Volker Strübing
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Volker Strübing is a German writer, reporter and musician.
Strübing was raised in East Germany, then a part of the Socialist bloc. He resided in Roßlau, Saxony-Anhalt until 1978 when his stepfather moved to Berlin-Marzahn. In the early 1980s, his birth father was employed in the data center of VEB Elektromotorenwerk Dessau (near Roßlau), whose core was an EC 1036 mainframe. During a visit, the 11-year-old saw computers for the first time. In mid-decade, his grandfather moved from Thuringia to West Berlin. Like other West German residents, he could not be visited by East German relatives, but send them packages.
In 1987, Strübing got a Commodore 64 from that grandfather, and at 17, started attending punk concerts and bought a guitar. Every wednesday, he commuted to Berlin-Mitte to attend the Computerklub in HdjT (House of Young Talents), where he met the later co-founders of YAGER Development. By July 21, 1988, he had also met Tobias Herre somewhere, was calling himself Syntax Terror (Videoware), and had been using Soundmonitor and Rockmonitor II (stepfather: "And your beeping there, I can do that too, better do something reasonable!").
On July 15, 1989, Strübing graduated. From February 1990 to around 1992, he co-formed Game-o-ware. In 2019, he directed a documentary about East German computing for public broadcasting.
Audio Development
Commodore 64
Strübing arranged using a 6581 chip and Herre's Extra-Sound music editor.
His all-time favorites are Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway and Chris Hülsbeck.
DOS
Strübing's arrangements are in the MDI format, and a few of the OPL2 instruments (especially drums) are from Ad Lib's STANDARD.BNK, so he most likely arranged in AdLib Visual Composer (1.5 or newer) and AdLib Instrument Maker using a mouse and optimized them using ROL to MIDI.
Gameography
| Released | Title | Sample | Notes |
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| 1991-0?-?? | Atomino (AMI) | |
Extended by Hans-Hermann Franck. |
| 1991-0?-?? | Atomino (AST) | |
Atomino (AMI) arranged by Jochen Hippel. |
| 1991-0?-?? | Atomino (C64) | |
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| 1991-0?-?? | Atomino (DOS) | |
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| 1991-??-?? | Battle Isle (DOS) | ||
| 1991-??-?? | Pro Tennis Tour 2 (DOS) |
Picture Gallery
With the grandfather.
His website.
Documentary.
With Atomino (DOS). Der Spiegel 4/1991.
Commuting, 2019.
Right, Herre left, at Game-o-ware's favorite bar, 2019.
Watching the graphic artist play Atomino (C64), 2019.
Links
- volkerstrübing.de - Official.
- mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,16341/ - MobyGames.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Strübing - Wikipedia.
- twitter.com/VolkerStruebing - Twitter.
- demonews.de/games/specials/special-demonews-fragt-stars-antworten-volker-struebing-demonews-fragt-stars-antworten-volker-struebing/ - Interview from March 1, 2006 (in German).
