"Brad Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "Paulo Pinto" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >> > Hi, >> > >> > so you are also following Andre's attemps to revive the >> > old homebrew developer feeling. :) >> > >> >> Yea, I grew up on that sort of thing. And I'd been working with Andre' >> (LaMothe, of course) since well before he started doing hardware kits. >> His >> old DOS-based game dev books are what moved me from various forms of >> BASIC >> into finally really grokking things like C, pointers and low-level >> programming (which I had only "kind of" understood before). Then I just >> happened to end up in contact with him through a mutual aquaintence (via >> AOL >> 1.x ;) heh, yea, way back then). Andre' was starting up a budget-game >> publishing company and was looking for a breakout clone, which I happened >> to >> already be working on. So there was that, and then he started some >> gamedev >> forums that I was a regular on for years. Then Hasbro Interactive fucked >> everything up with unsubstantiated litigation and typical corporate >> "drown >> in legal fees" tactics, and then he got into doing hardware kits like >> he's >> doing now. >> > > I was a regular on there too. Small world. >
Heh, cool. I'm "Abscissa" over there (although I haven't posted or even lurked much in years). I was one of the two-digit user numbers :)
