[ Thanks to HC
Andersson for this link. ]
“If I had to make a top list covering the 5 most important
people in the Linux-emulation scene, Niels Wagenaar would
absolutely be one of them. He has given us multiple reasons for not
boot into Windows, as he brought descent ‘NeoGeo Pocket,’ ‘Gameboy
Advance,’ ‘Atari Lynx,’ ‘Wonderswan Color’ and ‘Atari Jaguar’
emulation to Linux…“LinuxEmu: How and why did you learn to
program?“Niels: I learned programming on my trusty old
Atari 600XL in 1988 with Basic and Assembly. In 1990 I got myself
an Atari ST 1040STF with GFA Basic to extend my knowledge on
programming (and this is where I learned about Emulation). It was
in 1994 when I got my first P.C. and I began working on extending
my programming skils with C (using Borland’s compiler). Now I still
use C, the only difference is I use the free GNU C compiler (GCC)
and I rely heavily on SDL. I wanted to program so I could write my
own programs and extend my knowledge on computers. Later on I just
wanted to program emulators but just didn’t have the know
how…”
Related Story:
ONLamp.com:
Developing the Battle.net Emulator BNETD(May 14, 2002)