The Assembly Line

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The Assembly Line[1] was a British video game development company, founded in November 1988, in Bristol, England by a group of developers composed by John Dale (later replaced by Portuguese programmer and video games designer Ricardo Pinto[2][3][4][5][6], formerly from Rainbird Software, a sister company of Firebird Software, two labels of Telecomsoft[7], after John left the company), Martin Day (a.k.a Spiny Norman, co-founder of SN Systems), Andy Beveridge (former Realtime Games Software programmer[8] and SN Systems co-founder) and Adrian Stephens. The company was involved in writting games for the Commodore 64, Atari ST and Amiga computers and was known for their excellent programming skills which were technically more refined than most of other contemporary video game development companies, especially in the area of 3D graphics[2][3][9][10][11][12][13]. The video game Xenon 2: Megablast, which was designed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Imageworks originally for the Amiga and Atari ST computers and later ported to other platforms including the Mega Drive and Master System consoles, was programmed[8] by them (Martin Day assumed the task of programming the game, since John Smith[14] the original programmer was having difficulties in coding the game).

Softography

Mega Drive

Master System

References

  1. ↑ File:AmigaFormat UK 008.pdf, page 10
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File:AmigaPower UK 04.pdf, page 62
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 File:AmigaPower UK 04.pdf, page 63
  4. ↑ https://www.ricardopinto.com/about/
  5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Pinto
  6. ↑ http://birdsanctuary.co.uk/ept/2/
  7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomsoft
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 File:NextGeneration US 06.pdf, page 51
  9. ↑ File:AmigaFormat UK 023.pdf, page 33
  10. ↑ File:AmigaFormat UK 023.pdf, page 34
  11. ↑ File:AmigaFormat UK 023.pdf, page 35
  12. ↑ File:AmigaFormat UK 023.pdf, page 37
  13. ↑ File:AmigaFormat UK 023.pdf, page 38
  14. ↑ File:TheOne UK 08.pdf, page 28
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