ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

ANTIC Interview 283 - Kathleen Pitta, De Re Atari

Jun 7, 2017

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 De Re Atari, A Guide to Effective Programming, which was serialized by Byte Magazine in 1981 through 1982, and published by Atari Program Exchange in 1982. Kathleen is...

ANTIC Interview 282 - Matthew Householder, Atari and EPYX

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Jun 4, 2017

Matthew Householder, Atari and EPYX

Matthew Householder worked at Atari from 1983 through 1985. There he ported Moon Patrol to the ColecoVision for AtariSoft. Later he worked on the Atari 520ST, where he wrote the line-draw/polygon graphics primitives for the ST port of the GEM operating system. Next he worked at...

ANTIC Interview 281 - Amy Chen: Touch Typing, Amoeba Debugger, De Re Atari

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May 31, 2017

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, which was released by Atari on cassette in 1980; an unreleased game called Aligator; and Amoeba, a debugger utility that was used internally at Atari to create assembly...

ANTIC Episode 43 - Corporate Wars

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May 28, 2017

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 Atari 8 bit and makes us proud in the 10-liner BASIC contest, and Nir Dary brings us the scoop on Wopniak 2017. Plus all the Atari news we could find this month.

ANTIC Interview 280 - David and Betsy Ahl, Creative Computing Magazine

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May 24, 2017

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 personal computer magazine. Betsy Ahl was editor of the magazine for nearly its entire run. Creative Computing was published starting in November 1974, was acquired by...