That's amazing you interviewed him Alex! I'll take a look at it right now!
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Something weird I just realized... at the end of that interview is a note that Yannes received some videogames from...
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...Japanese devs who wrote games according to the SID's prelim spec, which dfferent from the final and so sounded out of tune
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I wonder... likely one of those games would be Pinball Spectacular, which was published on ROM cart by Commodore...
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...and the title screen identifies as a product of HAL Laboratory, the very same HAL that's now owned by Nintendo...
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...and which supplied their recently-deceased President, Satoru Iwata. Iwata was a programmer at HAL at the time, I think.
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So, there's a chance that the Japanese programmer he complains about went on to run Nintendo! Small world, eh?
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small world indeed. The HAL / Commodore connection was interesting & fruitful :)
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I wonder what Bob Yannes thinks about Mahoney's incredible work with the SID-chip?
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