The Power Programs homepage has been online in some fashion or another for an 'internet age'. The very first version is from late 1995 - over fifteen years ago. To put that in perspective, that is from the era when Microsoft just about released the first version of Internet Explorer and people where still widely using Mosaic and Netscape as their browser of choice.

Sadly, I no longer have an archive of that version at the ready, nor any screenshots - but I'll keep searching!

The Power Programs site as seen on 28 April, 2001
Above: the oldest version of the website I could find: April 28, 2001.

The site used to be hand edited HTML, first with a standard text editor* and later in the Spider Writer HTML Editor. These days it is made using the GetSimple CMS**.

Originally, the site was about my self made software, serving news, plans and downloads of my hobby projects for the Commodore Amiga. It had screenshots, descriptions and more about my programs, including Breakout and A.S.O.S. At one point, I added a Windows and Commodore 8 bit section but never actually put anything in there!

The Power Programs site as seen in 2005
Above: the Power Programs website as seen in 2005.

With the site relaunching in late 2010, I decided to broaden the approach and include not just self made software downloads, but also articles about Commodore computers in general and the Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga in particular.

Since a lot of Commodore computers use the 6502 processor and I've always been rather fond of the architecture, I also added the 6502 Corner for articles about the 6502 series.

*) Notepad, VI / VIM, Wordpad, EMACS (or the Amiga version Micro EMACS), you name a text editor, I probably tried it and used it for editing the site.

**) Because it really is simple to use and allows me to concentrate on writing content instead of having to focus on the technology behind it.