A self-confessed geek, Jason Oakley was born in NSW, Australia in 1971 and has been on the internet since around 1993.
He was a big fan of the Dick Smith VZ200 (his first computer) and the Commodore 64 (he had a C64c and now does again). He was briefly known as “Majikthise” in a demogroup called “Lithium”. A couple of friends joined as well: The Butcher and Mysetro. Only really made one demo when he was in a group in high school called “Hotshots”. The demo was called “Meltdown” and has been lost to the ages.
Jason started on the internet with a 28.8k modem and an expensive $5/hr account at OzEmail ISP (which was pwned by iiNet and now TPG).
He was a member of the Efnet IRC community since joining the Internet. As of 2006 he hardly goes on IRC at all, mostly living on BlueSky and Discord as WauloK and on Facebook.
Tech shows Jason has been involved with: The Obsidian Loft Minecraft podcast, The Old Fart Geeks, Aussie Tech Crypto, Aussie Tech Heads, Tech Webcast and Tech Talk Radio.
Programming is one of his loves and he prides himself in having done some programming in many languages (some you may call scripting) such as: C, Perl, PHP, Bash among others. He wrote a popular game called “Quirl” for the Palm OS. Later, an updated version named “Quirl:Christmas Edition” was created, using the same gameplay but with Christmas graphics and sound effects along with a Christmas tune in the background.
He also wrote an Arkanoid clone for the VZ200/VZ300 computers called “Arkaball” in Small C.
Jason has had training and experience at Volunteer radio stations. He has trained at a Sydney Voiceover school.
He also volunteered his voice for LibriVox.org readings.
In 2013, he developed the popular Minecraft game plugin called “Insanity Run” in Java. This is a Temple Run themed game based inside the Minecraft world. It has had over 15,300 downloads (as of February 2023).
In 2015, he gained an awesome Work-From-Home job fighting spam on the internet.
In 2016, he bought a home to live in and, in 2017 joined up to the local Great Lakes FM radio station where he hosted the Retro Regeneration show for four years.
In 2017 he began developing clock faces and a game for the Fitbit OS devices. They are quite popular and have been downloaded by thousands of people but have been discontinued now Google bought Fitbit.
2020 brought on a desire for more development and this resulted in Corey Coolbrew for the Sinclair Spectrum designed using the Multi-Platform Arcade Game Designer. It is a part of the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality.
A few more games for the VZ200 were written and appear on WauloK’s itch.io page. A couple of those were done with the Multi-Platform Arcade Game Designer after he helped port it in Z80 Assembly to VZ200.
September, 2020 brought more desire for development which resulted in “Toxic Frenzy” written in 6502 Assembly for the Commodore 64. All graphics and code by Jason Oakley with help from OldSkoolCoder and the music was created by Mike Richmond. It’s also available for the Mega 65 computer with updates from Shallan50k.
As of 2023, Jason had a short experiment writing music using the Tracktion Waveform DAW. You can listen to tunes and subscribe by going to the cosmiQ Qaos Bandcamp page.
From 2025, Jason has started coding games for the Commander X16 retro-style computer. The first game is called “Tomb of Anneis” and is scheduled to be released in 2025. It’s based on a mixture of Boulderdash and Paganitzu with a couple of new twists! It has been released on the new Suite16.au website.
