David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

I'm like, I'm not that person.

I'm not the math geek who's going to figure it all out.

So after that attempt with Easy Amos and failing to even get, I don't even think I completed one even very basic game.

I thought, the program's just not for me.

I'm going to have to do something else.

I still love computers.

I still love video games.

I actually, at that time, had already begun making friends with people who knew how to program, who weren't even programming Easy Amos.

They were programming freaking Assembler.

And I would sit down and just go...

How do you, the moves and the memories and the copies, how do you even do this?

I don't even understand how you go from this to Amiga demos, for example.

That was the big thing with the Amiga.

It had this wonderful demo scene in Europe.

It's this really interesting period of time in the Amiga's history.

We had all these programmers spread out mostly all over Europe who would compete on Amiga.

graphic competitions where you could probably bring one of these on this thing they would make these little um almost like music videos combining some midi music combining some cool graphics and they would do all of it in like 4k four kilobytes that is not four days of revolution four kilobytes of of memory and i just thought that was such a cool scene this was obviously

pre-internet, it was even pre-BBS, bulletin board systems to some extent.

It was you swap your demo software with someone else by sending them a disk in the mail, like the 3.5s.

And I just, I was enamored with that whole scene.