Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 4

Robert diChiara's "A Sucker in Spades"

Robert DiChiara's Biography

Robert DiChiara, author of A Sucker in Spades, also wrote the 1985 choose-your-own-adventure short story collection Hard Boiled from which A Sucker in Spades is adapted, detective novels Alibis and The Dick and the Devil, and the satirical Alas, Poor Yorick: The Tragic Farce of Hamlet's Fool. An Associate Professor at Nassau Community College, DiChiara is also an avid collector of board games, owning "over nine hundred, from 1888 to the modern day." 

Adapted from the "About the Author" page of DiChiara's Alas, Poor Yorick.

 
Versions of A Sucker in Spades

✭ Version 1.0 Author’s Beta Version. CD-ROM. Uses Toolbook II and runs on Windows 3.0, 3.1, and Windows 95 
1.1a Dated September 1, 1997
1.1b Dated April 14, 1998, “Demo Disk” 

✭ Version 2.0 Publisher’s Beta Version. CD-ROM. Uses Toolbook II and runs on Windows 3.0, 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows 98
2.1 Not available for review
2.2 Dated 1998. With updated music used with permission from the artists

✭ Version 3.0 The Eastgate Version. CD-ROM. Uses Toolbook II and runs on Windows, Windows NT, and Windows 2000
3.1 Dated April 2000
3.2 Dated April 2000. Virtual Machine Version Emulating Windows 98 for Contemporary Computers

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