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■ “He was the most untidy person I’ve ever met, apart from me,” grins Chris, when asked about his memories of Matthew Smith. “The first time I. This was before I’d started on it. I mentioned some of the techniques I was going to use and he was really interested. He even said, ‘Ah I can use that and fit more levels in.’ This was when he was starting to think about .” Chris may indeed have been partly responsible for the compression techniques Matthew used to cram ’s 60 rooms into the Spectrum’s memory, something he hadn’t done for .

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