I remember designing game graphics like this

Ah yes, I do remember doing the (usually 8×8 or 16×16) UDG’s very well back in the day, although I was a spectrum man.

In fact (interesting fact maybe) the past couple of months I’ve taken two Spectrum adventure games, disassembled them and then rebuild them to run on a BBC B, and released them for free. Got ahold of one author and they were very happy for me to do it too. I tweeted about Galaxias although I’ve just finished ProjectX-TheMicroMan a few days ago.

An interesting experience to say the least, but I’ve learned a fair bit in doing it, shame I’m about 26 years (!) too late with such things though but there’s still an active scene around so they were welcome ‘new’ additions.