Such a shame a larger software house didn’t take Roger under their wing. He obviously had a lot of skill and determination. Great video.

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

A great shame indeed. Thank you , I'm so glad people are liking the video, I wanted to give Roger the attention he deserves.

I hope you enjoy this video and share it widely to raise as much money for charity as possible in Roger's name. I'm still exploring some other tapes Josie sent to me; a couple of C60's with lots of programs on them. One programme I found is a Bar Stock Taking programme Roger was making on the Spectrum in 1985, and another details financial records for Dymond Software for the months of September to December 1982. The finance records are fascinating as they list sales of games, along with the cost of blank tapes, photocopying, postage, advertising etc. The advertising bill for September 1982 was £115 so Josie was spot on with remembering it cost "around £100"!

First of all, and most importantly, THANK YOU for retrieving the lost software. It always gives me great pleasure to see a MIA title be retrieved, or a new item be discovered and archived online, and both events have occurred here. Secondly, it’d have been interesting to hear more about Roger’s involvement with Acorn computers, as the ‘memorial’ photo of him clearly shows him sitting at an Archimedes, with a copy of Beebug’s Ovation DTP package clearly on display. It’d be interesting to know whether Roger went on to write any RISC OS software during this period of his life. I find it easy to relate to Roger’s story, as I too had a rotten time at school (though I didn’t have Asperger’s), and my own first computers were a ZX81 and then a Spectrum. Slightly later I was lucky enough to also have a BBC Micro (as well as the Spectrum - I loved both, despite their being so different). Later, I became heavily involved in the RISC OS world. Unlike Roger, I didn’t publish any home grown efforts for the Spectrum, but I did publish things I’d written for RISC OS. And I even worked for Beebug for a few years, and had a fair bit to do with the author of Ovation!

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

I too would like to know more about what Roger did later but unless a previous colleague steps forward with information I couldn't discover anything. It's sad he's not around to tell his own story.

I guess the world is full of relatively unknown contributions by some very talented people like Roger, so it's good to see another little bit of history brought to life. It's easy to forget that someone has put many, many hours off their lives, and probably their heart and soul in to such projects. Thanks to Josephine for donating his Speccy and software to you, and to allow his software to have a new audience.

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

To be that prolific in writing software, Roger must have spent many many hours coding. He had a great eye for detail too because I only spotted a very minor "bug" on one of the compendium games. We need to celebrate more people like Roger.

This is a major TV-quality documentary. Thank you!

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the support Franko, it means a lot. I was chatting to Mrs TDO about this the other day and she thought it would easily make a 1 hour TV documentary in terms of information if I padded it out with sweeping shots of Aberdeen etc. Sadly I don't have access to lots of library footage and it's a long drive from here!

@fffUUUUUU

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalOrphanage you see, I'm not alone in my conclusions ;)

@fffUUUUUU

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalOrphanage keep up your amazing work!

Those photographed inlay screenshot covers puts me in mind of the earlier Firebird titles. An excellent story; thanks for sharing and for getting these archived.

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you liked the video. Now you mention Firebird, yes they are similar to the Firebird cassette inlays like Booty and Subsunk. I wonder who did them first? Not sure when Firebird first did theirs but I think the Dymond's switched to photo inlays in 1983 sometime.

@geezerdiamond

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalOrphanage On the Speccy at least, it looks like Firebird’s earliest “screenshot inlay” was Cylu in 1985 👍

@degsy99

2 жыл бұрын

@@geezerdiamond Run Baby Run (which had previously been published by Micro Gold) was their first Spectrum release, and was advertised in Your Spectrum December 1984, along with a batch of others: Booty, Exodus, The Wild Bunch, Mr Freeze, Terra Force, Viking Raiders, Menace and Crazy Caverns. Cylu came along a bit later the next year. So Dymond Software definitely had the look first!

What a great bit of history, thanks for making this.

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It took me quite a few months to create this video but Roger deserves to be remembered more.

@DanielRowe

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalOrphanage well worth the effort!

Excellent video and well documented. Roger would love it.

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I hope so.

Excellent video, and +1 for the two Videomaster Superscores, my first ever game "console". )

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. It was mine too! I published a couple of videos on it if you're looking for other things to watch.

8:02 TDO vs. RMC Neat!

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

Full disclosure, Neil was not playing I just used his name in vain! However, even though he wasn't playing his stand-in was just as lucky as he is 😁

Watched all the ads to support your charity fundraiser.

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

You're a star, I hope they were entertaining too!

@fffUUUUUU

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalOrphanage not quite as your videos are) thank you for your work Keith!

What a nice interesting and informative video diary of Roger Dymonds computing life. Also worth noting Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, the list goes on and on. 😊

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'll have to look up those other people Stephen, you reckon they could be worth a video too?

@RcAircraft

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalOrphanage If it has not already been done. In fact what maybe a good idea, A bit of research into those that had the (genius gene) that put Mathematics and computing where it is today. I think a lot of people will be surprised what you will come up with. 😉

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

Ahh, I get what you mean now :-D

Audio is too quiet

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, unfortunately there's nothing I can do about that now as YT no longer supply tools to change the volume of a posted video. The levels are fine in Davinci Resolve but I agree when I just compared to some mainstream videos it does sound a little on the quiet side. I think it's like the music scene where everyone is compressing their audio for maximum impact and a player set to that volume makes non-compressed audio sound too quiet. It's an audio volume arms race!

@Michael_800

2 жыл бұрын

No problem with the audio here. Listened to it at 30% system volume.

@colinstu

2 жыл бұрын

@@Michael_800 system and KZread volume at 100%. I don’t have this issue with other channels, which I usually only have at 50%.

@TheDigitalOrphanage

2 жыл бұрын

It's interesting how different systems are affected so I'll have to look into this more. @colinstu can you give me the name of an example channel to compare audio levels with? @Michael perhaps you could compare these by ear on your setup too, having results of real-works experiences would help a lot. Thank you both.

@colinstu

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalOrphanage Mr Carlson's Lab, Usagi Electric, Lockpicking Lawyer

I was curious how often this happened. I found a cool os that 99% of the links for are dead, lucked out find a random link on a tutorial video. That's when I got curious about 'lost softwate'.

What a nice interesting and informative video diary of Roger Dymonds computing life. Also worth noting Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, the list goes on and on. 😊