František Fuka (pronounced ; born 9 October 1968) is a Czech computer programmer and musician. He 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

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in the Czech Republic. His website ''FFFilm'' gradually became one of the important sources among Czech film sites. The newspaper

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ranked him among the top six influential personalities of the Czech internet in 2004. Until 2023, František Fuka was a member of one of the oldest-running Czech radio podcasts, ''Odvážné palce''.

Life

František Fuka was born on 9 October 1968 in

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Games for ZX Spectrum

Fuka developed several video games for the

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with the Czechoslovak programming group Golden Triangle. As a member of the group, he was introduced in 2016 to the Czech video game Hall of Fame. Fuka has also been noted as an influence on other Slovak game developers. * '' Belegost'' (with Miroslav Fídler) * ''Boxing'' * '' Poklad'' * ''Poklad 2'' * ''Bowling 2000'' * '' Indiana Jones a Chrám zkázy'' * ''Indiana Jones 2'' * ''Indiana Jones 3'' * '' Jet-Story'' (with Miroslav Fídler) * ''Kaboom!'' * ''Planet of Shades'' (with Miroslav Fídler) * ''Podraz 3'' * ''F.I.R.E.'' * '' Tetris 2''

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Fuxoft's Blog

František Fuka: I distributoři si musí filmy stahovat z internetu
– interview on 30minut.cz
Kulturní tri@log: Baldýnský, Fila a Fuka o Oscarech
– Aktuálně.cz
František Fuka: Nikdy jsem nebyl v USA
– Kinobox.cz 1968 births Living people People from Prague 20th-century Czech translators 21st-century translators Czech male bloggers Czech video game composers Czech video game designers Video game programmers {{europe-compu-bio-stub