|  ETC | | Type: | Coder |
| Handle: | ETC |
| Other Handles: | ETC Lab, Electronic Cat Lab, Electronic Cheetah |
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| | Notes | (Compiled, translated/paraphrased from an email on 2018-03-04:)
"I was introduced to computers and started coding some time around 1984. I think this book (Műsoron a számítógép) and Bit-Let magazine were instrumental in this. In the local high school they had some HT-1080Z and Aircomp, later I got a C64, I played a lot on it of course, and I was mostly interested in music and audio related development. At Kunszentmiklós we were a little isolated, there was no internet yet, I was probably the most knowledgeable about computers in the entire village (including the teachers), so I tried to learn from Data Becker books. Later Roland and I started going to the parties at Csokonai Művház, there I met a few dudes who were a lot more knowledgeable than me (though I can only remember Attila Kosir), and that's where we got programs from. And of course from "Bit-Let Christmas", which were held at hall of Műegyetem. They started flooding the schools with C16s and Plus/4s, that's how I was introduced to them, as we always hung out in the school's computer labs with friends."
"About Digital Box: Leslie (private), whose name is mentioned was one of our friends. He was not coding but was a key member of the game parties and did contribute to the atmosphere."
"I remember that I had one more program (besides the 5 listed on the site), which happened to be actually useful: it printed those nice game startup screens on dot matrix printers (maybe MPS-803), in poster size (or maybe on 4 or 8 A4 sized pages), using various patterns to reproduce the gray-scale shades. I also had a C64 demo, I don't remember the title. It was playing Hubbard's Warhawk, and in the beginning a large 3D paddle would strike a gong. I created the animation on C64 with GigaCAD - if anyone finds this demo, let me know." |
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| The samples... Most of them were sampled by us, from game sounds and music tapes. I was able to identify the sample on the 'E' key in Digital Box: it's from the very first Hungarian musical 'Sztárcsinálók'. The Digital Box II samples were ripped from some C64 or Amiga music program. We had no money for a real drum set in our band so we tried to trigger those samples by gluing aluminium-foil to paper discs and hitting them with a metal drumstick connected to the joystick port.
Fooner contains an excerpt form Hubbard's Commando. |
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