I know I’m late, I apologise. I’ve been at work, and have managed to find a few minutes free to talk about Joffa Smifff, one of my favourite ZX Spectrum programmers who sadly died over the weekend. One of his first projects, if not his very first, was “Pud Pud in Weird World” (normally shortened to “Pud Pud”). This was one of my favourite Spectrum games, mainly thanks to its theme of “In The Mood” reproduced on the Spectrum’s beeper, and the fact that the game would change the octave of every loop of the music, and also flash the border random colours. It didn’t seem much, but as a child, I loved it. And, I’m sure, if I had a Spectrum emulator installed on here, I’d be playing it right now.

Joffa also had a flickr account which I didn’t know until right now.