Welcome to Oliver's homepage

E-mail: oliver.roberts@iname.com

Should the above address fail for any reason, please try either
oliver@nanunanu.org or oliver@amigaf1.freeserve.co.uk instead

About me

I live in Norwich, UK and I'm 24 years old. I graduated from the University of Essex in the summer of 1996 where I studied Computer Science resulting in a BSc (Honours) degree. I'm currently looking for a full-time job as a C programmer or in internet/web design. At the moment, I'm developing software for Power Computing. My main interests (which are probably pretty obvious once you start exploring my pages ;-) are motor racing (especially F1) and the Amiga computer.

My Curriculum Vitae.
My PGP public key.

My computer

My current setup is: Amiga A1200T, Blizzard PowerPC 603e+/240MHz 68060/50MHz, 2Mb Chip ram + 48Mb Fast ram, Workbench 3.1, Surf Squirrel SCSI-2 interface + 230400 bps serial port, Seagate Barracuda 4Gb SCSI HD, Quantum Trailblazer 850Mb SCSI HD, Seagate Marathon 170Mb IDE HD, Toshiba Quad-Speed SCSI CD-ROM, Iomega 1Gb Jaz drive, Pace 56 Solo modem.

Hosted by

Amiga - The Survivor

Amiga software which I've written

Commercial

SoloUp - Amiga version of the flash upgrader for the Pace 56 Solo modem.
PowerDC - Amiga driver for Power Computing's digital camera.
AFCDFind - Amiga Format magazine's CD-ROM search tool
AFCDPrefs - Preferences program for Amiga Format magazine's CD-ROMs (also includes, AFCDView + CheckAFCDPrefs)

Shareware

F1GP-Ed - Enhances Geoff Crammond's F1GP/WC simulation

Freeware

F1GP Backdrop Datatype - Allows programs to read F1GP .BKG images
f1gp.library - Shared library used by various F1GP add-ons; Download it from Aminet
ARexx Scripts for THOR and PPaint
ButtonMenu - Program launcher
CDRun - Incredibly basic program ;-) Download it from Aminet

Formula 1 Grand Prix Stuff

Digitech-Magia F1 team home page.
My personal splittimes for F1GP qualifying laps.

My support pages for the Amiga version of MicroProse's Formula One Grand Prix simulator, plus many Amiga related and Motorsport related links.

hits during 1997-99

Some of my favourite web sites

Amiga Web Directory - Links to Amiga sites, plus extremely useful New Links page.
Amiga Inc. - Keep up with developments on the next generation Amiga.
Atlas F1 News - Reliable and up-to-date Formula 1 news.
Autosport - All the latest F1 and BTCC news.
The X-Files - One of my favourite TV programmes.
Yahoo! - The best place to go if you're looking for something on the net.
AltaVista - Relatively fast web and usenet search engine.

How I create my web pages

All my web pages are designed using my aforementioned Amiga computer, with software such as Photogenics 2a, Personal Paint 7 and hsc. All photographs on this page were taken using Power Computing's VDC-100 and VDC-200P digital cameras. I test my pages locally mainly using IBrowse, but also AWeb-II and Voyager web browsers. I also use the Apache HTTP server locally to test and check for errors, especially with scripts. All this is done on my Amiga, with TCP/IP support provided by Miami.