Names
Who was who, back in 1984 :-
- Geoff Boyd - Most senior hardware engineer,
probably designed most of the MTX computer and related peripherals.
When the MTX home computer business folded, he took it over and changed
the Memotech business to one which designed, manufactured and sold
video walls.
He since moved the business to the US.
- Robert Branton - Most senior software engineer.
- The Fateh family - They probably owned and ran the Memotech company,
certainly from around the beginning of the MTX home computer project,
and the building of the factory in Witney.
I negotiated my first game royalty deal (the princely sum of 1 GBP
per copy sold) with Mark Fateh, and promptly sold a few hundred.
- Ed Hollingshead - Ran Continental Software.
Wrote Blobbo and Toado.
- Tony Brewer - a talented contract programmer.
He wrote Silicon Disc drivers, cassette loaders/savers, speech recording
and playback software.
Also wrote the "Speculator".
I learned a lot from his code.
- Jim Wills - Ran Megastar Games, helped write some games.
- Chris Sawyer - I met him when he visited Megastar Games, which was
headquartered at the Witney Memotech building.
He wrote Mission Omega, Sepulcri Sclerati, Qogo and various others.
Went on to work on the amazingly successful Rollercoaster Tycoon game.
- David Fazackerley - author of Reversi and MTX CP/M related
software, such as drivers.
- Keith Clatworthy - I think I met him at Memotech in Witney.
- Andy Southgate - wrote Obliteration Zone and others.
- Andy Key - games and Video Wall developer.
Worked for Continental Software.
- ... many others, but it was a long time ago
People who've done interesting Memotech related things over the years :-
- Bemmu Sepponen - author of the MtXemu Memotech Emulator.
- Per Persson - author of the
MacTX
Memotech Emulator.
Nowadays, whos who, and what their involvement is :-
- Jim Wills -
maintainer of the
MEMOTECH MTX COMPUTER website,
Memotech collector, tape sampling, etc..
- Paul Daniels - tape to
.mtx file conversion,
Memotech floppy disk decoding, creation of a Gamebase for MTX, etc...
- Lez Anderson - maintainer of the
The One Chip Memotech MTX512 Project
website.
- Mike Rudkin - interested in attaching IDE to MTX.
- Claus Bækkel -
maintainer of the
MTX World website,
game disassembly and porting.
- William Brendling - scanned SDX ROM listing,
helped with understanding the monochrome 80 column card output.
- Jan-Willem Ooiman - has FDX (with no 5.25" boot disk).
- Marco Virginio - has Memotech Business/2 system.
- Andy Key -
maintainer of this website,
author of MEMU and other projects.
Let me know if I've missed you out, or your contribution.
This page maintained by Andy Key
andy.z.key@googlemail.com