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about me

i'm artech, also known as artechthedvdplayer or (formerly) retro_person

est. 2009; i have autism (as you can probably tell), ADHD, and OCD
currently attending Brooklyn Technical High School and hoping to go to the University of Utah (Alan Kay, here I come!)

i know how to program in:

TI-57 assembly
Intel 4004 assembly
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
Squeak/Smalltalk
...and a few other programming languages in which i am not fluent enough to feel confident listing here

i also do 3D modeling in SketchUp and Blender (contact me for commissions!)

i mostly do old computer stuff and media archival, from the 1960s to 2000s
some goofy stuff i've done includes:

(c. dec. 2020) running SGI's IRIX operating system on a chromebook through a linux vm, WINE and MAME (image, post)
(c. dec. 2021) writing a simple, (pseudo-)random-number guessing game on a 1977 TI-57, within 50 program steps and 8 numeric memory registers, that would tell you higher or lower and keep track of your score
(c. feb. 2024) implementing a simple raytracer in the October 2003 version of Scratch (screenshot, project file)
(c. early 2023) (attempting to) restore Douglas Engelbart's NLS (oN-Line System), as prominently featured in the "Mother of All Demos" of December 1968, as it was in late 1969 (github repository)

i also currently (07/20/24) co-own and co-manage TBCA, The Block Coding Archive (along with Katie and HalfHalf), whose goal is to preserve all media pertaining to block- and tile-based programming languages, mostly by MIT's E.&L.G. and LLK Group, and their predecessors and inspirations. i wrote a brief history of tile-based programming recently, as well as finally HTML-ifying my Lisp-based Logo Blocks tutorial (HTML-ified version can be found here)

current WiP projects:

none that are far enough along to warrant their inclusion here (yet)

...and even more random stuff, which you can check out in my portfolio