05.Nov.2019
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
|
Video interview: Roman Werner (Traps'n Treasures, Leonardo, Eliminator) (update)
Roman Werner is a former video game developer whose best known game might be his jump'n run Traps'n Treasures but who was also involved as musician in other games (Leonardo, Eliminator). In the video interview with Scene World he has talked about his time as video game developer for Starbyte and his latest retro activities like type-in BASIC games for competitions or the "One Button Controller" which he developed.
Update: (25.11. 2019, 23:00 cg)
In the German comments section, people were asking for a summary of the long interview. In response, Jörg Dröge from the Sceneworld team supplied the following detailed overview of the topics discussed during the two hours. Thank you, Jörg!
- 00:00:55 "First commercial product" an dem ich mitgewirkt habe.
- 00:01:38 "How to get into Computers?"
- 00:03:47 "Shorter Listings next time"?
- 00:04:00 "Did you got a Datasette at some point, or Disk Drive?"
- 00:04:30 "How were the prices in Switzerland?"
- 00:05:19 "Disk Drive was more expensive than the c64, cause 1541 was like a computer, CPU, ram on its own"
- 00:06:05 "Then you started with gaming and discovered the cracking scene" / meeting in shopping centers?
- 00:07:30 Stars Wars when I was 10
- 00:08:07 "Accoustic Coupler" / Big Apple nickname
- 00:09:45 “Swiss Cracking Association” Bild von Cracker Landkarte??
- 00:09:56 "Same group that was famous later on for having coded the first Amiga Virus"
- 00:11:25 "But you could get rid of it, right?"
- 00:12:15 Jim Sachs / Defender of the Crown Bild???
- 00:12:35 "Press said that Defender of the Crown was photo realistic"
- 00:14:39 "You write mostly about Amiga or Atari Stuff on your blog, why not C64?"
- 00:15:32 "You are known of those people who can do everything a bit graphics, coding, music?"
- 00:16:20 Christian Gleinser / Shadow Switcher / Frogs Bild???
- 00:17:00 "Synthesizer / music for computers
- 00:18:07 "Sound Fx" Bild???
- 00:20:00 "Leonardo" C64 version
- 00:21:20 "Animated Intro, Leonardo going into the house" Bild???
- 00:22:24 Eliminator / John Philips / How the intro music was made
- 00:25:05 Music NTSC/PAL timing / DTV / Summer Games
- 00:27:00 On Amiga you could switch PAL/NTSC
- 00:27:54 "Your own game?" Traps'n'Treasures
- 00:32:20 "Traps'n'Treasures is the game we are talking about" Bild???
- 00:32:32 - 00:32:43 cut
- 00:34:05 - 00:34:38
- 00:38:43 "Suprising that Starbyte went bankrupt"
- 00:41:00 Last Ninja 3 in 1991 sold 3.5 Million / 5.5 Million.
- 00:43:56 Krisalis Bild???
- 00:44:55 "Did you ever work on other games?"
- 00:45:55 "2016 returned to retro-scene"
- 00:46:18 BASIC Tenliners Contest Bild???
- 00:48:00 Single Button Game concept / Single Button Game Controller Bild???
- 00:50:26 "How many were produced?"
- 00:51:00 Delayed sending
- 00:52:45-00:55:30 Intellivision Amico / Graphic Designer Peru / Victor working on Mobile Games
- 00:55:12 "Leonardo 2"
- 00:59:13 "Rolling Ronny" / "Level-Ed"
- 01:00:00 Starbyte wanted to replace the hero in TnT
- 01:01:00 Commodore bankrupt 1995
- 01:02:06 Race between "Lemmings" (Jeroen Tel) / "Mayhem in Monsterland" 1993
- 01:03:09 Mike Clarke (Psygnosis) / dutch developers wanted to tick off the system
- 01:05:00 - 01:06: DTV / TheC64 Discussion
- 01:08:35 "What do you do nowadays?"
- 01:08:59 "Do you still know assembler?"
- 01:09:39 "VCS developers did not have any tools"
- 01:10:55 "Two type of people - People who want to talk about it or people who say let it be"
- 01:11:25 "Meeting for Gamescom / Blackjack"
- 01:14:18 "Preserving the stories"
- 01:14:30 "1977 Homecomputers / PET / Toasters / FAX machine"
- 01:15:30 "CD-Player came to market"
- 01:16:00 "Micowave"
- 01:17:00 "VHS Player"
- 01:17:35 "Scene C64 - Fixing your C64 / Capacitors / FPGA / Software does not age
- 01:19:45 Emulating a Seagate drive
- 01:20:35 Arcade Machines Batteries that leaked
- 01:21:54 "VHS tape quality"
- 01:23:30 "VHS Player"
- 01:24:19 "Going to the Cinema"
- 01:25:00 "Bulgaria / Brand new Cinema"
- 01:27:07 "Vinyl" players
- 01:27:40 Stereo from 1992 (with 10)
- 01:28:30 Record covers to present your dream / Every medium has its beauty
- 01:29:25 Cherish old computer games and video game consoles
- 01:30:09 If you have the tools you can fix it
- 01:30:20 Harddisk with all my Amiga Stuff on it blew up
- 01:31:35 "one of the few people from the German part of Switzerland"
- 01:33:25 "Everybody threw their old games away"
- 01:33:45 After 12 years Last Ninja 3 on disk
- 01:35:00 Traps'n'Treasures box close up / 1400 Euro
- 01:35:50 Was sent 10 copies to give my friends
- 01:37:40 "You know so much more about the old days than me" *** Über die 90er Jahre ***
- 01:38:00 "My knowledge starts at 1990 when I got my own C64"
- 01:39:00 George Lucas re-Releasing frist Start Wars Movie on VHS tape (Gold Edition)
- 01:39:20 1997 Jurrasic Parc 2 was released / "Had to see it"
- 01:39:30 First movie I ever saw 1994 "The Flintstones"
- 01:40:00 "Super Mario Brothers" Movie
- 01:40:21 "Who Framed Roger Rabit" / Bob Hoskins (nicht Bob Hopkins)
- 01:41:56 "School friend I swapped disks with"
- 01:41:24 "86" (war eigentlich "96") WinRAR / Duke Nukem 3D - mit 15
- 01:41:47 School Library had a computer with Tomb Raider
- 01:42:00 "Toblerone"
- 01:42:30 PS1 Metal Gear / Tomb Raider / Destruction Derby
- 01:42:50 PC Version
- 01:43:00 "That are the ninenties for me"
- 01:43:15 CDs with D64 images with Leonardo, Zak McKraken, Maniac Mansion / Learned about all the classics
- 01:43:32 2008 with Ebay - access to Originals
- 01:44:00 "Did you actually every work on a C64 game commercially"
- 01:44:44 "Rather develop for a Commodore 64 than for the Amiga"
- 01:45:20 Sound on Amiga / No filter / Same "Obarski"-sounds on Amiga
- 01:46:00 Going with Intellivision Amico?
- 01:46:40 "Sams Journey can't be beaten"
- 01:47:53 "...and then you hire Jeroen Tel for the music"
- 01:48:00 "You have it a lot easier nowadays because you have all the information"
- 01:48:33 "Want to figure it out myself"
- 01:49:30 "How many people know how to program a needle printer?"
- 01:49:50 "Fast Loader that would work on all drives (NTSC/PAL)"
- 01:50:30 "Good luck on the Demake of Traps'n'Treasures.
- 01:50:42 "Kickstarter?" "Not such a fan"
- 01:51:29 "Will ask you for a demo"
- 01:51:39 "We talked almost 2 hours" / used to talk english
- 01:52:11 "Whats your next plan?"
- 01:52:50 BASIC games based on a 3-Page Listing
- 01:54:02 Christian's "BASIC Weihnachten"
- 01:54:40 "Old Starbyte buddies"
- 01:55:45 "You are pretty proud of it and keep the memory alive on your blog"
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Nov. 2019, 23:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
