About Myself

Hobbies

• Website design
• Digital photography
• Programming
• Writing my CMS
• Watching Stargate, Green Wing, Lost
• cats

study: finished, 'Bachelor in Art & Technology' (multimedia)

work: making webapplications



Personal website:
http://www.spellcoder.nl

My Amiga website:
http://www.amigacoding.com

my old Diablo 2 clan website:
http://www.dutchtemplars.nl


Hi there. My youth was heavily influenced by the commodore 64 & Amiga
(mostly by the Amiga actually)

Here's a sumop of my computerhistory:
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• 1980 - Started my life


• 1986 - Learned my first basic instructions on the C64


• 1989 - My dad sold the C64 and bought an Amiga 500


• 1989 - Started making music in MED, learning Amiga Basic


• 1990 - Ditched Amiga Basic (Microsuxx) and started learning AMOS Basic


• 1993 - Joined the AMOS emailing list (still a member in 2008 :P)
  (at my dad's email adres at work)

• 1996 - Got an modem at home...
  happily dialing to BBSses and telnetting to get email

• 1997 - Got into contact with the WWW & IRC


• 19?? - one of my tunes and some of my ideas are used in MegaTron V1.5 (on Aminet)


• 1997? - started learning 68000 assembler

1998

• Discovered IRC and a channel full of C64 & Amiga freaks (#amigaexotic)
• made software (test in AMOS & final in assembler) to read Dutch telephone cards
• started my Amiga website, Amiga Heaven
• AGA-fixed a small pd game (biplanes) and an old commercial game (Transplant)
• ripped intros/cracktro's from bootblocks, executables (onefiled). collected with someone I met on #amigaexotic (Guffaw)
• was one of the first to report & dissasemble a trojan horse (was in 1998 I guess, some email bomb called zakapior or something like that)
• Started making music in THX/AHX (sounding like C64 music)

1999

• my dad bought an PC, my brother and I still had an Amiga.
• Amiga Exotica (buzz) added 4 of my AHX tunes

2000

• Got cable internet connection
  (incredible speeds ... 3-100 times as fast as 56k6 modem =))

• quickly made some music for the Happy Buzzday intro (EXN-bday.lha on Aminet or Amiga Exotica website)

2001

• pc as main computer, Amiga with 10mbit network card
• played more Diablo II than was good for me
• started learning to use Photoshop
• started study Art & Technology
• got interested in Digital Photography

2002

• started learning Javascript
• started making music in Modplug Tracker

2003

• now making webapplications (html,css,javascript)

2004

• started learning PHP
• kinda stopped making music
• playing World of Warcraft in closed/open beta

2005

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