From inventing MP3 to making war strategy games | Tomislav Uzelac interview

Tomislav Uzelac, founder of 2×2 Games in Croatia, was the creator of the MP3 compression format behind the digital music revolution.

It so happens before he moved into games, Uzelac got a little famous for programming an MP3 decoder called amp, based on the ISO standard specification that was public at the time (ISO 13818-3). He didn’t have access to the Fraunhofer source code that was surfacing at the same time. This was in 1996 and 1997, and Winamp (based on his “amp” software) was released in 1997. The rest was history.