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I always went with the O'Reilly books for software dev.  The ones with animals on the cover:

I have a decent collection of them up in the attic.  Sometimes I'll see one at a book store or used book sale and start salivating before talking myself out of it.  "You don't need this anymore, pops" is what my mind says.  "It's all available on the internet now".  "This isn't going to help you downsize to a smaller house, is it?" 
Still, they are almost irresistible.

Oh bummer, glad you got to work at Microsoft though. 🙂 Understandable though, C++ is not the easiest, especially back then. 😅 Do you remember if the professor had you using Charles Petzold's book on WinAPI? Love that book. 🙂

 
A shame you could not use the Borland compiler back then. When Borland came out I had a Tandy 1000TX so I probably couldn't either. 😛 At least very well.
1995 we got a Pentium 166 MMX, what PC did you end up getting when you could finally snag one? 🙂

Oh bummer, glad you got to work at Microsoft though. 🙂 Understandable though, C++ is not the easiest, especially back then. 😅 Do you remember if the professor had you using Charles Petzold's book on WinAPI? Love that book. 🙂

 
A shame you could not use the Borland compiler back then. When Borland came out I had a Tandy 1000TX so I probably couldn't either. 😛 At least very well.
1995 we got a Pentium 166 MMX, what PC did you end up getting when you could finally snag one? 🙂

I remember trying to teach myself C++ but couldn't afford to take classes at the time, so I bought a textbook from the community college.  It came with Borland C++ compiler but I didn't have a Windows PC b/c they were also expensive for me ATM.  I tried using GNU C++ off a dial-up UINIX account but it didn't work.
Once I was able to go back to school, and get a new PC, the teacher's used the same Borland Turbo C++ that came with my book...
Anyway, I'll check out that archive.
 

Pretty cool, great find. 😄 Never heard of this one. 

Very cool day to day minutia of Atari. 😄 Entertaining to see the culture going on through e-mails.
This one reminds me of when I bought a book on coding games in C for DOS around....1994 maybe. I did not have a C compiler or have access to a C compiler. 😅 Borland and Watcom were expensive at CompUSA, so...were off limits for me. At least Petrick had engineers she could mooch off of. 😛

Yes it is tired to hear from young people how bad Pac-Man and Donkey Kong for the 2600 VCS are. I loved them, when I was young. I didn't know any other versions, but even my father who was a Pac-Man champion played the 2600 VCS version. 😛
Not only are they fun for what they are, but both of them are the de-facto stock video game sound effects for like 30 years. 😄

Yes it is tired to hear from young people how bad Pac-Man and Donkey Kong for the 2600 VCS are. I loved them, when I was young. I didn't know any other versions, but even my father who was a Pac-Man champion played the 2600 VCS version. 😛
Not only are they fun for what they are, but both of them are the de-facto stock video game sound effects for like 30 years. 😄

Yes it is tired to hear from young people how bad Pac-Man and Donkey Kong for the 2600 VCS are. I loved them, when I was young. I didn't know any other versions, but even my father who was a Pac-Man champion played the 2600 VCS version. 😛
Not only are they fun for what they are, but both of them are the de-facto stock video game sound effects for like 30 years. 😄

Yes it is tired to hear from young people how bad Pac-Man and Donkey Kong for the 2600 VCS are. I loved them, when I was young. I didn't know any other versions, but even my father who was a Pac-Man champion played the 2600 VCS version. 😛
Not only are they fun for what they are, but both of them are the de-facto stock video game sound effects for like 30 years. 😄

This is a great get for genx and a great question to have answered for the community!  Very cool stuff! 
As far as the description he's 100% right about being able to talk with these people.  Since my channel started and has grown to a small fraction of genx, I've been able to speak with the developer of Ninja Golf (David Dentt), the developer of Rikki and Vikki (Tailchao aka Osman) and tons of other extremely talented people from the industry.  But Genx has even more of an opportunity as there are some I'd love to speak with but I don't get responses from due to the small size of my channel. 
I'm glad that there are other channels out there getting these interviews and this information from the developers mouths on record before they are lost forever.  That's part of the reason Atari Network supports GenXGrownUp and other Atari Channels fighting the good fight!

I watched last night.  Excellent!  Very enjoyable to watch and hopefully this puts the issue to rest. 
Personally, I liked 2600 DK a lot.  I remember buying it at Toys R Us and being so excited on the car ride home to play.  I know it had it's limitations, but it was a lot of fun and definitely captured some of that Donkey Kong magic in my eyes. 
 

2600 DK was just like 2600 Pac-Man for us BITD. Sure neither one looked that great, but we played each game, hour upon hour and had fun doing so. Honestly, these games have been made to look/sound worse (IMO) by the younger generations, whom obviously weren't around to play the games when they were initially released. 

I'm more of a Y-Wing pilot, so cool that it has Y-Wings, A-Wings, U-Wings, and maybe B-Wings too. 😄 I wish there was one for Astromech droids. I have an incomplete BB-8 and R4 Droid build in my garage that I was making good headway on before I survived my stroke. 😒

I just watched this interview by GenXGrownUp with Garry Kitchen.  Enjoy!
Video Description:  One of the coolest benefits of being a content creator is having the opportunity to actually speak with some of the key figures who laid the foundation of the video game industry, and my guest for this video is without a doubt one of those individuals. He was there in the very early days of Activision when they were forging new ground as the first third-party game developer for Atari and later others, he is the wizard behind such successful titles as Keystone Kapers, Pressure Cooker, and Coleco's Donkey Kong, and is still blazing that trail today with other Activision alumni over at Audacity Games. In this interview, Garry Kitchen sets the record straight on the urban legend that Coleco intentionally designed the Atari 2600 port of Donkey Kong to make the ColecoVision version look that much more superior.
Full interview here:  Garry Kitchen on Donkey Kong, Activision, & MORE!

Congrats! I had to make a new account some time ago or I would be celebrating with you.
I got scammed out of $1 in 1999 for some Pokémon cards. 😂

Congrats! I had to make a new account some time ago or I would be celebrating with you.
I got scammed out of $1 in 1999 for some Pokémon cards. 😂

I have to look into these. I see there’s one for the X-Wing too.

Yes.  These are cool books, so I do recommend them.

Got my copy of the book today...

Very cool day to day minutia of Atari. 😄 Entertaining to see the culture going on through e-mails.
This one reminds me of when I bought a book on coding games in C for DOS around....1994 maybe. I did not have a C compiler or have access to a C compiler. 😅 Borland and Watcom were expensive at CompUSA, so...were off limits for me. At least Petrick had engineers she could mooch off of. 😛

hahaha that reminds me of the time I was getting a developer to help me with my C++ homework. From 1997-2002, I was taking evening classes part-time at the university pursuing a second bachelor in computer science while working at Microsoft. Those weekly programming assignments were brutal. In case anyone is curious, I dropped out.

Very cool day to day minutia of Atari. 😄 Entertaining to see the culture going on through e-mails.
This one reminds me of when I bought a book on coding games in C for DOS around....1994 maybe. I did not have a C compiler or have access to a C compiler. 😅 Borland and Watcom were expensive at CompUSA, so...were off limits for me. At least Petrick had engineers she could mooch off of. 😛

Very cool day to day minutia of Atari. 😄 Entertaining to see the culture going on through e-mails.
This one reminds me of when I bought a book on coding games in C for DOS around....1994 maybe. I did not have a C compiler or have access to a C compiler. 😅 Borland and Watcom were expensive at CompUSA, so...were off limits for me. At least Petrick had engineers she could mooch off of. 😛

Check out this site:  https://atariemailarchive.org/
 
 

 
It appears to be authentic and there's some interesting stuff here.  What do you guys think?  1983 - 1992 skips the early days, but we get a lot of later history.