PSPemulation.com conducts a nice and informative interview with McZonk, chief porter of Quake 2 to PSP at Team Emergency Exit. It's always great to see how fellow hackers started their career in the PSP world, and in a much bigger scale, the world in general. Sometimes we tend to forget that developers, too, are just like many of us PSP users, are living lives and enjoying hobbies, just like the rest of us.

If all goes well, can't wait till later today when the first public BETA of Quake 2 for PSP, ported by McZonk, is released.



McZonk, in his interview, starts off, "I started with programming when I was 10 years old, with QBASIC. My first program was something easy like calculate a square root or create random beep sounds. Sure, I played a lot on my computer too, but it was fascinating to control the whole computer and not only a figure in the game. In the last 4 years I have become addicted to computer graphics...A friend of mine imported a PSP from Japan and I was like, “this hardware is awesome,” I read a little bit about the specs. I wanted to import a PSP, too. At that moment all PSPs came with [firmware] 1.5 and after the swap trick came out I ordered one. I was very interested in coding, and with the free SDK from ps2dev.org it really began."

Read the full interview here.

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