OLIVER SCHMIDT ~DUST.FIL~ 'Only when you're rowing to the to other side of the sea, you will find out who you really are' Confucius ----------------------------------------------------------- AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR OF EVEREST, by Slimer ----------------------------------------------------------- It's quite a while ago when I received a copy of Everest, an excellent text editor by Oliver Schmidt. The program works with the 640 x 480 resolution on my new Multiscan monitor which made me take a closer look at it. Everest turned out to be a simple but genial text editor ! You can read more about this program in the review department. I decided to contact the author of the Everest with a request for an interview without registering for the program. He turned out to be an okay guy because he replied very fast and took also the time to answer my questions without being pissed of..... This was a very positive attitude towards an impundent geezer like me, it made me decide to register anyway! ----===================================================---- INTERVIEW, CAN YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOURSELF ( BIRTHDAY, HOBBY'S OR WORK) ? Birthday: 10.12.1970 Work: I'm studying physics and maths in Kiel. ARE THERE PARTICULAR PERSONS YOU WOULD LIKE TO MEET IN YOUR LIFE (WRITERS, ARTISTS OR OTHERS) !? Favourite writers: Douglas Adams, Stanislav Lem, H.P. Lovecraft and many others Favourite musicians: Edvard Grieg, Robert Schumann, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Helge Schneider and many others It's not really important to meet one of them. If it would be possible, I want to meet the constructor of our world. IF SO, WHAT WOULD BE THE FIRST QUESTION IN YOUR MIND TO ASK HIM/HER ? Why? How does it work? WHICH MUSIC TASTE(S) DO YOU HAVE AND WHAT EQUIPMENT DO YOU USE TO PLAY IT WITH !? Favourite musicians: s.o. I have no expensive equipment. WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT COMPUTER SETUP (INCLUDING SOME HISTORY, LIKE YOUR FIRST MACHINE) ? Computer: Language: 1984 Sinclair ZX81 (BASIC and assembler) 1986 Amstrad CPC 464 (Turbo Pascal and assembler) 1989 Atari Mega ST1 (Turbo/ Pure C and assembler) Current setup, Mega ST1, 3MB RAM, SM 124 with Overscan, Mag!X (is now MagiC!), Megafile 30, Star LC 24-10 CAN YOU GIVE US YOUR TRUE AND HONEST OPINION ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE FALCON AND ATARI AS A WHOLE !? After releasing the ST, Atari has made only mistakes. Now they are coming back with the Jaguar. There are no new TOS products from Atari. Though the TOS-Atari is my favourite computer (It's much better than the slow Macs, the awkward Windows and the complicated Unix) it depends on the marketing if it has a future or not. If Atari continues doing nothing, there will be no future for this hardware platform. Why don't they combine the Jaguar and the Falcon? WHICH COMPUTER PROGRAMS DO YOU LIKE TO SEE MORE FOR THE FALCON ? C++, Mathematika, WYSIWYG-word processor with the capability to handle mathematic formulas like TeX. WHAT MADE YOU CREATE EVEREST IN THE FIRST PLACE, DID YOU FEEL THERE WAS A SHORTAGE OF GOOD WORDPROCESSORS ? It was ever a challenge for me to program a text editor. I even wanted to program a text editor under CP/M on the CPC 464, but it didn't work. I started to program Everest on the Atari because in 1991 there was no text editor that worked under Overscan with the resolution 670x480. IS THERE A FEATURE IN EVEREST THAT YOU ARE PARTICULARLY PROUD OF !? I'm proud of it's plainness, simplicity and clearness. I really like the user interface. In combination with Selectric its possible to work very fast only with the keyboard. WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON THE FALCON SCENE AND THE COMPUTER SCENE AS A WHOLE ? I don't know the Falcon scene. Computer scene as a whole, From 1984 to 1994 the computer scene has changed. Today it's a big business. There are a lot of commercials (Intel, Windows, etc.) and no information. The systems are very big and there are a lot of superfluous things. Today the users are only consumers. In former times everything was smaller and amiable. DO YOU SEE PIRACY AS A THEFT (PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY) ? It's a theft, but it's not a big crime. It's a bigger crime to drive a car and annoy other people with noise and exhaust fumes :-)Above all it's prejudical to all the users, because no one will develop new programs if nobody buys them. COULD YOU SHARE YOUR OPINION ON DISKMAGAZINES WITH US ? I have never seen a diskmagazine. I think they may be interesting. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO MENTION TO OUR READERS ? Stop pollution, ride a bike! __o _`\<,_ (_)/ (_) ----===================================================---- Thanks for your interesting and honest answers.....