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# Spectrum
Only because I ran a company that produced crap games that was bundled with it.
(I helped save b3ta! Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Wed 27 Aug 2014, 11:45, archived)
# Really, which one?
(Asks author of Spectrum Game-of-the-Year 2011).
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 27 Aug 2014, 14:41, archived)
# Target Software.
We also sold code for magazines that were 2 or 3 pages long that produced a couple of blocks on the screen that zoomed around and did nothing much at all really. Easy dosh. Those were the days. Sinclair were just down the road from where I lived too so that was rather handy.
(I helped save b3ta! Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Wed 27 Aug 2014, 16:46, archived)
# Interesting. Never actually heard of it though!
Can't find much of a record at World-of-Spectrum either, apart from a few small ads.
You've been systematically erased from history!
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 27 Aug 2014, 17:03, archived)
# You absolute rotter. I spend days typing your bloody programs into my Speccy only to find they didn't work.
Bug finding was much more fun than the resultant game. Sorry. I imagined Gears of War and got Wilf. Well, 3D Monster Maze.
(I helped save b3ta! Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Thu 28 Aug 2014, 17:24, archived)
# I thought the bundled games were Space Invaders and Pacman clones from Bug Byte.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 27 Aug 2014, 15:16, archived)
# Depends which bundle we're talking about.
You never know, he could have written Thro'-The-Wall, Make-a-Chip or even that all-time classic, Survival.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 27 Aug 2014, 15:41, archived)
# oh shit ... I'd totally forgotten the awesomeness* of the software starter cassette
* not awesome
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 27 Aug 2014, 15:47, archived)
# That's because your biorythms are out of step.
There's a Speccy BASIC prog that can fix that...
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 27 Aug 2014, 17:05, archived)
# I've organised the last thirty years of my life with random sine waves ... much more reliable than horoscopes.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 27 Aug 2014, 17:22, archived)