Richard Gadd

AKA
G4DDS
Biography

Coder.

Amateur/self taught hobbyist electronic hardware developer - purely for my own fun!

Wrote mass storage loaders some including faster loading multi-record versions, new features or bug fixes for Parallax, Pang, Exodus, Stars and Sprites, Five on a Treasure Island and Lemmings and Oh No! More Lemmings Alternative HDD Installers.

Fixed some 1Mb MasterDOS demos also converting them to run on other OSes with External Memory (using custom "helper" code) and without External Memory for 512Kb users for Wizard Demo, Top Gun Demo and Walker Demo.

Written DALLAS Utilities for ATOM-Lite and other hardware that includes a DALLAS clock that responds to port 239.

Updated Defender so that saving to the NVRAM on a DALLAS clock now also works with ATOM-Lite and did a separate conversion that saves to the EEPROM found on Trinity Ethernet Interface systems.

Wrote the feature Updating the ARMSID firmware.

Trivia

Loves all things car related - performance, modified, classic, unusual. During the summer months if there is a local car meet on then I'm normally there.

A big fan of Technic LEGO with an ever growing collection in the loft waiting to be built.

Retro Computers - if its after 1995 its a little too modern for me. My collection:

  • Acorn Archimedes A3010
  • Amstrad CPC 464
  • Amstrad CPC 6128
  • Atari STe
  • Commodore Amiga 1200
  • Commodore C64C
  • Enterprise 64
  • Miles Gordon Technology SAM Coupé
  • Sinclair ZX-81
  • Sinclair ZX-81 (in a DK'tronics keyboard)
  • Sinclair Spectrum 48K
  • Sinclair Spectrum 128K
  • Sinclair Spectrum +3
  • Spectrum Next - Issue 2B (Kickstarter 1)
  • Texas Instruments TI-99/4a