History

I've been hacking on computers ever I was twelve, when I and my brother Daniel bought a C-64. We spent all our spare time (and some non-spare) hacking away at the little machine and eventually got deeply involved in the so-called "scene" which evolved during the later part of the 80's. Those of you who were also involved might remember a somewhat successful demo group called Horizon. My handle was Zagor.

In the early 90's we bought Amigas and started doing "serious" programming, put off by the increasingly hostile and serious attitude of "the scene". I got an old PC which I upgraded to OS/2 and with that I started programming a new BBS system called FrexxLink, based on Daniel's C interpreter FPL. With that, I ran a BBS called "The Holy Grail" for a number of years. Unfortunately, the system was far too flexible (and, thus, complicated) for most PC BBS sysops to handle, so only myself and a handful other sysops ever did use it. Today, OS/2 is not much more than a tale of lousy management, and my then-fancy text based file and conference system is rendered obsolete by the Internet and it's lovely RFC open standards.

I first discovered the joys of Unix in the early 90's and my love for the system has grown steadily over the years. I participate in many open source projects (some of which are listed on the front page) and strongly believe in the idea that shared code means better software.