Hello,

my name is Dimitrios Grigoriadis. I was born on 14th September 1976 in Leonberg in Germany. I'm a greek guy living and working here in Germany my whole live. I studied software engineering at the university. After that I worked for over 6 years at several companies like Vodafone, SEL Alcatel only to name the biggest. I'm a freelancer now since 1st September 2007 and I think I'm doing well.

My passions are game programming, basketball and street-racing cars and of course Kavala that's my hometown in Greece, better known as the blue city.

I started programming when I got my first computer at the age of 14th. It was an Amstrad CPC 464. Yep, that old black thing with a cartridge drive. The thing was that I was in a basketball team for years but broke my leg and had to go to hospital for operation. After that my parents decided to get me something I could play with since I was not allowed after the injury for over 4 months to go to training again. So one day they came with this really nice CPC 464 and some cartridges. Ok here we go I said to myself and started figuring out how to get this thing to work. After a while I had fun while playing games. And we talk about really cool games bro' like Robocop, Werewolfs of London, Ghosts 'n Goblins and so on. Oh baby was that fun. But as usual after having played all games more than twice you want to have new ones. I exchanged games with friends but little later the same violine. Getting new games....

I was very disappointed since the Commodore C64 was widespread but I didn't own one. So what should I do? One day I took the manual and read through the sites describing the commands. I reached a new chapter with the title "Basic 1.0". CPC owners know exactly what I'm talking about. And there it was... All I need to know to create my own applications was there. Carefully I read through all the lines and worked through all the tutorials (something I should continue to do) and after having filled a cartridge with my tutorial applications I sat down and wrote my first text adventure. Everybody knows what I mean.

You open your eyes, your head still pulses and the feeling comes back in your body. What happened? You have no idea. You look in front of you and you see three doors. Which one will you go through? Press A, B or C:

Yep exactly that. Wasn't it cool? After a bunch of text adventures I wanted more and learned the graphic part of Basic 1.0. While others already owned an Amiga 500 or even 2000 or an Atari ST I just went fine with my old CPC. I didn't need more since I loved developing my text adventures which were now enhanced with graphical parts, and so time went by...

I want to have this!!! It was a personal computer. It was a hell of a machine. Colored display wow. What did they call this? EGA graphics? Great! I want to have this. When the first pc's made it into the offices or even at home they were all machines which you didn't expect much of. Monochrome display graphics and a complete different command prompt. What does c:\ mean?

But this 386 DX 33Mhz with EGA graphics made my day. 4 MB Ram and 16 MB harddisk. More than I ever could imagine of. I bought this machine and here I am now. The software developer Dimi Grigoriadis who started to use a computer because of an injury. That's my little story.