BloggerView: Everyone Has A Story
Who’d a thought it? Me. Interviewed!
A new blog called BloggerView has just started up by my new mate Pete from down-under, him of the incredibly amusing blog Chocolate Makes It Better.
Anyhow, my interview is the first! 001! Does that make me a secret agent?
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BV: It seems like you have spent a large proportion of your life developing software or games and even some other interesting projects that we will get into a little later. Can you tell us a little about the type of kid you were and where the drive for this area of your particular passion came from?
I was the typical geek kid at school - generally ignored by all; especially by members of the fairer sex. I couldn’t kick a football for toffee, so I generally just did well at the academic stuff. My parents were pretty encouraging and I guess I got into it all through a friend whose dad bought him all the computer toys. We’re talking KIM-1, PET, Apple IIe, etc… Then my dad bought me a ZX81 and a Spectrum and I was hooked. I learnt Z80 assembly ‘cos BASIC was boring, and then helped out a computer science teacher of mine with a book of computer games he was writing. This was at the time when you could buy magazines and books with printed listings of games in them that you’d type in.
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BloggerView - Highly recommended.
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I especially enjoyed the references to the PA Cricket scoring system.
congrats Steve. Great interview! I, of course, love it that you mentioned about how CJ and his mom found each other again - that is a very cool story. :)
Pete! How are you doing? Yeah - that was fun wasn't it? :-)