Appeal For Computer Game Programmers
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Online Shopping is on its Way
- Norwich
- 1987-12-30
Appeal For Computer Game Programmers (About Anglia)
As new creative opportunities open up in computer game design, Orpheus struggles to fill its staff vacancies.
By 1986, computer companies started to make the switch from producing business software to the new computer game market. Local companies such as Orpheus began adapting original material into computer game programmes through a process called storyboarding. However, Orpheus, based at Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire, struggled to fill its staff vacancies.Game design was still a new area of technology, and most people employed in the computer market had followed the business career path. Orpheus was hoping to attract young people who had developed programming skills on their home computers but were not aware of the industry's new creative opportunities. As the games market grew, more people would be able to find creative jobs in game design.
Reporter Peter Lugg interviewed Richard Wilkins and Peter Ross-Howden for this video, made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.
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Silicon Fen
Computers and digital innovation in Cambridgeshire 1982-1988.
In the 1980s, Cambridgeshire had a concentration of individuals and businesses working on computer technology, often connected with the University of Cambridge. This earned it the nickname Silicon Fen, linking the East England fenland to California's high-tech Silicon Valley. Clive Sinclair, Acorn's BBC Micro and Alan Sugar of Amstrad became household names, but many smaller companies contributed to the regional success story.
Silicon Fen was and still is at the cutting edge of UK information technology, credited with innovations in integrated circuits, computer hardware and software, graphics, games and information resources, not to mention launching Britain's first affordable home computers.
This selection of news items from Anglia Television's About Anglia highlights some key developments and examples of early adoption of computers for work and home.
11 videos in this collection
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Online Shopping is on its Way
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Cambridge Computer-Based Technology
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Mensa Symposium Predicts Future
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Olympia's Personal Computer World Show 1985
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Sinclair C5 Cycle / Car Launched
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East of England Show Pictorial Archive
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Appeal For Computer Game Programmers
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Computer Lifeline for the Elderly
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Computer Shows Off Make Up Effects
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Computerised flood warning system
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