Veronika Megler just wanted a part-time job while she finished her college degree. She didn't realize it would end with her writing one of the first computer game blockbusters.
I was an owner of the ZX Spectrum, which due it's simplicity was the first choice of microcomputer for smuggling behind the Iron Curtain. But my limited knowledge of english that time when playing The Hobbit and lack of access to book itself /published only once in soviet sattelite country with limited impression - Lord of the Rings was blacklisted by censorship in soviet sattelite countries at all/ made a very different game target - my objective was to visit as many locations as possible with a limited english knowledge, far away from finishing the game up to the end. And of course I had no idea who they were in fact - Gandalf, or other personalities in the game, because the only contact with Tolkien imaginary work was through this game, or illegal copy of the game, in coutry where they were not selling any software in shops, nor Tolkien books in bookstores. :D
I got to know Veronika a little bit when she was working through her PhD at my school a few years back. An absolutely delightful person: smart and creative and energetic. I had no idea she'd written that game entirely in Z80 assembly: that's pretty amazing. Thanks for a great piece!
I was an owner of the ZX Spectrum, which due it's simplicity was the first choice of microcomputer for smuggling behind the Iron Curtain. But my limited knowledge of english that time when playing The Hobbit and lack of access to book itself /published only once in soviet sattelite country with limited impression - Lord of the Rings was blacklisted by censorship in soviet sattelite countries at all/ made a very different game target - my objective was to visit as many locations as possible with a limited english knowledge, far away from finishing the game up to the end. And of course I had no idea who they were in fact - Gandalf, or other personalities in the game, because the only contact with Tolkien imaginary work was through this game, or illegal copy of the game, in coutry where they were not selling any software in shops, nor Tolkien books in bookstores. :D
I got to know Veronika a little bit when she was working through her PhD at my school a few years back. An absolutely delightful person: smart and creative and energetic. I had no idea she'd written that game entirely in Z80 assembly: that's pretty amazing. Thanks for a great piece!
this is great!
Well now we know what 1984’s game will be! You linked to your own page that doesn’t exist yet.