Peter is unable to speak, this is due to the nature of his disability. Computers helped him to overcome this, and still are to this present day. This is how his fascination for computers started. He was brought a Commodore VIC 20 for his 11th birthday, which was the first major home computer. A few years later, Peter was brought a Commodore 64 after him seeing one at a friends. He was amazed at how the games looked. As well as gaming, he tried his hand at game making, with BASIC at first, and then using tools such as Graphic Adventure Creator, 3D Construction Kit, and many more.

His big break was when he designed a 14 level shoot-em-up game. While Peter was at college in 1991, aged 18, studying Business and Information Technology, he programmed this shoot-em-up in his spare time. He needed testers, so he arranged for his Commodore 64 to be rigged up in the colleges refectory for people - mainly male - to play his game for a day. The response was unbelievable, about 98% liked it. Some wanted a copy of the game, but the game wasn't finished and Peter had big plans for the game. As Peter received a good response to the game, he decided to make a one level demo and send it to big publishers such as Ocean, Alternative, Domark, and a few others. Three weeks went by and Peter didn't receive any replies. Peter studies were more important to him, and this new venture was just an extra bonus. While he was studying, a letter was waiting in his pigeon hole. It was from Chris Price, the games manager at Alternative Software. He thought Peter's game had potential, so much that he told Peter to slightly improve it. It took a few weeks for the game to be of a good enough standard. Chris sent a fax to Peter explaining the royalties. Peter could have earned £9,500 from this deal, but, however, Alternative Software pulled the plug on the deal. They wouldn't tell Peter as to why, and no-one signed any contracts. If the deal was a dead-cert, who'll know what would have happened to Peter's career as a games programmer! After that, Peter sold his game to the college students for £2 a go.

After he finished college, he brought an Amiga 500+. Peter took a long break from education. During this time, he started up a Bulletin Board System (BBS) with his trusty 14,000 baud modem called Quantum Leap. People could transfer files from and to his Amiga's 160mb hard drive! (In them days, 520mb sounded a lot). After a year, Peter brought an Amiga 1200 and a 33,600 modem.

Still running his BBS, he went back to college (Enfield College) in 1996. He studied Business for four years, first was the "foundation" level, then the "intermediate" level, and for two years, the "advanced" level. Peter passed all three courses. Peter stayed for another two years for an Information Technology course at advanced level. During this course, he brought a PC - 244mhz, 64mb ram. He learnt hardware, networks, software programming and web design. However, Peter was finding it a strain, what with being in education all his life, he had enough. So he decided to quit the course in 2000.

In 2002, with the humble PC, Peter started a web site called Pedsters Planet. The name is a long story, Peter was fond of chat rooms from 1999. His chat handle was always Pedro, so one day one of his friends called Peter, Pedster. This gave Peter the idea of calling his web site after his nickname! Peter had to buy a faster PC, so that he could improve his web site from just HTML pages. Peter taught himself PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) and MySQL in just 6 months! You can see the results as most of Peter's site is PHP driven.

In the past two years, Peter has developed a web site with potential, and has established the site in search engines as well as other web sites. Peter is aiming for Pedsters Planet to become a big hit in years to come.

Definition of Cerebral Palsy:
A term used to describe a group of chronic conditions affecting body movement and muscle coordination. It is caused by damage to one or more specific areas of the brain, usually occurring during fetal development; before, during, or shortly after birth; or during infancy. Thus, these disorders are not caused by problems in the muscles or nerves. Instead, faulty development or damage to motor areas in the brain disrupt the brain's ability to adequately control movement and posture.

"Cerebral" refers to the brain and "palsy" to muscle weakness/poor control. Cerebral palsy itself is not progressive (i.e. brain damage does not get worse); however, secondary conditions, such as muscle spasticity, can develop which may get better over time, get worse, or remain the same. Cerebral palsy is not communicable. It is not a disease and should not be referred to as such. Although cerebral palsy is not "curable" in the accepted sense, training and therapy can help improve function. For more info CLICK HERE

And to think that when Peter was born, the doctors only gave him a few hours to live. Whoever said that doctors know everything, should re-think!