Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Peter Wright" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.profile Subject: Fallen Angel Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 16:13:25 +0000 Organization: Genesis Computer Software Ltd Lines: 39 Message-ID: <76av6p$22929@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.56.83.182 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express for Macintosh - 4.01 (295) Well, I thought I'd follow everyone's lead and post up a "Hi yah" profile. I started with computers back in 79 when my dad and I built a kit. Moved up from there through the usual (Acorn Atom, ZX81, Sharp MZ80A, Electron, CBM64, Amiga, PC, Mac), and started doing professional games development on the 64 in 84 (14 years old). Got totally screwed at that by a certain now defunct company and at the insistence of my parents that I get a real job, I went into corporate development on PC's and stuff. So, I've been writing Windoze code now for about 9 years, have published 8 books on the subject (the Beginner's VB range, among others, for Wrox Press), as well as loads of really dull articles in loads of really dull computer magazines across the world. I'm also a regular speaker at Dev events around the world. Currently I'm a contractor, as well as a consultant to Microsoft, but I started thinking a while back that I really don't like what I'm doing. So, I'm changing career and going back to my roots, back to the world of games development. Started Yaroze coding about 2 days ago, and should be putting up the site for it real soon, along with a couple of demos I knocked up yesterday (256x256 animated plasma with an overlaid mystify-lines transparent wave effect). So, that's about it. I also noticed that there is a complete lack of fully comprehensive tutorial stuff out there on all aspects of Yaroze (there are a few excellent tutorials about, but nothing that covers everything). So, if I get enough requests I might turn my attentions to doing a tutorial along the same lines as my books, but for free and only for the yaroze members, of course. Also, I'm doing all my Yaroze stuff on a Mac, and wrote a couple of utilities yesterday to help with the TIM stuff. I'll put them on the site too, but I only recently started coding the Mac as well, so don't expect the Yaroze version of Bryce. See yah , Peter.