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  • What is the most original game youve played on speccy??Hi, ppl I know its hard to answer this kind of questions coz you must to leave a lot of other games but.. What is the most original game youve play…

    For sheer originaility it has to be Skool Daze. They simply don't make games like this anymore. Whatever happened to the Microsphere and David Reidy?
    Chris Chris November 2001 Games
  • Best Speccy ProgrammersRe-post from the thread "Who is your fav speccy programmer". It was getting rather unwieldy so I thought I'll post a new topic on this. So, after mu…

    ... /> The Microsphere guy was called David Reidy
    I know one of ...
    Sard Sard March 2003 Games
  • Product Placement...I was thinking about Mr Wimpy and advertising in games. There were games like Mr Wimpy + Clumsy Colin , that were almost entire "adverts" in themself…

    ... read in an interview with David Reidy, the programmer of the Microsphere ...
    ewgf ewgf June 2004 Games
  • Tour Top 5 Spectrum Programmers.........And What 1 Game Should They Be Remembered For. 1. Costa Panayi - I just loved the evolution of his 3D and/or scrolling ideas you saw in his game…

    ... />
    Honorable mention goes to David Reidy considering he wrote a relatively ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG February 2008 Games
  • Skooldaze and Back to Skool on the CPC?Did Skooldaze and/or Back to Skool ever come out on the Amstrad CPC? Or on any machine other than the Spectrum or C64? I'm curious to see any differe…

    ... just a one man operation; David Reidy wrote all the games and ...
    Matt_B Matt_B January 2009 Games
  • Skooldaze and Back to Skool on the CPC?Did Skooldaze and/or Back to Skool ever come out on the Amstrad CPC? Or on any machine other than the Spectrum or C64? I'm curious to see any differe…

    ... just a one man operation; David Reidy wrote all the games and ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2009 Games
  • What makes a protection scheme 'unknown'?Just wondering what makes a tape loading protection scheme 'unknown' (e.g. in [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Abu+Simbel+Pr…

    Ideally we'd track down David Reidy and get him to give the scheme a name, which would give it some air of legitimacy.

    Added to my TODO list. :)
    SkoolKid SkoolKid January 2010 Infoseek database
  • Skooldaze and Back to Skool on the CPC?Did Skooldaze and/or Back to Skool ever come out on the Amstrad CPC? Or on any machine other than the Spectrum or C64? I'm curious to see any differe…

    ... ) C64 version?
    [/QUOTE]
    David Reidy wrote the C64 version. It ...
    Alarm Alarm February 2010 Games
  • Skooldaze and Back to Skool on the CPC?Did Skooldaze and/or Back to Skool ever come out on the Amstrad CPC? Or on any machine other than the Spectrum or C64? I'm curious to see any differe…

    [QUOTE=Alarm;426435]David Reidy wrote the C64 version. It ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat February 2010 Games
  • Skooldaze and Back to Skool on the CPC?Did Skooldaze and/or Back to Skool ever come out on the Amstrad CPC? Or on any machine other than the Spectrum or C64? I'm curious to see any differe…

    ... just a one man operation; David Reidy wrote all the games and ...
    fog fog February 2010 Games
  • Skooldaze and Back to Skool on the CPC?Did Skooldaze and/or Back to Skool ever come out on the Amstrad CPC? Or on any machine other than the Spectrum or C64? I'm curious to see any differe…

    [QUOTE=Alarm;426435]David Reidy wrote the C64 version. It ...
    Fizza Fizza February 2010 Games
  • In this months Edge...There's an interesting interview with Don Priestley (who's now nearly 70!) about the making of The Trapdoor. I found it quite amusing that he consid…

    ... the only teacher-spectrum programmer. David Reidy and his wife, Helen, were ...
    JuanF. Ramirez JuanF. Ramirez July 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • MicrosphereI was just reading this > [url]http://www.crashonline.org.uk/25/msphere.htm[/url] [quote]But wait! There is more. I can exclusively reveal that not …

    ... since then.

    Anyway, David Reidy, who wrote the games, was ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2010 Games
  • MicrosphereI was just reading this > [url]http://www.crashonline.org.uk/25/msphere.htm[/url] [quote]But wait! There is more. I can exclusively reveal that not …

    [QUOTE=ewgf;470154]Anyway, David Reidy, who wrote the games, was ...
    spider spider August 2010 Games
  • MicrosphereI was just reading this > [url]http://www.crashonline.org.uk/25/msphere.htm[/url] [quote]But wait! There is more. I can exclusively reveal that not …

    ... scene was profitable, but maybe David Reidy and co. thought that they ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2010 Games
  • Speccy Full-Price World Cup: Third Place playoffNot that anyone remembers (or cares) who comes third... but please vote anyway! :D

    ... with no trace, and neither David Reidy nor Keith Warrington (respectively the ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2010 Games
  • Skooldaze TooDear WoSsers, Thanks to Skoolkid's disassembly I'm attempting to write a new "improved" version called [B]Skooldaze Too[/B]. As part of the improvem…

    Well, David Reidy has given permission for WoS to host all of the Microsphere games now, so hopefully that's a good starter for 10?

    Toodle-pip!
    Gerard
    hackersanon hackersanon June 2012 Development
  • Spec dev in the eighties and ninetiesWhat different ways were there of making speccy games? There is the 'worst' way which is typing in hex commands in Basic unreadable, easy to make m…

    David Reidy from Microsphere used to write his code down by hand (presumably in hex), and then his wife Helen typed it in. Now that's hardcore.

    [url]http://www.crashonline.org.uk/25/msphere.htm[/url]
    leespoons leespoons July 2013 Development
  • Spec dev in the eighties and ninetiesWhat different ways were there of making speccy games? There is the 'worst' way which is typing in hex commands in Basic unreadable, easy to make m…

    ... /> And as was mentioned earlier David Reidy did as well. It's ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler August 2013 Development
  • Spec dev in the eighties and ninetiesWhat different ways were there of making speccy games? There is the 'worst' way which is typing in hex commands in Basic unreadable, easy to make m…

    ... ]And as was mentioned earlier David Reidy did as well. It's ... -51.

    [quote]Mr Reidy hav a grate brane e ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler August 2013 Development
  • Skool Daze & Back To Skool discussionFollowing my video of Back To Skool ( [url]http://youtu.be/4K2ZUkTOT0g[/url] ) I just wanted to see if these two games are still fondly remembered b…

    ... : Sam Cruise, sadly.

    David Reidy said in an interview that ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2014 Games
  • The "lost" Gargoyle gamesDoes anyone know the story behind Fornax and Gath. Why were they never released? Likewise what happened to the Heavy on the Magick sequel?

    ... already - Jonathan Smith, Matthew Smith, David Reidy and Keith Warrington, Rod Bowkett ... , David Braben and Ian Bell, Geoff ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2015 Games
  • Games written by women?Just noticed Mrs Mopp was written by a Tina! I was surprised, despite being a radical feminist! Have any other games been written entirely by l…

    Cheers Rich, yep that's the one.

    I still can't believe David Reidy wrote everything down on paper and then typed it into his Speccy in hex rather than using an assembler :-O
    leespoons leespoons April 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Guess the cover gameHere are 8 pictures from Spectrum magazine covers. Can you guess what games were shown on the covers? Cover 1: [img]http://www.imageupload.co.uk/…

    Back To Skool 2. And the headmaster shown is David Reidy.
    rich_chandler rich_chandler May 2017 Games
  • Guess the cover gameHere are 8 pictures from Spectrum magazine covers. Can you guess what games were shown on the covers? Cover 1: [img]http://www.imageupload.co.uk/…

    [quote="rich_chandler;909839"]Back To Skool 2. And the headmaster shown is David Reidy.[/quote]

    If only! A sequel to Back to Skool could have been brilliant, especially if they went down the 128K route.
    ewgf ewgf May 2017 Games
  • David Coulthard on a game cover (not motor racing)? Hello. I know this could be a daft question, but there was a C64 game called Arnie (1992, by Zeppelin). It's a war shooter, like Commando/Who Dare…

    ... /> Is that a pre-F1 David Coulthard on the cover, dressed ...
    garethamiga garethamiga November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • David WebbJust finished having a bit of a blast on Starion, I wondered what ever happened to David Webb, so I typed 'David Webb spectrum' into Google and got h…

    ... ever happened to David Webb, so I typed 'David Webb spectrum' into ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Where's David Jones goneAny idea where I could get hold of David Jones of the Magic Knight games? I'd love to do a feature about him.

    Any idea where I could get hold of David Jones of the Magic Knight games? I'd love to do a feature about him.
    daz@gamesTM daz@gamesTM September 2005 Games
  • Where's David JonesAny idea what happened to David Jones 9the guy who did the magic Knight games, and not lemmings?

    Any idea what happened to David Jones 9the guy who did the magic Knight games, and not lemmings?
    daz@gamesTM daz@gamesTM October 2005 Games
  • David Icke - top drawer nuttertainment. On the radio tonightDavid Icke, whos deranged ramblings I find highly entertaining, is on the radio, Talksport in a minute. 11pm - 1am. :)

    David Icke, whos deranged ramblings I find highly entertaining, is on the radio, Talksport in a minute. 11pm - 1am.

    :)
    thx1138 thx1138 April 2006 Chit chat
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