About the Author
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Ben Werdmuller is 15, and lives in Oxford, England. He now programs on a
486SX/33 with 4Mb of RAM, a Trident SVGA display, and a 340Mb hard drive
(exteremely unusual in England - I know all you Americans out there are
used to your computers being bigger and better). It makes a big change
from the 12 MHz 286 with 1Mb of RAM and a 32Mb hard disk drive he had not
so many months ago.

He is computer literate, which programmers generally are, and got an A on
his computer studies GCSE exam. For the uninitiated, the GCSEs are exams
that English school pupils, thanks to a sadistic and evil government, have
to take in their chosen subjects before they do A-levels. As far as anyone 
can see, they don't serve any purpose at all. Oh, and he took the exam a 
year early.

He generally programs in Prospero Pascal, which nobody seems to have heard
of, although he is attempting to learn Borland C++. No easy task when you've
never even touched C before in your life, I can tell you. He has given up
trying to write Windows games, because he figures he can reach a wider
audience if he uses DOS. He will be crying in the street if his games don't
work under the new Windows Chicago and he has to rewrite them for the new
operating system.

Having only recently upgraded to a decent computer (he did it bit by bit, I
might add - it was too expensive to buy a whole new system, so he upgraded
from the 286 a bit at a time. He still has the old disk drives), he knows
what it's like to not be able to play any games. With this in mind, he has
written his games so that they should be playable on any computer (with VGA,
that is, but there's no excuse for not getting VGA - it only costs about
20 at computer shows).

His next game is ... Well, to be honest, he has no idea what his next game
is. Oh, well. You might not see any new games from him for a while.
