Tomasz (aka Thomas) Pytel is a Polish-American programmer, better known as Tran / Renaissance in the demoscene. He is notable for the creating the Timeless demo in 1994, and for co-creating the PMODE DOS extender with Charles Scheffold (a.k.a Daredevil). He was also the designer of the PC game Zone 66. After that, he went to 3D Realms and was one of lead programmers on Prey. Wikipedia
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