So I launched it on to the market in January 1982. But before that of course, I wrote it. I bought a Video Genie to write it on. The Video Genie was a Tandy TRS80 clone. It was cheaper, but still expensive for me at the time. But, I believed that I would be successful [...]
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I have worked in many programming languages on many computers large and small. Some good, some bad. So I have experienced plenty. Well Apple are winning with great product design right now but they are doing a great job with another product- the tools they provide to create iOS software. They are excellent and helpful. [...]
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There is another reason it will take a while to debug the game. I learned iPhone development writing this. An experience of both learning the platform and learning Objective C. Having done it I would say that it has a few flaws, it does not have the benefit of the combined brain power of millions [...]
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Free, partnering with others to do it. Open source- and that is something I know a lot about, I have done plenty of work, using and constructing architectures from Open Source toolsets. I have educated people and companies about it. There are real strengths in the model, but does it fit this, does it fit [...]
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If you were on a journey, and you had to go through a town. But, you knew the town was full of roadworks and detours, you would try and find a simple way through. Why take the complicated way, when you could take the simple route? Seems obvious right? But, when developers are writing software [...]
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iPhone uses an elegant development infrastructure. I have seen many architectures in my time, but by making use of the tools and architecture used in the development of Mac OS X, Apple have incrementally cashed in on work they have done before. This also applies to the AppStore which is an evolution of iTunes into [...]
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I’ve been reflecting, mainly because I am learning to use yet another programming language, I’ve been reflecting how many languages I have learnt and used in my software career. Here’s my list: PL/1, RPG, COBOL, FORTRAN, DBASE II, Basic in various flavours, Z80 Assembler, 6502 Assembler, 68000 Assembler, 80×86 Assembler. Forth, C, C++, Visual Basic, [...]
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