Simon Brattel is a British hardware and software designer. He founded Design Design in 1976 as a company name to use on various hardware designs, mainly in the audio field. When at

Crystal Computing Crystal Computing, later renamed Design Design, was a British video game developer founded in 1982 by Chris Clarke and Ian Stamp while students at the University of Manchester. Graham Stafford, Neil Mottershead, Simon Brattel and Martin Horsley, j ...

he was part of the team that produced the

ZX Spectrum The ZX Spectrum () is an 8-bit computing, 8-bit home computer that was developed by Sinclair Research. It was released in the United Kingdom on 23 April 1982, and became Britain's best-selling microcomputer. Referred to during development as t ...

game Halls of the Things 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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