About Me / Older Software
About Me:
Been into computers since my dad got his Tandy 1000 in the early 90s. Fascinated by the opportunities it provided and what it could do my passion for them only grew as I got older. In elementary school while other kids were playing on their then new PlayStation's and Nintendo's I was busy hacking away at QBasic, reading my dad's Novel Netware books and falling in love with OS/2, if only for the fact I could play all of my old Interplay DOS games that required an insane amount of conventional memory.
Desk circa 2002, sometimes I do miss having 3 huge CRTs
Time passed by and I started getting into 2D Graphics and 3D Animation using TrueSpace as it had come with my dad's Permedia 2 graphics card. Around this time I also started really developing my programming skills. Started picking up C, C++ and going beyond what I had done for some many years in Visual Basic in 1999.
Possible protagonist characters for a side scroller created in Microsoft Paint dated 7/8/1998
To be continued...
Older Software:
In 1995 I wrote my first QBasic game called, Shoot a Rama. It really didn't do much other than simply display text and allow you to enter options. Back then, I was 9 years old, didn't understand variables, let alone variable assignments so no matter what you entered it did whatever it was programmed. I made several sequels, learned the beep command and didn't actually program it with any sort of logic until December 1999 with the release of Shoot a Rama 2000 that used my 2D VGA engine, called GORE.
In 1998, I was big into emulators and thought it would be cool to "port" those old QBasic games with an interpreter, called gameGUY (a play off of Nintendo's portable gaming console). At the time this was above my abilities, but the idea didn't fade. 10 years later on October 5th, 2008, I wrote the interpreter, but never released it due to some bugs and lack of time. Today, January 7th, 2012, I fixed the bugs, enhanced it a bit and am now releasing it with all of the original Shoot a Rama games. There were several more QBasic games I wrote, but I haven't been able to find them, maybe one day.
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