Personal Information

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How To Contact Me
Feel free to contact me for any whimsical reason, and providing that I don't dissappear like I have done before I should reply soon.
[rs108@mdx.ac.uk]
This account will always exist and is checked fairly regularly, but cannot handle attachments.
[yod10@dial.pipex.com]
This account will cease to exist in mid-november but is checked every evening at home.

Facts
Robert Francis Swan
22 years old (25.2.76)
Living in Slough, Berkshire, England
Still 6 foot 2 inches tall
Long(er) brown hair

Fiction
Started messing around with computers years ago on the Texas Instruments computer, TI99-4A (I think it was called). Only programmed on basic, but then I was only about 7 years old. Moved onto an Amstrad PCW, again with basic. Learnt to get annoyed with computers here, as even getting a routine to draw a line on screen involved copying about 70 lines of hex codes out of a magazine, which I promptly deleted. The next step was when I got an Atari ST, around the age of 13. After getting bored with the obligatory included games packages, I turned my attention to the amusing looking STOS basic. I fell in love!

In my course at university I have programmed both DOS and Windows C++. Powerful they may be, but I have yet to get close to any of the games and demonstrations I produced on the ST in terms of speed and effects. With the Yaroze, hopefully I can get back to that quality. Even today it amuses me that with my programs, an Atari ST running at 7MHz could easily outperform a Pentium PC running at 200MHz.

Interests range from reading, listening to music, programming etc. to a hobby that I haven't been able to indulge for nearly three quarters of a year; rollercoaster riding. This is an extremely exciting and fun thing to do, made better by the people that I travelled with. Being less financially stable, I can only manage to travel to those theme parks in Britain (Blackpool, Alton Towers, Chessington, Oakwood, Drayton Manor, Morecombe and various others) and Disneyland Paris. Imagine how annoyed I was on catching up with my friends to discover that this year they have been to America three times, Germany four, France twice, and others. Maybe one day I'll be able to afford that sort of travel.

I did love playing internet games, like Quake and Red Alert, but I really shouldn't spend all the time on something unconstructive like that. Besides, if I go into University, I get to play eight player Red Alert rather than the two player internet linkup!