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   Scott Atkinson to All   
   Dubios & McNamara   
   16 Jan 07 22:24:40   
   
   From: scott_atkinson@hotmail.com   
      
   This is a reply to Turnkit et al.   
      
   Dubios & McNamara is the name of the company that wrote the programs that   
   you mentioned. The programmer was a bloke called Greg Dubios, and the   
   McNamara was his wife, Patricia. Displayed Video was his US distributor.   
      
   He wrote the software in North Rocks, Sydney, Australia. At the time, he was   
   around 30 odd.   
      
   How do I know this???   
      
   I hired him as a programmer in the early 90's. I needed a junior to do some   
   data cleaning & simple programming. Greg applied, and I recognised the name   
   of Dubios (from my old Model 1 games). He has been out of programming for   
   about 6 years, and wanted to get back into it. He had no qualifications   
   (other than his old games). That got him hired on the spot. The company we   
   worked at went broke in 96, and he still programmed for a while until about   
   2001.   
      
   He does not have anything left of those games (he threw out his Model 3   
   about 10 years ago). I gave him a copy of them that I downloaded from   
   trs-80.com   
      
   As for the present, he is driving delivery vans. (He was on A Current Affair   
   (Chn 9 Sydney) a few months back, about Kids & the Internet)   
      
   RedskullDC & Mark. I have no idea who you were talking to about this, but it   
   definately wasn't Greg Dubios (he had & still has a rather distinctive   
   beard).   
      
   I don't really keep in contact anymore (due to matters that I can't go into   
   here (legal matters)).   
      
   Hope this answers your question.   
      
   PS I was in Sydtrug as well, out the back of the florist in Botany on   
   Saturdays. Those were the days.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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