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An excolleague of mine worked for codemasters in the mid 90s, apparently codemasters was originally started by two brothers in a barn near their house. As the c
by rkachowski 6y ago
An excolleague of mine worked for codemasters in the mid 90s, apparently codemasters was originally started by two brothers in a barn near their house. As the company took off they expanded and build upon the barn, ultimately absorbing it into the building it became. It was explained to me that you could still see support structures from the original barn with the office building itself.
So in this case it seems like a literal physical expansion of the classic garage coder idea.
- timthorn 6y agoI thought it was originally started in their bedroom - the Darlings were still at school when they started out IIRC
- mpclark 6y agoYes, the potted history is Galactic Software (selling games from hand-drawn ads in Popular Computing Weekly) when they were still at school in Somerset, then worked with Mirrorsoft and Mastertronic in London, then off to start Codemasters in Banbury.
- mpclark 6y agoSpot on!