Not sure if anyone would remember me, but
here goes... I wrote a few articles towards the end of NAU/Page 6,
such as the issue disk bonus Orson, and an attempt (perhaps
ill-advised) to explain object-orientation using assembly
language in a trilogy called Objet D'Art. I also wrote the
puzzle game The Citadel.
Around the time Page 6 disappeared from
our mailboxes, I made the difficult decision to end my Atari
programming hobby. I had mathematics research at university to
concentrate on and something had to give. Funnily enough I wasn't
really sure whether I wanted to choose IT as a career at the
time, because my programming knowledge was limited to
Fortran and 6502 machine language. Not exactly the recipe for a
top career in software development.
Nonetheless I've been working in
financial IT since 1998. Of course, I'm a PC user now, but I still
like to think about those days when I worked on the 8-bit
Atari. It was possible to know everything about the machine
back then, not like the moving target of the PC platform today.
*sigh*
If you want to know more about what I'm
doing now, please point your browser to www.joelgoodwin.com.
Joel Goodwin, March 2003
