Coding, Cola, Caffeine and Crashing Computers


Coding, Cola, Caffeine and Crashing Computers

- MenThal and his life as a Computerfreak -

Latest adventures of the digital sea:
- Made a MasterMind clone for the Agenda VR3 in C++
- Learning Ruby, a nice object-oriented scripting language alternative to Perl and Python.
Ancient history:
- My first released project was...Magic Maze - a low-tech Gauntlet, basically!
- Simple Speed Optimizations - a trainer doc by me... emphasis on SIMPLE!!!! (And now also old)
- Learning Java is quite fun actually!
- A "modernized" version of the Enigma encoding machine... with Pascal source code!
- Older, less finished projects, all my Stale Code

1989-90?	STOS Basic on the Atari ST
1991-92?	68000 Assembly on the Atari ST
1992	Magic Maze in STOS Basic - never finished
1993 (July)	Magic Maze - 68000 Assembly on the Atari ST - never finished
1993 (Des)	Got myself a PC
1994 (Nov)	Began working on Magic Maze in Turbo Pascal
1995 (Sept)	Magic Maze sent to PC Format... no dice! (The dustbin incident?)
1996 (Summer)	C++ and OOP. 3D polygon graphics, vectors etc.
1996 (Sept)	Magic Maze published on PC Format
1997	Have somewhat grasp of OOP, started to look at Java
1998 (Jan)	Had to look closer at HTML... to make all this
1999 (Spring)	Programming as subject at university, using Java... about time!
1999 (Fall)	'Algorithms and Datastructures' as subject at university, using Java.
2000 (Spring)	Assistant in the Programming subject at university, still using Java.
2000 (Summer)	Summerjob at Trustix doing C++ and Java.
2001 (Spring)	Began looking at Ruby

Send your well-devised thoughts to me at MenThal@bigfoot.com


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