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  Falcon 4.0 Interview (www.combatsim.com)
GL: And I owe it all to Bill Stealey.
It was Bill Stealey who then loaned us the money to get F3 published.
So Bill Stealey had a lot to do with our getting Falcon 3 published, even though we were his number one competitor.
www.combatsim.com /memb123/htm/dec98/f4-inter.htm   (2066 words)

  
  Bill Stealey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stealey founded MicroProse together with Sid Meier in 1982, at a time when he was a Major.
Stealey ran the company until it was sold to Spectrum Holobyte in 1993.
Colonel Stealey is a graduate United States Air Force Academy in Aeronautical Engineering (1970) and of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a Masters of Business Administration.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Stealey   (196 words)

  
 USAFA Today Folklore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Stealey spent 11 years as the founder, Chairman and CEO of MicroProse, Inc., a leading developer and publisher of flight simulation and strategy software titles.
Stealey received an MBA in finance and strategic management from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.
Stealey also earned a BS degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the US Air Force Academy and spent six years as a pilot in the US Air Force.
www.usafatoday.com /Folklore/modules/news/print.php?storyid=40   (164 words)

  
 GameSpot:Video Games PC Xbox 360 PS3 Wii PSP DS PS2 PlayStation 2 GameCube GBA PlayStation 3
After humbling Bill (and Stealey being humble about anything is your first clue that this is a fairy tale), Sid pointed out that the AI of the enemy arcade pilot was so predictable that he could easily figure out what it was going to do.
Bill took Sid up on the bet by giving the engineer a job, the two men formed MicroProse, and their vision led them to fame and fortune.
Sid and Bill kept their day jobs for the first several months, making MicroProse one of many "garage operations" to appear in the budding computer industry in the '80s.
www.gamespot.com /features/sidlegacy/form.html   (354 words)

  
 Civilization Fanatics' Center: Sid Meier's Legacy (GameSpot)
After humbling Bill (and Stealey being humble about anything is your first clue that this is a fairy tale), Sid pointed out that the AI of the enemy arcade pilot was so predictable that he could easily figure out what it was going to do.
Bill sat down and played it, and he shot down a couple planes, and then he kind of got wasted.
Bill of course went into fighter pilot mode and told him all his war stories, and basically Tom just wanted to make sure we were OK guys and would do an OK job with this product.
www.civfanatics.com /sidlegacy   (5893 words)

  
 Roney
Bill Stealey and Sid Meier, who were co-workers, were playing an arcade flight combat game.
Sid was better at the game than Bill, who was a former U.S. Air Force pilot, and the reason for this, as told by Sid, was that Sid was able to predict the movements of the computer generated player (fighter plane).
Further into the story when Sid told Bill that he is capable of creating a better computer player than the one they were playing; they decided to start a business.
www.sinc.sunysb.edu /Stu/rgeorge   (999 words)

  
 Metro Magazine
Stealey, as charismatic as ever, is helping Davie and ITParade in its search for more venture capital funding.
Stealey, who took time off after the Interactive Magic ouster to work on his golf game, had vowed to help grow another company.
Stealey is changing a bit with the times in his new job.
www.metronc.com /article/?id=622   (1046 words)

  
 Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc Review by Al Giovetti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Trevor Chan published his first title in the United States, Capitolism, with Wild Bill Stealey who was a co-founder of the mega gaming company Microprose which was headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
John "Wild Bill" Stealey, USAF (Ret) is a military Aviator (C-5A, A-37B, T-28B) with over 7000 hours of military flying time and one billion hours of computer game flying time.
Bill keeps bouncing back and is CEO of his company iEntertainment Network.
www.thecomputershow.com /computershow/reviews/warsandwarriorsjoanofarc.htm   (932 words)

  
 W. Stealey: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Stealey's summary was automatically generated using 1 reference found on the Internet.
Stealey Founder and Principal Prior to forming Stealey & Associates in 1982, Dr.
Stealey has a Ph.D in Constitutional Law from the University of Colorado, a Master's Degree in Social Science from Western State College, and a B.A. in Political Science from Westminster College.
www.zoominfo.com /people/stealey_w._439903229.aspx   (201 words)

  
 CNN - Computer games reach new levels in popularity - July 26, 1995
Locked in combat on one of many computer games at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, veteran games producer "Wild Bill" Stealey of Interactive Magic says that people really want is to feel powerful while playing the games.
Stealey, a pioneer of the computer game industry, started Microprose in the early 1980s and brought hundreds of successful games to market.
The overwhelming market for Stealey's type of game is men over 30 -- but with kids now practically born with cyber in their chromosomes, there's plenty of demand from the younger set as well.
www.cnn.com /TECH/9607/26/multimedia   (534 words)

  
 SimHQ.com - Feature: SimHQ @ E3Expo2006 - Friday Report
Bill is the head honcho for I Entertainment Network better known for it's War birds online multiplayer sim.
Bill's latest efforts center around the latest versions of that game and a new sim based on that engine.
Bill showed us a pre beta version which included a nice modeling of the airfield and the surrounding area at Randolph Air Force base in Texas.
www.simhq.com /_commentary/all_020a.html   (1004 words)

  
 New Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The company's Chairman, J.W. "Wild Bill" Stealey was a flight instructor for the United States Air Force.
Stealey's company is moving away from the standard shrink-wrapped boxes of software in favor of online flight experiences with large groups of people on the Internet.
In fact, that is the direction that all the major software publishers are flying toward; a future of virtual flight that involves squadrons of dog-fighters, flying against other squadrons in virtual combat.
hem.passagen.se /tigger76/warbirds/x_warstories/cnn.htm   (421 words)

  
 Fighting Fit
Bill holds a product development meeting three times a week and plays their games for around two hours every night.
'Bill lost a lot of friends in Vietnam and he is careful not to glorify death in our prqducts.
We would have spoken to 'Wild' Bill Stealey about the matter — but he was at the Pentagon.
www.zzap64.co.uk /cgi-bin/displayfeature.pl?featureid=6   (1047 words)

  
 [No title]
I'm not into this to be a little company," says MicroProse president Bill Stealey.
Stealey is confident that console players will recognize and appreciate the quantum leap in realism that his title provides.
At press time, the titles of the games to be converted to the Sega Genesis machine had not been determined.
www.darklands.net /writs/mpnlsp92.txt   (2473 words)

  
 GameSpy.com - Articles
Stealey became annoyed as Meier consistently racked up higher scores than him.
Stealey's annoyance was compounded by the fact that he was a former Air Force pilot and Meier had never flown a plane in his life.
Stealey's response: "Then let's start a company and do it." Thus the birth of MicroProse Software in 1982.
archive.gamespy.com /legacy/articles/sidmeier.shtm   (1572 words)

  
 Simulation Adventures
Pilot a realistic light plane across the USA or climb into a jet fighter and take part in an accurate recreation of one of history's most colorful air battles.
Sid Meier and John W (Bill) Stealey, co-founders of MicroProse Software, drew on their own aviation experiences to create nearly a dozen successful simulation games.
Stealey, an Air Force Academy graduate, helped train more than 200 pilots to Fly T-37 jets.
www.atarimagazines.com /v3n7/SimulationAdventures.html   (703 words)

  
 a Clockwork Orange » Compañías
Bill estaba masacrando a cualquier infeliz que aceptara su desafio cuando de repente apareció Sid.
Bill - Psa, pues si tu lo haces yo lo vendo.
Así que al final Bill Stealey pidió a Spectrum Holobyte que compraran la compañía para que no cayera en manos de alguna juguetera o similar.
www.cworange.net /category/videojuegos/companias/page/2   (2083 words)

  
 Richard A. Bartle: the future of GAMES
Stealey suggests that large screens, possibly curved, are more likely.
Yet Bill Stealey explains there's a good reason for that."Some of the things these guys are doing look beautiful," he says of his competition.
Stealey says that there's no limit to the eventual accuracy we could see in flight sims, but that current technology is holding us back.
www.mud.co.uk /richard/tfog.htm   (7342 words)

  
 Furball - News, Info, Resources for Warbirds and Dawn of Aces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bill Stealey, along with a group of investors recently wrested control of iEN from the previous majority stockholders.
Stealey was then made CEO by the investment group and returns to the role he left some two years ago, shortly after I-Magic Online moved to North Carolina from Texas and became iEN.
Our billing system is also full of issues.
www.furball.warbirdsiii.com /articles/0018.html   (1832 words)

  
 WRAL Local Tech Wire: business, technology, biotechnology, and venture capital news from across the southeastern region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The company decided to revert to a private company last April, in an effort to increase value to its shareholders, and now the company’s founder and chief executive, J.W. "Wild Bill" Stealey, says there’s a possibility it may head back to the public markets.
Stealey says the company also has recently received acquisition offers, thanks to its technology and its patent on the Internet game space.
Since iEntertainment has been a public company in the past, Stealey says it can become public yet again in a short amount of time.
www.localtechwire.com /article.cfm?u=7202   (652 words)

  
 CEDNC: News: EntreNews: August 9, 1999
Stealey has stepped down from the company as Chief Executive Officer to make room for a new leader who can bring the company back to profitablity.
Stealey's removal by the board of directors signals the company's desire to transform itself from a developer and publisher of retail computer games to an online entertainment site that will include interactive games such as Warbirds, its combat flight simulation, as well as news content and contests.
LipoMed, a Raleigh-based biotech company concerned with a test to predict cardiovascular diseases, is hoping to double the amount of capital it has previously raised for a major marketing push.
www.cednc.org /news/regional_news/1999/8_9.html   (488 words)

  
 Baltimore Blast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The team folded when the MISL ceased operation in the summer of 1992.
The Baltimore Spirit were founded by software designer Bill Stealey at the end of July 1992 and joined the National Professional Soccer League.
The team replaced the earlier Baltimore Blast, who folded along with the originial MISL.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baltimore_Blast   (191 words)

  
 "Wild Bill" Stealey: Military Computer Games
John "Wild Bill" Stealey, USAF (Ret) is a military Aviator (C-5A, A-37B, T-28B) with over 7000 hours of military flying time and one billion hours of computer game flying time.
Wild Bill is an Air Force Academy (1970), Wharton School, and golf school graduate.
Wild Bill loves to find other players online when he pilots an FW 190 in WarBirds III, his current online game for iEntertainment Network, where he is CEO.
www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,Stealey_111203,00.html   (1174 words)

  
 FlightSim.Com NOTAMS
Wild Bill is the CEO of the iEntertainment Network, publishers of WarBirds III.
Wild Bill assures me there will be plenty of cool surprises, special missions for rookies and much more.
We've created the most authentic simulation of what it was really like to be in the cockpit of fighters and bombers engaged in furious, life-and-death engagements in the skies over Europe and the Pacific during World War II.
www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds?$=main/notams03/war3free.htm   (379 words)

  
 Attending WarBirds Con '99
Kent East, Dan Neault and Chris Babcock all showed up along with Bill Stealey, Jr.
Keep in mind, they were invited to the event and showed huge amounts of support for the fans.
As Bill Stealey told me, they (iMagic) could not begin to have produced the amount of information that has been created for WarBirds if it was not for the fans.
www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds?$=main/roadtrips/wbirds3.htm   (358 words)

  
 CRASH 53 - MicroProse
Bill holds a product development meeting three times a week and plays their games for around two hours every night.
'Bill lost a lot of friends in Vietnam and he is careful not to glorify death in our products.
We would have spoken to 'Wild' Bill Stealey about the matter - but he was at the Pentagon...
www.crashonline.org.uk /53/mprose.htm   (1155 words)

  
 CRASH 53 - Microprose
It is not unknown for him to cancel a project if he does not feel that it is up to their usual standards; only a few months ago, a space trading/combat simulator was canned after two years' development work and a limited advertising campaign in America!
'Bill lost a lot of friends in Vietnam and he is careful not to glorify death in our products.
We would have spoken to 'Wild' Bill Stealey about the matter - but he was at the Pentagon...
www.mjwilson.demon.co.uk /crash/53/mprose.htm   (1164 words)

  
 MobyGames - Bill Stealey
JW Wild Bill Stealey is the founder of MicroProse Software and of Interactive Magic.
He is the father of five and active in golf, public speaking, and is retired from the Air Force Reserve with the rank of Lt. Colonel and Command Pilot.
Wild Bill is now CEO of iEntertainment Network, www.IENT.com as of February 2006.
www.mobygames.com /developer/sheet/view/developerId,989   (175 words)

  
 Cutlass Isle - a Sid Meier's Pirates! Fansite
His first programming experiences were on the Atari 800 on which he created simple games and programmes.
Sid was working at General Instruments Corp. in 1981 when he first met John Stealey (also known as Wild Bill Stealey, co-founder of Microprose and later founder of Interactive Magic).
Spectrum Holobyte took ownership of a financially troubled Microprose in 1994, and John Stealey left the company he had founded 10 years earlier.
www.hookedonpirates.com /articles/sidmeier   (1110 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Virtual ace. (John Wilbur 'Wild Bill' Stealey, Interactive Magic chairman): An article from: Business North ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
We're going to have to wrap this up in about five minutes," says J.W. "Wild Bill" Stealey, who's running late to pick up his mom from the airport.
He goes on to field a few more ticklish questions about his fatherless childhood, his battleless military career and his bailout from the first company he founded.
No sooner is a question asked than Stealey, chairman of Interactive Magic Inc., responds in his reedy voice.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00097UE4Q?v=glance   (302 words)

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