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Heinz Rudolf
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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. Together with his friend Claus Frein He was involved in the creation of Lethal Xcess, the technically brilliant shooter for the Atari ST and Amiga. The game was published by Eclipse Software Design and can now be downloaded for free, from the official Lethal Xcess website. He also worked on several other games for Eclipse but most of these projects were later cancelled for various reasons. A few of these cancelled games were "The Roman Empire" - a turn based strategy game with a hexagonal playfield - "Rotator" - a tank shooter which featured a rotating and zooming background - "Danger Zone" - A shoot'em up for the Sega Megadrive - and finally he was mentioned in the credits of "Iron Soldier" - a successful mech shooter for the Atari Jaguar. Besides those games Heinz Rudolf worked on lots of Atari ST demos for the demo crew X-Troll, where he was known under his nickname Cyclone. He is still an active member of the Atari ST demoscene and became one of the main editors of Alive, one of the few remaining disk magazines for Atari. Demos *1989 - The Final Swobbler *1989 - The New Year Demo *1990 - NEOshow *2005 - Bootsector Scroller (ranked 3rd at the outline 2005 bootsector competition) *2005 - Keftales Bootsector (ranked 2nd at the outline 2005 bootsector competition) *2006 - Bootplasma (ranked 1st at the outline 2006 bootsector competition) *2006 - Alive Jukebox (ranked 2nd at the outline 2006 wild competition) *2007 - White Noize (ranked 2nd at the outline 2007 bootsector competition) Tools *1989 - NEOclone (a painting tool similar to NEOcrome) *1990 - Block-Editor (a level design utitlity) *1992 - SMDsend (a tool to use the SMD800 as a development system) *1992 - Super Magic Tool (a tool to handle and transfer images for the SMD800) Game Design and Pixel Graphics *1991 Lethal Xcess The official Lethal Xcess Homepage *1992 Rotator *1992 The Roman Empire *1993 Dragonworld Dragonworld, the follow up to Lethal Xcess *1994 DangerZone (a shooter for the Sega Megadrive) 
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