@nanochess this is pretty cool and it was a pleasant surprise to find out you're a Toledo. If I ever drop by CDMX I'd love if we could go grab some coffee together.
For those unaware, the Toledo family is somewhat famous in Mexico for assembling their own PCs along with the programs that run on them, OS and all that, all home brewed. A bit reminiscent of Terry Davis and TempleOS, but I say this with respect as I don't think the Toledos are deranged people, lol.
It was stupid, but the rough gist was I realised you could hyperlink between slides, so I made a "choose your own adventure game" like those books that said to turn to page X. But then I wanted inventory, so horrifically I started exponentially making branches of slides where you did and didn't have items. My 9-year old brain spent days hyper-focused making identical copies of all the worlds with secret parts to click. Finally I discovered macros, which helped a lot, before finally finding CMD in Windows and discovering an actual control flow which taught me variables and what not.
I was the older part of the Minecraft era which was my entry into core boolean logic, and SpaceChem taught me parallel flow before entering university.
I used to write assembler on paper and then translate it step by step to Z80 machine code to run on a ZX Spectrum. And yes I was eleven as well. It’s amazing how easily you can do things when you don’t know how hard it is :) I still remember how excited I was filling the screen with black pixels using machine code!
Is it not weird that there is no Wikipedia page on this family? It's just too odd to fly under the radar for so long. Perhaps a documentary - something to pull this altogether. I've got $50US for a gofundme if someone is game (I'm very lazy, but also very curious, and apparently have a spare $50 - typical North American scum I suppose).
For those unaware, the Toledo family is somewhat famous in Mexico for assembling their own PCs along with the programs that run on them, OS and all that, all home brewed. A bit reminiscent of Terry Davis and TempleOS, but I say this with respect as I don't think the Toledos are deranged people, lol.