Part 2 of Jeff Minter's History of Llamasoft Published

Tmuk writes "The second part of Jeff Minter's Complete History of Llamasoft has just gone up over at The Way of the Rodent. Straight from the man himself, it's a fantastic read after the previously Slashdot-covered first part. Enjoy!"

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[PotatoHead]

There is nothing like making an old piece of hardware do something pretty cool; namely, more colors or sprites and such.

I really liked assembly on the 8-bit machines. Learned two core things that stick with me to this day:

(1) all computers really do is add numbers together and move them around, and

(2) the computer does exactly what you tell it to.

Number 1 was a biggie because it made the link between the nifty things like graphics and sound and numbers make some sense.

Number 2 is evident to this day. When a machine crashes, it's because somebody somewhere did not think something completely through.