Welcome at Hermit's site!
I'm a self-taught programmer and musician, and electrical
technician by profession. I have many hobbies with serious purposes
beside my full time job at an IT company. As you may have guessed from
my nickname, I usually work alone in my development and musicianship.
Most of my
remixes are played and arranged by me entirely...
As an exception to that I have a band called SIDrip Alliance.
We
play
retro
computer
music
at
geek-parties,
me
on
bassguitar particularly.
I love and respect retro computing, and usually visit and contribute
to CSDB, the
well known home
for Commodore
64
fans.
You may check out my
8bit profile there.
As a contrast, I'm really-really fed up with today's direction of IT/PC
evolution. As a musician I have big demands towards computers, and even
with Linux
and special
studio
equipment they don't seem to handle the simple recording
tasks
reliably and fast enough. Occasional buffer-dropouts even with as much
as 10-20ms buffering. Imagine me as a person who gets angry for any
OS/program lags
or freezes, whatsoever.
Why?
Somehow
slowness of programs ever follows CPU
speeds through the years. This way we newer get to a pleased status,
just going backwards. I'm envy people who can ignore the upcoming daily
bugs. I just can't.
After trying/examining many Operating Systems and hardware,
programming some tools both for retro and for
modern
computers, I got
to the conclusion that many problems really come from the (lack of)
hardware/software standards, and how they're realized. No programmer
can optimize down to
hardware level...this is not possible nowadays. It's not worth these
days to develop in assembly
for IBM compatible PC and other similar brothers. Many abstraction
layers
exist, and at the end we get to a bloated and slow something called an
operating system. How does it compare to C64s 8kbyte operating system
running with 1MHz CPU flawlessly?! (Less functions, but hey, it works
well!)
That is my new hobby project about. I'd like to bring back the old
reliable hardware structures with more (RAM/CPU/etc.) advanced
capabilities and want to publish phases of my work to
everyone...click on 'Projects' button in menu above for further
details...
Hungary, 26 June 2011
