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

I think it was around 1990 when I bought my first Computer, an Amiga 500.
Its here and still working (got an internal harddrive). My first experiences
from then were playing wonderful Amiga Games like Emerald Mine and then
learning Amiga Basic to write such games by myself. Later I learned
assembler as I tried to hack and rip.

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

My father let me play the first Larry Laffer, Gato, Spacewar and etc on an
early IBM pc. Also a friend has had a C64 with very nice Games.

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

In relation to coding I made music very seldom. The reason to make musik
was that I wanted to make some Ideas real.

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

The Obarski-Tracker tools. Protracker now. Nothing else. Maybe Fasttracker
at PC.

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

Till now I did not reach my goal with this. There are several Mods I made
which I count to be my very best. These are a remix of the Theme from
Zak McKracken and a mod called 'Out of Range'. I did not release my mods
before. Maybe now on my homepage.

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

For our first Megademo someone tried to make a mod what was really nothing
more than a messy noise. We did not use that.

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

The music does not need a demo to be perfect, but I liked it to see new
effects in the amiga years when all the coders out there tried to do better
and better again. We collected everything about them and I coded some
rippers, crunchers, decrunchers an converters for strange formats before
ProWizard or my new 'Amiga Filterium' (which should be THE ripper ;)
existed.

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

Only for leisure very seldom. Maybe I'll participate at a contest next week.

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

I like it to have the non-mod music I like, too as mp3 on a harddrive more
than changing CDs all the time I want to listen to them. But I know only
one commercial Track that reaches the genre I like most (and that is typical
Amiga and C64 sound). That Track is called '14 Zero Zero' by 'Console'.
Midi is a good idea but crap I think. It never sounds as it should. I'm sad
that Amiga Music is not played in Discos, because it is said that I can
dance.

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

Yeah! The first original Karsten Obarski Tracker tunes like 'Sleepwalk',
'Amegas', etc. Then 'mod.dear rob', 'mod.blue stars' and of course many
others.

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

Good Idea. My brother has the equipment needed. But I'm not in the form or
mood to do. Maybe later...

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Some bands of the Darkwave Scene and many different Tracks from here and
there. Maybe Madonna, Neil Diamond, Bloodhound Gang, etc dont know now...

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

My life? As Amiga was called to be dead I became depressive for years.
My Amiga was the only entity that seemed to understand me? My life story
till now reads I'm moving from here to there and sometimes branching ...
haha ...

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

Yap! I'm back! In these days I release THE ultimate filetype checker and
ripper tool called 'Amiga Filterium' (on my homepage).

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

Surely there is much more. I'll greet Zeg and BuZz from Amiga Exotica,
Homecat of Black Monks from Comparade Amiga Meetings, Crown from
Cryptoburners, Sam (the Unicorn haha), Platon at fs.tum.de, Lighttower
(good old friend, I'm very sad that he left us). If Amiga reincarnates,
I think I'll join back more officially on everyones desktop whit some
fancy utility. ;-D

The one big problem I experienced as beeing a computer freak is that much
in that f*cking world wasn't interested. I tried to change this but failed.
But I really _have_ changed. Uhm, cannot describe...

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