Interview with Matthew Smith | Maker of Manic Miner

Started by Qube, March 08, 2019, 02:57:53

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Qube

You've probably all seen this but I've just stumbled across it.

8 weeks to do Manic Miner and build the interface board he used :o - Who says our comps are too short? ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LymCezUg7HI
Mac Studio M1 Max ( 10 core CPU - 24 core GPU ), 32GB LPDDR5, 512GB SSD,
Beelink SER7 Mini Gaming PC, Ryzen 7 7840HS 8-Core 16-Thread 5.1GHz Processor, 32G DDR5 RAM 1T PCIe 4.0 SSD
MSI MEG 342C 34" QD-OLED Monitor

Until the next time.

Naughty Alien

..thats what i call enthusiasm..fantastic dude..

GaborD


iWasAdam

TRS80 as a dev machine   ???

I know a lot of the Atari VCS games were developed on workstations and squirted over to the cartridges. Doom on the Next, etc. a lot of the ps1 games on Silicon Graphics machines.

It's amazing to see how the vero-board interfaced. such genius...


Henri

Manic Miner was probably the first computer game that I played.

-Henri
- Got 01100011 problems, but the bit ain't 00000001

Steve Elliott

Win11 64Gb 12th Gen Intel i9 12900K 3.2Ghz Nvidia RTX 3070Ti 8Gb
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Win11  Pro 8Gb Celeron Intel UHD Graphics 600
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macOS 32Gb Apple M2Max
pi5 8Gb
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3DzForMe

Inspirational, 8 weeks including networking 2 computers, with Vero board... Wow.
BLitz3D, IDEal, AGK Studio, BMax, Java Code, Cerberus
Recent Hardware: Dell Laptop
Oldest Hardware: Commodore Amiga 1200 with 1084S Monitor & Blitz Basic 2.1

MrmediamanX

It's a thing that doe's when it don't..

Steve Elliott

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Inspirational, 8 weeks including networking 2 computers, with Vero board... Wow.

Plus he was a teenager coding in Assembly Language!
Win11 64Gb 12th Gen Intel i9 12900K 3.2Ghz Nvidia RTX 3070Ti 8Gb
Win11 16Gb 12th Gen Intel i5 12450H 2Ghz Nvidia RTX 2050 8Gb
Win11  Pro 8Gb Celeron Intel UHD Graphics 600
Win10/Linux Mint 16Gb 4th Gen Intel i5 4570 3.2GHz, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 2Gb
macOS 32Gb Apple M2Max
pi5 8Gb
Spectrum Next 2Mb