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I'm feeling extremely lucky I knew since I was a kid I wanted to be a programmer. One good thing games did for me.
by StefanBatory 3y ago
I'm feeling extremely lucky I knew since I was a kid I wanted to be a programmer. One good thing games did for me.
- randysalami 3y agoSame here, ever since I was 12. Still not disillusioned by the field having graduated college two years despite all the doomsaying. I feel like a wizard!
- tomashubelbauer 3y agoFor me it was realizing what autorun.inf is for, from that realizing some programs load texts and images off the same CD they came with and I can change those and change the program that way, then I discovered a few programs built around displaying unbundled HTML files and that I could change those in Notepad leading to the discovery of HTML and later JavaScript and by that point I was too far gone. So not exactly games, but these CDs and programs I was messing with were shareware CDs and their launchers so still kind of a +1 for games.
- dpkirchner 3y agoHexediting games to bypass or neutralize copy protection helped me become a programmer (on top of copying code from magazines and books onto a Timex Sinclair and ZX81). I remember the first game: BattleTech Crescent Hawk Inception. IIRC the copy protection involved typing words from pages in the manual, and I "defeated" it by changing every word to the same string. I actually owned the game, I just didn't want to get out the paper every time I wanted to play.