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Minter on the History of Llamasoft

Posted by michael on from the got-llama dept.

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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  1. My favorite quote by scumbucket · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. Re:Thank you Jeff by Dogers · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  3. Attack of the Mutant Camels! by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  4. Atari ST emulation is the way to go.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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..

    If you're into handhelds, then try out CaSTaway..

    Palm OS:
    http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/castaway.h tml

    GP32:
    http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/gp32.h tml

    Finkle

  5. Commodore PET 2001 - Thanks Mom & DAD by Graemee · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Funny, I just finished repairing mine last night, hadn't fired her up for 5-6 years and a couple of moves. Just had to re-seat the memory. Got to love that case design and the rod to hold the hood up. Built like a tank.

    Best $700.00 I got my parents to spend. I remember them asking, "Do you think this will help you with school". Let's see I passed, went to college, passed, got a job in the IT field, got a better job in the IT field, etc.

    Yeah, it helped.

    So thanks Mom & Dad.

    And some day it'll be worth more than the $700.00 too.