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Drew Rodger  

Ex member of :
Cross
Functions :
Coder, Graphician, Musician

Handlestory :
Also known as "Andrew Rodger" who did music for a lot of Zeppelin games.

The "Dru" handle comes from the days when arcade machines could only hold three letters in their hi-score table.


Trivia :
I've removed the Rutherglen address details that were here as I haven't lived there for over 20 years! It's actually a church (I lived in the church house upstairs, from March 1986 - October 1993) and (so far) it's the only address where I've produced anything for the C64. Perhaps I'll need to live there again one day :)

Got my first C64 in Christmas 1984, but I didn't really do anything creative until summer '86 when my best friend at school (John Willoughby - handle back then was "Portland Bill") introduced me to the YMCA computer club in Glasgow, Scotland. There I met Mark Gallagher (Joe 90), Barry Leitch, Alan MacFarlane and others. Barry was starting to get noticed for his music around then, he was the spur for me to be more creative. The YMCA was a haven for disk copying, so I came home with Electrosound 64 and got started in music. I didn't have a disk drive back then, so my early stuff was saved on cassette. I also didn't have access to Compunet yet, so I used to pass John my Electrosound efforts and he in turn passed them onto someone he knew at the YMCA to upload for me. I think some tunes were so bloody awful he refused to do it!

Was on Compunet around 1988 - 1990, if I remember the dates correctly (GOTO DREW). I uploaded quite a few Paint Magic / Vidcom 64 pics, don't have many of them anymore.

My aunt had bought me the book "Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner" by Danny Davis in 1984, but I gave up on it several times before I eventually got the hang of assembly, around early '88. Mark Gallagher was (and still is), a far better coder than me, his influence helped a lot. Gary Liddon's programming tutorials in Zzap!64 were also a big help. The demo "Moonbase Alpha" was my first major assembly language project. Can't remember where the idea came from (it has nothing to do with the TV series "Space: 1999")!

Richard Rinn (Deek from Vibrants / Sonic Graffiti) lived in the next town to me (Cambuslang), I used to visit him and swap disks etc. Just before I moved house in '93, he gave me a load of Music Technology/Zzap!64 magazines he didn't want anymore. There were so many that they started to bust through the floor of my mum's Mini Clubman Estate before we got home (the Mini was scrapped soon after).

Deek had done a few commercial tunes before me, so he was a major catalyst in getting me to progress from Compunet demos to contacting games companies for work.


Other handles used by this scener :(Display all info for all handles)
Andrew Rodger
Dru

Country :
Scotland

Releases released :
DownloadCrawfish ... 1991 One-File Demo
DownloadHyperslug ... 1991 Music
DownloadMegableep ... 1991 Music
DownloadAfrica ... 1990 Music
DownloadAftermath ... 1990 Music
DownloadAlucard ... 1990 Music
DownloadAnvil ... 1990 Music
DownloadBeachcoma ... 1990 Music
DownloadCobra-Head ... 1990 Graphics
DownloadGenerex ... 1990 Music
DownloadLetter to Gaz ... 1990 Misc.
DownloadLetter to Toy ... 1990 Misc.
DownloadOrange Peel ... 1990 Music
DownloadPlanets ... 1990 Music
DownloadRush ... 1990 Music
DownloadSpeedsync ... 1990 Music
DownloadSpyhunter ... 1990 Music
DownloadTerminus ... 1990 One-File Demo
DownloadThe End ... 1990 Music
DownloadWestbound ... 1990 Music
DownloadPrisoner 98661 ... 1989 Music
DownloadBlue Sunrise ... 1989 Music
DownloadFading Light ... 1989 Music
DownloadRed Sunset ... 1989 Music
DownloadCertain Drug ... 1989 Music
DownloadGolden Nightmare ... 1989 Music
DownloadThe Comet ... 1989 Graphics
DownloadWhite Noise ... 1989 Music
DownloadEye of the Moon ... 1988 Graphics
DownloadGirl ... 1988 Graphics
DownloadHellraiser ... 1988 Graphics
DownloadMoonbase Alpha ... 1988 One-File Demo
DownloadThe Boys ... 1988 Graphics
DownloadInsomnia ... ???? Graphics
DownloadKia-Ora ... ???? Graphics
DownloadThe Car ... ???? Graphics

Credits :
DownloadPlain PETSCII Compo 2021 Results Slide Show by Mayday! ...  2021 Graphics Collection  (Music)
DownloadTRIAD "Alfatech Intro" by Triad ...  1993 Crack Intro  (Music)
DownloadPrisoners Utilities Collection by Cross ...  1991 Tool Collection  (Music)
DownloadLegendary Style 2 by Rizing, Zone 45 ...  1991 One-File Demo  (Music)
DownloadHyperslug by Drew Rodger ...  1991 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadCrawfish by Drew Rodger ...  1991 One-File Demo  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadMegableep by Drew Rodger ...  1991 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadRising Sun by Proxyon ...  1991 Demo  (Music)
DownloadIn Memoriam II by Lazer ...  1990 One-File Demo  (Music)
DownloadExploding #5 by Trans-X ...  1990 Diskmag  (Music)
DownloadTerminus by Drew Rodger ...  1990 One-File Demo  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadGenerex by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadSpeedsync by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadBeachcoma by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadWestbound by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadSpyhunter by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadCross Ogre Logo by Cross ...  1990 Graphics  (Music)
DownloadAfrica by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadAlucard by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadOrange Peel by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadCobra-Head by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Graphics  (Graphics)
DownloadAnvil by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadRush by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadAftermath by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadThe End by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadPlanets by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadLetter to Toy by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Misc.  (Text)
DownloadLetter to Gaz by Drew Rodger ...  1990 Misc.  (Text)
DownloadPrisoner 98661 by Drew Rodger ...  1989 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadRed Sunset by Drew Rodger ...  1989 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadBlue Sunrise by Drew Rodger ...  1989 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadFading Light by Drew Rodger ...  1989 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadCertain Drug by Drew Rodger ...  1989 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadThe Comet by Drew Rodger ...  1989 Graphics  (Graphics)
DownloadWhite Noise by Drew Rodger ...  1989 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadGolden Nightmare by Drew Rodger ...  1989 Music  (Code, Music, Graphics)
DownloadGirl by Drew Rodger ...  1988 Graphics  (Graphics)
DownloadHellraiser by Drew Rodger ...  1988 Graphics  (Graphics)
DownloadMoonbase Alpha by Drew Rodger ...  1988 One-File Demo  (Code, Graphics)
DownloadEye of the Moon by Drew Rodger ...  1988 Graphics  (Graphics)
DownloadThe Boys by Drew Rodger ...  1988 Graphics  (Graphics)
DownloadDrax Evilblood by Deesl Designs ...  ???? Game  (Music)
DownloadDrax Evilblood - The Remix by Deesl Designs ...  ???? Game  (Music)
DownloadThe Car by Drew Rodger ...  ???? Graphics  (Graphics)
DownloadInsomnia by Drew Rodger ...  ???? Graphics  (Graphics)
DownloadKia-Ora by Drew Rodger ...  ???? Graphics  (Graphics)

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