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Pandora

Posted on May 12, 2012 by shahid

I have been meaning to recover my code and graphics for Pandora and Chimera for some time now and decided to buy a USB floppy drive from Epsilon in Tottenham Court Road. £20 later, I gave the generic looking device … Continue reading →

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Now, Where Was I?

Posted on March 12, 2012 by shahid

I’ve just got back from GDC in San Francisco. That was the first time I’d been since 2002. I was amazed at how big it’s become and just how much energy there is in games development. I’ve now downloaded the … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year

Posted on January 12, 2012 by shahid

I’m still thinking about Chimera, but coding has slowed down massively. I’ve done very little on it of late, but have absolutely no intern of abandoning it. 2010 was just the first year I decided I want to directly make … Continue reading →

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Raining Cats & Dogs

Posted on October 9, 2011 by shahid

A rejection letter for one of my first games, written in BASIC on the Atari 400 in 1983, adapted from a listing somewhere and featuring four-step animation on the character. It was truly crap. Nick was being kind and I … Continue reading →

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Letter from Chris Smith about Super Silver Range

Posted on September 8, 2011 by shahid
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Artic Computing – Letter from Chris Thornton

Posted on August 30, 2011 by shahid

This was in response to my first machine code game on the 8-bit Atari in 1983 – Storm in a Teacup (yeah, I know, I should sue!) I used a pseudonym as you can see. It didn’t last. Chris knew … Continue reading →

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A Letter from Tim Langdell about Brian Bloodaxe

Posted on August 30, 2011 by shahid

Tim had forgotten my first name already, after he’d contacted me to find out if I’d be interested in doing a conversion of Brian Bloodaxe to the Commodore 64. It didn’t happen in the end, he wasn’t happy to pay … Continue reading →

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Extreme Atari Nostalgia

Posted on August 26, 2011 by shahid

Yes, it’s been a while since I posted here. Just because I stopped working on Chimera (for a while) doesn’t mean I wasn’t going to pick it up again. While you wait for more progress on that, take a look … Continue reading →

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Silly Old Git

Posted on December 1, 2010 by shahid

I got back from Dubai today. Jetlagged, constipated, exhausted. I wanted to make some progress on Chimera without coding. So I got git installed using an OS X installer I found on Google Code. Others have referred to it, so … Continue reading →

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Jet Set Willy C64 WTF?

Posted on November 24, 2010 by shahid

Yesterday while looking for the PSU for my Parker MidiFly MIDI box (unsuccessful, so if you have any pointers, I’m all ears), I found my original, sealed copy of Jet Set Willy C64. Are you tired of me telling you … Continue reading →

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