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From: shade@dragonshadow.com (Scott Cartier)
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Subject: Re: Yarozer List
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 17:51:55 GMT
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> Name:
  Scott Cartier  (SCEA)

> Age:
  26  (I can see I'm on the "fogey" side of the age curve)

> Occupation:
  Hardware Engineer

> Length of time owning Yaroze:
  Since it first started.  Geez, when was that?  Early '97 I
  think, which would put the length at over 2 years.

> Any useful utlities you have written or complete games:
  Tim Manipulator - My first utility which I designed to help me
    convert 8-bit TIMs to 4-bit with more control than just telling
    some paint program to eliminate colors.  Definitely showing its
    age at this point.

  Sprite Assembler - Takes multiple frames of a sprite animation,
    crops, resizes, and packs them all together into one big TIM
    for ease in animation.  The automatic cropping part was the 
    reason I made this utility.

  Address Arranger - Similar to all the other address generation
    utilities out there.  Takes all your input data files and
    creates an siocons "auto" file as well as a C header.

  Decaying Orbit - Not exactly a full game, but complete enough to
    make it on the OPM cover disc.  Work continues on it as I
    attempt to convert the planets to polygons.

  Tim Pak - A TIM compression utility.  I'm beginning to run out
    of RAM so developed this to help.  It does a reasonable job at
    compression.  It takes a long time (multiple minutes) to
    compress, but decompression is quick.


> Email address:
  shade@dragonshadow.com

> Web page:
  http://www.dragonshadow.com