Malcolm Evans
Malcolm Evans (born April 1944 in Romford , England ) is a British game developer , best known for the computer games 3D Monster Maze (1982) for the home computer Sinclair ZX81 and Trashman (1984) for the ZX Spectrum .
Evans graduated from Portsmouth Polytechnic and then worked for Marconi, where he worked in satellite technology. In the 1970s he moved to Smiths Aviation, where he developed hardware for jet engines.
In 1979 he moved again, this time to the Sperry Gyroscope company in Bristol , where he worked in a working group for microprocessors. Here he used the Zilog Z80 and Intel 8088 processor and programmed on them in machine language . The Bristol company closed in 1981, when Evans had received the ZX81 as a 37th birthday present from his wife. Malcolm developed 3D Monster Maze on this machine to test what the computer could do.
Evans met John K. Greye in 1981 at a classical guitar club in Bristol, and together they founded the software company JK Greye Software . Together they developed several computer games for the ZX81. In the spring of 1982, the two separated and Evans started his own company, New Generation Software, with which he continued to develop software for the ZX Spectrum.
Web links
- Malcolm E. Evans at worldofspectrum.org (English)
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| SURNAME | Evans, Malcolm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English computer game developer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Romford , England |