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When I was working at GameTek I got to visit Brabens house to pick up an early build of Frontier. I was utterly starstruck , his work area had Astronomy stuff all around it and if memory serves his house was in a lovely location by the water in Cambridge.
I knew the scale of Frontier already, galaxies of data, ships and goods complete with missions. So I remember waiting with awe for him to give me the build, I dont know what I was expecting but a mountain of floppies or a hard drive or something. Instead he handed me a single floppy disk. Then gave me an extra one as "backup". I did a double take, "thats ...it?"
Turns out that WAS it and its astonishing he managed to get all that game onto a single floppy.
I had no involvement beyond gopher but it was awesome to meet a legend in his lair and play the game before anyone else. (Yeah I know it had issues but thats another story)
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