Sir_Brennus schrieb am 23.05.2018, 17:03:
Im Interview mit Jane Whittaker (S. 166) wird gesagt, dass er/sie auf Flying Shark sehr stolz war. In der anschließenden Frage nach der Unterstützung von Graftgold durch Taito ist die Rede davon, dass er/sie selbst die CPC-Version, Stever Turner den Spectrum und Andrew Braybrook die C64 Fassung gemacht habe. Geht es hier jetzt umd Flying Shark (das ja von Toaplan entwickelt, aber von Taito vertrieben wurde) oder ein anderes Spiel

I also had a letter from Andrew Whittaker. He seemed to really know his stuff on the Z80. He impressed me at his interview with knowledge of Z80 interrupts and Spectrum techniques. I needed an Amstrad programmer so decided to take him on as well. He was the only one that was a bad choice. Doubts arose when he had difficulty setting up the Amstrad CPC and seemed to be asking the others to for assistance all the time. I wanted to give him a fair chance so specified a sound routine for the Amstrad based on the logic of the C64 version and the specification of the AY sound chip. Most of the logic could just be ported and translated from 6502 to Z80. The instructions to send data to the chip would have to be recoded but the AY was much simpler. It was a task that anyone with a bit of Z80 should have found easy. It became obvious that he was not up to the job. In the end I had to admit I had made a big mistake. Andrew was the only one not to pass the probationary period. I cannot remember using anything that he produced and had to take the Amstrad version over myself. I am amazed that now he claims to have been a programmer on not only Flying Shark but many of our other games. It is simply not true, the only games the team were programming at the time were Flying Shark while I was finishing Magnetron and Andrew Braybrook was finishing Morpheus. Andrew Whittaker may have played some of these but did not contribute to the programming. It just shows you that you cannot believe all people say about themselves on the internet or in magazine interviews. The credit should go to the people who deserve it. Dominic Robinson did a superb job on the Spectrum version and John Cumming did an excellent job on the graphics.

Anna L. schrieb am 26.03.2016, 15:58:


Deshalb hieß er wohl Player One, weil er nur einen Beitrag schrieb.