The Garbage section

A stupid list of stupid things I did with computers :

• Wrote my first BASIC program in 1983 or 1984, when I was 9 or 10. Well, « wrote » isn’t the right word since I actually hacked the source code of a game called « Sortilege » in order to finish it easily. Nevertheless, I learnt BASIC with it. That was on Apple II.
• My all-time favorite Apple II game was Rescue Raiders.
• Also played with a ZX81 and a ZX Spectrum.
• Coded games in BASIC on Amstrad CPC, games in GFA BASIC on Atari ST, and I also had an AMIGA later.
• My two first demo screens were available on the STMag server.
• « Aghwey Nodei Shodei » was my 3rd demo-screen ! (Atari)
• My first coding party was the Snork’ 91.
• Responsible for « Japanese Way Of Life ». The scrolltext within had been further ripped and published in a Toxic Mag issue, which I’ve always found quite amazing… !
• Also responsible for « Japanese Way Of Life 2 » but that one has luckily never been released…
• Involved in Holocaust Leftovers (Atari)
• Commited a lot of rippers (Atari)
• Wrote some articles in the Toxic Mag (Atari)
• Made the gfxs for our unfinished K.E.O.P.S. game (Atari)
• Made tons of pictures with Degas Elite in 16 colors (Atari)
• I think I’ve drawn the biggest pictures ever on Atari : 448 * 600 using multiple palettes ! …yeah, one pixel at a time, ain’t that fun ?
• Neptune, or how to hand-disassemble Tim Clarke’s Mars using a pencil and a piece of paper  (PC)
• The FastRot algorithm, or how to magically change 9 muls in 9 adds (PC)
• The Zap-Sort, or how to avoid sorting your faces (PC)
• Attended zillions of Coding Parties
• Coded zillions of hand-optimized texture mappers (PC)
• Gouraud, flat, motion blur, fire, marble, yada yada yada ! You can download a collection of 50 old DOS exes which were sleeping on some backup CDs, but beware ! The zip is quite big ! (3 or 4 mo) (included : various tests for phong, mapping, fires, tunnels, bump, fractals, subpixel, particle ghosts, and many more……….)
• Realtime Vistapro (PC) (Quote from Chaos/Sanity at The Party 6 : « it is Tomb Raider 2 or what ? »….nope, that’s my code :)
• Zillions of unreleased demo screens (ST / PC)
• …and I finished Zillion on Sega Master System by the way…
• …but I actually still prefer Dungeon Master……….
• …oh, and Steve Bak’s Goldrunner rules….(Pic from ST-News, Steve's on the left - looks a lot like my dad, huh ?!)
• I was whipped into learning SQL, Rdb and Merise.
• I worked on MS-DOS, Windows95, NT, Unix, Xwindow & Motif, DEC Open VMS, Workbench, GEM. I regretfully have to say only the last one was fun. (because I could wipe it out).
• Ah ! I also tried some various languages : Fortran, Basic, Pascal, C, C++, Assembler VAX, 8031, 8085, 80x86, 680x0. Next one is Java. No time for the moment.

Back to main