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Hewson memories

MartynCMartynC
edited September 2013 in Games
The son of Andrew Hewson (founder of Hewson Consultants and author of the Hewson Helpline column in Sinclair User) is posting over on Lemon64.

Some interesting tales and old artwork revealed. Worth a look through.

I have some fond memories of the early Hewson titles. Seiddab Attack and Avalon. Great games.

One later memory I have. Around 2001 I was working for a techy PC magazine and someone called 'Andrew Hewson' emailed me and asked if I'd be interested in publishing some of his articles on a freelance basis. Being an old Speccy boy I replied: "Hope you don't mind me asking, but are you the Andrew Hewson behind Hewson...?"

Maybe he did mind, because he never replied to me after that!
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  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited August 2013
    MartynC wrote: »
    The son of Andrew Hewson (founder of Hewson Consultants and author of the Hewson Helpline column in Sinclair User) is posting over on Lemon64.

    Some interesting tales and old artwork revealed. Worth a look through.

    I have some fond memories of the early Hewson titles. Seiddab Attack and Avalon. Great games.

    One later memory I have. Around 2001 I was working for a techy PC magazine and someone called 'Andrew Hewson' emailed me and asked if I'd be interested in publishing some of his articles on a freelance basis. Being an old Speccy boy I replied: "Hope you don't mind me asking, but are you the Andrew Hewson behind Hewson...?"

    Maybe he did mind, because he never replied to me after that!
    That's very interesting, you should ask him to pop over here as I'm sure we've got a different set of questions and memories for him.
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited August 2013
    Interesting to read how Nebulus was inspired by Uridium... yep, get him over here, or at the very least get him to play the wonderful Anarchy (IIRC it was a scroller on the C64 instead of the half-scrolling screen on the Speccy)
    The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2015
    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • ArjunArjun
    edited August 2013
    I loved his columns in SU. Some of them were quite technical without being condescending . Something that seems to be a hallmark of the 80's?
    Zero - A modern Spectrum emulator for Windows.
    Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
  • mermanmerman
    edited August 2013
    Hewson definitely produced some great games on both C64 and Spectrum.
  • Rebelstar without a causeRebelstar without a cause
    edited August 2013
    MartynC wrote: »
    The son of Andrew Hewson (founder of Hewson Consultants and author of the Hewson Helpline column in Sinclair User) is posting over on Lemon64.

    I've never forgiven them for the pile of crud that was Stormlord 2.
    Being consigned to Lemon 64 seems about right! :p
  • fogfog
    edited August 2013
    Rebelstar without a cause wrote: »
    I've never forgiven them for the pile of crud that was Stormlord 2.
    Being consigned to Lemon 64 seems about right! :p

    it's not that bad.. more down to the hardware limitations.. the c64 one is "so so" to me also

    I prefer that on c64, but I prefer zynaps on the speccy.

    as already mentioned on lemon, the uridium effect and what was done nebulus are very different .. uridium is just like masking tape, and the screen colour / rasterbars are showing thru the font (just an inverted font).. nebulus, is shifting data to the chars / the bricks... regardless JMP did great work on the stuff he did.. (I used to find it funny he's initials are a mnemonic )
  • Rebelstar without a causeRebelstar without a cause
    edited August 2013
    fog wrote: »
    it's not that bad.. more down to the hardware limitations.. the c64 one is "so so" to me also

    It is that bad. Nothing to do with hardware limitations, just bad game design. I don't know what the C64 version's like but the Speccy game is completely unplayable. But being a Cecco game the journalists were wetting themselves over it. 90% in YS. geez, what were they thinking?!
  • Rainbird RichRainbird Rich
    edited September 2013
    You could also read issue #77 of Retro Gamer which has a rather interesting 'From the Archives' article all about Hewson Consultants! ;-)
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