Anthony Ball Email & Phone Number

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Preston, England, United Kingdom

Preston, United Kingdom

Deluxe Pixel is small business that I own. I manage the accounts, design and build all the hardware, design and code all the games, software, etc.Software:ReportComplete - end of term report writing system (Windows/MacOS)SmartCal (created the hardware and software for TowerDMS - previously under NDA)Games:Bacteria - vector arcade game (Android/iOS/HTML5)Dungeons - retro multi player arcade game (Android/iOS/HTML5)Rainbow 2048 - puzzle game (Android/iOS/HTML5)Zombie Rocks! - multi player arcade puzzle game (Android/iOS/HTML5)Match 3 Martians - puzzle game (Android/iOS/HTML5)Ping Pong DX - retro arcade game (Android/iOS/HTML5)RetroStar - retro 3D space combat game (Android/iOS/HTML5)Footy Manager - retro football game (Android/iOS/HTML5)Sudoku Challenge - puzzle game (Android/iOS/HTML5)Various 'Slots' games (Android)

Preston, United Kingdom

SinisterSoft Limited is a company that I own. It's currently used to license out my IP to other companies.Software:ReportAssist - end of term report writing system licensed to Report Assist Limited (Windows/MacOS)ReportComplete (2013) end of term report writing system (Windows)Games:Bacteria Arcade Edition - arcade game (Android/iOS)What Rhymes With Martians - match 3 puzzle game (Android/iOS)

Preston, United Kingdom

During this time, I created Elementary Reports, a massively improved version of the end of term report writing system that I had previously developed. This later evolved into ReportComplete which was also licensed out to another company as ReportPlus.Elementary Reports - End of term report writing system (Windows)ReportPlus - End of term report writing system - licensed to ReportAssist Limited (Windows)ReportComplete (legacy) - End of term report writing system (Windows)EasyMDB - database manager (Windows)RateMyCrime.com - website (Ruby/Javascript/HTML)

Preston, United Kingdom

After detecting a need for an easy to use, end of term report writing system for teachers - I created ReportBuilder - it was licensed to and sold by Apple Panic Limited.ReportBuilder - Primary school end of term reports system, licensed by ApplePanic Limited.Other products covered by NDA.

Preston, United Kingdom

I created a Z80 emulator for the original Sony PSX, this was used to emulate various popular retro arcade systems and computers (in a similar way that MAME does today). In addition to the emulators, I created the hardware and software for a Sega Dreamcast development system (called Xfer) that was much faster at transferring code and data than the official Sega development kit at the time.Space Invaders retro arcade multigame emulator (PSX)Phoenix retro arcade multigame emulator (PSX)Galaxians retro arcade multigame emulator (PSX)Sinclair Spectrum emulator (PSX)FireTrakker music creation and sequencer (PSX)RetroBASIC programming system (PSX)PSX keyboard interface hardware design (PSX)Dreamcast Xfer hardware development system (Dreamcast)LiteTrakker pool hall automatic billing system (DOS PC)Spymon/Datasneak - remote covert PC security system (Windows)

Preston, United Kingdom

Kage was a small business setup to create games for the Amiga computer. The first product, Superhero was a 60hz 8-way scrolling game that used all the features of the hardware. As well as the game, I coded utilities such as a map editor and disk mastering system. I also created an 'open source' hardware adapter and code to allow Sega 6 button controllers to be used on an Amiga.Superhero - hybrid platform - beat-em-up arcade game (Amiga version licensed to Psygnosis)TAME - map editor (Amiga)Sega joypad multi-button adapter hardware design (Amiga)PutDisk 2 - disk mastering system (Amiga)TASM - SNES cross assembler (Amiga)Other products under NDA

Manchester, United Kingdom

At Tiertex I was employed to create new protection techniques to be used by US Gold for the Amiga, Atari ST, C64, etc. I was also given the opportunity to convert the arcade edition of Mercs to the Amiga and ST computers. As we were not provided with any code or graphics, I created a map editor that interfaced to hardware that could attach to and scan from the original arcade machine RGB video lines. Tiertex graphic artists then used this software/hardware to grab and recreate all the graphics and maps for all formats of the game.Mercs - scrolling shoot-em up (Amiga/Atari ST)Disk mastering protection formats for TRACE equipment (Amiga/ST/C64/CPC)Tape formats for 8-bits (C64/Spectrum)AME - map editor (Amiga)PutDisk - disk mastering system (Amiga/Atari ST)

Manchester, United Kingdom

I was originally employed at Zippo to create an art package for the soon to be released Nintendo trackball. Unfortunately, a few weeks into development the project was shelved. The next project was to convert the arcade version of Cabal to the Nintendo Famicom/NES for Rare and MB Games. As no original code or graphics were provided, I coded the game by recreating the gameplay of the original.Cabal - Published by Rare and MB Games (Nintendo NES)

Hnd, Computer Studies

Voice sound driver (Atari 8-bit)

Ond, Computer Studies

Atari Artifacts - article for Home Computing Weekly Outpost - space game (Atari 8-bit) Pop! (goes the weasel) - arcade game (Atari 8-bit)

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