Welcome to the internet site heinpragt.com Online since 1995 My name is hein Pragt, I live in Veenendaal a very nice city in the center of Holland together with my wife Conny, our little daughter Romy and part-time also 7 other children from our previous marriages. I work as a software consultant (architect) for Atos Origin with specialisation on web content management systems. This site started as a simple homepage more than ten years ago and has grown to a very big website with a lot of information on several subjects like people, culture, technique and photography. On the Dutch version of this site are all the articles I wrote the last 12 years, as you can see my interest is very broad. The Dutch version of this site had already more than 4 and half million visitors and has now an average of 5000 to 6000 visitors per day. I was born in Bargercompas near Emmen in the northeast part of Holland on March 5 1959. Till the age of 18 years I lived in Bargercompas near the German border. When I was18 years old I quit school and became a professional musician. When I turned 24 I decided to go back to school and became a software engineer. I have worked as a software engineer ever since. I never stopped playing music, I have played in a lot of bands, and all kinds of music. Currently I only play at home on my guitars and digital piano. As I also have some friends in the rest of the world, I decided to translate a part of the website to English. Most ignorance is vincible ignorance, we don't know because we don't want to know.! Regards, Hein Pragt Click here tot visit the Dutch version of my site.

I started to play adventure games on my TRS-80 computer back in 1980 and of cause I played a lot of adventures of Adventure International.
Read more about the adventure interpreter I wrote on this page.

Reversi, otherwise known as othello, is a great game in which two players of opposite color pieces take turns taking pieces of the opposite color, trying to get the most. Like chess, it is analytical and takes a little time to get good at ("a minute to learn...a lifetime to master!"). In reversi, two players take turns placing disks of opposite colors (each disk has a black and a white side) on an 8 by 8 board. One places a disk adjacent to the opponent's disk so that the opponent's disk or row of disks is directly in between that first player's disk and another of the person's disks. The player then flips, or "flanks," the opponent's disks to match his or her color and the two players take turns doing this until the board is full. If a player cannot move, he or she must pass, and the player with the most disks at the end wins the game wins.

I wrote a nice freeware version of the game in Visual C++ and it plays a nice game. My oldest son Robert Pragt designed the layout of the game.