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History
Jammy-Soft Is the name under which I have released any computer related projects for a long time. With this web site I hope to document these projects past present and future. This web site is still under construction
My first experience with computers came from my primary seven teacher who brought in his ZX81 for us. I quickly learned a few BASIC commands and started programming the computers at the local electronics shop during my lunch breaks, to to ask for a customers name then display in large colourful letters that they were some obscenity. Good fun for a 10 year old and the shop assistants did not know how to stop it.
My first computer was an Oric 1 48k, which I still have in the loft. I had bought it off my brother and spent a lot of time typing in programs he had created and making a few of my own. This was a good computer for learning BASIC programming and had some great games, unfortunately it was very unreliable and frequently broke.
When my Oric broke for about the 10th time, I was kindly given a ZX81 with no ram expansion so it had 1k of memory and was totally useless. I then upgraded to a C64 which was terrible to program and so was mainly used for playing commercial games. I still tried to make some programs and it was at this time the name Jammy-Soft was invented.
When I seen SWOS on a pals Amiga I was hooked and eventually managed to save up and buy one of my own I bought AMOS off a friend and continued to make BASIC programs and games. Amos was fantastic, easy to use and quite powerful for the time.The Amiga seen me through university but slowly died and games support dwindled. I could not afford a PC at the time so bought a play station for commercial games but continued to use my Amiga for programming,and word processing, I got AMOS 3D but never really managed to make much with it.
When I finished university I treated myself to my first PC, after much searching for a decent BASIC language I settled on Dark Basic. It was able to do everything I wanted and more. It immersed me in a world of 3D programming in a way which AMOS 3D never could.
When Dark Basic Professional was released my girlfriend bought me it as a birthday gift. I think she has regretted that ever since. DBP is amazing. It is flexible, contemporary and dynamic. You can create anything you can imagine. It leads with the latest cutting edge technologies and has an unprecedented level of support from both its creators and users. It is an easy to use interface between your imagination and the `reality` of your computer.
How it is going to be improved upon with the future releases of DBP, I cant wait to see.
