokaci mai tsawo don daidaita "Alice" zuwa Mac ba.
Kwanaki biyu bayan haka, Capps ya zo tare da faifan diski mai ɗauke da nau'in wasan Mac. Hertzfeld ya tuna cewa Alice ya fi gudu akan Mac fiye da Lisa saboda na'urar sarrafa sauri ta Mac ta ba da izinin raye-raye masu laushi. Ba a dade ba kowa a cikin tawagar ya kwashe sa'o'i yana buga wasan. A cikin wannan mahallin, Hertzfeld musamman ya tuna Joanna Hoffman, wanda ya ji daɗin ziyartar sashin software a ƙarshen rana kuma ya fara wasa Alice.
Alice ya burge Steve Jobs sosai, amma shi da kansa ba ya wasa da ita sau da yawa. Amma lokacin da ya fahimci ƙwarewar shirye-shiryen da ke bayan wasan, nan da nan ya ba da umarnin canja wurin Capps zuwa ƙungiyar Mac. Duk da haka, wannan ya yiwu ne kawai a cikin Janairu 1983 saboda aikin da ke gudana a Lisa.
Capps ya zama babban memba na ƙungiyar Mac kusan nan da nan. Tare da taimakonsa, ƙungiyar masu aiki sun gudanar da kammala kayan aiki na Kayan aiki da Kayan aiki, amma ba su manta game da wasan Alice ba, wanda suka wadata da sababbin ayyuka. Ɗaya daga cikinsu, alal misali, wani ɓoye ne mai suna Cheshire Cat ("Cat Grlíba"), wanda ya ba masu amfani damar daidaita wasu saitunan.
Gidan hoton hoto
A cikin kaka na 1983 Capps ya fara tunani game da hanyar zuwa kasuwa "Alice." Ɗayan zaɓi shine bugawa ta hanyar Electronic Arts, amma Steve Jobs ya nace cewa Apple ya buga wasan da kansa. An fitar da wasan a ƙarshe - duk da cewa a ƙarƙashin taken "Ta hanyar Gilashin Kallon", kuma yana nufin aikin Carroll - a cikin wani fakiti mai kyau na gaske wanda yayi kama da tsohon littafi. Murfinsa har ma ya ɓoye tambarin ƙungiyar punk da Cappe ta fi so, Matattu Kennedys. Baya ga wasan, masu amfani kuma sun sami sabon tsarin ƙirƙirar font ko maze.
Koyaya, Apple ba ya son haɓaka wasan don Mac a lokacin, don haka Alice ta ƙare ba ta kusan yawan masu sauraron da ta dace ba.
Source: Folklore.org
