"The gears intro". I dialed into Candyland on a Friday morning, and had an upload and a comment from an unknown user this "Lord Zombie" guy. It was the first version of this intro. I ran it, it was kinda slow, clunky, and flickered all to be damned. I looked at the .exe and could tell that it was written in turbo pascal. I deleted it, went back to Candyland and replied to the user: "Not bad, but you need to rewrite it in assembly language, and learn what VBLANK is". I figured that would be the last I'd hear from him.
Monday morning I connected to Candyland and had a response, and another file. This one was BUTTERY smooth (as you see here). It turned out that when he had gotten my response he went to the book store and bought books on assembly language, and programming the VGA controller. He then proceeded to learn assembly, and how to properly interface with the VGA controller, and rewrote the intro. And he did this over the weekend. And he was *15 years old*.
This was our first example of Dan's brilliance. He'd later graduate from Stanford with a CS degree. (To the surprise of absolutely NO ONE).
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"The gears intro". I dialed into Candyland on a Friday morning, and had an upload and a comment from an unknown user this "Lord Zombie" guy. It was the first version of this intro. I ran it, it was kinda slow, clunky, and flickered all to be damned. I looked at the .exe and could tell that it was written in turbo pascal. I deleted it, went back to Candyland and replied to the user: "Not bad, but you need to rewrite it in assembly language, and learn what VBLANK is". I figured that would be the last I'd hear from him.
Monday morning I connected to Candyland and had a response, and another file. This one was BUTTERY smooth (as you see here). It turned out that when he had gotten my response he went to the book store and bought books on assembly language, and programming the VGA controller. He then proceeded to learn assembly, and how to properly interface with the VGA controller, and rewrote the intro. And he did this over the weekend. And he was *15 years old*.
This was our first example of Dan's brilliance. He'd later graduate from Stanford with a CS degree. (To the surprise of absolutely NO ONE).