Simon Brattel is a British hardware and software designer. He founded

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in 1976 as a company name to use on various hardware designs, mainly in the audio field. When at Crystal Computing he was part of the team that produced the

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game

Halls of the Things ''Halls of the Things'' is a video game developed by Design Design for the ZX Spectrum and released by Crystal Computing in 1983. It was ported to the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. The player travels through seven floors of a tower, searching f ...

and the Z80 assembler

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. Much of the development was done using homebrew computers.Basil's hand-wired CPU (wiring side)
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