From 1988 to 1993, Sawyer worked on MS-DOS conversions of Amiga games and was involved in many projects, including Virus, Conqueror, Campaign, Birds of Prey, Dino Dini's Goal and Frontier: Elite II. He faced issues with one company failing to pay him royalties on continued sales of his games. Some of these were published by Ariolasoft, Sepulcri Scelerati and Ziggurat. He sent tapes containing his games to Memotech, who arranged first publications of his titles. Sawyer began to write games in Z80 machine code on his Memotech MTX home computer- which possessed a built in assembler- and then later on an Amstrad CPC series home computer. Career Memotech & MS-DOS titles (1983–1993) He graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Microprocessor Systems from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Being unable to afford a BBC Micro, Sawyer purchased a Camputers Lynx with which he could write simple programs in machine code.
Sawyer was born in Scotland, and was fascinated with computers and programming from an early age, writing simple scripts in BASIC on a ZX81 at a local store.
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