From: scott_atkinson@hotmail.com   
      
   Not sure of the story of the names (I always thought it a bit strange as   
   well.).   
      
   This bloke was a demon assembler coder. He wrote an EBSIDIC to ASCII   
   translator in about 2 hours. He did at one stage show me some unsold manuals   
   for his games (about 30 or so copies of the same thing). From what I could   
   see (from his coding ability), he never game me any doubts about him being   
   the author. He also knew quite a bit about the rom internals of the   
   Mod1/Mod3/Sys 80.   
      
   Last I heard of him was that he still may be in the Parramatta/North Rocks   
   area.   
      
      
   "turnkit"  wrote in message   
   news:1169541565.104842.231050@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   > thanks for the report Scott...  no chance then that you have any   
   > contact info on Greg Dubios or Patricia McNamara?     Did it seem odd   
   > to you that they were married then and had two different last names?   
   > Any chance the other story is correct and this guy made up his   
   > resume/cv?  Didn't happen to code in Z-80 for you did he?   
   >   
   > Well pls let me know of the last city you heard he was in... maybe I   
   > can track him down there...   
   >   
   > thx!   
   >   
   >   
   > Scott Atkinson wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
      
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