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Mike Singleton
Mike Singleton (21 February 1951 – 10 October 2012) was a British author and video game developer who wrote various well-regarded titles for the ZX Spectrum during the 1980s.〔(The Guardian: RIP Mike Singleton, the RPG visionary who revolutionised the genre )〕 His titles include ''The Lords of Midnight'', ''Doomdark's Revenge'', ''Dark Sceptre'', ''War in Middle Earth'' and ''Midwinter''. He also wrote a novel, ''The Eternal Empire'', whilst at university.〔(Sinclair User Magazine article about his career in general )〕 Before developing video games, Singleton was an English teacher in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England.〔
== Early work ==
Singleton originally started programming in 1980, teaching himself BASIC on the Commodore PET,〔(Crash magazine Richard Eddy and Ben Stone interview from June 1987 )〕 and writing ''Computer Race'', a horse racing game he designed for a betting shop.〔 Moving on from this, he began working on arcade games for the Pet, working with PetSoft, where he wrote ''Space Ace'' entirely in 6502 machine code.〔 The game broke sales records of the day by selling three hundred copies,〔 which was a considerable achievement given the number of compatible computers at the time.〔
Singleton's association with PetSoft turned out to be short-lived, as PetSoft, who had been due to enter into a contract with Sinclair Research in Cambridge to write software for the new ZX80, lost out on the deal to Psion.〔 Mike contacted British inventor and entrepreneur Clive Sinclair and was asked to send his games along.〔 Some time after, in November 1980, he was then asked to visit the site in Cambridge, and invited to work on software for their brand new ZX81 micro.〔(Crash magazine Roger Kean interview )〕 Mike used this as the platform for his ''GamesPack1'' project.
''GamesPack1'' was a series of games, each fitting into just 1 kilobyte of memory. It was one of the first commercial software programs written for the ZX81, and something of a runaway success, selling a massive 90,000 copies, earning Singleton £6,000 for his efforts〔 (in those days, this was the approximate new price of a large family car in the UK), particularly pleasing as it had taken him just two weeks over the Christmas holidays to complete〔 and net what was essentially an entire year's salary.
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