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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)
Country :
Scotland
Credits :
TRIAD "Alfatech Intro" by Triad | ... | 1993 Crack Intro | (Music) |
Rising Sun by Proxyon | ... | 1991 Demo | (Music) |
Exploding #5 by Trans-X | ... | 1990 Diskmag | (Music) |
Drax Evilblood by Deesl Designs | ... | ???? Game | (Music) |
Drax Evilblood - The Remix by Deesl Designs | ... | ???? Game | (Music) |
Cross Ogre Logo by Cross | ... | 1990 Graphics | (Music) |
Cobra-Head by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Graphics | (Graphics) |
The Comet by Drew Rodger | ... | 1989 Graphics | (Graphics) |
Girl by Drew Rodger | ... | 1988 Graphics | (Graphics) |
Hellraiser by Drew Rodger | ... | 1988 Graphics | (Graphics) |
Eye of the Moon by Drew Rodger | ... | 1988 Graphics | (Graphics) |
The Boys by Drew Rodger | ... | 1988 Graphics | (Graphics) |
The Car by Drew Rodger | ... | ???? Graphics | (Graphics) |
Insomnia by Drew Rodger | ... | ???? Graphics | (Graphics) |
Kia-Ora by Drew Rodger | ... | ???? Graphics | (Graphics) |
Plain PETSCII Compo 2021 Results Slide Show by Mayday! | ... | 2021 Graphics Collection | (Music) |
Letter to Toy by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Misc. | (Text) |
Letter to Gaz by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Misc. | (Text) |
Hyperslug by Drew Rodger | ... | 1991 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Megableep by Drew Rodger | ... | 1991 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Generex by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Speedsync by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Beachcoma by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Westbound by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Spyhunter by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Africa by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Alucard by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Orange Peel by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Anvil by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Rush by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Aftermath by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
The End by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Planets by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Prisoner 98661 by Drew Rodger | ... | 1989 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Red Sunset by Drew Rodger | ... | 1989 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Blue Sunrise by Drew Rodger | ... | 1989 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Fading Light by Drew Rodger | ... | 1989 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Certain Drug by Drew Rodger | ... | 1989 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
White Noise by Drew Rodger | ... | 1989 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Golden Nightmare by Drew Rodger | ... | 1989 Music | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Legendary Style 2 by Rizing, Zone 45 | ... | 1991 One-File Demo | (Music) |
Crawfish by Drew Rodger | ... | 1991 One-File Demo | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
In Memoriam II by Lazer | ... | 1990 One-File Demo | (Music) |
Terminus by Drew Rodger | ... | 1990 One-File Demo | (Code, Music, Graphics) |
Moonbase Alpha by Drew Rodger | ... | 1988 One-File Demo | (Code, Graphics) |
Prisoners Utilities Collection by Cross | ... | 1991 Tool Collection | (Music) |
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