Article on the ASSEMbler community!

Super great article. The E-zine is also awesome and stylish. You, sir, rock.

 

Good lord, I was slashdotted:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/14/1942252&threshold=-1&tid=10

Is that... good?

 

Well done mate, great article, I enjoyed reading every bit of it.

Sabre

 

Yes it is very good, it lets the public know that such a place exists, and we will now be considered the first community to be dedicated to such a hobby.

 

Assembler is the pioneer, before assembler how many (other than those in the industry) knew of such dev stuff, or unreleased games, It is to Assembler that the unreleased/hacking/dev community owes their respect for beginning it all

 

No, not unless your a geek and into that stuff (no life type of stuff)

 

Except that Slashdot is a fairly big-name site/community for computer and tech related news. Also, I think most members here could pretty easily prove that "no life type of stuff" is a pretty asinine thing to say - there are plenty of us that are married, raising children, work full time, or are making our way through a university system.
And 'your' denotes possession. 'You're' would be the proper word to use in this context, a controaction between 'you' and 'are'.

Ahem.

The article was really well written, Szczepaniak! The dramatic overtones really made it sound like we were all in the middle of some clandestine organization right out of The Maltese Falcon or something! And between this, Retro Gamer, and Gamer's Quarter, you're really making a name for yourself, aren't you?

 

You read my Gamer's Quarter stuff? Wow, I didn't think it had such a high readership... I actually wrote an article under a pseudonym for issue 3, which was influenced slightly by the ASSEMbler community. Though a fair amount was dramatic fiction....

I'd add GamesTM to that list too, except the rumours are that Highbury are now also going under. :crying:

Otherwise, thanks for all the kind words. Hopefully further writing opportunities will make themselves available.

 

Would that have been the 'Soldier Of Lost Fortune' article by any chance?
Yeah, I really enjoy TGQ, and I'm about ready to place my preorder for the hard copy of Issue #4. It was only after I got #3 in the mail that I really started to appreciate the magazine - with as long as most of the articles are, my ADD doesn't really let me stare at the monitor for that long.
Did you have anything in #4? I didn't recall seeing your byline, but I don't think I've read it all yet. I somehow managed to sneak an article in at the 13th hour that I was reasonably pleased with; there were some edits made that, while minor, sortof undermined the voice and competency I was trying to portray, but c'est la vie, I guess.

 

It was SOLF actually. But keep that quiet, I don't my pseudonym blown.
But yeah, plenty of dramatisation in that.

I haven't actually got anything in issue 4, since I've been too busy with other things sadly. Well done on writing an article though! I haven't been around the forum too much recently, I'll have to check out what you've done.

 

Sorry to bump this, but The Escapist loved the article so much, they've reprinted it in issue 45.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/45/39


I feel almost melancholy. It's not easy to best a feature that's been slashdotted and reprinted. Of course, it was all thanks to generous people such as those on this forum. Pat yourselves on the back and pour yourselves a libation of choice. You deserve it, chaps.

Many thanks again to ASSEMbler and everyone else who answered questions and wasn't afraid to talk about things.

 

Very good read. I enjoyed it very much.


Oddly enough though, at one point I felt like I was reading H.P. Lovecraft, and that towards the end the "secret society" was going to prevail in summoning a giant 32-bit Sonic the Hedgehog from the sea and it would chase somebody.

 

Missed that first time around, it's a good article.

 

Me too, but very interesting to read.

 

The article was covered on Shane Monroe's RetroGaming Radio show.
http://www.retrogamingradio.com/theshow/listen.php?current=1

The current show. Episode 08-20-2006. It's 4 hours long, so skip to 03:29:58 if you want to hear the short mention this site got. He calls it the "mafia of videogames" which gave me a chuckle.

 

That was a very interesting read. Maybe a little over the top, but very entertaining to read. Assembler was the first source of information on many development systems.

I was glad to see you mentioned some of the less dangarous (but still exciting to obtain systems) such as the Marty. The Marty, X68000, and TurboR are my prized systems.