Date   : Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:29:54 +0100
From   : Ben Newsam <ben@...>
Subject: Re: tape formats etc.

In message <4177CAA7.2F1CF0FB@...>, W.Scholten <whs@...> 
writes
>[ -> now we know why Acornsoft games were more expensive, they were 
>playing games most of the time in the packing dept. so labour costs 
>there were huge ;-) ]

I visited Acornsoft once, and there was a bloke playing with a video 
camera to capture primitive pictures on a Beeb, and was playing with 
some machine code to "enhance" it a bit (fat hope really, with only 16 
colours to play with). When the boss appeared, he stopped guiltily and 
went back to what he was supposed to be doing: playing Hopper! He was in 
fact playing Hopper for the Electron on a Beeb with a second processor, 
and I saw some of the underlying scripting language that they used for 
such games. This was at a time when second processors were like gold 
dust, so when someone entered the room dangling a circuit board on a bit 
of ribbon cable and said "Anyone want a second processor?", he was 
nearly mobbed. Heh heh.
-- 
Ben Newsam