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Welcome to Mariusz 'Aristo/Samar' Zaleski home page.
This site includes information about my person, about what I have been doing, what
I have done - and what is still large part of myself. A side of that you can read
about my private life, my friends, you can watch my private pictures and find few
links to the interesting internet web sites.
First of all here is the place where you can read about my connections with computers
and programming, what is still fascinating me like nothing else...
I have been programming from early 90's. About first ten years I have spent on coding
many different software only for Commodore 64. Within this time I was coding tools,
music ang graphic collections and of course demos for computer scene group called
"Samar", what was a main part of scene beeing for everyone.
Like probably all of coders I was writing at first in Basic language and a couple
of its different types. However, I started to real programming when I started with
a machine
language called "Turbo Assembler 6510". Because of very low processor's
performance (arround 1MHz) it was only the one language you could use to make more advanced
and modern software. The Asssembler was sometimes even few thousand times faster
than Basic was. It was really amazing to change language like Basic on a such fast
one.
You might think that programming for a such old computer is easy. Nothing more
wrong. I'm right in saying that it is one of the most difficult languages you can
learn and use. It is because this is the one of low-level languages which is
not user friendly. It is a machine friendly one. Second reason is that 8 bits Assembler's
are really hardware connected. You can learn this language and you won't code anyhing
if you don't know the computer memory architecture you are coding on. Everything
I would say is: To display simply text on your monitor using Assembler language
you have to read few really comprehensive books just to know how to do it.
This
is the secret of programming. "Everything you can imagine you can transfer to a
computer and make it alive". This is a "creation" process. There is no many things
on this world might make me so happy.
Today I would say, Assembler 6510 is the language which looks best in technical
museum as memorial to the past, but it doesn't change the fact that it gave me many
unforgiving moments and what it the most important, it gave me good basics to learn
a popular today, high abstraction level C++ and C#.NET languages.
I think, no matter what language you study, Cobol, Fortrain or Clipper, time spent
on it is not the time you lost...
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