Marco A.G.Pinto is around 32 years old and is the programmer of Team SpecNG. He is also the founder of the group.

His main interest is computers, but he also likes movies, music, animals and is interested in science.

Marco started on computers back in 1986 at age 12 when his father offered him and his brother a TC 2048 which was a ZX Spectrum 48 kB compatible computer. Back in the 1980s he coded in Basic and a bit in Z80 Assembly.

Also in the 1980s he moved later to a ZX Spectrum+ 128 kB.

In 1991 Marco moved to the Amiga scene where he coded several Freeware and Shareware using AMOS and AMOS PRO. He had an Amiga 500 and later an Amiga 1200.

In 1995 Marco entered University and started using PCs, graduating from University in 1999. During his University days Marco didn’t code much because of the downfall of Commodore and the Amiga was no longer a very used computer anymore. And the programming languages for the PC weren’t as flexible as the ones Marco used before.

In 2001 Marco started coding for the PC as a hobby using DarkBASIC and later DarkBASIC Professional.

Mail Marco: marco@specng.org