Cool stories! Nice nostagia

Well I started with 12 aswell, but with a book called "Game programming for dummies". I discovered it by pure coincidence.

The book was poorly written and the examples did not work. After a month or so I gave up. Fortunately the CD which was included in the book contained a demo version of other game engines, including 3DGS A5.

I fiddled around with it and was amazed how fast I got decent results! I digged even deeper into the Manual and Tutorials. I made one test project after another and learned a lot about game developement! Modelling, texturing, lighting, gameplay etc.
After gaining more and more knowledge I realized that WDL was very limiting for bigger stuff. At that time Lite-C was introduced. I instantly converted my code to Lite-C in order to learn it and extent my code even further.

Now I'm here, a computer science/mathematics student in his last semester. 3DGS influenced me to study computer science, because coding was so much fun! In university I realized how close Lite-C was to C. This helped me so much in my first lectures. I had no problem learning C, whilst other students struggles heavily.

3DGS is definitely a part of my life and has influenced me more than once. It will always be remembered.