His real name is Robert Ruža, he used to live in canton Basel Stadt, and he also used to work for a web design / hosting company (which shall remain nameless, for now at least), but he ditched them after a while because they were a bunch of cowboys. The company had no idea that he was famous on the scene, nor that he had been coding demos. Supposedly he still keeps in touch with Axel of Brainstorm, and from what I gathered, he likes fast, expensive cars, since someone I know tracked down an advertisement where he appears to… Read more »
I also see that he is credited in one intro by Semtex, which was a Croatian group and which I have also been trying to track down for decades now. Considering Rob’s last name (“ruža” means rose in Croatian), I wonder what the connection between him and Semtex is, if any? Croatian pirate scene is very small and from research I have done, everybody knew everybody who was anybody. Semtex, however, remains a complete mystery as a group. Some of their members have done time in PaRaDoX and Quartex, making them even more mysterious. Can anyone chime in and shed… Read more »
Nice prod for that period. Coder can’t be wrong with this kind of color set 🙂
Who was E.S.A ? Don’t remember his name in BRS
This is all the info I could find on him
Esa (aka Rob Rose) (CH)
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/author.php?id=2815
This intro is by the same guy who coded “Blitter Miracle”?! Talk about progress… 🙂
His real name is Robert Ruža, he used to live in canton Basel Stadt, and he also used to work for a web design / hosting company (which shall remain nameless, for now at least), but he ditched them after a while because they were a bunch of cowboys. The company had no idea that he was famous on the scene, nor that he had been coding demos. Supposedly he still keeps in touch with Axel of Brainstorm, and from what I gathered, he likes fast, expensive cars, since someone I know tracked down an advertisement where he appears to… Read more »
I also see that he is credited in one intro by Semtex, which was a Croatian group and which I have also been trying to track down for decades now. Considering Rob’s last name (“ruža” means rose in Croatian), I wonder what the connection between him and Semtex is, if any? Croatian pirate scene is very small and from research I have done, everybody knew everybody who was anybody. Semtex, however, remains a complete mystery as a group. Some of their members have done time in PaRaDoX and Quartex, making them even more mysterious. Can anyone chime in and shed… Read more »
LOL @ ZEROBlue 😀 I quite like the tune but not the (lack) of colours or the fonts.
4096 colors, and they had to pick those. That tune is nice, though.
Nice one, remember it – great zik!
Zik rules.
Oh a B&W one:_)
nice tune