Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Portugueses do Spectrum
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 07 23:47:21 GMT
So there I am, after dinner, listening to a couple
of CDs I bought today at FNAC (like Rui, I also brought
“Hunters of Dune” with me), reading the Expresso
newspaper, when I come across a small article in the
Unica magazine titled “Os portugueses do Spectrum”.
“Lets read it”, I thought, having been a Spectrum
teenager back in the 80s…
http://pesquisa.impresa.pt/search?q=portugueses+spectrum&btnG=Pesquisa
http://semanal.expresso.clix.pt/unica/artigo.asp?edition=1805&articleid=ES257111
Halfway through the article something caught my attention:
“[Rui Tito] assinou ainda Klimax, para a Hewson Consultants,
em 1990, em conjunto com M.F.Valente”
What the hell?! That last name did ring a bell; although
I dont remember ever having a game published with my name
on it. A quick search on the Internet brought this up:
http://www.mirsoft.info/gmb/music_info.php?id_ele=MTE3Mjg=
http://www.mirsoft.info/gmb/game_info.php?id_ele=MjU5NjM=
Now *that* I remember! Back then Rui Tito (game programmer)
needed someone who could both program and play music and
asked me for some help. He even lent me a 128+ for 6 months
and I created a small beeptrack for him. I didnt know that
the game had been published, that it was called Klimax and
that Rui had given me credits. Until today…
So off you go to get the MicroSpeccy AY player and the
.AY audio file so that you can ROTFL at my horrendous
effort at being a game musician.
http://bulba.at.kz/ayplayer_e.htm
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/projectay/gdmusic.htm
— MV
PS – From that to a 2 page spread on a national newspaper
harping about information systems; where did I go wrong?
http://dn.sapo.pt/2007/05/18/dnbolsa/justica_ter_so_sistema_informacao.html
