Date   : Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:07:54 -0000
From   : "David Hunt" <dm.hunt@...>
Subject: Death of Neil Raine

Just to pass the message around. 

I think many of us have enjoyed Neil's work in our lives.


From: bb4w@... [mailto:bb4w@...] On Behalf Of
dwilliams1664
Sent: 23 March 2006 00:20
To: bb4w@...
Subject: [bb4w] Neil Raine

I hope that this is not inappropriate or too irrelevant, but many 
contributors and lurkers in this discussion group either grew up with -
or were enthusiasts of - Acorn computers.  Well, I was saddened to 
read about the death of Neil Raine who died after a handgliding 
accident in Spain last Wednesday. He was the author of great Acorn 
games like Hopper, Planetoid and Magic Mushrooms, and then of course 
he went on to develop the Task Manager for RISC OS, and its amazing 
Outline Font system (I think Sophie Wilson did the research for the 
font system, and Neil did the coding).

Read more at:  http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1562.html

The first computer game I *ever* played was Hopper, way back in 1984.


David.