Dilwyn Jones wrote: >> Cheers, Marcel > Well, our lives would be that much worse without all the work you've > done on QPC, Window Manager, colour drivers etc etc.
Thanks. > Just one thing, Marcel, if you were only 4 at the time, how and when > did you get into QLs? (Late starter!). I started using computers with my father's ZX81, probably in 1985/86. Around 86/87, when I was 7, he finally bought himself a QL and I inherited the ZX81. I think I wasn't allowed to use it at first but later used it often enough so that he got fed up with me and bought me my very own. That was probably around 88/89, with me being 8 or 9 at most. > he got his QL at 4, mastered SuperBASIC before 5, pure machine code by > 6..... ;-)) Not quite ;-) Actually I used to be a basic-only programmer for quite some time. In 1990 I did many things with EasyPtr, like the obligatory address manager (which still works. Even more amazing, the 14+ years old microdrives it is on still work! Should make backups of all this stuff soon) or a poker game that could be played against the QL (designing all 36 card sprites was a pain but my brother helped me a bit). The first assembler source file I could find (and has a valid timestamp) is from early 1992 (i.e. I was 12/13). The first major project I did was in late 1992, a tool to record/replay 8 channel digital data (using the eprom burner as an interface, I think the intention was to record/play sound) including an oscilloscope, all running under the PE in QPAC2 look. But it never got 100% finished. Ah well, fond memories indeed. By the way, if anybody is waiting for an e-mail from me, I'm getting to that... Marcel
