- Chris Hülsbeck
Chris Hülsbeck is a game music composer from Germany. He has written soundtracks for more than 70 titles, the latest being Star Wars: Rebel Strike for Nintendo GameCube. Many of his scores for the Commodore 64 are regarded as classics among enthusiasts today, most notably Great Giana Sisters. He is best known for the soundtracks to the Turrican series of games.
- David Whittaker
David Whittaker (born 1957) is known for numerous computer game tunes which he wrote in most of the 1980s and early 1990s, for many different formats. He is known for the large quantity of his works - more than any other composer (in fact, more than most of the other top composers' works combined). He was offered so many projects in the late 1980s that he had to pass some of them over to other computer game music writers (such as his good friends, …
- Jay Miner
Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 - June 20, 1994) was a famous integrated circuit designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips. He received a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1959. Miner started in the electronics industry with a number of designs in the medical world, including a remote-control pacemaker. He moved to Atari in the late 1970s. One of his first successes was to combine an entire breadboard of components into a single chip, known as the TIA.
- Dave Haynie
Dave Haynie is the former Commodore International chief engineer on high end and advanced projects. He is still quite vocal in the Amiga community.
- Allister Brimble
Allister Brimble (born in 1970) is a video game music composer. He wrote music during the 1990s for games, such as "Superfrog", "Alien Breed", "Colonization", Descent II, and the Dizzy series, on the Amiga and other home computers. More recently, he has composed music for the games "RollerCoaster Tycoon 1" & "2". He also produced various audio tracks, as "Brimble's Beats", …
- Fred Fish
Fred Fish (November 4 1952 - April 20 2007) was a computer programmer notable for work on the GNU Debugger and his series of Fish disks of freeware for the Amiga. There was a pioneering spirit pervasive in the Amiga community. The Fish Disks (term coined by Perry Kivolowitz at a Jersey Amiga User Group meeting) became the first national rallying point, a sort of early postal system.
- Carl Sassenrath
Carl Sassenrath (born 1957 in California) is an architect of operating systems and computer languages. He brought multitasking to personal computers in 1985 with the creation of the Amiga Computer operating system kernel, and he is currently the designer of the REBOL computer language as well as the CTO of REBOL Technologies.
- Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon is a computer scientist, born July 1, 1966 in the Bay Area and living in Berkeley, California. He is best known for his contributions to FreeBSD and for starting the DragonFly BSD project. Dillon studied electronic engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he first became involved with BSD in 1985. He also became known for his Amiga programming, his C compiler DICE and his work on the Linux kernel.
- Jochen Hippel
Jochen Hippel (born October 14, 1971) is a musician from Kirchheimbolanden in southwest Germany. He played one of the most prominent roles in computer music during the 16-bit microcomputer era, composing the music for 10's of games. He was also an experienced Amiga programmer and ported many of Thalion Software's Atari ST titles.
- Amiwm
In computing, the AMIga Window Window (amiwm) is a Window Manager for the X Window System. Amwim was written by Marcus Lysator. "The purpose of amiwm is to make life more pleasant for Amiga-freaks like myself who has/wants to use UNIX workstations once in a while" Amiwm emulates the Amiga Workbench screen and though it hasn't been updated since 1998 the author has indicated he intends to keep up with any Amiga interface changes in the future, if any.
- Mark Knight
Mark Knight, also known as madfiddler, "TDK", or The Dark Knight (born January 8, 1973, in Brighton, England) is a well-known Amiga demoscene musician and video game composer/sound designer. As a member of Melon Dezign and Anthrox, his chip music sounds often appeared in Crystal cracktros for the Fairlight group among others. As a game musician, he converted several existing game tunes to the Amiga, …
- Joyboard
The Joyboard is a joystick for the feet. A video game player stands on the board and moves his/her entire body for directional control. A standard Atari-type joystick (like Amiga's own Power Stick) plugs into the Joyboard to give the player access to a fire button. The employees at Amiga Inc. liked to relax by playing the Zen Meditation game. They would sit as still as possible on a Joyboard so as not to close any switches, …
- Dalezy
Dalezy is one of the stage names of Ronny Engmann (these days better known as Rengmann). He is a Chiptune-, Electronica- IDM- and Dark ambient-Artist since the early 1990s. Rengmann has been in the demoscene for more than a decade, having made music using the various monikers Dalezy, The Unconsciousness and Animal on C64, Amiga and IBM PC for groups such as Scoopex, Rebels, Creators, Superior Art Creations, Radical Rhythms, …
- Richard Joseph
Richard Joseph (1953? - 4 March 2007) was a computer game composer, musician and sound specialist. He had a career spanning some 20 years starting in the early days of gaming on the C64 and the Amiga and onto succeeding formats through to the present day. After being diagnosed with lung cancer, he died on 4 March, 2007 aged 53 years.
- Eric W. Schwartz
Eric W. Schwartz is an American cartoonist who is the creator of "Sabrina Online", a furry webcomic, and Amy the Squirrel, an unofficial mascot for the famous Amiga computers. He is a noted fan of the Amiga, having made some well-known animations with it, and today enthusiastically supports efforts to clone the OS for modern computer platforms. Eric works close with Malcolm Earle aka Max Black Rabbit, creator of the Zig Zag (character).
- Irving Gould
Irving Gould (?-2004) was a Canadian businessperson credited with both saving and sinking Commodore. He gave the necessary funding to Jack Tramiel to keep Commodore running during several periods of financial problems. Irving Gould and Medhi Ali (then Commodore's Managing Director) have been accused of causing the death of Commodore in 1993-1994 by making a series of mistakes like trying to maximize profit by producing low cost equipment and mis-marketing the Amiga.
- Andrew Braybrook
Andrew Braybrook is a programmer who helped pioneer computer games. He created games such as "Paradroid", "Gribbly's Day Out", "Uridium" and "Morpheus". He also programmed the Commodore Amiga conversion of the arcade game "Rainbow Islands". Braybrook was best known for the above games but is still remembered as the creator of some of the most original games ever.
- David Lowe
David Lowe also known as "Uncle Art" is a British composer known for his work on Amiga and PC computer games from 1985 to 1995. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to Archer Maclean's "International Karate +" and David Braben's "Frontier: Elite II" and "Frontier: First Encounters".
- Bill Williams
Bill Williams (1960 - May 1998) was a game designer and programmer, the author of the acclaimed Atari games "Salmon Run", "Necromancer", and "Alley Cat", the Amiga games "Mind Walker", "Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon", "Pioneer Plague", and "Knights of the Crystallion", "Monopoly" for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and "Bart's Nightmare" for Super NES.
- Martin Merz
Martin Merz is a designer of Amiga related icons. He is married to Kornelia Gerngroß since 2004 and has a son named Max (born October 12, 2006) with her. He became famous in the Amiga community for his Masonicons series based on Glowicons by Matt Chaput. Merz, who is an autodidact in painting, created packages of AmigaOS related icons for free download, but he also now does custom icon design for software companies and independent developers.
- Heinz Rudolf
Heinz Rudolf was born in Germany in 1968. He got in touch with Computers in 1983 by buying a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The following year he spent learning to program in BASIC and Z80 machine language on this machine. Beside a few games, he mainly worked on teaching software before he switched to the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga. On those machines he worked as a freelance programmer and pixel graphician in the early 90s.
- Edgar Vigdal
Edgar M. Vigdal is a Norwegian game programmer. He first became famous for his Amiga ShareWare games "Deluxe Pacman" and "Deluxe Galaga" in the 1990s. After Commodore's bankruptcy, Vigdal moved from the Amiga to Microsoft Windows, and has developed a "Deluxe Galaga" remake for Windows called "Warblade". Also created a remake for the PC and Mac of his old Amiga game Deluxe PacMan. Now Called Deluxe PocMon.
- Kieron Gillen
Kieron Gillen is a British computer games and music journalist, as well as a comic book author, who has worked for a lengthy list of publications, including "PC Gamer UK", "The Escapist", "Amiga Power", "Wired", "The Guardian" newspaper (where he wrote the first long-form videogame review in a mainstream newspaper), "Edge", "Games Developer", "Develop", "MCV", "Gamesmaster" and "PC Format", …
- Urban Müller
Urban Dominik Müller is a computer programmer. He is the creator of the Aminet Amiga archive, the original author of the XPK compression library and the creator of the brainfuck programming language. Besides this, he enjoys skydiving, juggling hard drives, and is a long-time supporter of the Amiga series of computers. He is now employed at search.ch, a Swiss search engine.
- Gustaf Grefberg
Gustaf Grefberg (born 1974) is a Swedish musician. As part of the Amiga scene, he is known under the artist name Lizardking, and much of his production is tracker music. He is or has been a member of the demo groups Alcatraz, The Silents, Razor 1911, The Black Lotus and Triton. He also has composed the score of several computer games, including Enclave, Justice, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Magus Dawn and The Darkness.
- Bjørn Lynne
Bjørn Lynne is a sound engineer and music composer, now living and working in Stavern, Norway. He has been widely known as a tracker music composer under the name Dr. Awesome/Crusaders in the late 1980s–early 90s when he released numerous tunes in MOD format and created music for some Amiga games. His work during that time period was mostly released into the demoscene world.
- Pete Cooke
Pete Cooke (born 1956) is a famous British computer games programmer, best known for his work published in the 1980s for the 8-bit home computers, especially the ZX Spectrum. His software is often instantly-recognisable thanks to his use of his own point and click GUI in many of his games. This is manipulated by keyboard or joystick since it was rare for Spectrum owners to use a mouse. Cooke's games were notable for being extremely innovative and ahead of their time.
- Jez San
Jeremy 'Jez' San OBE (born 29 March 1966) is an English game programmer who founded Argonaut Software as a teenager in the 1980s. He is also a writer and helped design the Super FX chip for the Super NES.
- Jeff Braun
Jeff Braun is an American computer game producer and co-founder of the video game developer, Maxis. Braun had successfully published font packs for the Amiga personal computer when he met Will Wright at a pizza party hosted by Chris Doner in 1987. Wright had been unsuccessful in finding a game publisher for his city simulation computer game, "SimCity". Braun already had a wire frame jet fighter simulation game he hoped to publish, …
- John Cutter
John Cutter is an American computer game designer. He was the first employee at the Amiga development studio Cinemaware. He is best known for contributing to, or designing, Defender of the Crown, Rocket Ranger, TV Sports: Basketball, Wings, and Betrayal at Krondor. At Big Fish Games, he also contributed to casual games hits Mystic Inn and Atlantis Sky Patrol in 2006.
- Daniel J. Barrett
Daniel J. Barrett (born November 6, 1963) is a writer, software engineer, web site maintainer, musician, and Usenet personality. He is best known for his technology books, his work with progressive rock band Gentle Giant, and the imaginary computer game BLAZEMONGER.
- Stavros Fasoulas
Stavros Fasoulas is one of the most famous Finnish game programmers in the late 1980s. He is mostly known as the designer and developer of the Commodore 64 games "Sanxion", "Delta" and "Quedex". The games were published by the British publisher Thalamus. "Sanxion" (1986) and "Delta" (1987) were pretty much standard-issue shoot-'em-ups.
- Matt Bielby
Matt Bielby is the Managing Director and proprietor of Blackfish Publishing, a specialist magazine and internet publishing company based in Bath, UK. He is best known as a magazine editor, launching many successful titles in assorted markets during the 1990s, mostly on the subjects of computer and video games, and film and television. These include "Total Film", "SFX", and "PC Gamer". Bielby was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, in 1965, …
- Dominic Robinson
Dominic Robinson is a computer game programmer. He came to prominence as an in-house programmer for Hewson when he converted "Uridium" to the Spectrum (a feat previously considered impossible) in 1986. This was followed by another classic Spectrum shoot-em up, "Zynaps", and a puzzle/shooter, "Anarchy", both of which were released in 1987. After leaving Hewson, he joined Graftgold to work on the Spectrum conversion of "Flying Shark", …
- James D. Sachs
James D. Sachs is a retired United States Air Force veteran, game artist and game programmer. Sachs was the lead artist on the groundbreaking Amiga computer game "Defender of the Crown" from Cinemaware (first published in 1986). He is also the author of the Commodore 64 game "Saucer Attack", which was heavily pirated. He called it "the Commodore 64 game everyone had, …
- François Lionet
François Lionet is a French programmer. He is most famous for having written STOS BASIC on the Atari ST and AMOS BASIC on the Amiga (along with Constantin Sotiropoulos), but has also written a few games on these two platforms. In 1994, he set up a company with Yves Lamoureux called Clickteam where he still works today. Clickteam produces the Klik (click) series of games-creation tools, including Multimedia Fusion.
- Sven Harvey
Born in Birmingham in 1975,Sven Harvey is a freelance writer, and avid science fiction and computer enthusiast.
- Robert J. Mical
Robert J. "RJ" Mical created video games at Williams Electronics, helped invent the Amiga computer, co-invented the Atari Lynx and the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer with Dave Needle. According to RJ, he built his first computer, a tic-tac-toe player, when he was 14.
- Laurence Gartel
Laurence Gartel, born June 5 1956, is considered a pioneer of Digital Art. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Joan Whitney Payson Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art, Princeton Art Museum, PS 1, Norton Museum and in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History and the Bibliotheque Nationale. Born and raised in New York City, Gartel had the opportunity to teach Andy Warhol how to use the Amiga Computer, …
- Tony Warriner
Tony Warriner wrote his first video game, Obsidian for Amstrad CPC, in 1986. The game was published by Artic Computing and received strong reviews. After leaving Artic, Tony had a spell at Cascade Games and then Bytron, writing air traffic control software. In 1990 Tony and Charles Cecil, who he had met at Artic Computing, founded Revolution Software together with David Sykes and Noirin Carmody.