1984-1990 : Thomson TO7/TO8 :  

6809 @ 1MHz

Like a lot of people, I began coding simple games in Basic. ( On this machine, the integrated basic was a Microsoft  Basic ! )

The power was very limited, thus the only way to have something impressive was to learn assembly. So I did.

I was learning the 6809 assembly with some books, when I saw one arcade machine running Tetris and was fascinated.

I had this magazine with a screenshot of the Sega Megadrive version of Tetris, and this was my starting point.

I still have the 6809 source on paper...

 

 

Powerful box compared to my previous one.

I was forced to learn the 68000 assembly to have a sprite routine.

I've done numerous clones of arcade games with this machine. ( Tetris, sokoban, Lode Runner, Boulder Dash, etc... )

 

 

First contact with a PC in 1994. No money to buy one.

 

I also learned C and Unix during this period.

 

 

 

First serious jobs. With the money, I was able to buy a "powerful" Pentium 60 box to replace my aging ST.

During this period, I was mainly a gamer.

Small stuff in C, then  : full time jobs. Code blackout.

 

 

 

*) Shockwave director stuff. OO programming. (Boulder dash, lander. )

*) C++ ( 2D game framework )

*) D programming language. ( 2D game framework, DDash )

*) C++ again. ( Ogre 3D + ODE , Lander )