Michael Cooke (djlizard)

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djlizard
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djlizard
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Michael Cooke
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1981
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January 2002
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About me
I am DjLizard. I run www.DjLizard.net… I have nothing better to do … umm… . . . . I'm 20…. I live in Virginia… I'm bored. Ok.
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I started on the C64 when I was 3. I would sit in my dad's lap and watch him play M.U.L.E. with mom, and their friends. Whenever they weren't on the C64, I was. If there wasn't a school day, I'd spend a good 7 hours on it at a time, every day. I could read, so I typed words that a 3 year old would know, and made nifty color bars (they showed me how to use reverse colors and the space bar to paint pretty pictures😉 I have been physiologically addicted ever since. I was proabably 10 when I first truly appreciated SID. Games like M.U.L.E., Boulderdash, Hypa-ball, and Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders kept me bopping along. I sort of knew I wanted to grow up and remake my favorite tunes… Then there were those COMPUTE! diskettes… with the sidplayers and tunes… I really loved those too. Especially the Axel F SID that was split into L and R halves.

  • Oh, and Hypa-ball is pure genius… that is my #1 all time favorite music in the world. Thanks Mr. Tinman! :x
  • (HVSC/Tinman_Keith/Sidewize.sid Tune #2 omg! That is a crazy distorted synth!)


Somewhere in 1995 I discovered module music! That was it. My fate was sealed! Sometimes I wish I'd been born earlier so that I could have grown up in computers prior to C64 so that I could have become a famous composer or hacker 😊 Ah well.

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