Welcome to the Jungle (article about the future of parallelcomputing)

[Brad Anderson]

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:

> "Brad Anderson" <eco at gnuk.net> wrote in message
> news:mailman.185.1325982241.16222.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
> >
> >> "Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote in message
> >> news:je9e3t$1g3l$1 at digitalmars.com...
> >> > 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.
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