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Message: 6074
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 02/03/2007
Subject: Re: Delta Tau One
In Message 5988, dasse68 wrote:
>From http://geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/5874/pcg.htm
> nothing about Delta Tau One ? that was the first commercial game he
> made wasn´t it so?
>>>He pursued his interest at home too, and at the age of 14 wrote his
first commercial program, a version of Galaxians called Delta Tau
One. 'It took me weeks to write it. I think it sold 13 copies and I
made about £50 profit.
'It was just an average game,' he added modestly.
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[Peter Conner, "Matthew Smith. The Miner Designer.",
_Personal Computer Games_, March 1984, pp.29-31]
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
P.S. Some of us did NOT receive Message 6072 by email:
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