Inteview with Tomsoft (Thomas Landspurg)
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³¼Interview with Thomas Landspurg¼ ³TS:² Can you introduce youself? ³TL:¹ Once again! Well, I'm 24 years old, I have finished my studies and I'm working. I'm using an Amiga since 3 years. ³TS:² Why have you chosen the Amiga? ³TL:¹ At the time,having regards to his quality and its price,the Amiga has been and is still the best computer. ³TS:² What is your configuration? Is it enough for you? ³TL:¹ I have an A500 with 2 drives, a 100 Mb hard disk and 3 Mb of RAM. It's enough for me but I would like the Christmas father will bring me a little more Chip-Ram and an accelerative card. ³TS:² Are you working on other computers? ³TL:¹ For my job, I'm also working on PC and work stations. ³TS:² What languages do you know? ³TL:¹ Well...a few ones. In bulk, differents assembler, C, Pascal, Ada, PLM and of course that good old Basic. ³TS:² To your mind, which one is the best for demos, utils, and games? ³TL:¹ For demo, it is abviously the assembler, but it is possible to do very nice things with C or Basic. For utils, C is obviously the king, the assembler is not a good advice, and the GFA-Basic allows to make very quickly some very specific utils. For games, it is the same as for demos. But it is possible to realise games with C or Basic: some adventure games, but also some action games. ³TS:² Do you think groups have some privileges that independants can't have? ³TL:¹ Not especially. They have maybe access to the new demos quickly because of the "boards", but except this, I don't see a lot of interest. ³TS:² We all know that you have won the Cryptoburners party. Have you participated for the price or to show the capacities of the Amiga? ³TL:¹ For these two things, but also because I wanted my demo to be well ditributed. ³TS:² What do you think about demo-party? ³TL:¹ They can be interesting, but in small quantities. ³TS:² According to you, what makes a good demo-party? ³TL:¹ There must be animation, not only some tables with Amigas on. A hudge screen with presentation of demo on it, but also demos from other computers for exemple. We can also imagine other things: why not doing a hudge plan of the party with the position of each person or groups. ³TS:² Can tell us what were the demos you already made? ³TL:¹ With pleasure, especially because they are not a lot: -Dream pack, with vctorballs, the PoiPoi, Don't Panic and Vector, Again. -Trip to Mars -Virtual World All of them are 3D demos, except the PoiPoi. ³TS:² Which is your favorite one? Which was the most difficult to finish? ³TL:¹ I prefer the PoiPoi because everybody like it. I also think the "Virtual World" is quite well done. The most difficult to finish was the last one, Virtual World. 7 months of development. ³TS:² Do you think that the Amiga has still a nice future? ³TL:¹ Yes, I think the Amiga still has a nice future because at the time there is no computer to take his place. ³TS:² What are your favorite groups and the promising ones? ³TL:¹ My favorite groups? Well...I like a lot the work of Phenomena, Cryptoburners and Rebels. PMC and Silents have recently done super demos. ³TS:² After a long preparation for your demo, do you relax yourself (maybe a girl friend...)? ³TL:¹ Of course, but I will not talk about my private life. ³TS:² Have you some greetings to say to end this interview? ³TL:¹ Well, I have not special greetings to say. I only say hello to all the guys I know. Written by Magellan/POLARIS Translated by Donald Duck