Issue 12

Brent Stevens

Brent Stevens

The Sam Coupé Public Domain Software Association was one of the first PD libraries formed for the Coupé.

The catalogue was called “SamSational Software”.

Fuxoft

Coder and Musician.

Well known on the ZX Spectrum scene for his musical talents exploded onto the Coupé scene with two conversions of Rob Hubbard tunes Chimera and Monty on the Run written with a conversion of his 128k Spectrum music editor AY-Amadeus called SAMadeus and featured on the SCPDSA Demo Disk 1.

Info from http://www.fuxoft.cz/english.htm

First of all, I am from the Czech Republic and “Frantisek Fuka” is my real name. To be more precise, there is a weird thing above the letter “s” that cannot be reproduced in ASCII. The whole name sounds somehow like “Fran-tjee-shek Foo-kah” (the “Foo” is short). “Fuxoft” is my nickname which I “invented” when I was about 12 years old and started programming first games for 8-bit computers. It was derived from “Fuka” + “soft[ware]” and is supposed to be pronounced “Fooksoft” (again, “foo” is short). I really don’t remember if I had any idea back then (in the year 1980) what certain four letter English words mean, but if I had, I didn’t care. (BTW, “Fuka” is certainly not usual Czech name and “Frantisek” means “Franciscus” or “Frank”.)

The Cursor

Taken from the Your Sinclair Rock ‘n’ Roll years

Born in 1974 in the States, Nick moved over to Britain with the rest of his family when he was five years old. He got his first computer in 1985, a Sinclair Spectrum 48k+, and used this to teach himself programming. He started reading YS in 1987, loved it from the start and picked up as many issues as he could, and stopped reading it sometime in 1992 when most shops decided not to sell it any more. By this time, he had already bought one of the doomed SAM Coupés in which he started selling his own programs under the name Cursor Productions, as a result of which he made the princely sum of 28p.

After SAM Computers Ltd went under in 1992, Nick acquired an 8086 PC and his Spectrum and SAM gaming days ended. He then went to Liverpool University to study for a Computer Science degree.

Now runs the Your Sinclair Rock ‘n’ Roll years web site.

Coder.

Software house run by Daniel Garner.

Garner Designs

Also ran New Aspects sofware house that produced Pipe Mania

Public Domain

William McGugan

A collection of William McGugan’s programs that featured on Fred Magazine.

Writer for Crash magazine and Coder.