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OBITUARY ANTHONY TAGLIONE

◼ As this article was being finished, Anthony Taglione unexpectedly passed away in December 2023. Our condolences go out to his friends and family.

Anthony’s games development adventure began alongside his brother Philip (who passed in June 2019), and their neighbour Tim Walter. After early coding experiments on a programmable calculator in the mid-Seventies, Tim and Philip wrote a version of for the ZX Spectrum. Anthony introduced them, and Anthony helped write some of the conversions.

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