Bill Budge
Bill Budge
Bill Budgeis an American video game programmer and designer. He is best known for the Apple II games Raster Blasterand Pinball Construction Set...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
sitting use novices
The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.
reflection interesting personality
On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.
writing program
I write my programs primarily for myself.
half kind knows
I know when something is kind of half-baked.
stuff done mature
All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.
thinking people important
It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.
simple apples special
The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.
apples games want
When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.
games trying steps
Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.
stupid agreement may
I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.
writing hands track
You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
years apples half
I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.
work two week
After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
american-businessman basic blows computers computing language machine people quite somewhat
Right now computing can be hard. Machine language is somewhat inaccessible. And Basic is not quite so bad, but it still blows some people away.