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

I started with computers when I was ten years old. It was with czech
computer PMD-85 based on Z80 CPU. It was not a good computer. My
parents bought me an Didaktik Gama 89 later, which is ZX Spectrum
48KB clone with additional 32KB of memory. Great... many games, many
facilities for young boy :-)

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

PMD-85: I've started to learn Basic language
Didaktik Gama 89: I've started to learn Sinclair Basic and Assembler
of Z80 and compose music on beeper and later on AY 3-8912 chip.

Amiga 500+ : I've got this great computer as a gift from my dear
friend. I've always dreamed about it!

Amiga 1200: I bought A1200 'cos I was unable to expand the A500+ with
new CPU and AGA rulez, you know

Amiga 4000 : at this time, I've the Amiga 4000 computer equipped with
CyberStormPPC and the fastest 68K CPU 68060@60MHz, G-Rex 4000 PCI
bridge with powerful TerraTek512i sound card, VooDoo3 gfx card and
ethernet and Algor, the USB Zorro III card. Great!

I do everything on my A4000.

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

'cos I'm poor GFX maker and not a very good coder, although I can do
good proggy for Z80.

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

ZX Spectrum: Wham! The music box, Orfeus, SoundTracker, SQ-Tracker
Amiga: Octamed 4, Octamed SoundStudio 1.03, AHX Tracker, SoundFX, 303
Tracker, DigiBooster and many others
PC: Impulse Tracker, Scream Tracker, Rebirth..

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

technically, my best multichannel module is cover from Timothy Follin,
Chronos - the tapestry of time, originally from ZX Spectrum 48KB. It
was very hard covering. (PC).

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

maybe my the first tunes for thei poor technical quality. But I don't
remember their names.

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

No music, no feeling. It is very important. The best possibility is
good msx and good demo. For example Desert Dream from Amiga (Laxity
was the coder and composer at once)

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

I wish I could say YES. The truth is not, because of lack of time. I'm
not proffesional composer. I do it only for my own pleasure and for
the friends, for the community around the ZX Spectrum and Amiga.

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

Music is indepent on format. Music depends on musician! Good composer,
good music. No matter if he/her uses MIDI, Tracker.

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

Tim Follin: Agent X 2, Raw Recruit, Black Lamp, Led Storm, Dolphin's
Matthew Smith: Batman
Laxity: Desert Dream
and modules from Nine Fingers and State of the Art. There are a lot of
modules which I like very much.

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

yes, probably in Q1 of 2004. It will be surprise for all the people
who know me :)

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Scooter, Prodigy and J.S.Bach - Orgelwerke
auf Silbermannorgeln

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

inspiration and real friends. Especially guys from ZX Spectrum scene.
I'm not interested in C64 scene a lot...

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

partially, yes. I'm leader of Horizontal Lamerz - the Amiga group. We
are looking for good coder. Since we know we can't find him, I bought
Hollywood - an multimedia application layer for amiga. It is powerful
scripting language :-)

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

It is dangerous section. I will forget someone for sure, so I'm going
to send the greetings to all the Speccy, Amiga and C64 scene. Well
:-) especially to Factor 6, Omega, POKE, Dizzy, Bell, Marwin, Baze,
MikeZT, Pol, Mike Follin and Hyperion Software Entertainment.

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