[karmakaze]

Grew up in the 80s just as home and office desktop computers were becoming available. I really only wanted to make video games like the ones in the arcades. I bugged my parents until I got an 8-bit Atari 400, and I self-taught BASIC, machine/assembly and all the hardware/ROM capabilities. The most I learned was probably by disassembling retail games. I once tried to make a multitasking system by context switching in interrupt routines but I didn't really understand all the details to make it work for more than a brief moment. From there, learning dBase II and III got me summer jobs and doing C later on co-op programme terms fit right in.