NotStyro
Shared on Sat, 02/24/2007 - 00:30I think I've been a bit remiss with an introduction. I'll try to correct that now.
I'm a single forty year old dude living in Southeast Florida. I've been living here pretty much my whole life, only venturing outside the state for infrequent vacations and work related travels. I have family in the area, as well as some in North Georgia and the 'Southern Tier' of New York state.
I've been involved with computers since my father bought an Apple ][ back in 1978 or 79. Some of the first programs loaded were games. I even remember typing a game from an article in a magazine, including using some memory/debug utility to setup the graphic sprites. Boy was that fun saving and loading 16K from an audio tape cassette. Had to change the tone dial depending on loading or saving, otherwise it wouldn't do either.
When the PC then XT came along the gaming, programming and hacking took off. I think I really messed up my eyes trying to fix pixels on fonts and graphics at 640x480. The diskettes were a huge improvement over cassettes, and 640K of memory was simply an unbelievable amount of space.
Text bases adventure games from Infocom ruled the PC. My father and I couldn't wait for the next one to be released. Sort of like the Halo3 beta for some here. Then there were the simple text 'graphics' (ascii art style) games, such as Snipes, which were fun.
The real fun graphics games came out from Michael Abrash. Big Top is one that I can remember my father and I playing for days on end. Damn thing had the biggest pain in the rear copy protection scheme – timing the read failures from bad sectors. If you didn't have original equipment, you most likely didn't play the game. At any rate, the game was very fun and immensely enjoyable to play.
Fast forwarding a bit, and this is the present. I bought an xbox 360 to play games and watch HD-DVD media. I also bought it to get me out of my computer/spare-bedroom; I was feeling like I had two bedroom condo with lots of open space in between. I think the xbox 360 has excelled for all the reasons I bought it. It offers great games, an excellent HD-DVD media player, and I've reclaimed the empty spaces in my condo.
If anybody is interested, or even still reading, my personality type is INTJ with occasional hourly bouts of ISTJ just to mix things up a bit.
As far as religion is concerned, I consider myself an apathetic agnostic. I'm considering joining and/or getting ordained into the UCTAA.
I'm a single forty year old dude living in Southeast Florida. I've been living here pretty much my whole life, only venturing outside the state for infrequent vacations and work related travels. I have family in the area, as well as some in North Georgia and the 'Southern Tier' of New York state.
I've been involved with computers since my father bought an Apple ][ back in 1978 or 79. Some of the first programs loaded were games. I even remember typing a game from an article in a magazine, including using some memory/debug utility to setup the graphic sprites. Boy was that fun saving and loading 16K from an audio tape cassette. Had to change the tone dial depending on loading or saving, otherwise it wouldn't do either.
When the PC then XT came along the gaming, programming and hacking took off. I think I really messed up my eyes trying to fix pixels on fonts and graphics at 640x480. The diskettes were a huge improvement over cassettes, and 640K of memory was simply an unbelievable amount of space.
Text bases adventure games from Infocom ruled the PC. My father and I couldn't wait for the next one to be released. Sort of like the Halo3 beta for some here. Then there were the simple text 'graphics' (ascii art style) games, such as Snipes, which were fun.
The real fun graphics games came out from Michael Abrash. Big Top is one that I can remember my father and I playing for days on end. Damn thing had the biggest pain in the rear copy protection scheme – timing the read failures from bad sectors. If you didn't have original equipment, you most likely didn't play the game. At any rate, the game was very fun and immensely enjoyable to play.
Fast forwarding a bit, and this is the present. I bought an xbox 360 to play games and watch HD-DVD media. I also bought it to get me out of my computer/spare-bedroom; I was feeling like I had two bedroom condo with lots of open space in between. I think the xbox 360 has excelled for all the reasons I bought it. It offers great games, an excellent HD-DVD media player, and I've reclaimed the empty spaces in my condo.
If anybody is interested, or even still reading, my personality type is INTJ with occasional hourly bouts of ISTJ just to mix things up a bit.
As far as religion is concerned, I consider myself an apathetic agnostic. I'm considering joining and/or getting ordained into the UCTAA.
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