Pyramid Productions is a software company dedicated to producing low-cost and free software, mainly for Mac OS X. It was set up in 2002 by myself, Iain Bethune, a 4th year Computer Science and Physics student at Edinburgh University in Scotland.
My first steps in programming were on an Acorn A3000 computer, with 512KB of RAM and no hard disc back when I was about 9 years old. I was bought the (sadly no longer in print) "Let's Compute!" magazine by my dad, and for the next few years learned some programming - and a few bad habits! - from them in BBC Basic. After a few years the family got our first Mac, an LC II. This was the first time I had a decent machine to work with, and wrote loads of programs in BBC BASIC 5, going from text adventure games to fully 3D isometric landscapes. At this point in time I became frustrated with programming, as my graphics could more easily be measured in seconds per frame rather than frames per second, and so I more-or-less stopped coding completely for the next 4 or 5 years.
Now in high school, I learned some Pascal and Visual Basic, and passed all my computing courses with relative ease. It wasn't until I got to university and got my own computer that I got interested in programming again. Having studied Java programming in my 1st year, and having Apple's excellent suite of OS X developer tools at my disposal, I realised that writing software was again a realistic possiblity for me, and so I started coding under the name of Pyramid Productions.
My current development machine is an Apple Dual 1.25Ghz G4 PowerMac with 1GB RAM, running OS 10.3.5. Seems to work nicely! I use XCode for programming and debugging, along with Photoshop for graphics.
I have several more projects in the pipeline, so have a look around, download anything you like, and please check back regularly for updates!
