Our deadline is fast approaching to complete page layout and get ready for our first sample runs next month.

We are on track and things are coming along exceptionally well.      We will be contacting everyone at the end June to doublecheck addresses and such for everyone who will be getting the early first runs of the books.

Just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up on our progress...

We have our ISBN number assigned for this first book:

ISBN: 978-0-9855974-0-5

and we will be publishing under our own publishing company: SYZYGY PRESS

Marty and I are working insanely on tightening things up, adding in the still coming in quotes, added photo's and other last minutes items as our deadline approaches so we can do the advanced publishing on June 27th and then go into full publishing mid-July.

Back to work, much to do!   :-)

Hi,

So in the early update it was mentioned we'd put something together to allow those who still want to pledge or want to upgrade a pledge up to a higher amount.   For those who asked it they could pledge higher then $250.... We really appreciate the enthusiasm but I think the current levels of pledges are more then generous enough, so if you'd like to make a pledge, please select one of the 3 we've set up.

One pledge is an UPGRADE ONLY.   Please use it if you are at the $100 pledge level and now wish to move up to the $250 to have your name put in the book and get that level perks.

So here is the link:

http://www.legacyengineer.com/storefront/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=45

Thank you once again and we'll have up some photo's from our trip up in a couple of weeks....

Marty & Curt

The interviews have been going better than planned, we are getting such a huge response from the Atari folks and more and more persons we never knew of are contacting us and this is exactly what we wanted, to get as many voices into the books as possible.

We have a trip to CA. planned in a little over a week away, we will be meeting with a lot of Atari employee's, heading to the county records buildings, picking up a lot of donated items for both the book and the Atari Museum and we have an exceptionally important interview we've been granted that we are doing while out in CA...   will reveal the details when we return, but its a biggie :-)

Steve Wozniak just inputted some quoted into the book on his work on Breakout and we can't thank him enough for not only his prompt response, but such a detailed answer.

Regarding Pledges...   We've been getting a lot of people who want to pledge the $250 level or want to see if they can upgrade their $100 pledge to $250 and a few of you crazy people asked if they could pledge $500 or $1000 to the cause... all I can say is that is some incredible enthusiasm and support....

Kickstarter doesn't have a mechanism for taking in additional funding after a project deadline is closed, however I will post an update in a day or so where those who wish to pledge additional pledges or those who would like to still be able to pledge the $250 or more pledge to get their names immortalized in the book.... we'll have something readied through our storefront, we'll create a category for Book backing Pledges and people can choose from several selections, thanks again for your incredible support....

Will post some post-trip photo's when we get back.

Marty & Curt

Just a quick update ---

The cross checking interviews are going incredibly well.... some additional info, names and events have come to light and are being added into the appropriate chapters.       Marty and I will be out in CA the end of the month for a week long series of group lunches and dinners with quite a few employees to get additional materials and interviews.

Keeping this under our hat for right now, but we've scored a MAJOR victory with tracking down a very important individual who was completely unwilling to be interviewed by anyone but has agreed to meet with us for a full disclosure interview and we will at last provide some very clear insight into events within very key times in the company, so this is going to end up being fresh new information and material for readers to gain access to like never before...

Also want to make clear, because many have approached us and asked "Is this going to be some kind of kiss and tell scandal laden book..."    We have no interest or intention in such things, lets leave that to the gossip rags at the supermarket check out lines.    This book is about the culture and the people, the struggles and triumphs in creating products and working for a company unlike any other to ever exist and one that most likely will never exist again.

Will post another update after our next big interview sessions.... still on track for July for release.

Curt & Marty