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ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

We cover Atari news, reviews, and a special feature each show for the Atari 8-bit line of computers (400/800/XL/XE/XEGS)

Further podcasts by Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold

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ANTIC Episode 103 - POKEY The Atari Guru from 2023-11-26T23:25

ANTIC Episode 103 - POKEY The Atari Guru

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…results of the ABBUC 2023 Software Contest, upcomin...

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ANTIC Episode 102 - Randy, You Used to be a Nice Guy! from 2023-10-30T17:21

ANTIC Episode 102 - Randy, You Used to be a Nice Guy!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… All the Atari 8-bit news for this mon...

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ANTIC Interview 435 - Cynthia Solomon and Brian Silverman - Logo from 2023-10-24T16:26

ANTIC Interview 435 - Cynthia Solomon and Brian Silverman - Logo

Hello, and welcome to this interview-only episode of ANTIC, The Atari 8-bit computer ...

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ANTIC Episode 101 - The Pronunciation Episode from 2023-09-18T18:11

ANTIC Episode 101 - “The Pronunciation Episode”

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…We discuss the antics of the company that ca...

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ANTIC Episode 100 - 100th Show!!! (or is it 4?) from 2023-08-07T17:44

ANTIC Episode 100 (Or Episode 4 in Binary)

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We celebrate our 100th (or is it the fourth, for...

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ANTIC Episode 99 - 10-Year ANTICversary! from 2023-06-21T18:41

ANTIC Episode 99 - 10-Year ANTICversary!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We bring in some of our Atari friends and talk about the last 10 ye...

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ANTIC Episode 98 - Don't Toss Those Disks! from 2023-05-25T14:53

ANTIC Episode 98 - Don’t Toss Those Disks!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We talk about all the feedback we got concerning...

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ANTIC Episode 97 - Don't go to the Commodore Show! from 2023-04-04T23:36

ANTIC Episode 97 - Don’t go to the Commodore Show!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Randy accidentally puts a link to an upcoming Commodore sh...

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ANTIC Episode 96 - Atari Dreams from 2023-02-21T00:00

ANTIC Episode 96 - Atari Dreams

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we talk about development for the Atari 8-bit, discuss a couple of highly-mo...

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ANTIC Episode 95 - Party at Brad's House! from 2023-01-25T20:17

ANTIC Episode 95 - Party at Brad’s House!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…we reluctantly add an “in memoriam” se...

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ANTIC Episode 94 - Are we just a chat bot? from 2022-12-17T16:48

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ANTIC Episode 93 - All FujiNet, All The Time from 2022-11-15T16:42

ANTIC Episode 93 - All FujiNet, All the Time!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Andy Diller (atariorbit) joins us ...

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ANTIC Episode 92 - I Played 1,000 Hours! from 2022-10-10T18:29:23

ANTIC Episode 92 - I Played 1,000 Hours!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Randy talks about his great barn find a...

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ANTIC Episode 91 - HAM Atari from 2022-08-28T22:07:08

ANTIC Episode 91 - HAM Atari

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Kay gets a new job, Randy officially retires, and w...

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ANTIC Episode 90 - Lets All Retire! from 2022-08-05T00:28:07

ANTIC Episode 90 - Lets All Retire!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Ata...

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ANTIC Episode 89 - Choke on It! from 2022-06-28T00:54:31

ANTIC Episode 89 - Choke on it!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Brad regales us with his motherload of new Atar...

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ANTIC Episode 88 - We Need More Atari Shows! from 2022-05-21T16:59:31

ANTIC Episode 88 - We need more Atari shows!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Pod...

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ANTIC Interview 434 - Michael Park: Swan and Fujiboink Demos, MIDI Maze from 2022-05-14T16:00

Michael Park: Swan and Fujiboink Demos, MIDI Maze
 
Michael Park created two well-known demos that are fami...

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ANTIC Interview 433 - Scott Savage: Lefty, the Checkers Playing Robot from 2022-04-23T16:00

Scott Savage: Lefty, the Checkers Playing Robot

"Lefty" was the name of the world's first checker-playing robot, which was located at the Omniplex science museum in...

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ANTIC Interview 432 - Anthony Ramos: Parrot, Creepy Caverns from 2022-04-16T16:00

Anthony Ramos: Parrot, Creepy Caverns

Anthony Dandrea is better known to Atari computer enthusiasts as Anthony Ramos.

Anthony programmed Creepy Caverns...

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ANTIC Episode 87 - Good News, Bad News from 2022-04-07T23:39:38

ANTIC Episode 87 - Good news, bad news

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we have tons of news, both good and bad,...

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ANTIC Interview 431 - Tom Zimmerman, AMY chip from 2022-03-12T17:00

Tom Zimmerman, AMY chip

Tom Zimmerman worked at Atari from 1982-1984 where he was on the digital audio research team in Atari's Corporate Research Lab in Sun...

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ANTIC Episode 86 - Tangents from 2022-03-05T22:23:55

ANTIC Episode 86 - Tangents

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… the BASIC 10-liners contest and the AtariAge High S...

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ANTIC Episode 85 - Surprise Roundtable from 2022-01-25T00:04:31

ANTIC Episode 85 - Surprise Roundtable

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast...we have a surprise roundtable with gues...

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ANTIC Episode 84 - Atari Resolutions for the New Year from 2021-12-27T23:20:27

ANTIC Episode 84 - Atari Resolutions for the New Year

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast...we each talk about our t...

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ANTIC Interview 430 - Tim Huntington: Krazy Kopter, Fire Chief, Adventures of Robin Hood from 2021-12-26T17:00

Tim Huntington: Krazy Kopter, Fire Chief, Adventures of Robin Hood

Tim Huntington was an Atari game developer based in the United Kingdom. He programmed Krazy Kop...

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ANTIC Episode 83 - The Dog Ate It from 2021-12-06T22:52:47

ANTIC Episode 83 - The Dog Ate It

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast...Kay forgets to wear his ANTIC t-shirt, we al...

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ANTIC Interview 429 - Jack Verson: Action Quest, Ghost Encounters, Journey to the Planets, Gyruss from 2021-12-04T17:00

Jack Verson was the founder of JV Software, where he programmed and published several games for the Atari 8-bit computers: Action Quest, Ghost Encounters, and Journey to the Planets. Roklan Soft...

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ANTIC Episode 82 - FujiNet to Take Over the World! from 2021-10-29T01:22:08

ANTIC Episode 82 -  FujiNet to Take Over the World!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast...we have special guest Thom...

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ANTIC Interview 428 - Dave Johnson: Demon Attack, Atlantis; APX Lookahead; Atari Personal Financial Management System from 2021-10-23T16:00

Dave Johnson: Demon Attack, Atlantis; APX Lookahead; Personal Financial Management

Dave Johnson programmed software for the little-known Interact Model One computer...

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ANTIC Interview 427 - Margaret (Akin) Guilbault, Atari Camper from 2021-10-17T22:20:17

Margaret (Akin) Guilbault, Atari Camper

Margaret Akin was one of the children who attended Atari's computer camps, and one of the kids who was featured in The Magic...

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ANTIC Interview 426 - Eric Podietz, Interactive Picture Systems from 2021-09-18T16:00

Eric Podietz, Interactive Picture Systems

Eric Podietz was co-founder of Interactive Picture Systems, a company that created software for 8-bit computers from 1982 ...

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ANTIC Episode 81 - Too Much Commodore from 2021-09-05T23:02:53

ANTIC Episode 81 -  Too Much Commodore

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we wax philosophical about Raspberry Pi ...

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ANTIC Interview 425 - Jeffrey Sarnoff, Atari Research Group from 2021-09-04T16:00

Jeffrey Sarnoff, Atari Research Group
 
Jeffrey Sarnoff started at Atari in the home computer division in 1981 as a software architect, where he worked o...

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ANTIC Interview 424 - Atari at the Science Fair: Mark Knutsen, Star Cluster from 2021-08-28T16:00

Atari at the Science Fair: Mark Knutsen, Star Cluster
 
This is the third in a series of interviews called "Atari at the Science Fair" where...

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ANTIC Interview 423 - Tom Halfhill discusses Charles Brannon and SpeedScript from 2021-08-07T17:56:03

Tom Halfhill discusses Charles Brannon and SpeedScript

Charles Brannon was program editor at Compute! Publications from 1980 until 1986. He wrote and edited article...

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ANTIC Interview 422 - Donald Dixon, Robotics R&D at Atari Research from 2021-07-31T16:00

Donald Dixon, Robotics R&D at Atari Research

Donald Dixon worked at Atari Research from 1983 through 1984, under Dr, Alan Kay. There, he worked in robotics research...

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ANTIC Episode 80 - Atari Dunking Booth from 2021-07-25T23:34:22

ANTIC Episode 80 -  Atari Dunking Booth

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we discuss the exciting progress being ...

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ANTIC Interview 421 - Jim Leiterman, Atari Research Group from 2021-07-24T16:00

Jim Leiterman, Atari Research Group

Jim Leiterman worked at Atari from April 1982 through March 1984 in the research group, under Alan Kay. His various projects include...

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ANTIC Interview 420 - Brenda Laurel, Atari Research from 2021-07-17T16:00

Brenda Laurel, Atari Research

Dr. Brenda Laurel worked at Atari from 1980 through 1984. She began as software specialist for educational applications then soon beca...

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ANTIC Episode 79 - Basically MyTek and Nir from 2021-06-29T01:25:43

ANTIC Episode 79 -  Basically MyTek and Nir

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we discuss all the great work that ...

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ANTIC Interview 419 - Bob Elfstrom, The Magic Room from 2021-06-26T16:00

Bob Elfstrom, The Magic Room

Interview and research by Kay Savetz.

From 1982 through 1984, Atari ran summer computer camps at several locations around ...

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ANTIC Interview 418 - Rick Trow, Computers: Expressway to Tomorrow from 2021-06-19T16:00

Rick Trow, Computers: Expressway to Tomorrow

This is the second interview episode about Computers: Expressway to Tomorrow.

Computers: Expressway to Tomorrow ...

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ANTIC Episode 78 - The Extremely Elderly Computer Geeks Club from 2021-05-31T15:24:37

ANTIC Episode 78 -  The Extremely Elderly Computer Geeks Club

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We discuss lots o...

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ANTIC Interview 417 - Computers: Expressway to Tomorrow from 2021-05-29T16:00

ANTIC Interview 417 - Computers: Expressway to Tomorrow

Interviews and research by Kay Savetz

Imagine this. It's 1983 or 1984. You're drudging through yet ...

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ANTIC Interview 416 - Bob Evans, Capital Children's Museum administrator from 2021-05-22T17:17:28

Bob Evans, Capital Children's Museum administrator

This is the fourth in our series of interviews about the Atari computers at the Capital Children's Museum.
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ANTIC Interview 415 - Peter Hirshberg, Capital Children's Museum from 2021-05-15T16:00

Peter Hirshberg, Capital Children's Museum

Peter Hirshberg was curator of the communications wing of the Capital Children's Museum in the early 1980s, where he he...

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ANTIC Interview 414 - Bob Puff, Computer Software Services from 2021-05-08T16:00

Bob Puff, Computer Software Services

Bob Puff is owner of Computer Software Services, a company that began creating hardware and software for the Atari 8-bit comput...

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ANTIC Interview 413 - Valerie (Atkinson) Manfull, Atari Game Research Group from 2021-05-01T16:00

Valerie (Atkinson) Manfull, Atari Game Research Group

Valerie Atkinson was a member of Atari's Game Research Group. Now named Valerie Manfull, she was on the team t...

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ANTIC Episode 77 - Jason Moore PhD from 2021-04-30T20:52:31

ANTIC Episode 77 - Jason Moore, PhD 

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Jason Moore joins us to discuss his atarip...

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ANTIC Interview 412 - Linda Brownstein, Atari VP Special Projects from 2021-04-24T16:00

Linda Brownstein, Atari VP Special Projects

As I've researched Atari and it's 8-bit computer projects over the years, one name has come up over and over again, atta...

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ANTIC Interview 411 - Mark Simonson, Atari Artist and Font Designer from 2021-04-17T16:00

Mark Simonson, Atari Artist and Font Designer

Mark Simonson used his Atari computers who create art that was published in magazines in the 1980s, including a portra...

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ANTIC Interview 410 - Ann Lewin-Benham, Director of Capital Children's Museum from 2021-04-10T16:00

Ann Lewin-Benham, Director of Capital Children's Museum

Ann Lewin-Benham was executive director of the Capital Children's Museum in Washington, D.C. The museum was ...

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ANTIC Interview 409 - Ed Fries: Romox Ant Eater, Princess and Frog, Sea Chase from 2021-04-03T16:00

Ed Fries: Romox Ant Eater, Princess and Frog, Sea Chase

Ed Fries programmed three games for the Atari 8-bit computers, which were published on cartridge by Romox:...

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ANTIC Episode 76 - The Bill Kendrick Show from 2021-03-28T22:53:37

ANTIC Episode 76 - The Bill Kendrick Show

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Bill Kendrick gets more mentions than...

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ANTIC Interview 408 - David Maynard, Electronic Arts Worms? from 2021-03-27T16:00

ANTIC Interview 408 - David Maynard, Electronic Arts Worms?

David Maynard created the game/simulation "Worms?" Published by Electronic Arts in 1983, it was a launch...

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ANTIC Interview 407 - Guy Nouri, Interactive Picture Systems from 2021-03-20T16:00

Guy Nouri, Interactive Picture Systems

Guy Nouri was co-founder of Interactive Picture Systems, a company that created software for 8-bit computers from 1982 thro...

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ANTIC Interview 406 - Atari at the Science Fair: Michael Fripp, Silent E from 2021-03-13T17:00

Atari at the Science Fair: Michael Fripp: Silent E

An article was published in the Daily Press newspaper of Newport News, Virginia on February 13 1985, titled "Best...

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ANTIC Interview 405 - Heidi Brumbaugh, Antic Magazine from 2021-03-06T17:00

Heidi Brumbaugh, Antic and START Magazines

Heidi Brumbaugh worked at Antic Publishing, where she started off as editorial clerk, then was promoted to editorial assi...

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ANTIC Interview 404 - Atari at the Science Fair: Scott Ryder: Atari-Controlled Robot from 2021-02-28T17:00

Atari at the Science Fair: Scott Ryder: Atari-Controlled Robot

Here's an article from The Fresno Bee (Fresno, California) dated April 15, 1982: "Science proves Fair...

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ANTIC Episode 75 - Video Wars from 2021-02-27T19:50:43

ANTIC Episode 75 - Video Wars

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… we discuss the merits of Sophia vs. VBXE for vide...

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ANTIC Special Episode - My Atari by Suzanne Ciani from 2021-01-30T17:00

ANTIC Special Episode: My Atari by Suzanne Ciani
 
Over the years many of the people I've interviewed have generously sent me all different kinds of historical Atari mate...

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ANTIC Interview 403 - Dan Kramer, Atari Trak-Ball Controllers from 2021-01-23T17:00

Dan Kramer, Atari Trak-Ball Controllers

Dan Kramer worked at Atari from 1980 to 1984 in the consumer engineering group where he created products for the home comput...

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ANTIC Episode 74 - Name Wars from 2021-01-16T16:03:05

ANTIC Episode 74 - Name Wars

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… Kevin (er... Kay) and Randy have a name fight and,...

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ANTIC Interview 402 - The Famous Computer Cafe from 2020-12-19T17:00

The Famous Computer Cafe

This is a podcast episode featuring three interviews with people who created a radio show that did hundreds of interviews.

The...

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ANTIC Interview 401 - John F. White: Writing Strategy Games On Your Atari Computer&Superquerg from 2020-12-12T20:53:08

John F. White: Writing Strategy Games On Your Atari Computer & Superquerg

John F. White is author of the book Writing Strategy Games On Your Atari Computer and th...

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ANTIC Episode 73 - Randys Personality Board from 2020-12-09T03:01:23

ANTIC Episode 73 - Randy’s Personality Board

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… we have a ton of Christmas gift id...

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ANTIC Interview 400 - Suzanne Ciani, pioneer in electronic music from 2020-12-05T04:10:29

Suzanne Ciani, pioneer in electronic music

Suzanne Ciani is a pioneer in electronic music, Grammy-nominated composer, and recording artist. In the 1980's, she creat...

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ANTIC Episode 72 - Pick and Place from 2020-11-07T21:37:36

ANTIC Episode 72 - Pick and Place

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… we have as a guest Mr. Gavin Haubelt who runs...

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ANTIC Interview 399 - Jim Tittsler, Atari 1600 prototype from 2020-11-01T14:42:05

Jim Tittsler, Atari 1600 prototype

Jim Tittsler got my attention with a tweet, an old photo of a computer in a PC-style case, connected to Atari joysticks and disk ...

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ANTIC Interview 398 - Dan Noguerol (Farb): Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative from 2020-10-24T23:52:32

Dan Noguerol (Farb): Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative

Two interviews with the same person, recorded more than four years apart. Dan Noguerol is better k...

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ANTIC Episode 71 - Goodbye, Curt Vendel from 2020-09-26T19:33:35

ANTIC Episode 71 - Goodbye, Curt Vendel

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast...we say goodbye to good friend and Atar...

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ANTIC Interview 397 - Youth Advisory Board: Steve Cohen from 2020-09-20T13:09:35

Youth Advisory Board: Steve Cohen

This is the eighth in a series of episodes featuring the kids of Atari's Youth Advisory Board. In 1983, Atari formed a Youth Advis...

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ANTIC Interview 396 - Kai and George Esbensen, Micro-Ed Software from 2020-09-13T15:06:23

Kai and George Esbensen, Micro-Ed Software

I first heard about the Micro-Ed software company when a member of the Atari community sent me a batch of educational cas...

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ANTIC Interview 395 - Myra Marshall, Computer Applications Tomorrow from 2020-09-05T16:00

Myra Marshall, Computer Applications Tomorrow

Myra Marshall, along with her husband-at-the-time Roger Marshall, was co-founder of Computer Applications Tomorrow, a ...

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ANTIC Interview 394 - Michael Darland, Microperipheral Corporation and Sofcast from 2020-08-29T16:00

Michael Darland, Microperipheral Corporation and Sofcast

Michael Darland was co-founder of Microperipheral Corporation, and president of Sofcast, a system that se...

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ANTIC Episode 70 - Who Wants a FujiNet Anyway... I do! from 2020-08-25T03:52:16

ANTIC Episode 70 - Who Wants a FujiNet Anyway… I do!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… we discuss the roll-out of...

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ANTIC Interview 393 - Charles Marslett, MYDOS and FastChip from 2020-08-16T14:09:56

Charles Marslett, MYDOS and FastChip

Charles Marslett wrote floppy disk and hard drive drivers for Percom, and was the creator of MYDOS, a disk operating system for...

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ANTIC Episode 69 - Bill Collector from 2020-07-22T03:30:47

ANTIC #69 Show Notes, July, 2020

Title: Bill Collector

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ANTIC Interview 392 - Dorothy Siegel, Pioneer in Computer Music from 2020-07-21T01:51:26

Dorothy Siegel, Pioneer in Computer Music

I'm Kay Savetz, and this is ANTIC: The Atari 8-bit podcast. This interview, however, is about events that happened before A...

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ANTIC Interview 391 - Tracy Frey, Atari Birthday Girl from 2020-07-14T22:42:12

Tracy Frey, Atari Birthday Girl

There's an article in the New York Times, dated April 9, 1982: "8-Year-Old's Birthday Party in a Computer Center." The story, writ...

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ANTIC Interview 390 - David Gedalia, Atari-controlled Telescope from 2020-07-06T22:15:16

David Gedalia, Atari-controlled Telescope

Listener Paul Somerfeldt sent me a blurb he found in a book titled "The Dobsonian Telescope" by David Kriege and Richard B...

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ANTIC Interview 389 - Brad Stewart, Covox from 2020-06-29T16:00

Brad Stewart, Covox

Brad Stewart was the co-founder and chief designer of Covox, the company that created Covox VoiceMaster. VoiceMaster was speech digitizer and vo...

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ANTIC Interview 388 - Henry and Nancy Taitt, Creative Learning Association from 2020-06-22T16:00

Henry and Nancy Taitt, Creative Learning Association

Henry Taitt was founder of the Creative Learni...

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ANTIC Interview 387 - Claudia Cohl, Editor-in-Chief of Family Computing and K-Power Magazine from 2020-06-16T00:41:58

Claudia Cohl, Editor-in-Chief of Family Computing and K-Power Magazine

Claudia Cohl was the editor-...

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ANTIC Episode 68 - What SIDE Are You On? With Jonathan Halliday from 2020-06-14T21:06:49

ANTIC Episode 68

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… Jonathan Halliday joins as we discuss his amazing work on the ...

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ANTIC Interview 386 - Sherman Rosenfeld, Atari Institute for Education Action Research from 2020-06-08T00:59:15

Sherman Rosenfeld, Atari Institute for Education Action Research

Dr. Sherman Rosenfeld is an internationally-known leader in informal learning and science educati...

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ANTIC Interview 385 - Software Automatic Mouth: Mark Barton from 2020-06-01T16:00

Software Automatic Mouth: Mark Barton

Mark Barton was creator of SAM — Software Automatic Mouth. Released in 1982, SAM was the first software-only speech synthesi...

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ANTIC Interview 384 - Fandal: Atari programer and archivist from 2020-05-27T22:09:49

Fandal: Atari programer and archivist

Frantisek Houra is better known to the Atari community as Fandal. He's an Atari computer programmer and long-time archivist of...

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ANTIC Interview 383 - Gregg Squires, Atari Manager of Hardware Engineering from 2020-05-21T00:52:12

Gregg Squires, Atari Manager of Hardware Engineering

Gregg Squires was a Manager of Hardware Engineering at Atari from 1982 through 1984, working from their New Yor...

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ANTIC Interview 382 - Rik Dickinson, Encore Video Productions from 2020-05-13T02:58:39

Rik Dickinson, Encore Video Productions

Rik Dickinson is founder of Encore Video Productions, a company that rented Atari 8-bit computers to hotels for use as chara...

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ANTIC Episode 67 - Still Socially Distant from 2020-05-10T04:38:15

ANTIC Episode 67 - Still Socially Distant

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast...Randy forgets to call the artist, fo...

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ANTIC Interview 381 - Youth Advisory Board: Tracey Cullinan from 2020-05-03T19:01:17

Youth Advisory Board: Tracey Cullinan

This is the seventh in a series of episodes featuring the kids of Atari's Youth Advisory Board. In 1983, Atari formed a Youth ...

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ANTIC Interview 380 - Atari Speed Reading: Karlyn Kamm and Brad Oltrogge from 2020-04-26T03:09:38

Atari Speed Reading: Karlyn Kamm and Brad Oltrogge

The Atari Speed Reading software package was released by Atari in 1981. It was a self-paced program, for use with...

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ANTIC Interview 379 - Gabriel Baum, Atari Conversational French and Spanish from 2020-04-17T03:25:08

Gabriel Baum: Atari Conversational French and Spanish

Gabriel Baum worked at Thorn EMI, where he managed the project to create two early language learning programs ...

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ANTIC Episode 66 - Socially Distant from 2020-04-08T01:44:35

ANTIC Episode 66 - Socially Distant

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: We talk about what we’re doing Atari-wise i...

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ANTIC Episode 65 - Cats with umbrellas and dogs! from 2020-02-20T04:11:45

ANTIC Episode 65 - Cats with umbrellas and dogs!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:  Kevin’s dogs do their best to...

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ANTIC Interview 378 - Craig Hickman, Atari Photography Software and Security System from 2020-02-01T14:57:07

Craig Hickman, Atari Photography Software and Security System

Craig Hickman was featured in the June 1982 edition of Atari Connection magazine for his photography s...

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ANTIC Episode 64 - Living in the Future from 2020-01-26T16:58:19

ANTIC Episode 64 - Living in the Future

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: 
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ANTIC Interview 377 - James Hugard, Neanderthal Computer Things from 2019-12-20T08:00

James Hugard, Neanderthal Computer Things

James Hugard was co-founder of Neanderthal Computer Things, a company that created just one product. "810 Turbo" was a har...

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ANTIC Episode 63 - SillyVenture and FujiNet! from 2019-12-15T16:14:05

SillyVenture and FujiNet

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: In the tradition of bringing you the latest Atari 8-bi...

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ANTIC Interview 376 - Dennis Zander: Artworx, Hazard Run, Strip Poker from 2019-11-30T08:00

Dennis Zander: Artworx, Hazard Run, Strip Poker
 
Dennis Zander was one of the founding partners of the software publishing...

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ANTIC Interview 375 - Bruce May, Unreleased Magic Castle Game from 2019-11-24T08:00

Bruce May, Unreleased Magic Castle Game

In 1982 Bruce May created Magic Castle, a game for the Atari 800 computer. He finished the game but was unable to find a pub...

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ANTIC Interview 374 - Wolfgang Burger, President of Atari Bit Byter User Club from 2019-11-21T08:00

Wolfgang Burger, President of Atari Bit Byter User Club

Wolfgang Burger is the president and a founding member of the Atari Bit Byter User Club, the world's largest...

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ANTIC Interview 373 - Bruce Irvine, Atari VP of Software from 2019-11-14T04:59

Bruce Irvine, Atari VP of Software

Bruce Irvine was Atari's Vice President of Software — heading the company's new computer software division — from September 1980 ...

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ANTIC Episode 62 - Incognito and 40 Years of Atari 8-Bits from 2019-11-09T22:11:44

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:  Kevin hobnobs with Atari celebrities at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Brad and Randy find out they’r...

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ANTIC Special Episode — Atari 800 series computers: 40 years from 2019-10-27T04:12:32

ANTIC Special Episode — Atari 800 series computers: 40 years

This is Antic, the Atari 8-bit podcast. I'm Kevin Savetz. On Saturday, October 19, 2019 I had the privi...

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ANTIC Episode 61 - Fujiama, Ahl Collection, and Bill Lange from 2019-09-25T03:59:06

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:  Kevin comes back from Fujiama with a report and Bill Lange joins us to talk about the David Ahl Collec...

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ANTIC Interview 372 - Andrew and John Lenz: Atari Still in Use from 2019-09-02T13:27:29

Andrew and John Lenz: Atari Still in Productive Use in Store

It’s very difficult these days to find vintage computers still in productive ...

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ANTIC Episode 60 - Podificating from 2019-08-08T02:56:37

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:  We try to catch up after being on hiatus for 2 months by bringing you all the Atari news we could find and we learn a new word in the ...

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ANTIC Interview 371 - John Anderson: Rally Speedway and Arex from 2019-05-23T14:57:57

John Anderson: Rally Speedway and Arex

John Anderson worked at Adventure International, where he coded several games: Eliminator, Rear Guard, and Sea Dragon for the Apple II, then R...

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ANTIC Episode 59 - Atari Computer Roundtable 2.0 from 2019-05-19T22:20:57

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: We have a special round table episode with Nir Dary, Darren Doyle, Roland Wassenburg, Thomas Cherryhome...

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ANTIC Interview 370 - Roy Goldman, Daisy Dot from 2019-05-12T03:36:27

Roy Goldman, Daisy-Dot
 
Roy Goldman was the creator of Daisy-Dot, a typesetting program for the Atari 8-bit computers which he published from about 1987...

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ANTIC Episode 58 - Show Fever from 2019-04-13T13:13:05

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: Kevin regales us with his exploits in the 10-Line BASIC Contest, we discuss the renewed efforts to show...

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ANTIC Episode 57 - Atari Pascal from 2019-02-20T02:48:47

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: Bill Lange joins us as a special guest, and he has lots of Atari Pascal news; we have all the Atari new...

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ANTIC Interview 369 - Philip Bouchard, The Oregon Trail from 2019-02-04T04:51:19

Philip Bouchard - MECC, The Oregon Trail

Philip Bouchard spent over 30 years designing computer software, 18 of which were focused on educational software. He was the pri...

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ANTIC Episode 56 - Where's Randy!? from 2019-01-15T04:03:06

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: late-breaking up-to-the-minute Atari news, Randy disappears mid-episode, and we hear what Atari was lik...

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ANTIC Interview 368 - Stan Gilbert, Tricky Tutorials from 2019-01-12T05:57:15

Stan Gilbert, Tricky Tutorials

Hello, and welcome to an interview-only episode of Antic, The Atari 8-bit computer podcast. Stan Gilbert wo...

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ANTIC Episode 55 - Have an Atari Little Christmas Time from 2018-12-13T04:21:05

In this special Holiday episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:

Nir Dary regales us with stories about Si...

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ANTIC Episode 54 - News and More News from 2018-11-05T00:44:53

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:

What we’ve been up to in the past month PLUS all the Atar...

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ANTIC Interview 367 - George Morrison: Alpha Systems, Atari Software Protection Techniques books from 2018-10-23T07:00

George Morrison: Alpha Systems, Atari Software Protection Techniques books
 
George Morrison was founder of Alpha Systems, a company that produced many h...

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ANTIC Episode 53 - Summer Vacation and Atari Party from 2018-10-01T01:06:08

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:

Bill Lange guest-hosts with us and tells us all about the...

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ANTIC Interview 366 - Bruce Artwick: Flight Simulator II, Night Mission Pinball from 2018-09-07T07:00

Bruce Artwick: Flight Simulator II, Night Mission Pinball
 
Bruce Artwick was co-founder of SubLOGIC, and creator of the best-selling program, Flight Simulator II. FSII w...

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ANTIC Interview 365 - Jon Williams: Jet Boot Jack, Timeslip from 2018-09-03T07:00

Jon Williams: Jet Boot Jack, Timeslip
 
Jon Williams created several programs for the Atari 8-bit computers, including Jet Boot Jack, Timeslip, Atari Cas...

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ANTIC Interview 364 -Carlos Reyes: Quick Menu, Rent Wars from 2018-08-30T07:00

Carlos Reyes: Quick Menu, Rent Wars
 
Carlos Reyes wrote the game Rent Wars for the Atari 8-bit computers for First Star Software, which was never offici...

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ANTIC Interview 363 - Greg Gibbons, Automated Library II from 2018-08-26T07:00

Greg Gibbons, Automated Library II 
 
Greg Gibbons was the creator of Automated Library II, software for running school libraries, which was available fo...

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ANTIC Interview 362 - Tom Snyder, educational software from 2018-08-23T07:00

Tom Snyder, educational software
 
Tom Snyder was the founder of Computer Learning Connection, which was later renamed to Tom Snyder Productions, a compa...

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ANTIC Interview 361 - Bob Ertl, REWRITE Word Processor from 2018-08-20T07:00

Bob Ertl, REWRITE Word Processor
 
In 1987, Bob Ertl’s master's thesis was titled "Narrowing the Gap Between the Word Processing Needs of Teachers and th...

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ANTIC Interview 360 - Ed Meyer, physical chemistry experiments with Atari computers from 2018-08-17T07:00

Ed Meyer, physical chemistry experiments with Atari computers
 
In the 1990s, Ed Meyer was a professor at DePaul University in Chicago, where he taught p...

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ANTIC Interview 359 - John Harris, APX Can’t Quit from 2018-08-10T07:00

John Harris, APX Can’t Quit
 
John Harris published one program for the Atari computer: Can't Quit, a game that was published by Atari Program Exchange. ...

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ANTIC Interview 358 - David Young, Omnimon from 2018-08-07T07:00

David Young, Omnimon
 
David Young was the creator of Omnimon, the popular hardware monitor/debugger for the Atari 8-bit computers. His other products in...

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ANTIC Interview 357 - Rockie "RJ" Morgan, APX Piano Tuner from 2018-08-03T07:00

Rockie "RJ" Morgan, APX Piano Tuner
 
Rockie “RJ" Morgan published one program through Atari Program Exchange: Piano Tuner, which first appeared in the s...

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ANTIC Interview 356 - Michael McInerney, physics experiments with Atari computers from 2018-07-29T13:45:34

Michael McInerney, physics experiments with Atari computers 
 
In the 1980s, Michael McInerney was a professor in the physics department at Rose-Hulman I...

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ANTIC Interview 355 - Norm Draper, Draper Pascal from 2018-07-25T07:00

Norm Draper, Draper Pascal
 
Norm Draper was the creator of Draper Pascal, a version of the Pascal programming language for the Atari 8-bit computers. Dr...

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ANTIC Interview 354 -Brooke Alderson, Atari TV Commercials from 2018-07-20T07:00

Brooke Alderson, Atari TV Commercials
 
Brooke Alderson was an actor in the 1980s and 1990s: she appeared in several television shows including Murder, S...

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ANTIC Interview 353 - Dennis Koble: APX Avalanche, Imagic from 2018-07-17T07:00

Dennis Koble: APX Avalanche, Imagic
 
Dennis Koble was an early Atari employee, where we would become manager of the computer and consumer divisions. He ...

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ANTIC Interview 352 - Joe Hellesen: Deluxe Invaders, Pac Man, PQ: The Party Quiz Game from 2018-07-12T13:05:17

Joe Hellesen: Deluxe Invaders, Pac Man, PQ: The Party Quiz Game

Joe Hellesen programmed the Atari 8-bit versions of Deluxe Invaders (published by Roklan), and Pac...

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ANTIC Episode 52 - Atari Computer Roundtable from 2018-07-09T02:58:13

Atari Computer Roundtable

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:

We got ...

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ANTIC Interview 351 - Stephen Romejko: APX Melt-Down, Moon Marauder from 2018-07-04T07:00

Stephen Romejko: APX Melt-Down, Moon Marauder
 
Stephen Romejko published two games through Atari Program Exchange: Melt-Down and Moon Marauder. Melt-Down was first avail...

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ANTIC Interview 350 - Allan Moose, Atari Assembly Language Programmer's Guide from 2018-06-29T07:00

Allan Moose, Atari Assembly Language Programmer's Guide
 
Allan Moose was co-author of the book Atari Assembly Language Programmer's Guide, which was pub...

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ANTIC Episode 51 - 5 Year Anniversary and Windows-Only Dealy-Bob from 2018-06-24T21:55:22

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:  In this five-year anniversary episode of ANTIC, we reminisce back to show #1 all those years ago, our ...

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ANTIC Interview 349 - Larry Breakwell, Toronto Atari Programmers Society from 2018-06-14T07:00

Larry Breakwell, Toronto Atari Programmers Society

Larry Breakwell was founder of the Toronto West Atari Computer Support Group, then president of the Toronto Ata...

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ANTIC Interview 348 - Mike Sandau, Atari-CB Radio Hacking from 2018-06-08T07:00

Mike Sandau, Atari-CB Radio Hacking
 
In the mid-1980s, Mike Sandau and his friend connected their Atari 8-bit computers to their citizens band radios to...

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ANTIC Interview 347 - Charlie Kulas: Musical Pilot, UpN Down from 2018-06-04T07:00

Charlie Kulas: Musical Pilot, UpN Down
 
Charlie Kulas published Musical Pilot, an educational game, through Atari Program Exchange. Musical Pilot first ...

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ANTIC Interview 346 - Youth Advisory Board: Yoon Park from 2018-05-31T07:00

Youth Advisory Board: Yoon Park
 
This is the sixth in a series of episodes featuring interviews with the kids of Atari's Youth Advisory Board. This time...

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ANTIC Interview 345 - Youth Advisory Board: Musa Mustafa from 2018-05-29T07:00

Youth Advisory Board: Musa Mustafa
 
This is the fifth in a series of episodes featuring interviews with the kids of Atari's Youth Advisory Board. If you...

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ANTIC Interview 344 - Youth Advisory Board: Robert Allbritton from 2018-05-26T07:00

Youth Advisory Board: Robert Allbritton
 
This is the fourth episode in a series of interviews with the kids of Atari's Youth Advisory Board. Robert Allb...

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ANTIC Interview 343 - Youth Advisory Board: John Dickerson from 2018-05-23T07:00

Youth Advisory Board: John Dickerson
 
This is the third episode in a series of interviews with the kids of Atari's Youth Advisory Board. A quick recap: ...

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ANTIC Interview 342 - Youth Advisory Board: Anneke Wyman from 2018-05-20T07:00

Youth Advisory Board: Anneke Wyman
 
This is the second episode in a series of interviews with the kids of Atari's Youth Advisory Board. 
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ANTIC Interview 341 - Youth Advisory Board: Kerrie Holton and Tina Bartschat from 2018-05-17T07:00

Youth Advisory Board: Kerrie Holton and Tina Bartschat
 
This is the first in a series of episodes featuring interviews with the kids of Atari's Youth Ad...

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ANTIC Interview 340 - Hal Segal, Association of Time-Sharing Users from 2018-05-14T07:00

Hal Segal, Association of Time-Sharing Users
 
Hal Segal was founder and president of the Association of Time-Sharing Users, and the Association of Small...

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ANTIC Interview 339 - Steve Englehart, Atari Advanced Games Group from 2018-05-11T07:00

Steve Englehart, Atari Advanced Games Group
 
Steve Englehart worked in the Advanced Games Group of Atari, where he developed ideas for new computer game...

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ANTIC Interview 338 - Jack Smyth, The Learning Company and Add-On Software from 2018-05-07T07:00

Jack Smyth, The Learning Company and Add-On Software
 
Jack Smyth was the first CEO of The Learning Company, the educational software publisher best know...

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ANTIC Interview 337 - Bryan Talbot, APX Cartoonist from 2018-04-30T07:00

Bryan Talbot, APX Cartoonist
 
Bryan Talbot published one program for the Atari computer: Cartoonist, which was published by Atari Program Exchange. It f...

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ANTIC Interview 336 - Dwight Johnson, Lake County Atari Computer Enthusiasts from 2018-04-28T07:00

Dwight Johnson, Lake County Atari Computer Enthusiasts
 
Dwight Johnson was founder of Lake County Atari Computer Enthusiasts, a users group based in Wau...

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ANTIC Interview 335 - Colin Hume, Computer War from 2018-04-25T07:00

Colin Hume, Computer War
 
Colin Hume worked at Thorn EMI for about a year, where he programmed one game for the Atari 8-bit computers: Computer War. Com...

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ANTIC Interview 334 - Matthew McGinley, Elite Personal Accountant from 2018-04-22T07:00

Matthew McGinley, Elite Personal Accountant
 
Matthew McGinley was the creator and publisher of Elite Personal Accountant, financial management software ...

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ANTIC Interview 333 - Cynde Moya, Collections Manager at Living Computers: Museum + Labs from 2018-04-19T03:22:47

Cynde Moya, Collections Manager at Living Computers: Museum + Labs
 
Cynde Moya is Collections Manager at Living Computers: Museum + Labs. Located in Sea...

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ANTIC Interview 332 - Mike Matthews, Alien Group Voice Box from 2018-04-16T07:00

Mike Matthews, Alien Group Voice Box
 
That voice you just heard in an Alien Group Voice Box II connected to an Atari 800.
 
Voice ...

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ANTIC Interview 331 - Winchell Chung, Avalon Hill games from 2018-04-11T07:00

Winchell Chung, Avalon Hill games
 
Winchell Chung worked at Avalon Hill computer games, where he was the Atari 8-bit computer programmer. He worked on N...

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ANTIC Special Episode Bits and Bytes from 2018-04-07T04:37:21

This is ANTIC, the Atari 8-bit podcast. I’m Kevin Savetz.
 
I love old computers. If you’ve been listening to this podcast for a while, you knew that already. I also love...

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ANTIC Episode 50 - 50 and Counting! from 2018-03-22T02:15:36

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:  In our 50th episode, Kevin tells us about all his secret tours, we tell you about upcoming contests, r...

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ANTIC Interview 330 - William "Ted" Farmer, Eastern Front (1941) Scenarios from 2018-03-06T08:00

William "Ted" Farmer, Eastern Front (1941) Scenarios
 
Ted Farmer created one product for the Atari 8-bit computers, with an unwieldy name: “Eastern Fron...

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ANTIC Interview 329 -Douglas Wilder, Ultimate Renumber Utility from 2018-03-03T08:00

Douglas Wilder, Ultimate Renumber Utility
 
Douglas Wilder published one program though Atari Program Exchange, Ultimate Renumber Utility, which he co-wr...

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ANTIC Interview 328 - Jerry Horanoff, Carina BBS Software from 2018-02-15T03:01:19

Jerry Horanoff, Carina BBS Software
 
Jerry Horanoff was the creator of the Carina bulletin board system software for the Atari 8-bit computers, and late...

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ANTIC Episode 49 - Thomas Cherryhomes and PLATO from 2018-02-10T02:11:31

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:  In this first episode of 2018, we talk about the fact that ANTIC has been downloaded over ½ million ti...

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ANTIC Interview 327 - Rawson Stovall, The Vid Kid newspaper column from 2018-02-02T08:00

Rawson Stovall, The Vid Kid newspaper column
 
As you no doubt gleaned from the clips of his appearances on CBS Morning News and The Tonight Show, Rawson...

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ANTIC Interview 326 - Chris James, Thorn EMI from 2018-01-29T08:00

Chris James, Thorn EMI
 
Chris James worked at Thorn EMI, where he was a programmer and later a project manager. Later he founded James Software, which specialized in gam...

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ANTIC Interview 325 - Hanan Samara: Jumbo Jet Pilot and Jinn Genie from 2018-01-26T08:00

Hanan Samara: Jumbo Jet Pilot and Jinn Genie
 
Hanan Samara was a programmer at Thorn EMI, where her work included programming the game Jumbo Jet Pilot. ...

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ANTIC Interview 324 - Geoffrey Card, kid game reviewer from 2018-01-23T08:00

Geoffrey Card, kid game reviewer
 
In my interview with Orson Scott Card, he mentioned that his son, Geoffrey, helped him review Atari games — thoroughly...

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ANTIC Interview 323 - Orson Scott Card, Compute! Books from 2018-01-18T08:00

Orson Scott Card, Compute! Books
 
Orson Scott Card is a Hugo Award winning, best-selling science fiction author, perhaps best known for his 1985 novel, ...

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ANTIC Interview 322 - Maurice Molyneaux, Atari animation guru from 2018-01-07T08:00

Maurice Molyneaux, Atari animation guru
 
Maurice Molyneaux was a game artist, Atari graphics animator, and writer. He wrote articles for Video Games & C...

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ANTIC Episode 48 - Happy New Year! from 2018-01-01T00:15:23

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:  In this 2017 year-end episode, we get a surprise visit from our international correspondent, Nir Dary,...

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ANTIC Interview 321 - Databar OSCAR from 2017-12-16T08:00

Databar OSCAR
 
This is a story about the rise and fall of a compter peripheral and the company behind it. The company was Databar, and the product was c...

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ANTIC Interview 320 - Robert Jaeger, Montezuma's Revenge from 2017-12-13T08:00

Robert Jaeger, Montezuma's Revenge
 
Robert Jaeger is best known in the Atari community as the programmer of the popular game Montezuma's Revenge, which ...

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ANTIC Interview 319 - Tay Vaughan, Atari Connection and Antic magazines from 2017-12-10T08:00

Tay Vaughan, Atari Connection and Antic magazines
 
Tay Vaughan used Atari computers in his school for maritime skills and as a marine surveyor. He was f...

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ANTIC Interview 318 - Linda Schreiber: T.H.E.S.I.S. Software and author from 2017-12-07T08:00

Linda Schreiber: T.H.E.S.I.S. Software and author
 
Linda Watson-Call is better known to Atari users as Linda Schreiber, which was her name at that time....

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ANTIC Interview 317 - Richard Taylor, Digital Devices Corporation from 2017-12-04T08:00

Richard Taylor, Digital Devices Corporation
 
Richard Taylor was an employee of Digital Devices Corporation. DDC built a number of adapters for the Atari...

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ANTIC Interview 316B - Dave Comstock, part 2 from 2017-12-01T08:00

Dave Comstock, part 2
 
A couple of days after our interview, Dave Comstock (who worked at Atari on E.T. Phone Home, Superman III, and Clock & Dagger) e-...

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ANTIC Interview 316 - Dave Comstock: E.T. Phone Home!, Superman III, Cloak&Dagger from 2017-11-30T08:00

Dave Comstock: E.T. Phone Home!, Superman III, Cloak & Dagger
 
Dave Comstock worked at Atari from 1980 through 1984, first as a software and hardware te...

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ANTIC Interview 315 - Sarah Haskell, Computerized Weaving from 2017-11-27T08:00

Sarah Haskell, Computerized Weaving
 
There's a column in the November 1983 issue of Family Computing magazine, by Jon Zonderman: "Home Business — Comput...

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ANTIC Interview 314 - Randall Lockwood, Choose-A-Pooch from 2017-11-24T08:00

Randall Lockwood, Choose-A-Pooch
 
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ANTIC Interview 313 - Frank Schwartz and Richard Lewis, Virtusonics from 2017-11-21T08:00

Frank Schwartz and Richard Lewis, Virtusonics
 
Last last year, I received a batch of Atari disks. One of the disks was labeled Virtuoso Play Mode Sample...

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ANTIC Interview 312 - Paul Wehner, APX Saratoga from 2017-11-18T08:00

Paul Wehner, APX Saratoga
 
Paul Wehner created one program for the Atari 8-bit computer, Saratoga, which was published by Atari Program Exchange. The Am...

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ANTIC Interview 311 - Alan Reeve, Reeve Software from 2017-11-15T08:00

Alan Reeve, Reeve Software
 
Alan Reeve is the founder of Reeve Software, a company that stated in 1984, creating software for the Atari 8-bit computers....

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ANTIC Episode 47 - Artificially Intelligent? from 2017-11-12T02:06:26

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:  The artificial intelligence that acts as the hosts of the show laments the lack of Atari goodness this...

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ANTIC Interview 310 - Guy Ferrante, S&S Wholesalers and Star BBS from 2017-11-09T08:00

Guy Ferrante, S&S Wholesalers and Star BBS
 
Guy Ferrante worked for S&S Wholesalers, a Miami Florida-based computer mail order company, where he was in ...

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ANTIC Interview 309 - Ben Heck, Internet celebrity and console modder from 2017-10-22T07:00

Ben Heck - Internet Celebrity and Console Modder

Benjamin J. Heckendorn (aka Ben Heck) is an American console modder and Internet celebrit...

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ANTIC Interview 308 - Jim Schuyler, Founder of DesignWare from 2017-10-15T07:00

Jim Schuyler, Founder of DesignWare
 
Jim Schuyler was Founder of DesignWare. Founded in 1980, Designware created educational software that was published...

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ANTIC Interview 307 - Dan Pinal: Alternate Reality - The Dungeon, Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design from 2017-10-12T07:00

Dan Pinal: Alternate Reality - The Dungeon, Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design
 
Dan Pinal contributed to the book Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Desi...

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ANTIC Episode 46 - Tinkle and Poo from 2017-10-01T19:22:33

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:  Victor Marland of the Ten Pence Arcade Podcast joins us over Kevin’s pancake breakfast, Bill Kendrick ...

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ANTIC Interview 306 - Dan Reinhart, Yahtman from 2017-09-28T07:00

Dan Reinhart, Yahtman
 
Dan Reinhart published one program for the Atari 8-bit computers: Yahtman, a Yahtzee-style game that was published by Atari Progr...

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ANTIC Interview 305 - David Seuss, co-founder of Spinnaker Software from 2017-09-23T07:00

David Seuss, co-founder of Spinnaker Software
 
This interview is with David Seuss, co-founder of Spinnaker Software. Spinnaker was one of the first comp...

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ANTIC Interview 304 - Hal Glicksman, Datamost from 2017-09-20T07:00

Hal Glicksman, Datamost
 
Hal Glicksman was head of the book division at Datamost.
 
In two years from 1982 to 1984, Datamost was o...

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ANTIC Interview 303 - Lee Konowe, American Software Club from 2017-09-17T07:00

Lee Konowe, American Software Club
 
Lee Konowe was founder of American Software Club, a mail-order software company. American Software Club sold s...

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ANTIC Interview 302 - Patricia Mitchell, Thorn EMI from 2017-09-14T07:00

Patricia Mitchell, Thorn EMI
 
Patricia Mitchell started at Thorn EMI in 1981.  She worked in the home computer software division, evaluating software th...

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ANTIC Interview 301 - James Burton, APX Drawit from 2017-09-11T07:00

James Burton, APX Drawit
 
James Burton published one program for the Atari 8-bit computers: Drawit, a graphics utility that was published by Atari Progr...

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ANTIC Interview 300 - Lance Leventhal, Author of Assembly Language Books from 2017-09-04T07:00

Lance Leventhal, Author of Assembly Language Books
 
Lance Leventhal wrote 25 computer books, spanning 1978 through 1992. His books include  6502 Assembl...

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ANTIC Episode 45 - Open Atari from 2017-08-31T23:39:47

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: Mike Maginnis of the Open Apple and Drop III Inches podcasts joins the Antic crew and starts a computer...

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ANTIC Interview 299 - John Skruch, Atarisoft from 2017-08-28T07:00

John Skruch, Atarisoft
 
John Skruch worked at Atari from 1982, under Warner Communications, all through the Tramiel era, until 1998 when the company was...

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ANTIC Interview 298 - Tom Hunt, Closer to Home BBS from 2017-08-13T07:00

Tom Hunt, Closer to Home BBS
 
Tom Hunt ran an Atari BBS called Closer to Home for 28 years. He also created a variety of utilities for the Atari 8-bit c...

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ANTIC Interview 297 - Robert Anschuetz, Eric Anschuetz, John Weisgberber, Antic magazine games from 2017-08-09T07:00

Robert Anschuetz, Eric Anschuetz, John Weisgberber, Antic magazine games
 
Robert Anschuetz, Eric Anschuetz, and John Weisgberber are childhood friends w...

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ANTIC Interview 296 - Stan Osborne, Atari Design Research from 2017-08-06T07:00

Stan Osborne, Atari Design Research
 
Stan Osborne was a freelance software engineer in Atari's Design Research department from 1981 through 1984. He als...

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ANTIC Interview 295 - Harry Stewart, Pilot and WSFN from 2017-08-02T07:00

Harry Stewart, Pilot and WSFN
 
Harry Stewart was a contractor for Atari from August 1978 through October 1983. He contributed to the operating system de...

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ANTIC Interview 294 - Carol Shaw, Atari and Activision from 2017-07-30T07:00

Carol Shaw, Atari and Activision
 
Carol Shaw was a software engineer at Atari from August 1978 though 1980. She programmed for the Atari 2600 and Atari ...

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ANTIC Episode 44 - Hackin' The Atari from 2017-07-24T04:10:53

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: Kevin hacks the heck out of the Atari 8-bits, we’re back on the interview bandwagon, Josh Renaud tells ...

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ANTIC Interview 293 - Merl Miller, dilithium Press from 2017-07-11T07:00

Merl Miller, dilithium Press
 
Merl Miller was co-founder of dilithium Press, a publisher of computer books that was in business from 1977 through 1986. ...

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ANTIC Interview 292 - Claus Buchholz&Lance Ward, ACE-80 from 2017-07-08T07:00

Claus Buchholz and Lance Ward, ACE-80

Hello.  Welcome to an interview-only episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast.  I am Randy ...

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ANTIC Interview 291 - Robert Veline, Astro Pyrotechnics from 2017-07-04T07:00

Robert Veline, Astro Pyrotechnics

 
The July/August 1987 issue of ST-Log magazine has an article by Matthew Stern called "Listen
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ANTIC Interview 290 - Gary Koffler, VP at Datasoft and Datamost from 2017-07-01T18:23:03

Gary Koffler, VP at Datasoft and Datamost
 
Gary Koffler was VP at two publishers: Datasoft and Datamost. He was VP Software at Datasoft in 1980–1981. Da...

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ANTIC Interview 289 - Dan Hale, EasyGrader from 2017-06-25T07:00

Dan Hale, EasyGrader
 
Dan Hale published one program for the Atari 8-bit computers: EasyGrader, which first appeared in the fall 1982 APX catalog.  Listen
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ANTIC Interview 288 - David Thornburg, Koalapad inventor from 2017-06-22T07:00

David Thornburg, Koalapad inventor
 
David Thornburg invented the KoalaPad, a touch tablet that was available for the Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64...

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ANTIC Interview 287 - George White, Founder of Koala Technologies from 2017-06-19T07:00

George White, Founder of Koala Technologies
 
George White was the founder of Koala Technologies, the company that made the KoalaPad. KoalaPad was a touc...

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ANTIC Interview 286 - William Leslie, OmniTrend Universe from 2017-06-16T07:00

William Leslie - OmniTrend Universe

William Bill Leslie was one of the authors of Omnitrend's Universe; a science fiction space trading an...

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ANTIC Interview 285 - Jay Balakrishnan, HESWare from 2017-06-13T02:00

Jay Balakrishnan, HESWare

Welcome to an interview-only episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast.  My name is Randy Kindig.  Jay B...

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ANTIC Interview 284 - Art Walsh, Dynacomp and Artworx from 2017-06-10T07:00

Art Walsh, Dynacomp and Artworx
 
Art Walsh was co-founder of Dynacomp, an early software publisher that created software for many platforms, including m...

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ANTIC Interview 283 - Kathleen Pitta, De Re Atari from 2017-06-07T07:00

Kathleen Pitta, De Re Atari
 
Kathleen Marinell worked at Atari in 1981 or so -- she was Kathleen Pitta at that time. She is one of the contributors to D...

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ANTIC Interview 282 - Matthew Householder, Atari and EPYX from 2017-06-04T07:00

Matthew Householder, Atari and EPYX
 
Matthew Householder worked at Atari from 1983 through 1985. There he ported Moon Patrol to the ColecoVision for Ata...

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ANTIC Interview 281 - Amy Chen: Touch Typing, Amoeba Debugger, De Re Atari from 2017-05-31T07:00

Amy Chen: Touch Typing, Amoeba Debugger, De Re Atari
 
Amy Liu was an progammer at Atari. Her name was Amy Chen at the time. She wrote Touch Typing, whic...

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ANTIC Episode 43 - Corporate Wars from 2017-05-28T04:15:06

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast, Randy and Kevin spar over where the ANTIC corporate headquarters should be, Kevin steps out on the Atar...

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ANTIC Interview 280 - David and Betsy Ahl, Creative Computing Magazine from 2017-05-24T07:00

David Ahl and Betsy Ahl, Creative Computing Magazine
 
Dave Ahl was the founder and editor-in-chief of Creating Computing Magazine, which was the first p...

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ANTIC Interview 279 - Tom Eckmann, Kyan Software from 2017-05-21T12:42:35

Tom Eckmann, President of Kyan Software
 
Tom Eckmann was president and co-founder of Kyan Software. Kyan's flagship product was Kyan Pascal, an implemen...

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ANTIC Interview 278 - Bill Bowman, CEO of Spinnaker Software from 2017-05-17T07:00

Bill Bowman, CEO of Spinnaker Software
 
Bill Bowman was co-founder and CEO of Spinnaker Software, one of the first software companies that focused exclu...

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ANTIC Episode 42 - No, MAM! from 2017-05-09T03:30

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast, Kevin wows us with his winners in the NOMAM BASIC 10-liners contest, we discuss the preparations for VC...

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ANTIC Interview 277 - Rob Zdybel, Atari, Part 2 from 2017-04-19T07:00

Rob Zdybel, Atari (Part 2)

Hello, Atari fans, and welcome to another interview episode of Antic, The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast.  My nam...

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ANTIC Interview 276 - Chris Byrne, Intern at Atari Ireland from 2017-04-02T07:00

Chris Byrne, Intern at Atari Ireland
 
Chris Byrne was an intern at Atari Ireland in 1982, where he programmed a quality lot tracking system on the Atari...

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ANTIC Episode 41 - Atawi Fowever! from 2017-03-28T02:00

Atawi Fowever!!!

In this episode of Antic the Atari 8-bit podcast: Nir Dary talks about the Atari Invasion Show, Tom Raida brings back the...

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ANTIC Interview 275 - Peter Shankman from 2017-03-25T07:00

Peter Shankman, Help A Reporter Out

Peter Shankman is a well-known American entrepreneur and author. He was...

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ANTIC Interview 274 - Nadav Caine, Mathematic-Tac-Toe from 2017-03-21T07:00

Nadav Caine, Mathematic-Tac-Toe

Nadav Caine published one program for the Atari computer: Mathematic-Tac-To...

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ANTIC Interview 273 - Bob Woolley, Atari 1200XL hardware hacker from 2017-03-17T07:00

Bob Woolley, Atari 1200XL hardware hacker

Bob Woolley has been upgrading and modifying Atari 8-bit computer...

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ANTIC Interview 272 - Joe Grande, Monkey Up A Tree from 2017-03-15T03:00

Joe Grande, Monkey Up A Tree

Joe Grande published one program for the Atari computers: Monkey Up A Tree was...

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ANTIC Interview 271 - David Lubar, game developer from 2017-03-05T17:00

David Lubar, Game Developer (PastFinder)

Welcome to another interview episode of Antic the Atari 8-bit computer podcast.

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ANTIC Episode 40 - BBSing from 2017-02-25T17:00

In this episode of Antic the Atari 8-bit podcast: Bill Kendrick returns with a segment on the Lantronix and BBSing on your Atari, we cover lots of new hardware up...

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ANTIC Interview 270 - Ed Kelly, Edladdin Controllers from 2017-02-05T08:00

Ed Kelly, Edladdin

Hello, welcome to a special interview-only episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit podcast.  My name is Randy Kindig.  This i...

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ANTIC Interview 269 - Mark Odendahl, Rush Hour from 2017-01-25T08:00

Mark Odendahl, Rush Hour

Mark Odendahl was the creator of Rush Hour, a Frogger-like game that appeared in t...

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ANTIC Episode 39 - I Need More Memory! from 2017-01-23T08:00

In this episode of Antic the Atari 8-bit podcast: Nir Dary talks about all the available memory upgrade options (You need more memory!), we discuss what we’ve bee...

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ANTIC Interview 268 - Steve Gerber, VP of International New Product Development from 2017-01-22T08:00

Steve Gerber, VP of International New Product Development

Steve Gerber was head of the Atari Software Acqui...

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ANTIC Interview 267 - Mark Pelczarski, Penguin Software from 2017-01-20T08:00

Mark Pelczarski, Penguin Software

Mark Pelczarski was the founder of Penguin Software — later renamed to Po...

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ANTIC Interview 266 - Sheldon Leemon: Instedit, Circuit Lab, Mapping the Commodore 64 from 2017-01-18T08:00

Sheldon Leemon: Instedit, Circuit Lab, Mapping the Commodore 64

Sheldon Leemon was the creator of Instedit,...

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ANTIC Interview 265 - Ronald Borta, Roklan Software from 2017-01-16T08:00

Ronald Borta, Roklan Software

Ronald Borta was co-founder of JACC, which made educational software under co...

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ANTIC Interview 264 - Paul Cubbage, Atari Program Exchange from 2017-01-14T08:00

Paul Cubbage, Atari Program Exchange

Paul Cubbage was Director of Atari Program Exchange. There, he was hea...

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ANTIC Interview 263 - Bill Stealey, co-founder of MicroProse Software from 2017-01-10T08:00

Bill Stealey, co-founder of MicroProse Software

Bill Stealey was co-founder of MicroProse Software, with Si...

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ANTIC Interview 262 - Dan Corona, Atari Engineering Manager from 2017-01-08T08:00

Dan Corona, Atari Engineering Manager

Dan Corona was Atari employee #9 — staring in 1972, where he remained...

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ANTIC Interview 261 - Steve Ahlstrom: SynFile+ and PaperClip from 2017-01-06T08:00

Steve Ahlstrom: SynFile+ and PaperClip

Steve Ahlstrom was half of The 4th Works, with Dan Moore. Together t...

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ANTIC Interview 260 - Ben Smith, Atari sales and service from 2017-01-02T19:20

Ben Smith, Atari sales and service

This interview is part of the set of interviews we’ve done where we talk to many of the people still ou...

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ANTIC Interview 259 - Wynn Smith, Mosaic Electronics from 2016-12-28T08:00

Wynn Smith, Mosaic Electronics

Wynn Smith was co-founder of Mosaic Electronics, a company that produced mem...

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ANTIC Episode 38 - Christmas 2016 Buying Guide from 2016-12-20T08:00

In this episode of Antic the Atari 8-bit podcast...

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ANTIC Interview 258 - Bruce Frumker: APX Memory Match, Cleveland Museum of Natural History from 2016-12-02T08:00

Bruce Frumker: APX Memory Match, Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Bruce Frumker is author of Memory Matc...

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ANTIC Interview 257 - Steve Panak, Game Reviewer from 2016-11-29T08:00

Steve Panak, Game Reviewer

Steve Panak was a prolific writer of Atari computer game reviews. He wrote the P...

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ANTIC Interview 256 - Bev and Bryan Wilkinson, Optimized Systems Software from 2016-11-26T08:00

Bev and Bryan Wilkinson, Optimized Systems Software

Bev and Bryan Wilkinson were part of Optimized Systems ...

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ANTIC Interview 255 - Dale Lemke, Compu-Cable Systems from 2016-11-23T08:00

Dale Lemke, Compu-Cable Systems

Dale Lemke is founder of Compu-Cable Systems, a company that created the Sp...

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ANTIC Interview 254 - Paul Berker: Adventure in Time and Birth of the Phoenix from 2016-11-19T08:00

Paul Berker: Adventure in Time and Birth of the Phoenix

Paul Berker was a programmer for Phoenix Software, ...

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ANTIC Interview 253 - Charles Clinton, Atarilab from 2016-11-12T08:00

Charles Clinton

Charles Clinton was a contractor who worked on AtariLab, which was developed at Swarthmore ...

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ANTIC Interview 252 - Paula Polley, Copywriter from 2016-11-10T08:00

Paula Polley, Copywriter

Paula Polley started at Atari in 1982, where she worked as a copywriter. She wrote...

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ANTIC Interview 251 - Carl Moser and JR Hall, Eastern House Software from 2016-11-08T08:00

Carl Moser and JR Hall, Eastern House Software

Carl Moser and JR Hall were founders of Eastern House Softwa...

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ANTIC Interview 250 - Rodnay Zaks, Founder of Sybex Books from 2016-11-03T07:00

Rodnay Zaks, Founder of Sybex Books

Rodnay Zaks was the founder of computer book publisher Sybex Books, and...

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ANTIC Interview 249 - Thom Graziano, CompuClub from 2016-10-31T07:00

Thom Graziano, CompuClub 

Thom Graziano was founder of CompuClub, an Atari mail-order company and retail st...

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ANTIC Interview 248 - Kris Meier, CompuTalk BBS sysop from 2016-10-29T07:00

Kris Meier, CompuTalk BBS sysop

Kris Meier was sysop of CompuTalk BBS, a popular six-line BBS based in Texa...

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ANTIC Interview 247 - Brian Lee, Synapse and Broderbund from 2016-10-26T07:00

Brian Lee, Synapse and Broderbund

Brian Lee started at clothing retailer The Gap, where he used Atari compu...

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ANTIC Interview 246 - Harry McCracken, Technology Journalist from 2016-10-24T07:00

Harry McCracken, Technology Journalist

Harry McCracken is a technology journalist — he's technology editor ...

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ANTIC Interview 245 - Bruce Campbell, APX Character Fun from 2016-10-22T07:00

Bruce Campbell, APX Character Fun

Bruce Campbell is the author of Character Fun, an educational game which ...

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ANTIC Interview 244 - Ed Stewart and Ray Lyons, APX Letterman from 2016-10-20T07:00

Ed Stewart and Ray Lyons, APX Letterman

Ed Stewart and Ray Lyons co-wrote Letterman, an educational word ga...

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ANTIC Interview 243 - Russ Walter, Secret Guide to Computers from 2016-10-18T07:00

Russ Walter, Secret Guide to Computers

Russ Walter is the author of Secret Guide to Computers & Tricky Livi...

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ANTIC Episode 36 - Do Not Listen While Climbing a Ladder from 2016-10-16T05:00

In this episode of Antic the Atari 8-bit podcast, we visit vintage computer festivals and upgrade our systems. We fail to spend thousands of dollars on rare new h...

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ANTIC Interview 242 - Monty Webb, APX Seven Card Stud from 2016-10-13T07:00

Monty Webb, APX Seven Card Stud

Monty Webb published one program through Atari Program Exchange: Seven Card...

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ANTIC Interview 241 - Elizabeth MacRae, APX Mankala from 2016-10-10T07:00

Elizabeth MacRae, APX Mankala

Elizabeth MacRae published one program for the Atari 8-bit computers: Mankala...

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ANTIC Interview 240 -Douglas Crockford: Galahad And The Holy Grail, Burgers! from 2016-10-06T07:00

Douglas Crockford: Galahad And The Holy Grail, Burgers!

Douglas Crockford worked in Atari's Game Research G...

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ANTIC Interview 239 - Dewitt Robbeloth, AKA Robert Dewitt, Editor of Antic magazine from 2016-10-04T07:00

Dewitt Robbeloth, AKA Robert Dewitt, Editor of Antic magazine

Dewitt Robbeloth, who went by the pen name Ro...

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ANTIC Interview 238 - Bob Smith: Video Pinball; Imagic co-founder; Sleazy Adventure from 2016-10-02T07:00

Bob Smith: Video Pinball; Imagic co-founder; Sleazy Adventure

Bob Smith worked at Atari, where he created V...

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ANTIC Interview 237 - Bob Graves, Gridiron Glory from 2016-09-30T07:00

Bob Graves, Gridiron Glory

Bob Graves co-wrote Gridiron Glory, a football game which was published by Atari...

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ANTIC Interview 236 - Dan Rohr, Three R Math software from 2016-09-28T07:00

Dan Rohr, Three R Math software

Dan Rohr was the author of three educational programs which were published ...

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ANTIC Interview 235 - Marlin Bates, R-Time 8 Replacement Cartridge from 2016-09-26T07:00

Marlin Bates, R-Time 8 Replacement Cartridge

In 1986, ICD released the R-Time 8, a real-time clock cartridg...

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ANTIC Interview 234 - Steve Robinson: Diggerbonk and Bean Machine from 2016-09-22T07:00

Steve Robinson: Diggerbonk and Bean Machine

Steve Robinson is the author of two games that were published b...

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ANTIC Interview 233 - Alison Woods, Atari Graphic Designer from 2016-09-20T07:00

Alison Woods, Atari Graphic Designer

Alison Woods was a graphic designer at Atari from 1982 to 1984. She de...

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ANTIC Interview 232 - Mitchell Waite, computer book author and publisher from 2016-09-18T07:00

Mitchell Waite, computer book author and publisher

Mitchell Waite is a prolific computer book author and pu...

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ANTIC Interview 231 - David Duberman, Antic magazine editor from 2016-09-16T07:00

David Duberman, Antic magazine editor

David Duberman was an editor at Antic magazine (one of the two major ...

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ANTIC Interview 230 - Michael Boucher, MECC from 2016-09-14T07:00

 

Michael Boucher, MECC

Michael Boucher was a programmer at MECC — Minnesota Educational ...

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ANTIC Interview 229 - Hung Pham, APX Game Show from 2016-09-12T07:00

Hung Pham, APX Game Show

Hung Pham wrote one program for Atari Program Exchange: Game Show, a game based on...

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ANTIC Interview 228 - Steve Stone, POKEY and ANTIC layout design from 2016-09-12T03:11:19

Steve Stone, POKEY and ANTIC layout design

Steve Stone worked at Atari from 1977 through 1980, where he was...

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ANTIC Interview 227 - Gary Furr, AtariWriter Product Manager, Printer Drivers from 2016-09-08T07:00

Gary Furr, AtariWriter Product Manager, Printer Drivers

Gary Furr was Product Manager for productivity soft...

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ANTIC Interview 226 - Bob Frankston, co-developer of Visicalc from 2016-09-05T07:00

Bob Frankston, co-developer of Visicalc

Bob Frankston was co-developer of Visicalc, with Dan Bricklin, and ...

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ANTIC Interview 225 - Brian Johnston: Manager, Atari Home Computer System Software Group from 2016-09-03T07:00

Brian Johnston: Manager, Atari Home Computer System Software Group

Brian Johnston was Manager of Atari's Ho...

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ANTIC Interview 224 - Bard Ermentrout, RAMbrandt from 2016-09-01T07:00

Bard Ermentrout, RAMbrandt

Bard Ermentrout was the creator of the popular Atari graphics program RAMbrandt....

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ANTIC Episode 35 - Atari Parties from 2016-08-30T07:00

In this episode of Antic the Atari 8-bit podcast, we reminisce about Atari Party and KansasFest, we bemoan the fate of the Atari 1200XL, and talk about Nir Dary’s...

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ANTIC Interview 223 - Gigi Bisson, Antic Magazine from 2016-08-28T07:00

Gigi Bisson, Antic Magazine

Gigi Bisson was an editor at Antic Magazine, one of the two major U.S. magazine...

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ANTIC Interview 222 - Richard Watts, Macrotronics from 2016-08-26T07:00

Richard Watts, Macrotronics

Richard Watts was a programmer at Macrotronics, a company that was primarily fo...

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ANTIC Interview 221 - Gregg Pearlman, ANTIC and STart Magazine from 2016-08-24T07:00

Gregg Pearlman, ANTIC and STart Magazine

Gregg Pearlman was an editor at Antic Magazine and STart Magazine ...

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ANTIC Interview 220 - Scott Scheiman, 850 Interface, Telelink I from 2016-08-22T07:00

Scott Scheiman: SIO, 850 interface, Telelink I

Scott Scheiman worked at Atari for about seven years, where ...

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ANTIC Interview 219 - Kathy Forte, Atari's early applications group from 2016-08-20T07:00

Kathy Forte, Atari's early applications group

Kathy Forte worked at Atari in the applications group for abo...

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ANTIC Interview 218 - Lee Actor, Advanced Musicsystem from 2016-08-18T07:00

Lee Actor, Advanced Musicsystem

Lee Actor created Advanced Musicsystem, which was published by Atari Progra...

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ANTIC Interview 217 - Stacy Goff, Founder of Atari Computer Enthusiasts from 2016-08-16T07:00

Stacy Goff, Founder of Atari Computer Enthusiasts

Stacy Goff was founder of ACE, the Atari Computer Enthusi...

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ANTIC Interview 216 - David Troy, Toad Computers (Atari Dealer) from 2016-08-14T07:00

David Troy, Toad Computers

In this episode, I sit down with a long-time Atari dealer back in the 80’s and 90’s, Mr. David Troy.

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ANTIC Interview 215 - Bill Lapham, Atari Continuation Engineering from 2016-08-12T07:00

Bill Lapham, Atari Continuation Engineering

Bill Lapham was Manager of Continuation Engineering in Atari's ...

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ANTIC Interview 214 - Ron Hartman, K-Byte Software from 2016-08-10T07:00

Ron Hartman, K-Byte Software

Ron Hartman was systems coordinator at K-Byte Software, a company that produce...

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ANTIC Interview 213 - Mitch Balsam: NY Atari Research Lab from 2016-08-08T07:00

Mitch Balsam: NY Atari Research Lab

Mitch Balsam was hired at Atari to work as a game programmer for the At...

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ANTIC Interview 212 - Wes Newell, Newell Industries from 2016-08-06T07:00

Wes Newell, Newell Industries

Wes Newell was founder of Newell Industries, a company that produced a number...

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ANTIC Interview 211 - John Reese, Tronix CEO from 2016-08-04T07:00

John Reese, Tronix CEO

John Reese was the founder and CEO of Tronix, the software company that produced two...

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ANTIC Interview 210 - Gregor Novak, Math*UFO and Ringmaster from 2016-08-02T07:00

Gregor Novak, Math*UFO and Ringmaster

Gregor Novak is the author of two educational games which were publis...

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ANTIC Interview 209 - Volker Multhopp, DSEMBLER from 2016-07-31T07:00

Volker Multhopp, DSEMBLER

Volker Multhopp wrote DSEMBLER, which was sold by Atari Program Exchange and was ...

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ANTIC Interview 208 - Duane Bolster, Midas Touch and Advanced Fingerspelling from 2016-07-29T07:00

Duane Bolster, Midas Touch and Advanced Fingerspelling

Duane Bolster published two programs with Atari Prog...

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ANTIC Interview 207 - Tom Halfhill, Compute! Magazine from 2016-07-27T07:00

Tom Halfhill, Compute! Magazine

Tom R. Halfhill was features editor of Compute! Magazine, and was later lau...

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ANTIC Interview 206 - Richard Mansfield: Compute! Magazine, 6502 Machine Language Books from 2016-07-25T07:00

Richard Mansfield: Compute! Magazine, 6502 Machine Language Books

Richard Mansfield is author of the best-s...

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ANTIC Interview 205 - Richard Wiitala, Number Blast from 2016-07-23T07:00

 

Richard Wiitala, Number Blast

Richard Wiitala was the author of Number Blast, an arithm...

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ANTIC Interview 204 - Ray Citak, music education software from 2016-07-21T07:00

Ray Citak, music education software

Ray Citak wrote Name the Notes, a music education program that was acce...

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ANTIC Interview 203 - Ted Toal, Cyan Engineering from 2016-07-19T07:00

Ted Toal, Cyan Engineering

Ted Toal was a software developer at Cyan Engineering, an Atari research group. ...

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ANTIC Interview 202 - Peter Donoso, Atari Explorer magazine from 2016-07-17T07:00

Peter Donoso, Atari Explorer magazine

Peter Donoso was managing editor of Atari Explorer magazine from Sept...

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ANTIC Interview 201 - Bob Brodie: User Group Manager for Atari from 2016-07-15T07:00

Bob Brodie: User Group Manager for Atari

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ANTIC Interview 200 - John Harris: Jawbreaker, Frogger, Mouskattack from 2016-07-13T07:00

John Harris: Jawbreaker, Frogger, Mouskattack

John Harris created the games Jawbreaker, Frogger, and Mouska...

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ANTIC Interview 199 - Bob Alkire and Steve Saunders, Rainbow GPU from 2016-07-11T07:00

Bob Alkire and Steve Saunders, Rainbow GPU

Bob Alkire and Steve Saunders worked in Atari's Corporate Research lab under Alan Kay, where th...

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ANTIC Interview 198 - Eric Freeman: Bootleg and Weakon from 2016-07-09T07:00

Eric Freeman: Bootleg and Weakon

Eric Freeman published two programs through Atari Program Exchange: Bootle...

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ANTIC Interview 197 - Max Manowski, Wizard’s Revenge from 2016-07-07T07:00

Max Manowski, Wizard’s Revenge

Max Manowski wrote Adventure, a text adventure game that he released into th...

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ANTIC Interview 196 - Frank Paris, Mathlib for Deep Blue C from 2016-07-05T07:00

Frank Paris, Mathlib for Deep Blue C

Frank Paris wrote Mathlib for Deep Blue C, a library of floating-point...

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ANTIC Episode 34 - 3 Years! from 2016-07-03T04:31:01

In this three-year anniversary episode of Antic the Atari 8-bit podcast — we uncover an abundance of Atari source code, documentation, and engineering notes; Bill...

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ANTIC Interview 195 - Kathy and Phil Bergh, I'm Different! from 2016-07-01T07:00

Kathy and Phil Bergh, I'm Different!

Kathy and Phil Bergh published one program through Atari Program Excha...

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ANTIC Interview 194 - David Thiel, musician and interactive audio from 2016-06-29T07:00

David Thiel, musician and interactive audio

David Thiel is a musician and interactive audio designer. At Go...

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ANTIC Interview 193 - Gary Yost, The Catalog and Cyber Studio from 2016-06-27T07:00

Gary Yost, The Catalog and Cyber Studio

Gary Yost worked at Antic magazine, in product development. He was ...

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ANTIC Interview 192 - Fred Parr, MACE newsletter from 2016-06-25T07:00

Fred Parr, MACE newsletter

Fred Parr was a member of MACE — the Michigan Atari Computer Enthusiasts group, ...

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ANTIC Interview 191 - Roland Gustafsson, Print Shop Companion from 2016-06-23T07:00

Roland Gustafsson, Print Shop Companion

Roland Gustafsson wrote The Print Shop Companion, an add-on package...

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ANTIC Interview 190 - Chuck Gibke, Air Raid! from 2016-06-21T07:00

Chuck Gibke, Air Raid!

Chuck Gibke, published one piece of software for the Atari computer: Air Raid!. The ...

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ANTIC Interview 189 - Steve Cavin: Minotaur, Juggles' House, Juggles' Rainbow from 2016-06-19T07:00

Steve Cavin: Minotaur, Juggles' House, Juggles' Rainbow 

Steve Cavin started at Cromenco where he built com...

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ANTIC Interview 188 - Neil Harris: Commodore, Atari, GEnie from 2016-06-17T07:00

Neil Harris: Commodore, Atari, GEnie

Neil Harris started at Commodore as a member of the VIC-20 launch team...

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ANTIC Interview 187 - Jay Jaeger, APX Space War from 2016-06-15T07:00

Jay Jaeger, APX Space War

Jay Jaeger released one program for the Atari computers: Space War, which was pub...

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ANTIC Interview 186 - Joel Gluck: Babel, Attank!, Pushover, Fun-FORTH from 2016-06-13T07:00

Joel Gluck: Babel, Attank!, Pushover, Fun-FORTH

Joel Gluck published four programs through Atari Program Ex...

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ANTIC Interview 185 - Ted Kahn, Atari Institute for Educational Action Research from 2016-06-11T07:00

Ted Kahn, Atari Institute for Educational Action Research

Ted Kahn was creator of the Atari Institute for E...

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ANTIC Interview 184 - Rob Zdybel, Star Trek, Missile Command, Bug Hunt from 2016-06-09T07:00

 

Rob Zdybel, Star Trek, Missile Command, Bug Hunt

Rob Zdybel was a long-time employee at Atari, having worked there from 1979 to 1...

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ANTIC Interview 183 - Lane Winner: Graph-It, XEP-80, De Re Atari from 2016-06-07T07:00

Lane Winner: Graph-It, XEP-80, De Re Atari

Lane Winner was an Atari employee for about a decade: he worked ...

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ANTIC Interview 182 - Dave Menconi, Atari Customer Service and User Group Support from 2016-06-05T07:00

Dave Menconi, Atari Customer Service and User Group Support

Dave Menconi started at Atari in 1982 doing cus...

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ANTIC Interview 181 - Stan Ockers, public domain game programmer from 2016-06-03T07:00

Stan Ockers, public domain game programmer

Stan Ockers started on the KIM-1 single board computer, where wa...

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ANTIC Interview 180 - Harry Guiremand, SynChron from 2016-06-01T07:00

Harry Guiremand, SynChron

Harry Guiremand wrote SynChron, a calendar application, which was published by Sy...

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ANTIC Interview 179 - Greg Thrush and Marian Dillashaw: Stock Management and WordGo from 2016-05-30T07:00

Greg Thrush and Marian Dillashaw: Stock Management and WordGo

Greg Thrush published two programs through At...

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ANTIC Episode 33 - Jump, Man! from 2016-05-28T07:00

In this episode of Antic the Atari 8-bit podcast, we are joined by Rob McMullen to discuss hacking on Jumpman, we explore several new hardware projects and new ga...

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ANTIC Interview 178 - Wes Horlacher, Magic Melody Box from 2016-05-26T07:00

Wes Horlacher, Magic Melody Box

Wes Horlacher published one program in Atari Program Exchange: Magic Melody...

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ANTIC Interview 177 - Steve Smith, ANTIC chip from 2016-05-24T07:00

Steve Smith, ANTIC chip

Steve Smith was an engineering technician at Atari from 1977 until 1979, where he w...

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ANTIC Interview 176 - Clyde Spencer: Stereo 3-D Graphics and Isopleth Map Making from 2016-05-22T07:00

Clyde Spencer: Stereo 3-D Graphics and Isopleth Map Making

Clyde Spencer published two programs through Ata...

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ANTIC Interview 175 - Robert Waldman, Financial Asset Managment System from 2016-05-20T07:00

Robert Waldman, Financial Asset Managment System

Robert Waldman wrote Financial Asset Managment System, whi...

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ANTIC Interview 174 - Tod Frye, Asteroids from 2016-05-18T07:00

Tod Frye, Asteroids

Hi, there!  Welcome to the next in the series of Atari-related interviews being produced by Antic, the Atari 8-bit com...

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ANTIC Interview 173 - Ursula Wolz, early computing and education from 2016-05-16T07:00

Ursula Wolz, early computing and education

Ursula Wolz was thinking about computers and education in the ea...

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ANTIC Interview 172 - Owen Rubin: Major Havoc, Space Duel from 2016-05-14T07:00

Owen Rubin: Major Havoc, Space Duel

Owen Rubin worked in Atari's coin-op division from 1976 to 1984 — he is...

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ANTIC Interview 171 - Randy Glover, Jumpman from 2016-05-12T07:00

Randy Glover, Jumpman

Randy Glover is the creator of one of the best games for the Atari computers, Jumpman...

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ANTIC Interview 170 - Mike Silva, Syncalc from 2016-05-10T07:00

Mike Silva, Syncalc

Mike Silva worked at Synapse, where he wrote the Syncalc spreadsheet application. Listen

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ANTIC Interview 169 - Richard Lindgren, APX financial software from 2016-05-07T07:00

Richard Lindgren, APX financial software

Richard Lindgren published two programs in Atari Program Exchange....

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ANTIC Interview 168 - Marcin Sochacki, SIO2BT from 2016-05-04T07:00

Marcin Sochacki, SIO2BT

Marcin Sochacki, also known as Montezuma on AtariAge, is originally from Poland and currently lives in Germany.   ...

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ANTIC Interview 167 - Al Casper: Counter, My Spelling Easel, Equestrian from 2016-05-02T07:00

Al Casper: Counter, My Spelling Easel, Equestrian

Al Casper published three programs with Atari Program Exc...

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ANTIC Interview 166 - Michael Crick, Frogmaster from 2016-04-30T07:00

Michael Crick, Frogmaster

Michael Crick created the game Frogmaster, which was published for the Atari comp...

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ANTIC Episode 32 - Into the Big Scary World from 2016-04-28T07:00

On this episode of Antic the Atari 8-bit podcast, we venture out into the big scary world — both Randy and I went to VCF SouthEast, and Kevin went to the museum. ...

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ANTIC Interview 165 - Yakov Epelboim: Pushky and Devilator from 2016-04-26T07:00

Yakov Epelboim: Pushky and Devilator

Yakov Epelboim is a Russian immigrant who published two programs for t...

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ANTIC Interview 164 - John Palevich: Dandy and Deep Blue C Compiler from 2016-04-24T07:00

John Palevich: Dandy and Deep Blue C Compiler

John Palevich wrote several programs which were published by ...

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ANTIC Interview 163 - Ron Luks, Compuserve Atari Forum Founder from 2016-04-22T07:00

Ron Luks, Founder and manager of the Atari Forums on CompuServe

Welcome to this interview-only episode of Antic, The Atari 8-bit computer ...

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ANTIC Interview 162 - John Powers, Atari Director of Software Development from 2016-04-20T07:00

John Powers, Atari Director of Software Development

John Powers was co-founder of The Authorship Resource, ...

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ANTIC Interview 161 - Edward Lehmann, Recipe Search 'N Save from 2016-04-18T07:00

Edward Lehmann, Recipe Search 'N Save

Edward Lehmann published one Atari program through Atari Program Exch...

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ANTIC Interview 160 - Chuck Mullally, Mastermatch from 2016-04-16T07:00

Chuck Mullally, Mastermatch

Chuck Mullally published one game through Atari Program Exchange: Mastermatch, ...

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ANTIC Interview 159 - Bryon Wilcox, Wilcox Company from 2016-04-14T07:00

Bryon Wilcox, Wilcox Company

On December 12, 2015, I bought an unusual Atari computer on ebay: it appeared ...

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ANTIC Interview 158 - John Crane, RPN Calculator Simulator from 2016-04-12T07:00

John Crane, RPN Calculator Simulator

John Crane published one Atari program, through Atari Program Exchange...

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ANTIC Interview 157 - Alan Newman: Domination, Tutti Frutti, Hotel Alien from 2016-04-09T07:00

Alan Newman: Domination, Tutti Frutti, Hotel Alien

Alan Newman published several programs for the Atari 8-b...

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ANTIC Interview 156 - Darren Schebek, Envision character set editor from 2016-04-07T07:00

Darren Schebek, Envision character set editor

Darren Schebek wrote Envision, a character set editor for the...

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ANTIC Interview 155 - Jerome Domurat, artist and interface designer from 2016-04-05T07:00

Jerome Domurat, artist and interface designer

Jerome Domurat worked at Atari from November 1981 through July 1986 as an artist and interfa...

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ANTIC Interview 154 - Alan Henricks, Controller from 2016-04-03T07:00

Alan Henricks, Controller

Alan Henricks was Controller at Atari during the Warner Communications era. He wa...

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ANTIC Episode 31 - Hardware Gadgets from 2016-04-01T04:01:47

On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast: we find a lot of new hardware gadgets for our Atari 8-bit machines, and learn all about Atari-branded printers.<...

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ANTIC Interview 153 - Richard Leinecker, Your Atari Comes Alive from 2016-03-31T07:00

Richard Leinecker, Your Atari Comes Alive

Richard Leinecker is author of the book Your Atari Comes Alive, which was published by Alpha Sys...

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ANTIC Interview 152 - Art Prag: Mapware, Starware, and Astrology from 2016-03-29T07:00

Art Prag: Mapware, Starware, and Astrology

 

Art Prag, along with Harry Koons, published ...

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ANTIC Interview 151 - Jeff Johannigman from 2016-03-27T07:00

Jeff Johannigman

Jeff Johannigman published his first two computer programs through Atari Program Exchange: Rabbotz and Snark Hunt. He wen...

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ANTIC Interview 150 - Leigh Zeitz, Epson Connection book from 2016-03-25T07:00

Leigh Zeitz, Epson Connection book

Leigh Zeitz wrote the book The Epson Connection: Atari Edition, about using your Atari 8-bit computer w...

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ANTIC Interview 149 - David Johnson, Popeye from 2016-03-23T07:00

David Johnson, Popeye

David Johnson co-created the Atari 400/800/5200 version of Popeye, which was released by Parker Brothers.

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ANTIC Interview 148 - Steve Baker: Defender, Stargate from 2016-03-20T07:00

Steve Baker: Defender, Stargate

Steve Baker is well-known in the Atari world as having done the 400/800 and 5200 conversions of Defender. ...

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ANTIC Interview 147 -Mike Potter: Protector II, Shadow World, Nautilus, Chicken from 2016-03-18T07:00

Mike Potter: Protector II, Shadow World, Nautilus, Chicken

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ANTIC Interview 146 - Arthur Leyenberger, Atari columnist from 2016-03-16T07:00

Arthur Leyenberger, Atari columnist

Arthur Leyenberger wrote the "Outpost: Atari" column in Creative Comput...

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ANTIC Interview 145 - Jeff Bell, Atari coin-op from 2016-03-14T07:00

Jeff Bell, Atari coin-op

Jeff Bell worked for Atari Games for 31 years. He stated in 1973 as a Pong inspect...

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ANTIC Interview 144 - Stephen Lawrow, Mac/65 assembler from 2016-03-12T08:00

Stephen Lawrow, Mac/65 assembler

Stephen Lawrow created the Mac/65 assembler, which was published by Optimi...

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ANTIC Interview 143 - Bob Stahl, Atari receiving inspection and software quality from 2016-03-10T08:00

Bob Stahl, Atari receiving inspection and software quality

Bob Stahl worked in the Atari home computer divi...

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ANTIC Interview 142 - Clayton Walnum, A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing and ST-Log from 2016-03-08T08:00

Clayton Walnum, A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing and ST-Log

Clayton Walnum was writer and editor at A.N.A.L.O.G. Comp...

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ANTIC Interview 141 - Bob Polin, Blue Max from 2016-03-06T08:00

Bob Polin, Blue Max

Bob Polin was the programmer of Blue Max and Blue Max 2001 — both published by Synapse ...

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ANTIC Interview 140 - Steve Hales: Slime, Dimension X, Fort Apocalypse from 2016-03-04T08:00

Steve Hales: Slime, Dimension X, Fort Apocalypse

Steve Hales published several games with Synapse Software:...

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ANTIC Interview 139 - Glenn Faden, Microsailing from 2016-03-02T08:00

Glenn Faden, Microsailing

Glenn Faden published one program for the Atari 8-bit computers: Microsailing, wh...

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ANTIC Interview 138 - Surfer Bob, Warez Sysop from 2016-02-29T08:00

Surfer Bob, Warez Sysop

"Surfer Bob", real first name Carlos, ran The Pipeline BBS, an Atari bulletin board...

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ANTIC Interview 137 - David Stoutemyer, The Soft Warehouse from 2016-02-27T08:00

David Stoutemyer, The Soft Warehouse

David Stoutemyer was co-founder of The Soft Warehouse, a company that ...

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ANTIC Interview 136 - David Crane, Pitfall!, Atari 400/800 OS from 2016-02-25T08:00

David Crane, Pitfall! and Atari 400/800 OS

David Crane started his programming career at Atari, making games for the Atari 2600. He also w...

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ANTIC Interview 135 - Bill Rice, HYSYS from 2016-02-23T08:00

Bill Rice, HYSYS

Bill Rice published one program in the Atari Program Exchange catalog: HYSYS, or Hydraulic...

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ANTIC Episode 30 - Robots Have Taken Over! from 2016-02-21T05:59:40

On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast: I cause a robot invasion in Portland, Bill Kendrick goes ultra-mega-retro gaming with Game ‘N Watch inspired gam...

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ANTIC Interview 134 - Jerry Falkenhan, Finance Software from 2016-02-20T08:00

Jerry Falkenhan, Finance Software

Jerry Falkenhan had three programs published by Atari Program Exchange: F...

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ANTIC Interview 133 - Bill Louden, CompuServe and GEnie from 2016-02-18T08:00

Bill Louden, CompuServe and GEnie

Bill Louden was part of the team that built CompuServe, the first consume...

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ANTIC Interview 132 - Jerry Jewell, co-founder of Sirius Software from 2016-02-16T08:00

Jerry Jewell, co-founder of Sirius Software

Jerry Jewell was co-founder of Sirius Software. Sirius publishe...

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ANTIC Interview 131 - Bob Polaro, Atari Programmer from 2016-02-14T15:29:58

Bob Polaro

Bob Polaro was an Atari employee from 1978 through 1984, where he wrote several programs for Ata...

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ANTIC Interview 130 - Dave Pratt, founder of Digital Vision (ComputerEyes) from 2016-02-12T08:00

Dave Pratt, founder of Digital Vision (ComputerEyes)

Dave Pratt was founder of Digital Vision, the company ...

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ANTIC Interview 129 - Thomas Hudson, Atari sales trainer from 2016-02-10T08:00

Thomas Hudson, Atari sales trainer

Thomas Hudson was a trainer for Atari, where he taught computer store ow...

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ANTIC Interview 128 - Roger Hector, Atari’s Advanced Products Group from 2016-02-08T08:00

Roger Hector, Atari’s Advanced Products Group

Roger Hector started at Atari back in 1976.  As a creative designer, he was originally hired...

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ANTIC Interview 127 - Bob C., Software Pirate from 2016-02-06T08:00

Bob C., Software Pirate

Bob C. was an Atari software pirate in New York who went by the moniker The Missing...

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ANTIC Interview 126 - Peter Langston, LucasArts from 2016-02-04T08:00

Peter Langston, LucasArts

Peter Langston was a founding employee at the game development company LucasArts,...

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ANTIC Interview 125 - Tom Harker, ICD from 2016-02-02T08:00

Tom Harker, ICD

Tom Harker was co-founder of ICD, a company that created many popular add-ons for the Atari...

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ANTIC Interview 124 - Jerry White, Atari author and programmer from 2016-01-31T17:20:53

Jerry White, Atari author and programmer

Jerry White was a prolific Atari software developer and writer. He...

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ANTIC Interview 123 - Steve DeFrisco, Wing War, H.E.R.O. from 2016-01-30T19:38:22

Steve Defrisco, H.E.R.O., Wing War

Hello and welcome to Antic, The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast.  My name is Randy Kindig.  This is anothe...

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ANTIC Interview 122 - Thomas Newton, Basic/XA and Keypad Controller from 2016-01-29T08:00

Thomas Newton, Basic/XA and Keypad Controller

Thomas Newton, published two programs with Atari Program Exch...

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ANTIC Interview 121 - Arlan Levitan, writer from 2016-01-27T08:00

Arlan Levitan, writer

Arlan Levitan wrote for many computer magazines including Creative Computing and Comp...

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ANTIC Interview 120 - Sandy Dwiggins, AtariLab manuals from 2016-01-24T16:25:53

Sandy Dwiggins, AtariLab manuals

Sandy Dwiggins wrote the manuals for AtariLab - both the light and tempera...

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ANTIC Interview 119 - Andrew Soderberg, Atari Product Manager from 2016-01-22T08:00

Andrew Soderberg, Atari Product Manager

Andrew Soderberg was a product manager at Atari from 1980 through A...

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ANTIC Interview 118 - Mike West, Pirate from 2016-01-20T08:00

Mike West, Pirate

Mike West was an east coast software pirate who went by the handle “Jolly Roger.” He was ...

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ANTIC Episode 29 - Turtle-y Goodness from 2016-01-17T18:02:44

On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast: We explore the possibilities of new Atari software and hardware mods (yea faster Star Raiders explosions); and R...

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ANTIC Interview 117 - Landon Dyer, Donkey Kong and Super Pac Man from 2016-01-15T08:00

Landon Dyer, Donkey Kong and Super Pac Man

Landon Dyer started as a software engineer in the Atari home com...

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ANTIC Interview 116 - Tom Briscoe, APX Software Evaluator from 2016-01-13T08:00

Tom Briscoe, APX Software Evaluator

Tom Briscoe worked at Atari as an intern in the summer of 1981, where h...

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ANTIC Interview 115 - Bob Brass and Peter D’Amato, Cauzin Softstrip from 2016-01-11T08:00

Bob Brass and Peter D’Amato, Cauzin Softstrip

If you read certain computer magazines from the early days of...

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ANTIC Interview 114 - Jim Inscore, Atari Documentation Manager from 2016-01-09T08:00

Jim Inscore, Documentation Manager

Jim Inscore was hired at Atari in 1981 as a writer in the marketing depa...

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ANTIC Interview 113 - Russ Wetmore, Preppie!, Sea Dragon, Homepak from 2016-01-05T02:00

Russ Wetmore: Preppie!, Sea Dragon, Homepak

Russ Wetmore started at Adventure International, where he worke...

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ANTIC Interview 112 - Paul Lewandowski, APX Puzzler from 2016-01-02T08:00

Paul Lewandowski, APX Puzzler

Paul Lewandowski was in high school when he wrote Puzzler, which was publishe...

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ANTIC Interview 111 - Clinton Parker, Action! from 2015-12-31T08:00

Clinton Parker, Action!

Welcome to this special interview edition of Antic, the Atari 8-bit computer podcast.  All of our interviews are ...

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ANTIC Interview 110 - Peter Meyer, Tempest, Venture, Delta Space Arena from 2015-12-29T08:00

Peter J. Meyer - Tempest Xtreem, Venture, Delta Space Arena

The intro music to this episode is the tune “Mind’s Eye” from the Atari XL/XE ...

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ANTIC Interview 109 - Larry Reed, Childware from 2015-12-27T17:30

Larry Reed, Childware

Larry Reed was a programmer for Childware, where he worked on two educational games f...

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ANTIC Interview 108 - Tony Nicholson&John Babinchak II, Hi-Res Magazine from 2015-12-25T08:00

Tony Nicholson and John Babinchak II, Hi-Res Magazine

In this episode, two interviews for the price of one:...

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ANTIC Interview 107 - Kevin Hayes, Atari Games Ireland from 2015-12-22T08:00

Kevin Hayes, Atari Games Ireland

On this interview episode, we take a trip to Ireland, and to the coin-op s...

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ANTIC Episode 28 - Holiday Gift Guide, Archive.org Telethon from 2015-12-18T08:00

On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast: our annual holiday buying guide for Atari 8-bit lovers, we announce the winner of the interview transcription co...

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ANTIC Interview 106 - Alan Ackerman, MPP from 2015-12-14T08:00

Alan Ackerman, MPP

Alan Ackerman co-founded Microbits Peripheral Products (MPP) with John Wiley. MPP made m...

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ANTIC Interview 105 - Alan Stratton, plant controller from 2015-12-12T08:00

Alan Stratton, plant controller

Alan Stratton was Atari’s plant controller, managing the financial function...

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ANTIC Interview 104 - Aric Wilmunder, Star Raiders II, Temple of Apshai from 2015-12-10T19:00

Aric Wilmunder: Star Raiders II, Temple of Apshai

Here’s how Aric Wilmunder introduced himself to me: “When...

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ANTIC Interview 103 - Courtney Goodin, Compu=Prompt Teleprompter from 2015-12-08T08:00

Courtney Goodin, Compu=Prompt teleprompter

Compu=Prompt was the first electronic, personal computer based t...

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ANTIC Interview 102 - Anthony Jones, Atari UK from 2015-12-06T00:30

Anthony Jones, Atari UK

Anthony Jones was general manager of Atari’s headquarters in the United Kingdom. La...

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ANTIC Interview 101 - Forrest Mozer, Pioneer in Digitized Speech from 2015-12-02T08:00

Forrest Mozer, Pioneer in Digitized Speech

Forrest Mozer invented and patented the first integrated circuit...

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ANTIC Interview 100 - Bryan Edewaard, Castle Crisis from 2015-11-30T08:00

Bryan Edewaard

Bryan Edewaard briefly worked with Atari and with ICD.  In 2004, 20 years after the 5200 was cancelled, he wrote the homebr...

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ANTIC Interview 99 - Jeff Osorio, Atari Manager of Financial Planning and Cost Accounting from 2015-11-27T08:00

Jeff Osorio, Atari Manager of Financial Planning and Cost Accounting

Jeff Osorio was Manager of Financial P...

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ANTIC Interview 98 - Gary Walton, Atari Store Owner and Pirate from 2015-11-23T08:00

Gary Walton, Atari Store Owner and Pirate

Gary Walton owned Discount Video And Computers, a large Atari dealership in Fort Pierce, ...

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ANTIC Interview 97 - Brad Fuller, Composer from 2015-11-20T08:00

Brad Fuller, Composer

Brad Fuller started at Atari as audio engineer in the home computer division, where h...

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ANTIC Interview 96 - Bill Mensch, 6502 Chip from 2015-11-18T08:00

Bill Mensch, 6502 chip

Bill Mensch is co-creator of the 6502 chip, the microprocessor that’s the heart of t...

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ANTIC Interview 95 - Keithen Hayenga, 5200 Tempest from 2015-11-12T12:53:13

Keithen Hayenga, 5200 Tempest

Keithen Hayenga worked for both Apple and Atari and was an Apple II and Atari software programmer. While at...

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ANTIC Episode 27 - Contest!, PRGE from 2015-11-04T08:00

On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast: we talk about the release of the Star Raiders source code, how to set up an Atari club of your own, and lust ove...

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ANTIC Interview 94 - Bill Hogue, Miner 2049er from 2015-10-29T07:00

Bill Hogue, Miner 2049er

Bill Hogue was founder of Big Five Software. He was programmer of the hit 1982 game Miner 2049er, and its sequel...

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ANTIC Interview 93 - Gerri Brioso: Halftime Battlin' Bands, Coco-Notes, Movie Musical Madness from 2015-10-22T07:00

Gerri Brioso: Halftime Battlin' Bands, Coco-Notes, Movie Musical Madness

Gerri Brioso is part of The Dovetail Group, a company that creat...

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ANTIC Interview 92 - Alan Murphy, Atari Animator from 2015-10-20T07:00

Alan Murphy, Atari Animator

Alan Murphy was Senior Animator at Atari, where we worked from 1980 through 1987. Alan created the graphics f...

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ANTIC Interview 91 - Adam Billyard, Chop Suey/ElektraGlide from 2015-10-18T07:00

Adam Billyard, Chop Suey/ElektraGlide

Adam Billyard's first three games for the Atari 8-bit computers were "Bellum", "Henri", and "Chop Su...

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ANTIC Interview 90 - Glenn the 5200 Man from 2015-10-16T07:00

Glenn The 5200 Man

Glenn Botts is better known to Atari 8-bit users as "Glenn The 5200 Man.” Glenn was perh...

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ANTIC Interview 89 - Bruce Poehlman, The Last Starfighter/Star Raiders II from 2015-10-14T07:00

Bruce Poehlman, The Last Starfighter/Star Raiders II

Bruce Poehlman only worked at Atari for a year — from ...

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ANTIC Interview 88 - Dan Horn, Infocom from 2015-10-12T07:00

Dan Horn, Infocom

Dan Horn stated as a programmer at Scott Adams’ Adventure International, where he program...

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ANTIC Interview 87 - Leslie Wolf, Product Manager for Atari Logo and AtariLab from 2015-10-09T07:00

Leslie Wolf, Product Manager for Atari Logo and AtariLab

 

Leslie Wolf was a product manager at Atari from 1981 through 1984. She ...

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ANTIC Interview 86 - Dr. Priscilla Laws, AtariLab from 2015-10-07T07:00

Dr. Priscilla Laws, AtariLab

AtariLab was a hardware and software package for the Atari 400 and 800 computers. The AtariLab Starter Set w...

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ANTIC Episode 26 - 100+ Episodes and Counting from 2015-10-04T07:00

On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast: we learn about new software and hardware for the Atari. We learn about marketing. We learn that we’re . . . Listen

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ANTIC Interview 85 - Harold Lee, Home Pong Designer and Man Who Hired Jay Miner from 2015-10-02T07:00

Harold Lee, Home Pong Designer and the Man Who Hired Jay Miner


In 1974 an engineer by the na...

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ANTIC Interview 84 - John Schulte and Feridoon Moinian, Dorsett Educational Systems from 2015-09-28T07:00

John Schulte and Feridoon Moinian, Dorsett Educational Systems

John Schulte and Feridoon Moinian were both employees at Dorsett Education...

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ANTIC Interview 83 - Peter Rosenthal, Marketing and Strategic Planning from 2015-09-22T07:00

Peter Rosenthal, Marketing and Strategic Planning

Peter Rosenthal worked at Atari from March 1979 thru the middle of 1983. He joined Atari as a marketing research associate in the...

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ANTIC Interview 76 - Tim McGuinness, from 2015-09-02T07:00

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ANTIC Interview 71 - Nolan Bushnell, The Man from 2015-08-12T07:00

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ANTIC Special Episode - Atari Summer Camp from 2015-08-06T07:00

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ANTIC Interview 69, Lloyd Speyer, Batteries Included from 2015-08-03T07:00

Lloyd Speyer, Batteries Included

Lloyd Speyer worked for Batteries Included from 1983 to 1987, where he worked with Commodore PETs, 64, Apple...

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ANTIC Interview 68 - Thomas Renbarger, Dorsett Educational Systems from 2015-07-31T16:08:22

Thomas Renbarger, Dorsett Educational Systems
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ANTIC Interview 66 - Peter Liepa, Boulder Dash from 2015-07-26T07:00

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ANTIC Interview 58 - Jess Jessop from 2015-06-26T07:00

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ANTIC Episode 23 - Dorsett, Veronica, BASIC XL from 2015-06-24T16:35:25

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ANTIC Interview 57 - Thomas Cherryhomes from 2015-06-24T07:00

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ANTIC Interview 56 - Pab Sungenis, Developer from 2015-06-18T07:00

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ANTIC Interview 55 - John-Michael Battaglia from 2015-06-15T07:00

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ANTIC Interview 48 - Tom Hudson, A.N.A.L.O.G. from 2015-05-25T07:00

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ANTIC Interview 47 - David Kano, Hex-A-Bug from 2015-05-23T07:00

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ANTIC Interview 42 - Steve Carden, RealDOS from 2015-05-13T07:00

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ANTIC Interview 41 - Ron Bieber, SmartDOS from 2015-05-09T07:00

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ANTIC Interview 40 - Doug Carlston, Br0derbund from 2015-05-06T07:00

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ANTIC Episode 21 - Microsoft BASIC, Yoomp! from 2015-04-14T07:00

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ANTIC Interview 30 - Jerry Jessop, Atari from 2015-04-08T07:00

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ANTIC Interview 28 - Rich Pasco, Atari from 2015-04-03T07:00

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ANTIC Episode 20 - Visicalc, Choplifter from 2015-04-01T07:00

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IOS Atari Emulation Guide from 2014-11-01T15:24:39

ANTIC - Atari Podcast

Guide for Atari Emulation on iOS Devices

Written by C. Olson, October 2014

 

Greetings, a...

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ANTIC Episode 11 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Live from VCFSE 2.0! from 2014-05-09T01:26:54

 

On this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit podcast, we broadcast live from Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 2.0, interview attendees with Atari stories, find out who's goin...

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ANTIC Episode 9 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - JD Casten&Steve Wilds from 2014-04-03T03:08:23

 

On this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit Podcast: an interview with JD Casten, Antic magazine’s prolific game ...

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ANTIC Episode 8 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Curt Vendel&Dennis Harkins from 2014-02-28T02:25

 

On this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit Podcast: an interview with Curt Vendel, Atari historian and co-author of “Atari, Inc: Business Is Fun” … and  an interview with Dennis Harkins,...

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ANTIC Episode 6 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Xmas&Mike Albaugh from 2013-12-15T18:10

 

In this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit Podcast, our Holiday Gift guide (for that Atari lover in your life, even if it’s you), an interview with the ...

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ANTIC Episode 5 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Connect Your Atari to a PC from 2013-11-12T04:21

 

In this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit Podcast, Kevin plays with an Atari gadget that he pre-ordered three years ago -- and forgot about . . . Randy...

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ANTIC Episode 4 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Chris Crawford from 2013-10-04T02:59

 

In this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit Podcast, an interview with Chris Crawford, author of Eastern Front 1941; we rescue Atari hardware and TI 99/4...

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ANTIC Episode 3 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Jim Capparell, Antic Magazine from 2013-08-23T00:45

On this third episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit Podcast, we shop for Atari goodies at the world’s loooooongest yard sale, hob-nob with Woz at Ka...

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ANTIC Episode 2 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - De Re Atari from 2013-07-22T21:28

On this second episode of ANTIC: The Atari 8-bit Podcast --  we talk about o...

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ANTIC Episode 1 - The Atari 8-Bit Podcast - Intro from 2013-06-18T03:32

On this first episode of ANTIC: The Atari 8-bit Podcast -- we talk about the first Atari to be installed on a Navy submarine, two recent books about the...

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