In my previous post I was talking about the creativity needed to see a castle and a moat in a rectangular shape with a line underneath, as depicted in a fictional retro game. As a kid, I didn’t have any problems seeing the castle and the moat. And therefore thoroughly enjoyed playing these games. 30 years later, that’s different. Read more…

One day, somewhere in the second half of the 80s, my dad came home with that infamous bread bin and from that point on, things changed. I learned how to program in BASIC, even tapped direclty into the C64 core with some assembler code, which definitely was the foundation for me being a software engineer nowadays. Aside from the obvious educational purposes, having a computer with a 16 color display and a 6581 SID sound chip on board made it suitable for another, very pleasant, form of pasttime: gaming. Read more…