Steve Englehart worked in the Advanced Games Group of Atari,
where he developed ideas for new computer games. He was the
designer of E.T. Phone Home!, Final Legacy, and Garfield for the
Atari 8-bit machines, and worked on several unfinished games. He
wrote the manual for...
Jack Smyth, The Learning Company and Add-On
Software
Jack Smyth was the first CEO of The Learning Company, the
educational software publisher best known for Reader Rabbit and
Rocky's Boots. He was also involved with Add-On Software, a company
that sold CP/M software for several computer platforms, including
the Atari...
Bryan Talbot published one program for the Atari computer:
Cartoonist, which was published by Atari Program Exchange. It first
appeared in the fall 1983 APX catalog, where it was awarded first
prize in the systems/telecommunications category.
Dwight Johnson, Lake County Atari Computer
Enthusiasts
Dwight Johnson was founder of Lake County Atari Computer
Enthusiasts, a users group based in Waukegan, IL. He started the
group in April 1983. The group still exists today as a general PC
computer users group, and is now called Lake County Area...
Colin Hume worked at Thorn EMI for about a year, where he
programmed one game for the Atari 8-bit computers: Computer War.
Computer War was based on the 1983 movie War Games.
Thomas Cherryhomes joined us to ask Colin some questions of
his own.