Archive for December, 2006

Excellent article from the Sunday Times about Turkmenistan, hopefully one of my next trips to the former Soviet Union.
The Sunday Times December 17, 2006
He reinvented the calendar and ordered his people to gnaw bones. He is gilding the desert in gold and marble, and the driving test is a questionnaire on his philosophy of life. Waldemar Januszczak infiltrates the world according to the leader of Turkmenistan
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For those who started playing with computers with the rise of the internet, this probably won’t ring a bell but in the late 80s and early 90s, the name of the game was demomaking. I loved and used to spend a lot of time watching these great productions who pushed the computers to the limit. I did myself my share of Z80 assembly programming on the Amstrad CPC.

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