Remember Llamasoft, maker of eighties hits like Attack of the Mutant Camels and Centipede? Main man Jeff Minter, better known as Yak, has laid his eye on Pocket PCs!
More and more companies are throwing themselves on the wave of retro-gaming, and while fresh rumors are circulating that 80s giant Amstrad is seeking to make games developed for their systems available on today's mobile phones, Jeff Minter has suddenly showed up in the scenery and is aiming to bring his old games to Pocket PCs of today.
Who's Jeff Minter you ask? Better known as Yak, he was - and is - the main person behind Llamasoft, a company that in the 80s published golden oldies such as Attack of the Mutant Camels, Centipede, Defender and GridTron for a slew of platforms available at the time. The games reached fame on personal computing systems from Atari, Sinclair and not the least Commodore.
Minter is now working on something he calls the Llamasoft Virtual Machine, intended to allow himself to produce updated versions of the Llamasoft games. In a post to his own discussion forum, Minter writes that the games will come with lots of maad new effects, naturally, but with the emphasis on the gameplay, as ever. As for the LVM, Minter writes that it is almost complete on PC and Pocket PC platforms, and that he may well look in to doing a Mac version too.
But like with everything in these dot bust times, Minter also has to find some way of making his efforts pay off, and gives himself a year to make it all work using a model he's been thinking up but secretively holds back the details on. Since several members of the infoSync staff once upon a time spent hours upon hours in front of their computer screens playing Minter's games, we wish him the best of luck and hope to see some of the golden oldies showing up on a PDA near us in the future.
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