Jimmy Mårdell

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Aliases

Yarin

Email

moc.liamg|lledram.ymmij#moc.liamg|lledram.ymmij

Site URL

http://www.acc.umu.se/~yarin/

Ticalc.org URL

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/authors/0/41.html

Location

Sweden

Years Active

1996 to 2002

Affiliations

Icarus Productions

Jimmy Mårdell was one of the earlier assembly programmers in the TI community, on the TI-85 & TI-86 calculators. He was also a member of the Icarus Productions programming group.

Significance

Some of his most notable releases include: ZTetris, well known for it's smooth linkplay option; Sqrxz, a Mario-type side-scrolling platform game; and BoulderDash.

He also released Hufflib, a library for the Huffman compression algorithm, for use on the z80 calculators.

Contributions

(Screenshot of ZTetris)

• ZTetris
• Sqrxz
• BoulderDash
• Hufflib Library
• Squarez
• SameGame
• Solytare (porter only)

Milestones

• List of their important milestones (date joined TI community, important programs, etc.)

Site URLs

• http://icarus.ticalc.org/

Site Screenshot

(Screenshot of Jimmy's homepage circa 2000)

History

Miscellaneous

After programming in assembly for the TI calculators, Jimmy moved to programming for the Game Boy Color.

• Interview with Jimmy (November 2005) on ticalc.org.