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Once again, though, the road less traveled proved advantageous. Instead of a Commodore Amiga or Atari ST like his friends were buying, he scraped together the last of his Memotech earnings to buy an Amstrad MS-DOS machine, another definite minority taste at the time among gamers in Britain. Absolutely no one - least of all the soon-to-be-bankrupt Memotech - got rich off the MTX, but Sawyer did make enough money to buy a printer and floppy-disk drive.Įven after Memotech bit the dust, he continued to go his own way as stubbornly as ever.

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By the time he moved to Glasgow to attend university in the fall of that year, he had made contact with Memotech themselves, who were eager for software of any stripe for their struggling machine. Knowing that his student liked to program, the teacher showed him a newspaper article he had clipped out, telling how another local boy had made £1000 selling his games.

One day in 1984, Sawyer’s chemistry teacher called him aside. He would read about a game for another, more popular platform in a magazine, look carefully at the screenshots thereof, and make his own version that played as he imagined the original must.

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With very little software available for the likes of a Lynx or MTX, Sawyer was forced to learn how to make his own fun, forced to become a programmer of games rather than a mere player of them. His strange taste in hardware proved a blessing in disguise. And when it became clear that this first computer of his was destined for orphandom, he chose to invest in a Memotech MTX, another doomed machine. Just as the Spectrum boom was nearing its peak, he saved up his money to buy… a Camputers Lynx, one of those oddball also-rans of the 1980s which are remembered only by collectors today.

Sawyer was no less fascinated with computers than his peers, but he was also a dyed-in-the-wool iconoclast. Half of the Dundee kids who were interested in computers seemed to have gotten jobs at the Timex plant, while the other half had just gotten Speccys for their living rooms. And small wonder: by 1983, with the cheap and cheerful Sinclair Spectrum pushing Britain toward the status of the most computer-mad nation on earth on a per-capita basis, the house that Uncle Clive built had become a significant part of the city’s economy. From that moment on, Dundee was a Sinclair town. In 1980, when Sawyer was fourteen years old, Sinclair Research subcontracted out the manufacture of the ZX80 - the cheap microcomputer that was about to take all of Britain by storm - to the Timex plant located in his hometown of Dundee, Scotland.

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TTDPatch (A gameplay-enhancing update to Transport Tycoon Deluxe that implements in-game cheats and workarounds for a few bugs, as well as lots of improvements in gameplay.Anyone who has followed the career of the British game developer Chris Sawyer down through the years knows that he prefers to go his own way.

TTD knowledge exchange portal (New graphics and scenarios for TTD).

Transport Tycoon - The New Graphics (New graphics and vehicle sets for TTD.).

Transport Tycoon Deluxe Pages (All you wanted to know about the game).

Transport Tycoon Deluxe pages (A site focusing on providing playing tips and tutorials for TTD.).

The TTDX Analysis Pages (Advanced strategy and gameplay analysis page for TTD).

The Chinese Transport Tycoon Station (A site written in Chinese providing advice, tutorials and downloads to all Chinese-speaking players.).

Oliver Keating's Transport Tycoon Deluxe Site (A site about TTD with lots of information about strategy and gameplay.).

Macca's Transport Tycoon Deluxe Scenarios (Over 50 original TTD scenarios to download, WinXP help, tips and hints, blank grids, scenario tutorial and more.).Imperial World and Miami to South America (Two special scenarios for TTD).German Transport Tycoon Deluxe Site (German TTD fanpage with scenarios, saved games, screenshots and forum).- TTD (A site offering descriptions of game elements (including tutorials and tips), new custom-made scenarios and vehicle modifications.).