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This site hosts pages written by Simon N Goodwin - enthusiast, iconoclast, vegetarian, inventor, left-handed guitarist and father of Ingo, veteran of Crash, Silicon Studio Limited, Personal Computer World, Amiga Format, Linux Format, ATD, Roadwatch, Creative CodeWorks, Spectral Systems and a plenitude of home computing and electronics magazines, software publishers and radio stations - and in recent years Principal Programmer in the Central Technology department at Codemasters Software Company in Warwickshire, UK.
The site is mainly about things I do, rather than who I am, as is my 'linked in' profile. You may email the real me by proving you're human, or an equivalent AI.
Trophy Cabinet The adjoining picture shows many of the software products and magazine covers that feature my work since the 1980s. Recently I'm working on 'new platforms' for Codemasters Central Technology department after polishing the NeSound audio systems in Bodycount (at last, a shooter in 3D7.1 surround) and rally spin-off DiRT Showdown.
Interview with Ben Firshman of the Warwick Boar newspaper about my work
My research, published by the Audio Engineering Society in 2009 (PDF)
Technical analysis of how players listen to games
Recent innovations and authentic 3D sound via HDMI, 7.1 and beyond
My Central Technology work at Codies
My first patent, and how it nearly got me sent to jail!
The magazine articles time did not forget
Tales of software I wrote for retail 1979..2003
Stories about writing the early British home computing magazines
Qdos Qompendium - a dump of some of my Sinclair QL projects
My first hit game (vintage 1983)
SAM Supplement magazine 1990 to 1997 online
Four-track music demos I recorded in the 1980s
Over a hundred emulators that run on Amiga systems (1996..1998)
Reviews of emulators that run on Linux systems (2001..2002) [updated May 2010 ]
An almost complete index of the 500+ articles that I sold to 30 UK hobby computing and electronic magazines between 1979 and 2002.
[NEW/OLD!] My copious collection of incompatible computers
Personal pages
Leamington Peace Festival - what it is and why it's great. 2012 marked the fourth year I worked on the committee of the local free festival, a fine band of pragmatic idealists. Follow this link to find out more.
2009 - Building a traditional Shrewsbury Coracle at Ironbridge
2007 - Fozz Nozzlerz - prize-winning constructors in the Leamington to Warwick Raft Race
2005 - The ups and downs of hobby hovercrafting
2000 - Across Warwickshire by balloon
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This site hosts pages written by Simon N Goodwin - enthusiast, iconoclast, vegetarian, inventor, left-handed guitarist and father of Ingo, veteran of Crash, Silicon Studio Limited, Personal Computer World, Amiga Format, Linux Format, ATD, Roadwatch, Creative CodeWorks, Spectral Systems and a plenitude of home computing and electronics magazines, software publishers and radio stations - and in recent years Principal Programmer in the Central Technology department at Codemasters Software Company in Warwickshire, UK.