Appeal For Computer Game Programmers
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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.
Video made to be inserted during live broadcast of Anglia Television's early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia. The live studio presentation provided context for the video as part of a news story or magazine feature within the programme. About Anglia was not recorded during broadcast, so it is usually just the pre-recorded programme inserts which survive. In the 1980s Anglia Television was broadcasting to a wide area in the East of England including Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk and adjoining parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Rutland where there was some overlap with neighbouring ITV regions.
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That Was the Future
Their future, our now: explore how earlier generations imagined the world we're living in today.
For anyone living in the later years of the 20th century, it felt like the future was arriving unusually fast. As computers, once huge behemoths that filled rooms, began to shrink to desktop size, they quickly spread into every arena of society, spreading out from university labs and industry giants to ordinary offices, schools and into the home. Meanwhile astonishing advances in robotics, genetics, materials, transport and entertainment all offered glimpses of a brave new world. Just trying to keep up with this revolution was dizzying, never mind making sense of it.
What did it all mean? What did the future hold - for our work, our leisure, our health, our food, our relationships? How would technology change us as people? Would it be the kind of future we'd want? Nobody could say for sure, but there were plenty of people willing to speculate. And now that their future is our present, it's fascinating to look back and judge for ourselves how right - or how wrong - they were.
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