Luke Trevorrow - a member of Entropy sent in a letter to Format magazine, signed with both his real and nickname (Lord Blackadder), but Bob Brenchley chose to publish it with just his nickname and procceded to make him look stupid with a comment of 'Some people are just so childish'
http://www.nevilley.org.uk/nfy53/sam/f_issue.php?issue=071017
This resulted in a number of noted SAM Demo programmers surrounding Bob Brenchley at the October 1994 Gloucester Show wearing T-shirts emblazened with ‘Not Just Stupid Demo Coders’ under the big Entropy logo.
Soooo.. I found Luke's…
Soooo.. I found Luke's letter in the June 1994 issue of Format and can't find any reference to 'Stupid demo coders' - was this comment made later on the Sam Users Mailing List?
I seem to recall hearing…
I seem to recall hearing that Luke wrote the letter with both his real and nickname - but only the second was used to make him look foolish.
Cool, updated accordingly :-)
Cool, updated accordingly :-)
And I also see that you are…
And I also see that you are volunteering to upload all the format issues here for posterity? :-)
Heh heh - I'd do it just to…
Heh heh - I'd do it just to annoy Bob :-P
Neville has quite a few on…
Neville has quite a few on his site - and a few other manuals that should be preserved too...
As the original link is no…
As the original link is no longer available, here's the relvant page on WorldOfSpectrum:
https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/magazines/format/10/7/1994/6/0#16