Well, my name is stew yapp (yes that
is my real name!) and I come from Staffordshire in England.
Staffordshire being a nice little place situated next-door to
the hell-hole of England lovingly called the West Midlands :(
Staffordshire is famous for not alot. Apart from pottery (dull)
, Alton Towers (queues), and Staffordshire Bull Terriers (Well-Hard little dogs!
which i've got a couple of). Thats it.
Right, my coding credentials.....I
started programming way,way,way back in
the early 80`s on my ZX81. That was a Mean-Machine and no mistake...full
grey-scale screen, no sound output, hell! it didn`t even have an On/Off switch
!?!. From these humble beginnings I progressed to a C16 (with loads of games
but a very dodgy tape deck), then a C64 (which ROCKED!), an Amiga 500
(which I blew up due to a bizzare disk-drive incident), an Amiga 500 Plus, an
Amiga 1200, then finally the crappest of the bunch...a PC.
Having programed using AmiBlitz for
some years I was over-joyed ( an understatement) when one cold November evening
in the year of our Lord 2000 I stumbled across PC Blitz on the Net. I downloaded
the demo and was hooked. The rest is history.
Having coded the obligatory Snake
remake, I bypassed the (also obligatory) Pong remake and dived straight
into Xlnt GUI. Xlnt started life on my Amiga 500 Plus - as a simple UI for Blitz
Mode games. When I started work on the PC version it kind of got out of
hand.....still, I had fun doing it ;)
Thats my sad little life in a nut-shell! I bet that makes
you all feel a whole lot better about yourselves :P
Anyway....if you need to contact me for any reason.....
..... any reason being generous cash donations, free cars, blank
cheques etc
..... and if you must....bug reports, feature requests and
general bitching ;)
Thats yer lot - have fun, and thanks for listening.
Oh - be careful out there ;)
Yappy!