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quangdx:
In an effort to bring the GLBasic community closer together.
I ask the question, where are you from and what's your story?

quangdx:
I split my time between East London UK, and near Dover, Kent.

First computer and programming experience was the ZX Spectrum.
Learnt Spectrum BASIC from the manual, whatever BASIC programming books I could find in the library and every magazine listing I could lay my hands on.
Got an Atari ST (for school work) and started writing stuff in the awesome STOS basic.
Moved on to PASCAL on a 386 PC laptop, then learnt me some C.
Dabbled in Gameboy C and z80 assembly, releasing a version of Jetpac called JetPak DX,
http://asobitech.com/jpdx/
which got me a "dream" job writing commercial Gameboy games.
Worked on Lego Stunt Rally for the Gameboy Colour, amongst other non-released titles.
But that all ended quite badly for me and I went on coding hiatus, for a good few years.

I bought a Windows Mobile smartphone with keyboard and found PPL (pocket programming language),
where I coded for PC and Windows Mobile for a bit, on a PC and best of all, on the device itself.
But the iPhone came along and took over the smartphone market.

I don't even remember how I stumbled upon GLBasic, but here I am.
And I'm loving every bit of it.

Ian Price:
I live in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.

My first proper computer was an Amstrad CPC 464 that I got for Christmas 1984. It came with no games at all. It did however come with a free issue of Amstrad Computer User, which luckily for me had several type-in games in it. I've not stopped coding ever since. Love the thrill of the bug hunt! :P

Moved from the CPC to Amiga and used Easy AMOS, AMOS, AMOS Pro + compiler and created numerous cheap and cheerful games, that are sadly all long gone now. Never had access to Public Domain, other than as freebies on mags. I never considered sending any of my stuff to them - didn't think I was good enough at the time. I know better now.

I moved to pc after a good few years and started with the Games Factory, then Div Games Studio, C, C++, Blitz, Blitz3D, PlayBASIC, Cobra, Blitz Max and finally to the best of the bunch, GLBasic.

My pc gaming "career" started with remakes of retro games (which have always been a real passion), but I've done more original stuff of late. I've won prizes in a number of coding competitions with my games.

I've produced loads of games apps freely and commercially for a number of different formats. My games have reached places that I'll never visit - through choice and financial limitations!

Sixth Sense:
I'm originally from Scotland but now stay in Morecambe, England.

I'll take the easy way here and post links to two pages:

Personal details:
https://sites.google.com/site/6ixth6ense/About-Programming

Computers & Programming Details:
https://sites.google.com/site/6ixth6ense/About-Programming/Basic-Programming

ampos:
I started in 1984 with a 2nd hand C= Vic-20. It had no books, so I have to learn with a Spectrum manual. Later we bought a C64 for work: we are photographers, so I made a titler program and a videoclub database (the 1541 was sooo slow!). Later we upgraded to an C128. And then to A500+ with genlock and ¡hard drive!.

In the Amiga a bought Amos Pro. I did my shop's Point-Of-Sale program for the Amiga, and a few more games, one of them a Lord of the Rings game (http://www.lysator.liu.se/tolkien-games/entry/anillos.html) in 1991.

I translated from english to spanish the manual of Scenary Animator 3D, and as payment I got 10.000 pts (60€) and a 2400 baud modem. At work, we have an A4000 with 2x2gb SCSI drives, VLabMotion and Tocatta for NonLinear Video Edition (I did some code in that pipe-language the Amiga had...). I spent most of my time (and my father money!) exploring BBS and FidoNet. I even got a real email then!

My home A500 broke due a ray-storm (it lost the yellow color!) and contacted Dave Hayne (one of the amiga makers!) to fix it. A dude from Germany bought me a (lisa?) chip to fix it. This was amazing for us, internet comunications in days!

At home I got an A1200 that was later expanded with a PowerPPC 603e+060/50 with Cybervision (or the hell was called) and some other expansions (a multysinc monitor). My father was amazed when I show him that I could change the eye-color of a photo using Amiga's ImageFX!

I don-t known when, but our first PC at work was a AMD K6-II at 350mhz (I was an Amiga boy!). At work, I re-did my PoS program to PC using TurboBasic, but the Amiga one was soooo nice... I had also Blitz Basic on the Amiga. There is some programs in AmigaNet.

In 2001 I sold my home's A1200, and with the money I bought a full-high-end PC, and even I some money was left!

I discovered Blitz3D for the PC, so I get it and start using it. I did a few more proyects (and updated my PoS program!).

2 Years ago I discovered GLBasic, and I love so much that I can program for my iPhone! Dude, I can even turn millionaire!

I work all my day as photographer, mainly in fron of the PC with Photoshop. My programs are done at home in my spare time.

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