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In Your Commodore issue 51 (1988 December, Page 51-54) there was a rather interesting writeup with Tony Crowther and Dave Bishop, talking about their development past and their work at the time at Imageworks.
During the interview, it was mentioned that Tony had seen the Electronic Arts release of Marble Madness on the C64 and was not impressed at all. So much so that he produced a proof of concept (possibly something more) and walked up to Ariolasoft and said something along the likes of "I can do better than that - give us a job!". Not in those exact words i'm sure, but anyway - Ariolasoft were very impressed but couldn't do anything with the code as they didn't have the external rights - they did however give Tony a job.
Just if this demo still exists we are not sure yet, but we hope to find out more from Tony about the conversion and how far it got. Still very much early days at the moment!
Do you know more?
Frank.
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