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

Began in 1.st grade school in 1982, got a few new friends after some
weeks, and one had a c64....i was hooked...my father bought me a vic 20
with 3 games, probably sometime in 1983....then got a c128 later and played
games a few years, then I got an A1000 in 1987, my first amiga...it was
.....i cant write in words the fun and joy it was...I ran home from school
every day as fast as i could, i had the bloodtaste in my mouth every day
then i inserted the kickstart disk....

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

1. Vic20 my father sold it probably
2. C128 w/ a 3.5 floppy external disk, my uncle bought it in the US
and gave me for christmas, i was my first encounter with the
blue hard plastic disks, but at that time i didnt find
any place i could buy them, so i only had 2 disks..
3. A1000
5. A600 , sold a1000 to my cousin to buy a600 coz of wb and kick2.0x
6. a1200, bought in 1992...then sometime around june 1999 lightening
struck, had to buy new a1200

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

I do/used to do all :) I started making small lame drum solos with
soundtracker on the a1000....we have i guess some musical genes in
our family, my father played in a band, gitar, my sister plays
drums/gitar/synth/piano and my brother listens to music..heh

So i've made a few modules just for the fun of it, later
i started drawing on the a600, deluxe paint and stuff
got a modem and called most of the bbs'es in norway at that
time....all used a byte ratio....so i guessed i
uploaded one or two of my drawings to earn bytes, and
a person liked them, i guess....IT/banana design asked
me to join, as a graphician, so i did.....they used one
fullscreen picture in a short demo, just a picture i
had drawn earlyer, coz they needed something fast
demo was nearly done i guess.....it was a kinda
dark drawing of a werewolf, mouth open and Banana design
logo in center of screen....because of that drawing
another problem came, music was kinda happy like...heh
so brainbug had to make a scary like intro in his module
just so the picture would fit in...

After that i started really on drawing banana design stuff
lotsa logos with a more gentle design, more like yellow
blue,pink happy colors....big bold curvy fonts

But some of the groups organisers, who joined on later
thinked I was using too much time, and that i didnt care
for the group, also the fact that i had modem 'arrest' from
my father because of a rather large phone bill, i guess
they sacked me....i never heard from them again, think
the whole group went dead....i saw one demo after that,
with another graphician, Optic....and that Shiny old Boots
module by BrainBug, still one of my fav modules today.

Think group died after that....all my logos and hours of
drawing wasted.....

After meeting Felix who wanted to start a new group called
Massive, i did a few logos and interface for a mag/chart
called Messed Up...but that too didnt make it to a complete
product...

We later start joining up with Maze/Eltech to do a few
Digital Chips issues, and again I make a new interface/design
and those where on issue 15 or 16 upto 19 i think. I'm really
proud of those....digital chips rewls, or simply i just love
c64/chip tunes...

I remember when first issue of DC came with my gfx, i carried
my computer and monitor to the livingroom and connected
to my parents tv and stereo, and showed them what we do.

They've always asked what i do then sitting with computer
i say 'we make demos' and they like 'oh' and dont know what a
demo are......Now they knew :)

Later over the years, scene seem like stopping....major
groups lost members who went to pc's i guess...so
i just hang out on irc....in 1995/96 call rates wasnt
as bad anymore....got hooked on bbs'ing again, with
telnet the wonderful world of bbs'es came usable and
affordable again, and even foreign countries was
reachable :) I've always loved the feeling and
exitement of logging into a bbs and read/check out
new msg/files...the design of a bbs is the most
important thing to me, if a sysop gives a crap
about design, the hole bbs is destroyed....in my
eyes...so i wanted to build and maintain my own
bbs....in 1996 the bbs was born...Nameless

Nameless.....i just could figure out a proper name..

I think end of 96 i just named it Winterland, coz its
always cold here when i live, and i was in the END of
96 :) and its been winterland ever since.

My coding started with doors for bbs system Daydream.

I joined Intellect as a door coder and sysop.

It was soo fucking fun, i wish i started trying learing
to code years earlyer...

Even if the doors where written in arexx, they where
pretty usable, i didnt use much of the functions that
gave arexx the slow feeling. reading 32byte of a file
in asm/arexx is same speed. and most of my doors
used simple reading of data files and making
charts out of it.

I even made a small meny system for a pack disk
maintained my Purple Haze, EasyPack think it was..
that was coded in AmigaE...

Today, i run my own firm, i make signs and logos you
all have seen on company cars and busses. Its
very fun, and since I'm the boss...i can sleep
as long as i want,....:) sometimes

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

Soundtracker, Noisetracker, protracker....protracker rewls

saw digibooster when it came out, but i didnt make any music
at that time i think, and i didnt like the look/design of
the screen..

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

There is probably one.....just cant remember name.

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

cant think of anything here

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

Everything, music or soundeffects make the demo alive...I saw
Scoopex's Mental Hangover just after demo was released in
a computer store.....I was outside and the a500's monitor
was facing out of the store.....didnt impress me much,
or it did impress me, but the effects and sequences in a
demo are much more alive and kicking with sound.

When I first saw Desert Dream by Kefrens, and that sawblade
went into the screen, i fucking jumped in my seat, mainly
because i didnt see it coming, as the music still played
in the background....made the effect really surprising :)

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

Yes, today my father have a complete sound studio, we have
local groups comming in here for mastering and recording.

When i have time (i never have) i usally try doing some
instumental themes/tunes with the Korg Trinity..

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

I dont know...i dont feel as much for the mpeg format as the module
format, in the module format you have the notes and sounds
in seperate, so its easy to just disable all channels
and just play the drums of a module, then jump over to the
synth and join in :) i have done/still do that for years.

with the module format its easy to change things you feel
could have been better, if a composer used crap samples
but a great tune, i used to make my own 'remix' with
new better samples/sounds

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

im not good remembering titles, but alot of Jogeir liljedahls
music is my fav's also some heatbeat tunes. My father really
loved chromags and virgill's rock and blues tunes.

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

no way....i wont terrorise people :)

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Orbital and Orbital alike music

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

my life :) I cant imagine a life without growing
up knowing all those people who dedicate hours
of their everyday life, making stuff, making
entertainment for free for others to enjoy.

At work i listens often to classic modules
from demos/mags.....mp3/mpeg is good
for that kinda use...

In my teens, at parties and stuff like that
i brougth with me tapes of amigamusic, everyone
loved it...but i dont think i could do that
today :)

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

.....dont know.....probably not in the scene, but
more in the amiga community.

I bought a Mediator in January 2001, and wait for
some g3/g4 card to arrive :)

At work, we have a few machines that are computer
driven, CNC router.....and programs for controlling
those costs A FUCKING LOT on win9x pc's.

So I've made a calculating program in arexx, so
all things we make using cnc routers is mainly
calculated with arexx from an amiga.

So what other firms pay 40-50.000 NOK in software
and heavy pc's for running them, i use a 1000 NOK
a1200 and OS 3.5 w/ arexx to do nearly the same.

So the amiga computer are much used here...

I have 2 kids, a boy thats 3 years and a girl thats
almost 1 year.....i wait, and wait....i cant wait

I wonder what computers they'll have :)

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

Hi mom, felix,frenzey,massive members, intellect members
#amigano and every amigan out there..

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