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Where are you from and what's your story?
BigAnd:
Hi!
I am from the UK, a Yorkshire Man through and through but now living down in the south of England.
I have been a professional artist in the games industry for about 20 years now. I started out doing games for the Amiga and now work for a large MMO company as an Environment Artist.
I have always loved making my own games, starting out when I was bought a ZX81 but my parents could not afford to buy me any games. So I just stuck my head in the manual and went from there. I never released anything until I did the remake of ZX Spectrum game Manic Miner which seemed to go down pretty well.
I have owned most of the popular computers from the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC 6128 and Commodore 64 as well as the Atari ST and a few Amigas. I still collect a lot of the older computer hardware and software with my favourite being the ZX Spectrum. I have a lot of very fond memories of this machine. I now mainly use my PC but also have a Mac Mini to do my Apple projects.
I now enjoy using GLBasic to write little games for the Apple and Android devices. I have messed around with a few of the other cross platform Basics but always end up coming back to GLBasic when I actually want to get something done.
I am proficient in C as well as basic. To be honest the are all pretty much alike. I also know a little Z80 and 6502 assembly language but not enough to write a good game.
Ian Price:
Loved your tale Gernot :)
TI-994A:
--- Quote from: Kitty Hello on 2012-Apr-12 ---In QBasic I did some tiny games. I got me a QB 4.5 from the university which compiled to real .exe files.
--- End quote ---
From Qbasic to QuickBasic, I loved them, with their bright blue "IDEs". It was goodbye GW-BASIC, and no more protected listings. After that, it was PDS 7.1, and then lebewohl to DOS.
Hark0:
--- Quote from: TI-994A on 2012-Apr-13 ---
--- Quote from: Kitty Hello on 2012-Apr-12 ---In QBasic I did some tiny games. I got me a QB 4.5 from the university which compiled to real .exe files.
--- End quote ---
From Qbasic to QuickBasic, I loved them, with their bright blue "IDEs". It was goodbye GW-BASIC, and no more protected listings. After that, it was PDS 7.1, and then lebewohl to DOS.
--- End quote ---
Today I still 4 diskettes (3 1/2 size) of QB45 stored in home... I buy a copy version some years ago... in a little computer shop (like a club filled of people without money and new computer lovers)... the unnoficial store of software at prehistoria... Yes, I talk about the times before Gamestop, Game, and other MEGASTORES... =D
TI-994A:
--- Quote from: Hark0 on 2012-Apr-13 ---Today I still 4 diskettes (3 1/2 size) of QB45 stored in home...
--- End quote ---
Still have QB4.5, PDS7.1 and VB6.0 in complete boxed sets. And I should still have a copy of GW-Basic on a 5.25" floppy somewhere, along with MoonBugs and Frogger!
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