Hi! My name is Kieran Foster.
I was born in 1979 and grew up in County Durham in the North East of England. My first computer system was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, which I received as a Christmas gift in the early 1980s, and ever since then I have been fascinated by computers and all things digital.
I am especially passionate about experimenting with sound, and have enjoyed creating music with trackers since the early days of the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST (my preferred system back then). I have tried out a huge number of trackers over the years, but these days I use Renoise, which is awesome.
Another of my life-long interests is programming. As a child I loved to copy the source code examples from my ZX Spectrum user manual, or from magazines such as Your Sinclair and Crash, and I would spend hours painstakingly inputting each line of code via the Speccy’s awful, clunky keyboard. After upgrading to an Atari STe a few years later, I began using STOS BASIC to explore more interesting audio and graphics routines. My preferred language at the moment is Object Pascal, and my IDE of choice is Turbo Delphi, which I realise is a little bit odd by most peoples’ standards, but there you go!
This website is an outlet for all the random things that I create or have an active interest in, whether they’re related to sound, graphics, or whatever else is holding my attention at that particular moment in time. I hope that you will enjoy your stay here and discover something interesting!
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Cheers!
