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Simon.mooli.org.uk home page
This site hosts pages written by
Simon N Goodwin [email] - enthusiast, iconoclast, vegetarian,
inventor, left-handed guitarist and father of Ingo,
formerly working for Silicon Studio Limited, Personal Computer World, Crash, Amiga Format,
Linux Format, ATD, Roadwatch, Creative CodeWorks, Spectral Systems and a host of
home computing and electronics magazines, software publishers and small radio
stations and in recent years principal programmer in the Central Technology department at Codemasters Software Company in Warwickshire, UK.
Trophy Cabinet After the last couple of BAFTA-related pictures my new main picture shows many of the software products and magazine covers on which I've worked since the 1980s. At the time of writing my colleagues and I have two more BAFTA nominations underway, for DiRT3 and the Formula 1 car racing game F1 2011; RaceDriver GRID and F1 2010 picked up previous awards, in 2008 and last year respectively. Meanwhile I'm working on 'new platforms' for Codemasters Central Technology department and putting the finishing touches to the audio in DiRT Showdown, our next driving game and the latest release based on my NeSound tech.
Interview with Ben Firshman of the Warwick Boar newspaper about my work
My research papers, published by the Audio Engineering Society in 2009 (PDF)
Technical analysis of how players listen to games
Recent innovations and the future of true 3D sound via HDMI, 7.1 and beyond
Recent Central Technology work at Codies
[NEW] 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 smattering of my Sinclair QL projects
My first hit game (vintage 1983)
SAM Supplement magazine online (1990..1997)
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]
[NEW] 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
Family Links
Leamington Peace Festival - what it is and why it's great. 2012 marks the fourth year I've worked on the committee of the local free festival, a fine band of pragmatic idealists. Follow this link to find out more.
Here's two-and-a-half minute plasticine animation The Return of Nippy and the Poo Monster (50 Mb H264 Quicktime MOV) which Ingo made with five friends and his dad over three weekends in 2010 and 2011.
(Tip: some Microsoft consumers may need to right-click and download this file before playing it, to avoid a bug in Windows Explorer).
Building a traditional Shrewsbury Coracle at Ironbridge, 2009
Fozz Nozzlerz - Best Raft in the 2007 Leamington to Warwick Raft Race
The ups and downs of hobby hovercrafting (2005)
Ingo Lyle-Goodwin's home page (2000..2011)
Across Warwickshire by balloon (2000)
Copyright © 2000-2012 Simon N Goodwin and Ingo Lyle-Goodwin