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> I remember he once proposed that games programmers > must first learn to write a playable game in less > than 1k of memory before they are allowed to > write for games sold to the public. :) Ahh yes back in the days when newer software was expected to run faster (!) "once the programmers had got used to the machine". Minter belongs in the "8/16 bit legend" hall of fame along with David Braben & Ian Bell. Anyone remember meteor storm for the speccy? It was the first game I can think of with sampled speech "meteor alert! meteor alert!", although it sounded more like "peaches and cream" played through a badly tuned transistor radio buried in the garden in a biscuit tin. > And I'm not old enough to know the song, although > I did find a version on YouTube sung by the Muppets... > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0JH0ZzjefE&feature=related Oh no, now this thread has that rattling around in my head along with "one wheel on my wagon" and "mouldy old dough". Cheers lads :P :D -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html