Re: UK magazine alert: The Making of Jet Set Willy

From	Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.sinclair
Subject	Re: UK magazine alert: The Making of Jet Set Willy
Date	2016-01-10 16:34 +0000
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On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 16:15:04 -0800 (PST)
Andrew Broad <broada@mailandnews.com> wrote:

> Issue 150 of Retro Gamer magazine has six pages devoted to Matthew
> Smith and his classic Spectrum games Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy.

I haven't bought RG in years due to some belt-tightening a while back -
wasn't sure if it was still going, TBH - but I think I might have to
blow the cobwebs off the old wallet for that.

> Derrick Rowson said, "Matthew could code as the normal person
> talked", i.e. he could write code very quickly, and it would usually
> work at the first attempt.

Would calling him "the Mozart of Speccy games" get me a place in
Pseud's Corner, then?

-- 
Duncan Snowden.

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UK magazine alert: The Making of Jet Set Willy Andrew Broad <broada@mailandnews.com> - 2016-01-09 16:15 -0800
  Re: UK magazine alert: The Making of Jet Set Willy "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2016-01-10 08:25 +0000
  Re: UK magazine alert: The Making of Jet Set Willy Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2016-01-10 16:34 +0000

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