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Members

Name:
Jon Mines

Role:
Founder/Programmer/Graphician

Location:
Seattle, Washington

Projects:
NTSCene.com, Hardware64.com, Arcana (final demo)

Hobbies:
scenic driving, reading, role-playing games

Favorites:
mongolian beef, pomegranates, satsuma oranges

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renaak [CSDb profile]

Computers are in Jon's blood, he started dabbling with them at an early age. He started with Commodore PETs and moved to the TI-99/4A and then back to the Commodore with the C64 and eventually Amiga before infection of the graybox syndrome set in. From the start he wanted to be a programmer, first banging out some goofy BASIC text adventure games and a nice Rogue-like on the PET, and eventually demos, games, and tools on the C64. Programming for Amiga and PC doesn't hold his interest, but if need be, can be done. Free-time is spent reading, painting miniatures, chatting with friends, playing games, and driving in the green environs of Washington state.

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Name:

Dustin Chambers

Role:
Programmer/Musician

Location:
Ottawa, Ontario

Projects:
Commodore 64 development, creating a music album

Hobbies:
Commodore 64, keyboards and drums, traveling

Favorites:
steak, mashed potatoes, chocolate ice cream

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Fuzz [CSDb profile]

Born and raised in the country, Dustin grew up on skates playing hockey like most Canadian kids. He can commonly be found in a local pub/restaurant snacking on honey garlic wings while watching his local sports teams. He spends a few hours a week composing and recording music and coding on his trusty C128 setup.

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Name:

Ray Lejuez

Role:
Graphician/Programmer/Hardware

Location:
Cedar Grove, New Jersey

Projects:
c64world.com, VB6 RPG mini game, Forsakengames.com

Hobbies:
anything Commodore, role-playing games, first person shooters

Favorites:
pizza, chicken cutlets, new york cheesecake

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Warlock [CSDb profile]

I'm boring.

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Name:

Andrew Vaisey

Role:
Programmer/Graphician/Musician

Location:
Pont-y-pwl, Cymru

Projects:
OutRun PETSCII

Hobbies:
Computing, drums, rugby

Favorites:
a nice glass of malbec, Chinese food, Indian food

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aNdy [CSDb profile]

Born in South Wales on Xmas day 1974, Andy’s first encounter with a C64 was Xmas `84, when his parents bought him a C64 and C2N, along with a Boss joystick and some games. He hasn't looked back since and still tinkers with it till this day. Andy plays drums in a band in between maintaining a home network that contains far too many computers, laptops and servers to mention...

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Name:

Ryley James

Role:
Graphician/Tester

Projects:
Motor Dodger (PC Game)

Hobbies:
rugby, cycling

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w0rm [CSDb profile]

Ryley is the youngest member of the team, but already has a few graphics and testing credits to his name as well as learning to code on the PC. Find his wares on his website here...

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Name:

Petar Strinic

Role:
Founder/Graphician

Projects:
dicey wave bot, vcf to csv converter, "bavaria"

Hobbies:
soccer, sleeping, computers, mma

Favorites:
pizza, kung pao chicken, broken glass

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Carcass [CSDb profile]

Petar's computer obsession started back in his home country of Croatia in 1983 with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and has seen him working on platforms ranging from Commodore 64 to AS400 and everything in between. In 1994 Petar helped co-founded Arkanix Labs, a hardware and software development company which released many hit titles on various platforms. Since his introduction to the internet in the early 90's he's also been heavily involved in web development, utilizing a variety of skills including C, C++, C#, JAVA, PHP, SQL, Python and much more.

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Name:

Paul Green - INACTIVE

Role:
Programmer

Projects:
Frixxion (C64)

Hobbies:
World of Warcraft, Console Games, Keep the Wife Happy

Favorites:
Stella Artios (very hard to find in the US), cheesecake, sprouts

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Trooper [CSDb profile]

Born in Liverpool UK (I'm a scouser by heart) in 1973, moved to London in 2001, then moved to the States in 2010. Enjoy all kind of things computer related, but enjoy them as a hobby, at the moment. I'm a general happy go lucky person, but at the moment I'm on a mission trying to remember to say the 'American' expression of the UK version, or people don't understand me....doh!!

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Past members:

Moloch
Patrick "Aceman" Vupli
Zak "The Infiltrator" Arntson
Daniel "DMackey" Mackey
Terry "Roy Batty" Flynn
Robin "Macbeth" Harbron.

For a short while in the mid-1990s we tried our hands at hardware releases and during this time period Nate Dannenberg was under contract to create the DigiMax, 8BSS (sampler), PowerSID 2400, and the MODplay 64/128 software.