Date   : Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:38:00 +0100
From   : "Rich Talbot-Watkins" <Richard_Watkins@...>
Subject: Re: FRAK!

Tom Seddon <T.W.Seddon@...> wrote:

> >===== Original Message From James Fidell <james@...> ====
> >
> >Wasn't Frak! one of Orlando's creations?  If so, he definitely wrote other
> >stuff for the Beeb.  I think someone even posted his e-mail address some
> >time back.  What really did my head in about Frak! was when it went into
> >"upside down" mode.  Now that was bizarre.
>
> Yeah, Orlando wrote Frak!. He also wrote Arcadians (Acornsoft), 3D Pool
> (Firebird, unreleased), Firetrack (Electric Dreams) and, of course, Zalaga
> (Aardvark Software). He went on to write Wing Commander for the Amiga, not
> one of his better efforts (though it was a good effort and quite acceptable
> on the A1200).

There were also a few other titles he wrote for Acornsoft under his real name,
Nick Pelling, though I can't remember for the life of me what they were!

His excellent music was definitely one of his trademarks, as was his habit of
doing "never done before" stuff... pure genius.  Zalaga's sprite routines were
written almost solely with undocumented 6502 opcodes which just happened to do
the right things, and as for Firetrack... HOW DID HE DO THAT SCROLLING!!!!

Rich :)
Rich Talbot-Watkins
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Cambridge.
Richard_Watkins@...