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Minter on the History of Llamasoft
Tmuk writes "Just thought I'd bring to your attention the first of a new series of articles by Jeff Minter over at the mighty Way of the Rodent. For the first time ever, the complete history of Llamasoft is being brought together by the man himself, with new articles appearing regularly. Enjoy!"
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...don't question it!!!
Is winamp still kicking their respective ass? Sorry... :)
Let's sit around the fire and tell the hilarious joke about that time the cat ran off with our cassette containing that 63K Pong - clone....
10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then
Flamebait my arse....back in the day, Jeff Minter was a god-like figure among game coders - Llamatron (atari version) and T2K (Jaguar version) are among my fave games of all time.
;)
So - words from the hand of God....? Certainly, Edge worship's him
+++ BASELINE REALITY FAILURE+++ +++ PLEASE REBOOT UNIVERSE +++
I read a story that I believe Bill G. has confirmed as true.
When Bill was in high school, he wrote the software that handled class registration. Not only did the system work great, but all of Bill's classes were two thirds girls. Nice.
-B
from the article:
"On the first lesson, we were told that we would be learning a language called CESIL. This wasn't any kind of a real language that anyone used to really do things with, from what I recall, but some synthetic language purely for the purposes of education (or perhaps places on real comp.sci courses were already getting oversubscribed, and CESIL was deployed to send lesser students running gibbering and screaming into the hills, vowing never to go near a drop of code ever again)."
lol. When I was at university I thought the same thing about PASCAL.
CMDRTACO CHECK YOUR EMAIL!
Dont do drugs kids, do llamatron - its cheaper, cleaner AND safer!
Seriously, llamatron is THE most insane game i've ever played - and by far the most fun, for some reason!
I am a viral sig. Please copy me and help me spread. Thank you.
What a fucking brilliant game - man those missiles got difficult to dodge as the levels counted up! I must have worn out 3 QuickShot 2s on that bad mofo.
That was classic intercourse!
Surely you mean: "[i-am-hung.com]".
Almost right.
It was so easy to copy that Jeff Minter and his axe had quite a job to do before justice had been served. Unfortunately almost no-one was left to mention the game.
Except you.
In fact, now that you've come public with this particular skeleton in your closet, don't you think that you should keep an eye on any axe-carrying Jeffs you might run into.
The owls are not what they seem
...but all of Bill's classes were two thirds girls
Is that like as in Thai Ladyboys or something?
It's too late for me to die young