Inventing the AmigaHASP
During 1989, while developing Rashumon, I found myself looking for a copy protection solution for Amiga software but there wasn’t any. The Amiga had a very non standard Parallel port, which made it impossible to just adopt a copy protection dongle from other platforms, and there was a need to develop a completely new system.

Hardware based copy protection systems are based on a hardware device which interact with the computer using the port assigned...

During 1987 I have developed a script language to code music for the Amiga.

The project was called Musicode. My idea was to create something similar to a “Basic” like programming language, which will focus in music. The Amiga was known by it’s ability to play polyphonic sound, based on 4 seperate tracks (which was a lot these days…). At that time I was involved in computers and music projects, such as music based on random numbers or representing digital artwork as music.
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Today it is quite obvious to most of the computer users to open a word processor or a text editor and be able to perform various tasks such as inserting / editing text with different fonts, colors and styles, and combine them with graphics, photos, etc.

When I started working on Rashumon, nothing of these functionalities were available, not as part of the operating system level and not...