On 1/8/2012 9:23 AM, Brad Anderson wrote:
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote:"Paulo Pinto" <[email protected] <mailto:[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.
I was a regular lurker for a while. Until around the time of the Hasbro suit. When I saw 'Abscissa' posting over at the DSource forums, and later connected it with Nick, I thought it likely to be the same Abscissa from the XtremeGames boards. That was a long time ago.
