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  1. Chapter 6 of my serialized memoir, covering the transition from Software Projects to Odin Computer Graphics in 1985, is now live.

    In this chapter, I find myself in hot water with the police for stealing my own trousers. And a routine car park handoff triggers something nobody expected.

    stevewetherill.substack.com/p/

    #RetroGaming #SoftwareProjects #OdinComputerGraphics #Memoir #GameDevelopment

  2. In 1983, I was twenty years old, a university dropout, and back in my mum's house in Barnsley with no plan.

    I had a Sinclair Spectrum, a cassette recorder, and a bedroom so cold my fingers went stiff at the keyboard. I was teaching myself Z80 assembly language from disassembled game code, in the dark, at midnight, hoping something would come of it.

    Something did.

    Chapter 4 of my serialized memoir is now live. The Zoo: a hosiery factory, an earthquake, and the interview that started it all.

    stevewetherill.substack.com/p/

    #GameDev #RetroGaming #Memoir #ZXSpectrum #Liverpool #SoftwareProjects

  3. Calling all retro-computing archivists! I am searching for a 1983/84 recruitment ad for Software Projects (of Manic Miner fame).

    I started there in Feb '84 and want to include the original listing in my memoir. I’ve checked the usual suspects (Sinclair User, PCW, PCG) without luck. It might be a small "Call for Authors" footer or a classified in a weekly like Popular Computing Weekly.

    Any leads? Chapter 4 drops this Monday, March 23.

    #ZXSpectrum #RetroGaming #SoftwareProjects #C64

  4. ✨ Discussions: Leading #softwareprojects in the #OpenSource world

    Q: What strategies or processes have you found most effective for resolving conflicts or disagreements within the open source community?

    A: Having clear documentation: Contributing guidelines, governance, code of conduct. [...]

    🏅 For this article, I had the pleasure of interviewing Ms. Abigail Cabunoc Mayes.

    #SoftwareEngineering #OSS #SoftwareResilience #softwareprojects

    Full interview here:👇
    buff.ly/3S3sFWj

  5. When people can’t differentiate between advertisements and scientific studies anymore..
    #agile #softwareprojects

  6. Over on my blog I started a series of biographical (and other retro game dev related) posts. I’ve previously posted links to these on my now defunct #birdsite page but it feels appropriate to build up links to some of this content here.
    My very first job in the games industry was at Software Projects in 1984 where I worked on Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy for the Amstrad CPC computers. You can read about what that was like here:
    blog.stevewetherill.com/2022/0
    #retrogames #gamedev #manicminer #jetsetwilly #softwareprojects #woolton #liverpool #bearbrandcomplex #zxspectrum #amstradcpc