UK Games Industry Over the Hill?

Tinkle writes "A games industry campaign group has warned the UK is falling behind on coding skills because university courses are not up to scratch. But this article includes an interview with an industry coding veteran who believes a lack of creative home computing hardware (think: Atari ST) is more likely to be at the root of the skills shortage, and explains why Britain's games coders are getting a bit long-in-the-tooth."

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Home coding on the Atari ST?

[gsslay]

Seriously, did any home users code on an Atari ST in the UK??? Its BASIC sucked and other languages cost extra.

Real coders learnt on the Spectrum or Beeb.