On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote:
> "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 :) > > > > I remember you being a frequent poster. I haven't been in years. I was Catalyst. It's interesting they are still going strong (and that there are still people I recognize posting regularly). I joined the forums back when they were Xtreme Games forums (which got moved over to XGameStation at some point). I never really got into the XGameStation stuff but stayed around the forums after Andre's shift in attention. I was around for the Hasbro drama. I think I'd be nervous to go back and look at some of my old posts. I was a young teenager when I frequented these forums so I no doubt made a lot of embarrassing posts.
