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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!"
tempest 2000 & 3000 among others..
some list from google..
Code & Graphics
* Ancipital, 1984
* Attack of the Mutant Camels, 1983
* Batalyx, 1985
* Gridrunner, 19??
* Hellgate, 1984
* Hover Bovver, 1983
* Iridis Alpha, 1986
* Lazer Zone, 1983
* Made in France II(?), 19??
* Mama Llama, 1986(?)
* Matrix, 1983
* Mega Blast, 19??
* Return of the Mutant Camels, 1987(?)
* Revenge of the Mutant Camels, 1984(?)
* Rox 64, 198?
* Sheep in Space, 198?
* Voidrunner, 19??
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
If you check here, not only can you get a list of titles, but most of them are freely available for download.
Where's my lobbyist? Right here.
I found a link to that story (Bill writing the software that put him in the same class with lots of girls).
I also googled with "myth" and "urban legend" but I couldn't find anything that quickly. (Doesn't prove it's true, though!)
Reinout
Reinout van Rees
Remember that Minter is perhaps most famous for Llamatron; you can fire it up to this day in any Atari ST emulator pretty much, such as STeem or SainT, or WinSTon, etc etc. STonX runs very well under Unix/Linux for instance..
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If you're into handhelds, then try out CaSTaway..
Palm OS:
http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/castaway.
GP32:
http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/gp32.
Finkle
He keeps a blog on the YakYak forum with screenshots of WIP :)
Jeff visited us last year at Alternative Party in Helsinki. He shared his stories on game development, animal fetishes and other Minter oddities. Then he accompanied a large group of visitors for a pint of Guinness at the nearest Irish pub, then partied like a Finn in the sauna after eating reindeer meat (thanks Nosfe!). Too bad he couldn't make it this year...
Software is not supposed to be about how to work around a useability issue. - Ken Barber
Hello this is not a llamasoft reference, whips a llamas ass is a reference to the late great wesley willis, a homeless schizophrenic that some indy musician befreinded and produced a decent size music catalog (50 plus records). All of his songs were pretty much the same structure, talking about a subject, how great it was, and how it whips a (insert animal)'s ass, with some advertising tagline concluding the song. (Milk, it does a body good, etc..)
Read about the late wesley willis and whipping llama's asses here:
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