Paul Owens (games programmer) explained

Paul Owens is a British video game who worked at Ocean Software in the 1980s and 90s and was the founding programmer employed by Spectrum Games prior to Ocean Software being established. He is best known for writing the ZX Spectrum version of Daley Thompson’s Decathlon.Mainly concentrating on the ZX Spectrum, he wrote over 14 titles^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Spectrum loader schemes [1] ]. 4 January 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100506062855/http://newton.sunderland.ac.uk/~specfreak/Schemes/schemes.html . 6 May 2010 . dmy-all .
2. Web site: Sinclair Infoseek: supertest [1] ]. 4 January 2010 . van der Heide . Martijn . World of Spectrum.
3. Web site: Crash Magazine review: Hunchback II ZX Spectrum [1] ]. 4 January 2010 . Crash Magazine.
4. Web site: Sinclair User Magazine News[1] ]. 4 January 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100213182127/http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/024/news.htm . 13 February 2010 . dmy-all .
5. Web site: Sinclair Infoseek: Paul Owens [1] | accessdate = 4 January 2010 | last = van der Heide | first = Martijn | work = World of Spectrum}} but also collaborated on many other games and other platforms including the Amstrad CPC along with developing other software such as the Ocean Spectrum Loader^[1] and game development software.

   In the 80s, Ocean Software collaborated with Sinclair Research to help develop the Sinclair hardware and Paul received a letter of commendation from Sir Clive Sinclair after helping to iron out some problems with the ZX Spectrum 128 (codenamed Derby) prior to its release.

   Games

   Road Frog	Spectrum Games	1983
   Kong	Ocean Software	1984
   Daley Thompson's Decathlon	Ocean Software	1984
   Hunchback	Ocean Software	1984
   Cavelon	Ocean Software	1984
   Daley Thompson's Supertest^[2]	Ocean Software	1985
   Hunchback II: Quasimodo's Revenge^[3]	Ocean Software	1985
   Mr Wimpy^[4] ]

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   External links

   • World of Spectrum