About the Author

image Adam Dawes is a software developer and systems architect working at a cutting-edge, online service development company.

He has been a compulsive programmer since the age of four, when he was first introduced to a monochrome Commodore PET. The love affair has continued through three subsequent decades, flourishing through the days of the 8-bit dinosaurs to today’s era of multicore processors and pocket supercomputers.

A constant throughout all of this has been Adam’s fondness for computer games. From the very first time Nightmare Park displayed its devious maze of pathways in green symbols back in 1980, he has been a games player ...

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