Brian Howarth

Brian Howarth is a computer game programmer. He wrote many interactive fiction computer games in the early 1980s in a series called Mysterious Adventures. He designed an adventure interpreter based on Scott Adams's database format after the Molimerx catalogue were impressed with his first (machine language written) game, The Golden Baton (1981). Following this success, he ported his games from the original TRS-80 format to the BBC Micro under his... more

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