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

It all started in grade 5 (1983, I was 11) when our primary school got its
first computer, an Apple II. After that my uncle started to learn computers
after work at the local high school and theh bought himself a Vic=20. After
he upgraded to a Tandy Model 4P he gave me the Vic=20 for christmas when I
was 13. I was set, a computer all to myself. I grew tired of the little games
that I had and could not afford to get new ones, so I did what was the normal
thing at the time and typed in progammes from computer magazines. Progamming
was cool, I could get the computer to do things that I wanted it to do. After
about a year or so I upgraded to a C=64. The games were cooler, yay, but what
was more interesting was the intro's to the games (okay I copied games
sometimes). I wanted to do programming like that, and after a lot of reverse
engineering and reading ASM books I finally learnt demo programming on the
C=64. Except music! It drove me nuts. Then one day I saw an Amiga 500 playing
some tunes with NoiseTracker in a Computer Shop and i was sold. I could make
my own music with that. I never though that I was any good compared to the
many others, but I surprised myself with the few good tunes that I finaly
produced.

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

Vic=20 (85-86)
- BASIC programming
- Played the odd game
C=64 (86-90)
- BASIC progamming
- 6510 Machine language and Assembly
- Played more games
- GFX
- Wrote demos
- Wrote Mandelbrot programes in Asm and Basic

Amiga 500 (90-94) now in storage (don't have the heart to get rid of it)
- 68000 Asm
- GFX
- Mods
- BBS'ing
- Games

WinTel Upgrade Train (8086, 286, 386, 486, 686, Pentium, Pentium II,
Pentium III) (94-now)
- HTML
- Technician
- Games
- Just about everything else these days.

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

I love music. Plus all those C=64 years of not bieing able to, it was just
something that I had to do.

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

Mainly ProTracker. v2.3 i think.

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

ice cold diet phunk. It was the music in the hidden section of the Perehelion
demo.

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

Ah quite a few. I'd save any old garbage that i wrote.

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

It gives your ears something to do while your eyes are entertained.

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

Haven't for a while, but it's something that I might get back into one day.

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

Well with MP3, everyone can have a Jukebox now!

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

Audiomonster's Nebulos fome the ICE demo
plus pretty much anything else my Audiomonster and Romeo Knight

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

Maybe not remastered, but just straight to CDR for myself to listen and think
about the 'good old days'

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Tool, Marilyn Manson, Pink Floyd, Rollins Band, TISM, The Chemical Brothers,
Regurgitator.

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

A sense of belonging really. We were the kids who everyone picked on just
because we were smarter and had interests that they didn't or couldn't
understand. We could hang out together and do our thing and everyone around
was okay with that. Oh and we also had some killer times doing 'stuff'...

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

No, it's family time nowdays (Wife and 3 little clones)

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

Big hello to Chris Tyler (you da man!) and all the old boys from Crass (you
know who you are)

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