Ciaran Gultnieks Explained

Ciaran Eugene Gultnieks (born 1970) is a British computer game programmer, whose projects include Star Wars (1988, for home computers), Dogfight (1993), Slipstream 5000 (1995) and Hardwar (1998)^[1] for the PC. He is the founder of F-Droid and contributes to the microblogging platform GNU social.

Biography

Gultnieks was the first employee at Vektor Grafix,^[2] later moving on to work for Microprose and Spectrum Holobyte.^[3] In 1993, he co-founded development house The Software Refinery,^[4] which closed in 2002.^[5] In recent years he has contributed to various open source software projects.^[6] In 2010, he founded the F-Droid software repository, a catalogue of FOSS applications for the Android platform.^{[7] [8]}

Works

He is credited on the following games:^[9]

• Star Wars (1987), Domark
• Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1988), Domark
• Fighter Bomber (1989), Activision
• Strike Aces (1990), Activision
• Killing Cloud, The (1991) Image Works
• Dogfight (1993), Microprose
• Air Duel: 80 Years of Dogfighting (1993), MicroProse
• Slipstream 5000 (1995), Gremlin Interactive
• Hardwar (1998), Gremlin Interactive

References

1. http://zedo.hardwar.org.uk/inter1.htm Magazine interview about Hardwar
2. http://www.crashonline.org.uk/64/bomber.htm Crash Article
3. http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,13414 Ciaran Gultnieks' bio
4. Article/interview in PC Format - Best of British supplement
5. Web site: Hardwar FAQ - Closure of The Software Refinery . 28 May 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100405191624/http://www.capsu.org/hardwar/faq/2.html#intro_3 . 5 April 2010 . dead .
6. Web site: CiaranG - Overview. 2015-05-06. .
7. Web site: About. F-Droid Limited. 6 January 2016.
8. Web site: Interview with Ciaran Gultnieks of F-Droid — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software. 2015-05-06.
9. http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,13414/ Mobygames profile

External links

• Personal home page