{"id":11,"date":"2006-11-15T18:15:24","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T16:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lightrock.biz\/index.php\/?p=8"},"modified":"2011-05-27T17:26:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:26:54","slug":"the-first-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightrocker.lightrock.biz\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"The beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my boyhood I programmed a lot of applications and games, which I have never completed. After the “C64” I got a “Commodore 128DCR<\/a>” and the some time later the matching monitor. At that time my best project was an own “Indiana Jones<\/a>” adventure game<\/a> for the “C64”. I was twelve years old and did not realized the legal issues using such a brand but this has not become a problem because I lost interest and never finished the game. With the help of magazines I was able to combine graphics and text mode but could not show sprites at the part of the screen, where the graphics were being displayed. In addition I was too young and unexperienced for such a large project.<\/p>\n

At Christmas 1992 my parents bestowed me my third computer: It was a “Amstrad” PC with “Intel 80386SX<\/a>“-CPU running at 20 MHz and equipped with 4 MB RAM and a 80 MB hard disc. The software contained “MS-DOS<\/a> 5.0″ on three and “Microsoft Windows 3.1<\/a>” on seven 3,5″-floppy-discs.
\nAt the long vacation in 1993 I developed my first game, which I had finished and wanted to sell as shareware: “Antarctic City”. It was a hybrid of interpreted “QBasic<\/a>” source code containing the game logic and “Turbo Pascal<\/a> 5.5″-compiled executables to load bitmap files, which I had created in “Paintbrush for Windows<\/a>“. Because my first contact with the Internet should not be until five years later I had no idea how to distribute it. I gave the shareware version to some class mates but never got a response. Probably I had thought not entrepreneurial enough at that age and so I focused my mind to next projects.
\nThe following years I switched completely from “BASIC” to “Turbo Pascal”, from VGA<\/a> to SVGA<\/a> graphics, from PC speaker<\/a> to “Sound Blaster<\/a>“-compatible sound and started to work with ray tracing<\/a> applications. So I was acquiring a lot of game development knowledge but did not finished a single product. That last until the year 2000…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my boyhood I programmed a lot of applications and games, which I have never completed. After the “C64” I got a “Commodore 128DCR” and the some time later the matching monitor. At that time my best project was an own “Indiana Jones” adventure game for the “C64”. I was twelve years old and did … <\/p>\n

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