NAME:
Steve Harcourt - steveslackwagon.freeserve.co.uk

COMPUNET ID:
Pyros

WHAT HE DID:
I probably spent far too much money on phone bills just mucking about, having a good laugh, as well as the more serious endeavours - such was the greatness and fun of the Compunet community. Apart from that I wrote and uploaded a load of demos, some done on my own (including one I remember that started with an imitation of a virus from the amiga which had a red and white bar across the centre of the screen - quite sad!) and some with Mark Daniels (Bodd - md13). A few of those demos were OK, especially the ones done with Mark, although it's possible that the passage of time has had an effect on my memory.

CLAIM TO COMPUNET FAME:
Not much to be said here, except that I have to admit to being involved in the tape fast-saver as mentioned by Mark Daniels. (shame on us...)

WHAT'S HE UP TO NOW:
Well since Cnet I've done all sorts (including archiving spoken English), but for the past few years I've been doing the musician thing in various bands and on my own. The last band I was in was Collapsed Lung which was responsible for the football Coke advert (Eat football etc.....) amongst other things. In the last year or so I've been doing several things under different names depending what style they are, such as: SlackWagon (short films, library music, general), Jack Slack (more beats orientated), Aerobic Christians (house/beats - with Dan Pastry) and Spoiler (pop - with Lee Edwards) - to name a few. Computer wise I haven't programmed anything for years, but I still use one machine or other every day, whether it be for sequencing or whatever.

OTHER STUFF:
During the time I was on Cnet, I wrote a really poor quality game called Colonel Chuck. It has to be said that the music was the only good thing about it (I'm going from memory here as I blew up the SID on my 64 a couple of years back after using it as a filter for external sounds), but strange though it may now seem, I didn't actually do the music! The men responsible were Hawk and Snork. Anyone remember them, where are they now??

TOP THREE FAVOURITE PROGRAMS/HARDWARE:
1. When I first joined compunet I didn't have a 1541 (I know, it sounds a bit foolish!), so that fast saver version of the Cnet software really saved my bacon. 2. Games wise, I really liked anything by Jeff Minter and there are probably too many other games to list; I still have them all in the house though. (as well as god knows how many copies of Zzap and The Games Machine). 3. Competition Pro Joystick - a champion of the period...

BETWEEN WHICH DATES WERE YOU A MEMBER OF COMPUNET:
I am really not sure! I started on compunet a short time after Mark (Bodd - md13) joined, as he got me into it and I must have been on for a couple of years. This would have been somewhere between 1986 and 1989.

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