František Fuka (October 9, 1968 in Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

) is a computer programmer and musician from the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

, well known in the ZX Spectrum

ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd...

 and SAM Coupé

SAM Coupé

The SAM Coupé is an 8-bit British home computer that was first released in late 1989. It is commonly considered a clone of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer, since it features a compatible screen mode and emulated compatibility, and it was marketed as a logical upgrade from the Spectrum...

 communities for his work in the late 80s and early 90s as Fuxoft, especially for Tetris 2, an objective based unofficial sequel to Tetris

Tetris

Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...

. He currently works as a film translator, preparing English language movies for Czech release. He is known also as a film critic, publicist and commentator.

František Fuka is one of the pioneers of the blogging in the Czech Republic, his website FFFilm gradually became one of the important sources among Czech film sites. The newspaper Lidové noviny

Lidové noviny

Lidové noviny is a daily newspaper published in the Czech Republic. It is the oldest Czech daily. Its profile is nowadays a national news daily covering political, economic, cultural and scientific affairs, mostly with a centre-right, conservative view...

ranked him among the top six influential personalities of the Czech internet.

Games for Sinclair ZX Spectrum

• Poklad
• Poklad 2
• Boxing
• Bowling 2000
• Indiana Jones a Chrám zkázy
• Indiana Jones 2
• Indiana Jones 3
• Podraz 3
• F.I.R.E.
• Tetris 2

External links

Homepage F. Fuka František Fuka: I distributoři si musí filmy stahovat z internetu (Interview - 30minut.cz) Kulturní tri@log: Baldýnský, Fila a Fuka o Oscarech Aktuálně.cz) Co se v životě naučil František Fuka (Super.cz) František Fuka: Nikdy jsem nebyl v USA (Kinobox.cz) Fuxoft's Blog