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Video interview with Wolfgang Back (English version)

Wolfgang Back is a computer journalist pioneer since the first hour and of the birth of computers.

Posted by Nafcom on Jul 23, 2019 // Read more »

Video Interview with Paco Portalo

Paco Portalo is a computer games pioneer from Spain when he and his friends create the computer game "Bugaboo (The Flea)" in 1983 under "Indescomp". Originally done for the ZX Spectrum as this one was just released in UK. The game was published by Quicksilva and caused a kickstart of the "Golden Era of Spanish Software" in which Spain became the second largest 8 bit computer entertainment software producer in Europe (just behind UK). The game was also the first game to ever use animated non-interactive scenes (later coined as "cutscenes" by game designer Ron Gilbert in 1987 when this technique gained wide audience awareness due to his point & click adventure "Maniac Mansion") In this interview, Paco Portalo also talks about the beginning of computing in Spain, correcting Spanish computer game history in 2009 by writing the book Bugaboo, un hito en la Historia del software español by Francisco Portalo Calero.

Posted by Nafcom on Apr 21, 2019 // Read more »

Video Interview with John Mack

John Mack is the designer and graphic artist of the 1983 edutainment program "Operation:Frog" by Scholastic. It was the first of its kind in which you were tasked to either dissect or put together a frog. Learn all about this program and how it came to be.

Posted by Nafcom on Apr 19, 2019 // Read more »

Video interview with Christian Spanik -Part 5 - Working at Data Becker

In part 5 of our interview series with computer media pioneer Christian Spanik, we talk about how it was to work for Data Becker.

Posted by Nafcom on Mar 08, 2019 // Read more »

Video interview with John Romero

John Romero is one of the most famous computer game designers, most known for his 3D Ego shooters like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Quake, and the jump'n'run series "Commander Keen"

Posted by Nafcom on Dec 27, 2018 // Read more »

Video interview with John F. Kutcher

John F. Kutcher is one of the early C64 programmers programming games like Space Taxi and Solo Flight 2nd Edition in the early 80s. Space Taxi especially celebrating a huge recognition by its unique gameplay and accurate physics at that time as well as digitized speech!

Posted by Nafcom on Aug 05, 2018 // Read more »

Video interview with Mike Clarke

Mike Clarke is a famous composer who former worked for Psygnosis. Among his most known works are the musics for Last Ninja 2 on the Amiga or e.g. Lemmings 2 on the SNES. He speaks about his experience of doing "a little bit of everything" as a composer, coder, manager, etc from the C64 throughout the Amiga, SNES, etc.

Posted by Nafcom on Jul 28, 2018 // Read more »

Video interview with Christian Spanik & Hannes Ruegheimer - Part 4 - Hannes Ruegheimer & user courses

We talk to Christian Spanik & Hannes Ruegheimer about pioneering in the journalistic IT field. This time talking about user courses and Hannes imself and his involvement.

Posted by Nafcom on Feb 10, 2018 // Read more »

Video interview with John Cioffi

john Cioffi is the inventor of the DSL technology, he and his team invented what lead to broadband internet all over the world.

Posted by Nafcom on Dec 10, 2017 // Read more »

Video interview with Christian Spanik - Part 3 - Pioneering in Web TV

How it was to pioneer in German web.TV.

Posted by Nafcom on Oct 21, 2017 // Read more »