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Randal Linden

πŸ‘₯ 1 conference
🎀 3 talks
πŸ“… Years active: 2021 to 2021

Biography

Randal Linden is an "Old-school" professional programmer who wrote Cyboid, bleem!, bleemcast!, DOOM Super Nintendo and Dragon’s Lair Amiga among other things.

Randal's background and experience includes:

Software architecture, design and engineering Software and firmware development, testing and debugging Software optimization, tuning and compression Software porting, prototyping and "proof of concept" projects Building well-known startups, projects and teams Reverse-engineering software, hardware and systems.

Randal has personally developed software tools, build systems, development environments and testing/automation systems and frameworks.

He is also adept at reverse-engineering systems, software emulation and developed multiple copy protection and digital rights management systems (and their related software tools.)

Some of the products Randal has developed and/or published include (in reverse chronological order):

"Cyboid" (Android Phones, Tablets and Android TV / Amazon Fire devices / Nokia cell phones / iPod / GBA) "bleem! for Dreamcast" (Sega Dreamcast) "bleem!" (PC) "DOOM" (Super Nintendo) "Dragon's Lair" and "Dragon's Lair: Escape from Singe's Castle" (Amiga) "Paperback Filer" and "Pocket Filer" (Commodore 64/128) "Bubbles" (Commodore 64)

Other products Randal has worked on (design, development, debugging, etc.) include:

Microsoft Band and Microsoft Band 2 Microsoft XBox One Game Controller Microsoft Kinect (Xbox 360) Microsoft XDK (Software Development Kit for Xbox 360) "Game Tap" (PC) "The 64 Emulator" and "The 64 Emulator 2" (Amiga)

— biography from FOSDEM 2021
https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/speaker/randal_linden/

Conferences

1 known conferences

πŸ‘₯ FOSDEM 2021 πŸ“… 06 Feb 2021

  πŸŽ€ Best Little Emulator Ever Made! - part 3/3 + Live Q&A
   07 Feb 2021 show details
  πŸŽ€ Best Little Emulator Ever Made! - part 2/3
   07 Feb 2021 show details
  πŸŽ€ Best Little Emulator Ever Made! - part 1/3
   07 Feb 2021 show details