| About Sven |
I was born on 6th May 1975 in Birmingham, at the centre of England. This makes me 26 years of age plus I have the bonus of being married to the gorgeous Claire (nee Higgins) and we have three great kids - Sophie, Will and Daniel.
I attended the excellent King Edward VI Five Ways Grammar School from 1986 to 1993 and since the age of 15 I have worked in the realm of home computer and software retailing. I am currently employed as a "Store Games Buyer" for a High Street Chain. My Spare time job is the Amiga Mart Columnist in the Micromart Magazine.
My hobbies include model making (when I get the time) - mainly of Star Trek starships, my fave being the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E. I do a lot of computing on my Amiga 4000 (I also own an A1000, A500, A2000, CD32 with FMV card, CDTV, 2 A500+ systems (one with an A570 CD drive)- there is also an A1200HD and A600HD in the house).
I am part of the science fiction and Amiga group, Infinite Frontiers with whom I am an editor, artist, photographer, writer and producer. My main drive with Infinite Frontiers are the production of the two fanzines I work on as Editor, The Cybertronian Times and Amiga Energy (actually as co-editor on AE). I have in the past though worked on the majority of the Infinite Frontiers titles that have appeared since my first involvement with IF in 1994. I am a massive Transformers fan. My other sci-fi and fantasy faves include the recent Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman TV series, which in my opinion ended far too prematurely (if only Lois hadn't found out and they hadn't got married...). I love Knight Rider and the follow up Knight Rider 2000 TV movie... I find Team Knight Rider very dry and boring however... I also enjoy Airwolf, Battlestar Galactica all of the Star Treks (but especially Star Trek: The Next Generation).
My Top Ten TV Shows
Star Trek: The Next Generation Beast Wars Transformers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Stargate: SG1 RoboCop Friends Star Trek: Voyager Knight Rider (also love Knight Rider 2000) Airwolf Battlestar Galactica (NOT Galactica '80)
My Top Ten TV Films
Star Trek First Contact Transformers: The Movie Star Trek Insurrection RoboCop 3 Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Batman (Michael Keaton) Police Acadamy Terminator 2: Judgement Day (18 version!) Mortal Kombat Star Wars (A New Hope)
Since the release of the first Amiga, the A1000, in 1985 the Amiga has represented true multimedia and efficient elegant computing, even before the term "multimedia" was coined.
The legend was reborn in 2000 following the purchase of Amiga from Gateway by two of their own former employees, whom in turn formed Amino Developments. Now the renamed Amino own Amiga, the Amiga OS and are the guardians of its future as Amiga, inc. based in Snoqualmie, Washington State, USA. Fortunately Fleecy Moss, Bill McEwen and the others at Amiga, Inc. are dyed-in-the-wool Amigans and after reading the early press releases its also clear that they have a very weird sense of humor which matches mine and are totally nuts... which will probably help more than anything else!
Saturday 8th January 2000 saw the start of the first CES in Las Vegas of the new year/century/millennium (delete as applicable!) and also saw the start of a new era for the Amiga as the new Amiga Corporation made their first announcement for the future. Amiga Corp. have partnered with Tao Group, a small software development company who just happen to be financed by Motorola and Sony. Tao also have full Java development status with Sun and produce the Elate OS kernal and a very AmigaObject (RIP) sounding intent object system, which BTW runs on QNX, Linux, most Windoze flavours and OS9000. Apparently Tao started off on Amigas too, which can only help!
For more information check out Amiga Energy issues 1-5, the Amiga Energy pages at the Infinite Frontiers Web Site and some of the links below... Oh yeah and just in case your wondering I am the Editor of Amiga Energy, which is a UK paper-based (rather than web-based or disk-based) Amiga fanzine.
Sven's website :- http://www.cybertron.ournet.co.uk/
Note:- Sven's site contains several of his designs for a new AminaOne logo ...One of which is being used by the Australian Company at :- http://www.anythingamiga.com
email Sven :- sharvey@cybertron.ournet.co.uk
