I’ve finally found the time and motivation to get around to doing one of those seemingly little but actually important tasks that I’d been putting off since forever: build and launch a “professional” site about myself, career and experience.
(more...)I had a bit of spare time in Belfast city centre recently, and, lacking anything better to do, took the chance to grab a coffee (and a tasty snack, I have to admit) and sit awhile in the grounds of the City Hall. As I kicked back and watched the world go by, it struck me what a great resource the little green haven I was sitting in is to both the people of Belfast and to visitors to the city.
(more...)A lunchtime discussion (somehow) got on to the subject of assembly language programming, and I was of course asked “So, what’s it like programming in assembly then?”. I get asked this more often than you’d think as very few developers I run in to have any experience with it and they’re always surprised to meet someone who’s dived below C level…
(more...)Is it legal to write programs to patch old Amiga games so that they will work on newer Amiga hardware than they were designed for? This is a posting I made in the excellent English Amiga Board forums regarding the legality (or lack thereof) of WHDLoad patches for old Amiga games.
(more...)As you can see, things got pretty bad here today:
John and friends shelter from the elements
John Girvin is a software engineer, sci-fi buff, cyclist and retrocomputer fan (ie: nerd) from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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