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      • Dave Jones’s preferred name of Acme Software was taken, and so the group eventually settled on DMA Design, standing for Direct Memory Access, taken from nearby Amiga programming manuals (rather than Doesn’t Mean Anything as journalists were often told at the time), and so it was, in amongst the other individual projects, that DMA Design was founded in late 1987.
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  2. Aug 13, 2016 · This documentary of gaming history charts of the story of DMA Design and their voyage from Thursday night evenings at the Dundee Computer Club back in 1983, through early ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 game conversions such as Zone Trooper & Shadow of the Beast, through the phenomenal success they encountered on the Amiga and PC.

  3. DMA Design. Introduction. For years Steve Hammond threatened to write a full history of DMA, but never quite got around to it, just too many things got in his way. The lack of raw material, fading memories, and just being too damn busy have always meant that it remained a secret.

  4. DMA Design officially started sometime in 1987 with the beginnings of what was to become their first game; Menace, and ended on a high in 2000 with Grand Theft Auto 2. And what a ride it turned out to be!

  5. Jul 9, 2018 · Since cofounding DMA Design in 1987, Dave Jones has created video games that have become massive franchises, including Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto, Crackdown, and APB: All Points Bulletin.

  6. Aug 2, 2016 · This documentary of gaming history charts of the story of DMA Design and their voyage from Thursday night evenings at the Dundee Computer Club back in 1983, through early ZX Spectrum and...

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  7. A detailed history of DMA Design as remembered by Mike Dailly - the first employee.

  8. Apr 20, 2008 · Founded in 1988 by David Jones, DMA Design started out developing games for Amiga and Atari ST computers. However, it wasn't until the release of Lemmings in 1991 that the company made a huge splash in the gaming world.

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