As some of you might know I started programming computers at the age of 12 on a Commodore Vic20, and after a couple of months moved on to the mighty Commodore64 (C64) where I did a lot of coding together with my very good (and oldest) friend Lars (LSP).
Together we formed DGS (Danish Game Smashers) where we improved our coding, hacking, cracking and other "nerdy" skills for several years by coding demos, attending parties and developing games (yes, we actually did several commercial games on the C64). Lars called himself "Terraman" and I came up with the name "Mr. Zork" (or just Zork .. so now you know why my BF2 profile is called "MHAZORKY" :-) ...after a few years on the C64 we moved on to code the Amiga, but that's another story (and maybe stuff for a future blog post).
However today Lars found a couple of our C64 demos on The C64 Demo Portal where it shows that our demos is still being downloaded!! So, 20 years AFTER we did the demo "Bodyshocker", it's still being downloaded (probably by old, sentimental C64 geeks!!). Until now it's been downloaded 689 times this year .. I simply find it amazing , that code we did 20 years ago, someone still find interesting enough to download and run/watch on a C64 emulator - I wonder if that will be the case with the code we're writing today?!