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Title: Hello from an old games tester!
Post by: Rainbirdrich on 21:18, 10 September 15

Hi,

Years ago I worked in the industry, back when the CPC was still current. I worked for TelecomSoft (Rainbird, Firebird, Silverbird) and then Mirrorsoft (Mirrorsoft, Image Works, PSS) and tested and project managed a few CPC releases back in the day.

Glad to be here!

Title: Re: Hello from an old games tester!
Post by: robcfg on 21:24, 10 September 15

Welcome to the forum!

It's always nice to have people that worked in the industry back in the CPC days.

Make yourself comfortable and enjoy our nice community!

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Post by: TFM on 21:30, 10 September 15

Welcome and enjoy the forum. Looking forward to hear some old time stories one day. :)

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Post by: Carnivius on 22:42, 10 September 15

Welcome! :D

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Post by: ||C|-|E|| on 22:47, 10 September 15

Hello!! I was just a kid playing with those games back then :D

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Post by: chinnyhill10 on 23:43, 10 September 15

Quote from: Rainbirdrich on 21:18, 10 September 15
Hi,

Years ago I worked in the industry, back when the CPC was still current. I worked for TelecomSoft (Rainbird, Firebird, Silverbird) and then Mirrorsoft (Mirrorsoft, Image Works, PSS) and tested and project managed a few CPC releases back in the day.

Glad to be here!

Welcome. Can you remember some of the titles you were involved with?

The Rainbird titles that every CPC owner had to own were Art Studio and Advanced Art Studio. Both superb art packages with a windowed GUI that was very advanced for an 8 bit.

Title: Re: Hello from an old games tester!
Post by: TFM on 00:17, 11 September 15

I got Advanced OCP Art Studio one day, nice handbook. Didn't know that there was a predecessor, but now the title makes sense. Also Starglider (great CPC version) hat the bird on the box. It was worth buying if for the great story book alone already. :) :) :)

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Post by: VincentGR on 10:13, 11 September 15

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Masswelcomemat.jpg)

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Post by: Gryzor on 17:45, 12 September 15

Welcome mate! So hoping you're going to share some stories with us! :)

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Post by: Guy0me on 07:59, 13 September 15

Welcome ! :) Welcome it is always hard to find people who are still in contact with the community often they move in a different work or so they completely changed fields!
testers, hackers, developers, graphic designers and so on and so on where are you people !! ;D

Title: Re: Hello from an old games tester!
Post by: CPC_Fan on 18:23, 13 September 15

Hi and welcome to the forum.

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Post by: dcdrac on 14:11, 27 September 15

RainBird (Tony Rainbird founded it for BT?) made some amazing games never figured out why the Spectrum 128 version of Starglider had digitized music and the CPC6128 version did not

Title: Re: Hello from an old games tester!
Post by: Zoe Robinson on 16:10, 27 September 15

Welcome to the group!

I remember Rainbird with some fondness. Never had their Art Studio stuff (always wanted it, could never afford it at the time - I ended up making a lot of use of paint programs from AA covertapes) but The Music System was something I used on an almost daily basis.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CP6zIavWsAAzvvi.jpg)

Loved that program. :)

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