Inspiration and the inspired

Dad just brought over this clipping from way back in 2001 to me today. OMAN this is so cool, they covered our GW-BASIC programs in news paper :)

I had written a wheel of fortune program with colors, wheel animation (the wheel never rotated, the colors did), funny sounds from the PC speakers, all in 320x200 screen 13 :). I remember Mohit's brother fortunately did win the complete game.

While my brother @ixpu , who is more into chasing electrons and writes more C# these days, had made a clone of Kaun Banega Crorepati, again in GW BASIC, I guess he was using screen 12 (640x400 I guess)

The only difference between today and those days - it was hell lot more exciting back then with all the time to create things like these.

While today it happens to be a mixture of passion and time-management between pointless acads and programming.

I wish I could see some of the source codes from those days, which eventually got destroyed in format wars between us.

Wooh 9 years, well that was the un-procedural language with line numbers and many GOTOs here and there.

VRML, Direc!Tax, book, shops, kapoorthala...

Looks like they just picked books from the end of an alphabetical list - VRML, Visual J++. Just reminds me of the time in that Universal bookshop in Kapoorthala, Lucknow when me and @ixpu used to drool at a wall of Computer programming books.

If you asked for a book on DirectX the shop owner usually used to get confuse it for Direct Tax. Wooh boy that was like 8-9 years ago down the line. There was a couple which was correcting each other on right pronunciation of C# telling "Its not See-Hash its See Sharp" and Dipanjan sir or someone said 'This is M$'s answer to Java', etc.

For each ...

Weird ways I learnt a few things down the line -

• 'for each' construct from the source code of love worm
• PHP because writing perl cgi scripts was a pain on the free tripod account, and PHP for all wrong reasons ;)
• VB - 1st to make pacman, then again for all wrong reasons.

more to come as I recall.