ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

ANTIC Interview 286 - William Leslie, OmniTrend Universe

Jun 16, 2017

William Leslie - OmniTrend Universe

William Bill Leslie was one of the authors of Omnitrend's Universe; a science fiction space trading and combat game. The first version was programmed in valFORTH on an Atari 800, based on a board game created by Bill. It was Omnitrend's first game and was released in 1983. There...

ANTIC Interview 285 - Jay Balakrishnan, HESWare

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Jun 13, 2017

Jay Balakrishnan, HESWare

Welcome to an interview-only episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast. My name is Randy Kindig. Jay Balakrishnan bought his first Commodore PET in 1978, which spurred him to found Human Engineered Software (HES or HESWare) in 1980. HESWare got its start on the Commodore PET but...

ANTIC Interview 284 - Art Walsh, Dynacomp and Artworx

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Jun 10, 2017

Art Walsh, Dynacomp and Artworx

Art Walsh was co-founder of Dynacomp, an early software publisher that created software for many platforms, including many educational and game titles for the Atari 8-bit computer. He later founder Artworx, a software publisher that produced titles including Bridge, Cranston Manor...

ANTIC Interview 283 - Kathleen Pitta, De Re Atari

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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...