Date   : Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:37:26 +0100
From   : acorn@... (Andy Ford)
Subject: Electric Dreams last night.

Tim Matthews wrote:
>
> Anyone else feel a pleasant tingle of pride as the family chose the 
> Beeb over the Speccy? (And Oric & Dragon :-) and shared the kids' joy 
> as they were thrilled by 10P."Hello" 20GOTO 10 type stuff, and 
> generating sounds?
>
> Nice to see despite them being the PlayStation generation they still 
> enjoyed some good old (basic Basic) programming. Back in the old days 
> he'd be one of us now :-)
>
> But did anyone else wonder why Manic Miner was in the 1982 computer 
> show? A special pre-release copy perhaps? And was I hearing things or 
> was there a clash of Elite lasers whenever they showed the Manic Miner 
> screen-shot (on the Speccy)...?
>
>
I missed it but will watch it on iPlayer tonight :)

Regarding Manic Miner, (and also Elite as you say) I'd guess they did 
not take note of the years in that much detail, although I'd (guess) 
Matthew Smith may have had most of Manic Miner written in '82 (random guess)


Andy.