Welcome to Oliver Roberts' homepage

E-mail: oliver.roberts@iname.com

Should the above address fail for any reason, please try either
oliver@nanunanu.org or oliverr@enterprise.net instead

About me

I live in Norwich, UK and I'm 23 years old. I graduated from the University of Essex where I studied Computer Science resulting in a BSc (Honours) degree. I'm currently looking for a full-time job as a C programmer or in internet/web design. At the moment, I'm developing software for Power Computing. My main interests (which are probably pretty obvious once you start exploring my pages ;-) are motor racing (especially F1) and the Amiga computer.

My Curriculum Vitae (that's a CV to you and me ;-)
My PGP public key.

My computer

My current setup is: Amiga A1200T, Blizzard 1260, 2Mb Chip ram + 16Mb Fast ram, Workbench 3.1, Surf Squirrel SCSI-2 interface, Seagate 170Mb IDE HD, Quantum Trailblazer 850Mb SCSI HD, Toshiba Quad-Speed SCSI CD-ROM, Iomega 1Gb Jaz drive, HiSoft Enterprise 288 modem.

Hosted by

Amiga - The Survivor

Amiga software which I've written

Commercial

PowerDC - Amiga driver for Power Computing's digital camera.
AFCDFind - Amiga Format magazine's CD-ROM search tool
AFCDPrefs - Preferences program for Amiga Format magazine's CD-ROMs (also includes, AFCDView + CheckAFCDPrefs)

Shareware

F1GP-Ed - Enhances Geoff Crammond's F1GP/WC simulation

Public Domain

F1GP Backdrop Datatype - Allows programs to read F1GP .BKG images
f1gp.library - Shared library used by various F1GP add-ons; Download it from Aminet
ARexx Scripts for THOR and PPaint
ButtonMenu - Program launcher
CDRun - Incredibly basic program ;-) Download it from Aminet

Formula 1 Grand Prix Stuff

Digitech Grand Prix home page.
My personal splittimes for F1GP qualifying laps.

My support pages for the Amiga version of MicroProse's Formula One Grand Prix simulator, plus many Amiga related and Motorsport related links.

hits during 1997/98

Some of my favourite web sites

Amiga Web Directory - Links to Amiga sites, plus extremely useful New Links page.
Atlas F1 News - Reliable and up-to-date Formula 1 news.
The X-Files - One of my favourite TV programmes.
Yahoo! - The best place to go if you're looking for something on the net.
AltaVista - Relatively fast web and usenet search engine.

How I create my web pages

All my web pages are designed using my aforementioned Amiga computer, with software such as Photogenics 2a, Personal Paint 7 and hsc. All photographs on this page were taken using Power Computing's VDC-100 or VDC-200P digital cameras. I test my pages locally mainly using IBrowse, but also AWeb-II and Voyager web browsers. I also use the Apache HTTP server locally to test and check for errors, especially with scripts. All this is done on my Amiga, with TCP/IP support provided by Miami.