I had my first contact with computers when I was eleven. This was at that moment, the most popular slovenian computer Partner by Iskra Delta (CP/M, Z80).
It was interesting, but when my friend got ZX Spectrum 48, I became totally obsessed. I got my own a few months later (Spectrum +) and at first, I was
only playing games (mostly adventures), but soon games became boring. I started with programming in BASIC and tried assembler, but somehow I didn't
figured it out. When I was thirteen I bought Commodore 64. So, I had to learn assembler, because Commodore BASIC was way to slow for game development.
I made few simple games and then sold the computer.
Soon after that, I bought Atari 520ST and programming has become real fun. GFA Basic was fast and powerful, but there were just too many great games for this machine and sadly I spent most of my time playing games.
Later I gave up computers and devote my life to study and music. At the age of twenty I got my first PC: 386DX/40, and after few months of playing RPGs, I finally installed Turbo Pascal 7.0, my primary development environment for next three years. I wanted to become a game developer but then I realized that even if I have spent a lot of time with computers, studied computer science... I was total newbie.
I begin to read books, tutorials, and magazines about game development. In the mean time, I was working on various games, demos and utilities. My first products were poor quality, but after few years I was really satisfied with my results. I sent my best games to main slovenian computer magazines and I was really proud, when they were published.
After my study, I had to find a real job. In my career, i switched many jobs, home and abroad, because I wanted to explore different areas of software development, so I tried a lot of things: programming embedded platforms, developing business software, desktop applications, graphics, web, communications... But my spare time was mostly devoted to games, playing and creating. Last 15 years, I was working mostly on Pantheon, developing emulators and adding games. Occasionally, I still create simple games, mainly to get familiar with programing for specific platforms or learn new programming languages in the most fun way possible. I'm currently learning Android programming with Kotlin.
Soon after that, I bought Atari 520ST and programming has become real fun. GFA Basic was fast and powerful, but there were just too many great games for this machine and sadly I spent most of my time playing games.
Later I gave up computers and devote my life to study and music. At the age of twenty I got my first PC: 386DX/40, and after few months of playing RPGs, I finally installed Turbo Pascal 7.0, my primary development environment for next three years. I wanted to become a game developer but then I realized that even if I have spent a lot of time with computers, studied computer science... I was total newbie.
I begin to read books, tutorials, and magazines about game development. In the mean time, I was working on various games, demos and utilities. My first products were poor quality, but after few years I was really satisfied with my results. I sent my best games to main slovenian computer magazines and I was really proud, when they were published.
After my study, I had to find a real job. In my career, i switched many jobs, home and abroad, because I wanted to explore different areas of software development, so I tried a lot of things: programming embedded platforms, developing business software, desktop applications, graphics, web, communications... But my spare time was mostly devoted to games, playing and creating. Last 15 years, I was working mostly on Pantheon, developing emulators and adding games. Occasionally, I still create simple games, mainly to get familiar with programing for specific platforms or learn new programming languages in the most fun way possible. I'm currently learning Android programming with Kotlin.