Bill Catambay

Bill Catambay at Shenzhen Zoo in Shenzhen, China, 2007

Bill Catambay, president and owner of ExcaliburWorld Software, is director and producer of the game project Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge. He is also the president and editor-in-chief of the national Apple User Group The Macintosh Guild,[1] and editor-in-chief of Pascal Central.[2]

Notability

Bill Catambay is the person behind the video game, Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge (EMR). He started the original project in November 1995, and it was released in March 1997.[3] Based upon Bungie's Marathon game engine, EMR grew into a collaboration of several talents from different countries, all driven by a love for the idea.

In 1996, Bill took on EMR 2.0 as a rebuild of the original EMR, this time based upon Bungie's Marathon Infinity engine. Most of the people involved with EMR 1.0 returned for the 2.0 project, with a few new talents joining the team as well. EMR 2.0 was releases in April 2000[4] as EMR Infinity 2.0.[5]

The biggest project started in 2004, when Glen Ditchfield approached Bill Catambay to discuss using the Aleph One engine[6] (a derivative of the Marathon engine released as an Open Source project). There were a few more names added to the talent pool, but most of the original contributors of EMR 1.0 were not available to work on this project. With just a handful of talent, EMR 3.0 became the biggest undertaking of all the EMR releases, using the Lua scripting language to implement special effects never experienced before in any of the earlier versions. With new original music, physics, creatures, graphics, sound effects, maps, and storyline, EMR 3.0 was released in May 2007 for the Macintosh,[7] and in June 2007 for Windows and Linux.[8] Bill also created and contributed some of the original music in EMR 3.0, which is currently published on iTunes,[9] Amazon.com[10] and Google Play.[11]

In addition to EMR, Catambay is the original founder of the Marathon Map Makers Guild (MMMG),[12] the group that would attract most of the talent that got involved in the EMR projects.

In 1994, Bill Catambay founded ExcaliburWorld Software,[13] which produced EMR (and holds most of the copyrights for original artwork, story and music). ExcaliburWorld also produced such freeware Mac utilities such as Whoopie, DropBin, and CornerClock.[14]

In 1996, Bill Catambay founded Pascal Central[15] to support a growing following of the Pascal programming language. In 2001, he wrote the paper, The Pascal Programming Language,[16] which was published in Academic Press and on the Pascal Central website.

In 1997, Catambay started the Macintosh Guild,[17] and become its Editor in Chief. Hundreds of software and hardware reviews were published on his Mac Guild website,[18] as well as other articles related to the Macintosh platform.[19] Bill also authored many of these reviews and articles.

Biography

Bill Catambay was born on August 1, 1962, in Mountain View, California. He attended Oak Grove High School in San Jose, CA, and attended the University of Santa Clara where he graduated with honors with a degree in Computer Science.

Bill's first job was at a convalescence hospital (or CCF) in San Jose, CA, working a maintenance job at the age of 15 years. While going to high school, Bill worked part-time at Jack-in-the-Box, and when he began college, he worked part-time at Lockheed. After graduation, Bill entered the graduate engineer program at Lockheed, and eventually ended up working for the Trident missile program as a lead programmer supporting the manufacturing shops. Having worked at Lockheed Martin since 1982, Catambay writes and supports computer programs that support FBM Manufacturing Shops in Sunnyvale, CA, and in Kings Bay, Georgia. He also developed a web-based attendance recording and overtime management system that supports several Lockheed Martin facilities across the United States.

Outside of work, Catambay's positions include Macintosh advocate,[20] Pascal advocate,[21] game designer,[22] software reviewer,[23] editor-in-chief, and video editor. At home, he strictly uses Macintosh for all his personal works, including the development of Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge.

Currently, Catambay lives in Santa Clara, CA, with his wife Yanying and two sons, Peter and Michael.

Work

Published Articles

Authored Reviews

More reviews available at the Mac Guild Reviews website...

Applications and Games

Published Music

Source Code

More sample code available at the Pascal Central website...

References

  1. ↑ The Mac Guild
  2. ↑ Pascal Central
  3. ↑ http://mac-guild.org/mmmg/news.html
  4. ↑ MMMG News
  5. ↑ EMR Infinity
  6. ↑ Aleph One game engine
  7. ↑ EMR 3 for Mac Press Release
  8. ↑ EMR 3.0 For Windows & Linus Press Release
  9. ↑ EMR Music on iTunes
  10. ↑ EMR Music on Amazon.com
  11. ↑ EMR Music on Google Play
  12. ↑ The Marathon Map Makers Guild
  13. ↑ ExcaliburWorld Software
  14. ↑ ExcaliburWorld Freeware
  15. ↑ Pascal Central
  16. ↑ The Pascal Programming Language
  17. ↑ About The Macintosh Guild
  18. ↑ Mac Guild Reviews
  19. ↑ Mac Guild Articles
  20. ↑ Macintosh advocate
  21. ↑ Pascal advocate
  22. ↑ EMR Game
  23. ↑ Software Reviews
  24. ↑ Academic Press
  25. ↑ John Reagan

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