Greyish72

Hello, I'm Al.

Hello, I'm Al.

I've been a gamer since 1982, when I first started playing on my Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The very first game I played was Manic Miner, and I still remember the whole family taking turns and trying to get further than each other.

I've also been interested in radio for most of my life. I started with old shortwave radios in the late 1970s, moved on to 11-metre CB radio and radio scanners, and I am now a licensed Foundation amateur radio operator.

My interest in computers and coding also began with the ZX Spectrum. Like many people at the time, I spent hours typing BASIC programs from magazines, trying to understand what the code was doing and, quite often, trying to work out why it didn't work!

Over the years I have continued to dabble with programming on and off. I can work with Python up to a point, although I am much better at reading and understanding code than writing everything from scratch.

Dyslexia can make coding difficult at times, and getting older certainly doesn't help either!

Then along came AI.

AI has helped me turn many ideas that had been sitting in my head for years into real, working software. I have built a number of apps, mostly for my own hobbies and personal use, along with games and tools to help me enjoy tabletop role-playing games solo.

Most of the things I make come from a simple idea:

"I wish there was an app that did this."

So I try to build one.

One of my sons eventually said, "Why don't you share some of these with other people?"

So that is why I am here.

The apps and games I share are built from genuine personal interests: radio, aviation, gaming, collecting, simulation and tabletop role-playing games. I use many of them myself, and I hope some of them may also be useful or enjoyable to other like-minded people.

I am not a big software studio. I am simply a long-time hobbyist who enjoys learning, experimenting and making things.

Thanks for taking a look at my work.