History
AMProSoft was born out of a Computer Math class in Lafayette High
School in Buffalo, NY during the 1987-88 school year. The wise
and benificent teacher, Mr. Alderdice, handed me the BASIC
manual one day after I had gotten very far ahead of most of the
class and encouraged me to teach myself (which I did). It wasn't
much later that I discovered the joys of computer graphics. Oh
sure they were 4 color 320x200 resolution graphics, but they WERE
graphics, and as the programs grew in sophistication, I began adding
a banner on the end which read "Alex Mead Producshunz".
For the next couple years I made very simple graphical programs.
I tried giving them out, but people needed to know how to use
BASIC in order to load and run them, so that didn't get very far.
Then in August of 1991 I discovered QuickBASIC and learned how to
compile programs. I got so excited over it all that I crafted
some of my graphics programs into games, got myself a P.O. Box,
wrote the very first AMProGram (1 page), and declaired myself to
be in business.
I came out with some pretty good games for the time period. I was
getting better and better at it, I was starting to get noticed more
and more. I made it into a few national shareware catalogs, and
onto some good shareware CDs and stuff. But the world began to
evolve away from me, as Bill Gates picked up the Earth and stuffed
it into a little box called Windows. My games had all kinds of
compatability issues trying to run under the Windows environment,
and I am still in the process of learning to make Windows games.
It is a lot more involved, and nothing like the days when you could
just pull some graphics and music together around some code. Now
one has to pay exorbitant amounts to buy graphics capabilities and
more to buy music, and a whole bunch to buy the programming language
, ah but I digress. Anyway, now if I could find the time, I could
start cranking out the games again, the problem is trying to find
the time. But I will, because I must. Games call to me to be written
and I must answer.
Okay, with an appology for the disjointedness of this story, I'll
get back to the details.
In January of 1996, I officially registered
my business with New York State, and in the past few months I have
procured my own domain name (I bet you already knew that), and I am
adding credit card processing abilities. The company is beginning
to have more cash available, so we're looking into advertizing and
the whole bit. It would seem to me that there are big things on
the horizon for AMProSoft now, but it's always seemed that way to
me, and only time will tell.
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Stats:
Founded:
August 21, 1991
Official start date:
January 12, 1996
Owner:
Alex Mead
Address:
AMProSoft
P. O. Box 988
Buffalo, NY 14213
EMail:
AMProSoft@colormeweb.com
Web Page:
www.AMProSoft.com
Jan 12, 1996. Alex Mead with his
newly aquired business licence from
the state of New York.
photo by SilentMike
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