Interview with K-Os / Raww Arse
By: LaesQ / Raww Arse
LaesQ interviews one of Raww Arse's most mysterious characters and finds out some deep and interesting secrets.
LA: Hello K-Os!
K0: That's Mister to you!
LA: OK. Hello MR. K-Os!
K0: That's better. Hello.
LA: How did you first get interested in Speccy?
K0: Well, it was shortly after I was 8. My friends all had Lego, but my parents decided that I should have something a bit more complex than Lego.
LA: So you grew up on Lego?
K0: Well, I ate a bit of it if that's what you mean.
LA: Ummm, so what did your parents decide to get you instead of Lego?
K0: A great little computer called a Sinclair ZX Spectrum which boasted 48k of memory! Not that I knew what all that crap meant back then. All I know is I loved playing Horace Goes Skiing! Man that game kicked (raww) arse!
LA: Any other favourites you can remember?
K0: Yeah, I remember VU-3D. I spent a week solid trying to design a Lego brick on it.
LA: So you were a big fan of Lego?
K0: I still am!
LA: But what about games? Do you have any other favourites?
K0: Umm, Commando. But I got that a few years later.
LA: What was the first Speccy demo you remember ever watching?
K0: LYRA II by ESI. It was on a cover tape of S.U. (Sinclair User).
LA: Damn good demo! And what did you think of it?
K0: It made a change from playing games. It was like a new side of my Speccy I'd never seen before. I was impressed by what they could make a Speccy do. I enjoyed that dancing bird the most. I've tried to make a model of her from Lego. That's what disappointed me about the demo.
LA: What? Only one bird?
K0: No. No Lego in the demo.
LA: What's your obsession with Lego?
K0: What obsession? I have no obsession.
LA: Ok then. When did you discover your talent as a gfx guy?
K0: Well, ever since I was about 7 I've had a talent of drawing stuff. In my mid-teens I had a period of doing graffiti. And when I got my first Amiga around the same time I started drawing in Deluxe Paint.
LA: So when did you become aware of 'the scene'?
K0: Well, it was several years after I got my Amiga 500 that a friend got interested in PD (Public Domain) software. He would bring round demos and utils which were freely distributable.
LA: What was the first Amiga demo you remember watching?
K0: Desert Dreams by Kefrens.
LA: That demo roxx!!! And what do you remember about it?
K0: Oh everything! There's too much to list! But the one thing that stuck in my head was that the gfx in that demo were great and I wanted to do stuff of a similar quality.
LA: Was there anything that stuck in your head in the demo?
K0: Yeah! That circular saw that cuts through the screen! Oh and also that there was STILL NO LEGO!
LA: Stop it with the DAMN LEGO!
K0: Why?
LA: Cos this interview has nothing to do with LEGO!
K0: Oh, doesn't it?
LA: NO!
K0: Umm, well I'm off to play with my Lego now then!
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