03-17-2011, 03:08 PM
(03-16-2011, 11:22 PM)Ramblurr Wrote: Welcome Terry!
As Grim mentioned, I would love to hear about your experience programming Victory! What sort of language and hardware did you use? Do you still do much programming today?
Victory was programmed in Pascal on a Macintosh Plus. At the time the two choices in languages for the Mac were C and Pascal and the Pascal compiler was much more friendly.
I still remember the day we were able to buy a 20 MB (mega, not giga) harddrive for "only" $1000.00 -- it made it so we could store four Victory games on one hard drive rather than using floppy disks.
I still do programming for a living today. Back in the Rolling Thunder days I probably only spent 10-20% of my time coding and the rest doing business related stuff. Once I was able to stop doing data entry and get some time for coding I was able to automate turn entry more so that freed up even more time to do more coding. The problem was just the boot strapping was so tough and the day to day grind made it tough to get any free time.