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[ivarf]

(this must be the most useless thing I've ever been thanked for )

I am not sure. This thread has given me new knowledge about the Enterprise machine - thats its OS was hell to code for. Thats probably one of the reasons that the machine failed so miserably.


This thread has two nice stories, the one from the coder and the other from Matthew.


About coders, it is well known that Tony Crowter came to Gremlin from Alligata, but its new knowledge, at least to me that Gremlin were coding for Alligata. I know they coded Gauntlet for US Gold.
Now off to find out more about John (Paul) Flynn...

[TFM]

IMO the Enterprise failed because:
- it was a bit expensive
- it has NO marketing at all (disregarding a bad tv spot)

[Matthew]

Well the only other thing I'd like to do is to track down Nick Vincent, the original programmer as above.  I researched that he worked at Binary Design with a Nick Speakman back in the day, who is still in the industry, and got this response the other day from Mr Speakman...

"Hi,
Sorry the only time I've seen him since 1990 is when I drove past him in the car once about 15 years ago, so I don't have a clue where he is I'm afraid.
Good luck... he does seem elusive!
Cheers
Nick"

Anybody know anything of Nick Vincent then?  I reckon he's West Midlands way.

[Gryzor]

Aren't there people search engines for the UK?

[Rich Stevenson]

I am not sure. This thread has given me new knowledge about the Enterprise machine - thats its OS was hell to code for. Thats probably one of the reasons that the machine failed so miserably.


This thread has two nice stories, the one from the coder and the other from Matthew.


About coders, it is well known that Tony Crowter came to Gremlin from Alligata, but its new knowledge, at least to me that Gremlin were coding for Alligata. I know they coded Gauntlet for US Gold.
Now off to find out more about John (Paul) Flynn...

No Gremlin didn't code for Alligata. Tony went to Gremlin, on the promise of shares in the company, and soon returned to Alligata where he coded Kettle and Trap.


I worked for Alligata at the time and started just as Tony left for Gremlin. I was given the task of converting Loco to the Speccy and was still there when he returned. I converted Trap to the Speccy while he was starting work on Kettle.