What was the first system you programmed?

[What was the first system you programmed?]

My first job ever was with a payroll processing company. I was the first programmer assigned to a QA group interested in automating some of their testing.

[Music you listen to while programming]

Strangely, I only have a problem with lyrics when I'm not singing them. That, of course, doesn't take into account to possibility that while singing, others might have a problem with me.

[Who is from Belarus?]

Agree with you - I like Riga too.

[Who is from Belarus?]

Приятно встретить человека из Днепропетровска на этом форуме!

[Who is from Belarus?]

Всё-таки никого не нашел из Беларуси.

[A game about old-school ASM programming]

I'm not entirely sure about game dev in assembly, but I do know that rollercoaster tycoon was made in assembly except for the parts to interface with windows and directx. My guess would be that you have to do something along those lines.

 

Alternatively, make a game using ascii art?

[Who is from Belarus?]

Жаль, что новых людей не появилось с моего региона.

[Music you listen to while programming]

I have several stations built, and usually put them on a shuffle, turning different ones on or off depending on my mood. I have stations focuses on 80's, Prog rock, Broadway tunes, swing music, instrumental/modern classical, new wave, alternative rock, and pop tunes.

[Commodore 64 vs Atari 800 Xl]

Atari BASIC also was extremely slow. The benchmarks in Creative Computing show the 1.75mhz Atari was an order of magnitude slower than the 1mhz Commodore. Using a 3rd party BASIC solved this, the Atari coming out ahead. That being said, it is important to remember how strangely important the built-in BASICs were back in the 80s.

[Which Atari 2600 model is your favorite?]

My favorite is Darth Vader

[Who is from Belarus?]

Господа, предлагаю встретится в Бресте и попить пивка. Кто согласен?

[Who is from Belarus?]

Так никто не появился еще из Беларуси?

[Music you listen to while programming]

In really stressful situations, old hardcore or punk (that I know really well so I won't actively listen to it) helps me get things done.

But usually it's just post rock or techno or something else that's kind of boring and instrumental.

[Who is from Belarus?]

Andrei Arlovski is from Belarus

 

Andrei Arlovski is from Belarus

and Mikhail Grabovski is from Belarus too.

[Who is from Belarus?]

Граф, привет! Мне тоже приятно Вас видеть!

[Who is from Belarus?]

Очень жаль, что мало русскоговорящих людей на этом форуме.

[Commodore 64 vs Atari 800 Xl]

The atari 800 is generally a better built more solid machine, but the games were never as good as the 64!

[Who is from Belarus?]

Все таки тут никого нет из Беларуси.

[Commodore 64 vs Atari 800 Xl]

I was an atari kid myself. I even had, played, nay enjoyed the infamous E.T. (the Raiders of the Lost Arc game was equally inane though). But as the number 2 system, I remember Colecovision even above Commodore. My best friend has Donkey Kong on Coleco it was surprisingly fantastic...at least that's how I choose to remember it.

[Music you listen to while programming]

This depends on a task I need to perform as well as from my working environment.

If you work in the office with more than 2 people I recommend that you to get some good headphones to minimize to block out background noise from your colleagues.

[What was YOUR very first computer?]

Commodore 128,
128 kb memory
Floppy disk drive of 5.25''
Modem of 300 bauds per second
Monitor RGB and Composite to display up to 640x200 pixels
It used Atari Joystics for the games
Also had a datasette, which was a device to keep information in cassettes.
After some years I bougth an expansion memory of 512 Kb.
No hard drive.

[How much lag in HDMI?]

Every component has some lag factor in it. Light speed, despite being extremely wtf fast, is not instananous, especially through a medium (electricity traveling through insulated copper/gold/etc wiring).

That said, HDMI is actually has less latency than component or other cables due to it being a singular, high speed transmission line, as opposed to, well, seperate components. And unless you have either a very slow response time on your screen, or "pro gamer" reflexes, you'll probably never notice it.

[Who is from Belarus?]

Yes my error - only Карлссон. thank you for intresting story.

[Who is from Belarus?]

Спасибо за ответ, Карссон.

[Who is from Belarus?]

Carlsson, please write, where did you study?