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1-How did your interest for computers start? Which year was that?

Uhm.. well my father bought one of that pong game in 81 or so...
That what the first time i guess...

2-What machines did you previously have? What did you do with them?

After the pong broke my dad bough an Atari 2600 on wich i played games...
A short while after that he bought an ZX81 on wich i my first program at
age of 5 *8) Then came the Commodore64.. at first i played the games... than
later i started to crack games and sale them at my school as MjK soft.. later
i started using DMC to make music for a crack-group called 'Evasion'. Wich soon was
assimilated by the demo group 'Unique' and.. about that time the SNES came
out and a friend of bought an copybox.. i looked at the same example source codes and coded
some intro's for him when started selling the games... I bought an Amiga because
he didnt had an asmbler for the pc. Well then came Protracker and the rest
is history..

3-For what specific reason did you end up making music rather than gfx, coding?

I didnt.. still make gfx and code..

4-Which composing programs have you been using? Which one in particular?

On the c64 about everything.. MAsm, DUT, DMC, EMS....
On the amiga.. i used Pt 2.3.. till i started using Octamed wich was
very handy for using midi-stuff..
Now it's most THX.. Back to the roots..

5-With which module did you feel you had reached your goal?

Uhm None.. *8)

6-Is there a tune you would like not to remember? For What reason?

None here too.. they all su.. well you get the point

7-In your opinion, what's the value of a music in a demo, game?

As George Lucas once said: "Music is 50% of the experience"

8-At present, are you still composing? For professional or leisure purposes?

More leisure... But I am trying to get proffesional work done together with
EJS...

9-What do you think of today's pieces of music such as mpeg,wave,midi,etc...?

Well mpeg is kinda nice..saves money.
GeneralMidi sucks but some most other instruments sound kewl for techno
stuff (Juno,Tb,Sh)

10-Could you tell us some of your all times favourite tunes?

SID:
I like most of them .. if i was to put an list of then it would
probably be 7000 filenames.. *8)

MOD:
About anything from the greats (Heatbeat, Laxity, Jogier Liljedahl, Jester
,ect)

THX:
Choplifter by Plukkfisk..

11-Are you planning to make an audio cd with some of your music remastered?

Maybe..

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Depeche Mode and anything from the '80

13-What does/did the amiga/c64 scene give you?

A break from the every day world.. A world of fun..

14-Are you still active in the scene these days?

Yes.. still terrorize people with my productions

15-Anyone to greet? Anything left to say? Feel free...

One greeting goes to..

- EJS, For being the best mate there is. -

And the others to: All the guys i know and all on #C64, #AmigaScne, #AmigaNl.

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