Spending some time on google I found out that my last post was over a year ago. A lot can happen in a year, so I guess it's time to REintroduce.
I learned to program in BASIC on a VG8020 with cassette back in 1985. At first only typing listings from MCM and later following some courses. Soon I thought BASIC was too slow and started to learn ASM. Even BOUGHT (yeah I didn't buy any software these days) champ assembler. Although I became reasonably good, I never produce anything (sorry). The only thing worth mentioning was a character/sprite editor completely in ASM.
Years later I started with MSX2 (8250 like sooooooo many others) and loved to watch all the demo's. I also tried to reproduce some stuff (even from explaining magizines), but somehow it never worked like I wanted too. In the last years of my msx2, I played more and more games and programmed less and less.
In 1991 it was time to say farewell to MSX and I bought my first PC. I didn't have much of a choice cause there was no space for both and I had to write reports (partly on my work and party at home) and this may come as a surprise; there are not many companies that use tasword MSX2 as their favorite textprocessor in the WP5.1 era.
As my PC's got stronger and stronger (You'll have to keep up) I tried various MSX emulation and always got disappointed by the results. A few years ago, I joined TOSEC to start renaming for MSX. I wanted to sort out all the stuff I had anyway and it seemed nice at the time. Unfortunately they expected me to rename about 100 games a day or so, so they kept complaining about my lack of progress. Well, if the first game is a Konami, it might be QUITE some time before I get to the next.
Anyway, TOSEC was not for me, but it was reason enough for me to buy another MSX. While searching for emulators I learned to know the people from openMSX and kinda rolled in by providing some console patches.
Nowadays I spend some of my free time on catapult (the launcher / remote control) of openMSX. I don't really do anything for MSX itself anymore. I tried to program a harddisk menu last time I was in Hoorn (in BASIC even), but I must admit, I know practically nothing about it, anymore.
