Re:Bullfrog After Populous
by cmrdporcupine on Friday September 04, 2020 @03:37PM
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Same in the Atari ST world. Got my hands on a Pascal compiler, but had no bindings to the OS. Then picked up a Modula-2 compiler, but I had no OS documentation. Books were hard to come by, and everything cost a lot (when accounting for inflation) compared to right now.
It was a very hard world to crack into unless you had a community around you, and I did not have such a thing in rural Alberta.
When I got a 486 + really early Linux (0.97 I believe) and an Internet connection in 1992 a whole other world opened up. The machine itself was far less interesting, but the world of development became successively more and more open and easier to get into.
It was a very hard world to crack into unless you had a community around you, and I did not have such a thing in rural Alberta.
When I got a 486 + really early Linux (0.97 I believe) and an Internet connection in 1992 a whole other world opened up. The machine itself was far less interesting, but the world of development became successively more and more open and easier to get into.