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I too did my first assembly language programming without the aid of an assembler, though I used decimal. I could write simple assembly language subroutines by directly typing the numbers into DATA statements.
Whooow, 20+ years, I’ll have to study 24+ hours a day to get close to you 
Thanks God I have internet, at least 
I’m sitting on comps for 10 years, but I can be proud only about 5(7) years programming where only one year can be called serious programming (C++ & OpenGL). Rest of time I spent on Delphi & mostly Pascal. And I have only looked at pure assambler, once managed to “improve” one little program with Win32Dasm+HexEdit.
BTW, as I understand ASM is completely MUST with C++, am I wrong.
Oh, yes. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Originally posted by M/\dm/
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BTW, as I understand ASM is completely MUST with C++, am I wrong.
Yes, you’re wrong.
22 years old
Got an Apple 2e when I was 4
Started basic when I was 7 or 8 (1987 or 1988)
Pascal since 1993
C/C++ & 3D since 1997
OGL since 98
Nice to see that Zed write Z80. Do you remember Rodny Zachs ?
You guys remeber ZX81 or Jupiter Ace ?
Hmm. This is my hardware history…
zx81,spectrum 48k,Acorn,spectravideo 728,amstrad 6128,Amiga 1000,Onyx,pc,powerbook and xbox…
This is my software history…
z80 asm,basic,pascal,modula,c,oberon,c++,
This is my graphics history…
turtle graphics,star graphics,phigs(+),Irix gl,OpenGL,Gizmo3d
Hmm. this topic really brings nostalgic memories…
Wow! Spectravideo - now that’s a blast from the past (or is it a flash in the pan…?).
I started on a Vic20 in Primary school (Gr 6) when I was 10…
10 Print " | "
20 Print " /\ "
etc.
I then moved onto Logo on Apple IIe. My classmates drew classic houses (Box & Triangle etc.). I drew a Macchi jet (traced onto graph paper then drawn with Logo…
And then came the Spectravideo 318 (or was it 328…) - Basic…
After that Amiga 500 (ASM), Amiga 1200 (ASM), Unix (Pascal, Cobol 85), Macintosh © then finally PC (VB3, C, VB4, VB5, VB6, C++).
All up about 20 years, with the last 2 or 3 dabbling with GL.
[This message has been edited by rgpc (edited 01-01-2003).]
20 years in all. Man and boy, so to speak!
Well guys, I was always jealous of my friends who had Spectrum 48s and Commodore 64s. My environments were as follows:
Acorn Atom 12k (circa, 1981) - Atom Basic, 6502
Acorn Electron (whooo! I could play Elite!), BBC Basic, 6502
BBC Master 128 (more RAM than I knew what to do with), BBC Basic, 6502
IBM 5mhz 286 with DOS (learning C now)
…
… (ok, I’m at Uni here)
…
AMD K62 - 350mhz, Voodoo 1 (hey, I can play Half-Life!)
AMD XP2000 (hey, I can play Microsoft Combat Flight Sim!!)
etc.
So people, if you want serious hardware, I would opt for the Acorn Atom.
Just for a laugh - CHOOSE ATOM POWER! (FREE MANUAL!) [check the advert below!]…
10 years in programming for me, started playing around in the zx-spectrum.
Started with Opengl 3.5 years ago…
It is hard to believe I started programming in 1966 at a NSF Summer Institute at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken New Jersey. In those days we had an IBM 1620 with 32K (yes K) of Core- little donut rings with 6 wires strung between them. I have about 20 years now in C and 12 weeks in OpenGl and 15 years in SGI machines.
Hi,
18 years total.
4 years OpenGL.
Started with Basic and ASM on Pravec 82 - if you never heard about this PC, it is the first PC made in all socialist states - an Apple 2e clonning.
Regards
Martin
I started on an ABC-80 in 1979. I was 10. I purchased my first computer when I was… 12? It was a Commodore VIC-20. Ah, the joy! (I had saved my allowance for 2 years!)
15 years… 2 OpenGL
18 years, 72 per cent of my life …
Started programming 23-24 years ago – 1979, I think. A 48KB Atari 800. My dad paid something like $900 US. The 48KB memory upgrade (default was 16KB, I think) cost something like $100 by itself. Resolution was something like 320x192. There was also a 640x192 monochrome mode, where you’d get red if you turned on even columns and green if you turned on odd columns. Or something like that. No FSAA or multitexture, though. I was 11.
Started working with OpenGL 10 1/2 years ago – at IBM, doing workstation device drivers. First product was the GXT1000, a external box the size of a small PC, which shipped in 1994. Its retail price was something like $50K US. Did OpenGL drivers for Intel from 1998-2001 (Intel 740, 810, 815, 830M), and for NVIDIA ever since.
Hi
9 years general ( basic -> pascal -> visual basic -> delphi -> c/c++,asm; now at school: lisp,prolog,java,8051 asm )
2 years OpenGL, 1 year with GL extensions(vp,rc,ts,…)
Bye
ScottManDeath
heh well my first lang was mac dos. So I guess 15years now.
HTML->javascript->VB->C/C+±>OpenGL->Java->ASM
3 years general, starting on my ti83. Two years opengl.
4 years programming, 2 years OpenGL.
I though I’m the only one poke around different languages (basic, vb, java, perl, c, c++) just to found out what is best to used (c, c++) and mistakes done(basic, vb).
