Steve's Programming Launderette
A logical step from JD's Program Pitstop, which had thousands of Speccy owners typing in hundreds of lines of hexadecimal numbers (and millions of Speccy owners writing in asking JD whether he could print the YS Hex Loader again, please?) every month, simply to create yet another mandlebrot set generator or scrolly message, was Steve's Programming Launderette. Which told people how to write these things in the first place, so they could send them in to JD and make all the other spec-chums spend hours typing in hundreds of rows of tiny print.
Steve Anderson was the host of Steve's Programming Launderette, which took you by easy steps from
knowing nothing about BASIC to producing a fully-featured, feature-packed
game with special features, The Pathetic Pablo Bros, that almost worked
properly. Steve was also an author of YS2, contributing incisive reviews of
The Orb playing somewhere his car broke down reaching, and a kebab. He is
most famous for Irregular Shed, the fanzine hailed by the world's media as
"two poorly-photocopied sheets stapled together." Another issue is now
being edited, in which trembling fans are promised the return of How To
Dance (By The Bloke Out The Farm). A partly-completed THNTRNTeiee version
may be seen at http://mis.fortunecity.com/shed
, wherein readers may
experience the effect of stepping through architecturally-important Roman
ruins, except about a Shed. Steve is currently responsible for the medical
wellbeing of a significant part of Wales; it is not uncommon for people
falling ill in Wales to be reassured by cheery Rolf Harris mouth noises as
they slip into unconsciousness, preparatory to "Splendid Surgeon" Anderson
flicking out the bits they no longer need while pressing a complimentary
copy of IS into their limp hands. (Unless he's lopping off their hands, in
which case he leaves it on the bed.)