ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

ANTIC Interview 426 - Eric Podietz, Interactive Picture Systems

Sep 18, 2021

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 through 1984. The company's first program was PAINT! for the Atari 8-bits, which was developed at the Superboots software development lab located at the...

ANTIC Episode 81 - Too Much Commodore

Sep 5, 2021

ANTIC Episode 81 - Too Much Commodore

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we wax philosophical about Raspberry Pi upgrades for the Atari, discuss the drama that was the Atari fest of the past, and talk WAY too much Commodore!

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ANTIC Interview 425 - Jeffrey Sarnoff, Atari Research Group

Sep 4, 2021

Jeffrey Sarnoff, Atari Research Group

Jeffrey Sarnoff started at Atari in the home computer division in 1981 as a software architect, where he worked on a 3-D graphics library. The next year he moved to Atari's Research Group, under Alan Kay, where he worked on a holographic animation system and a 4-dimensional...

ANTIC Interview 424 - Atari at the Science Fair: Mark Knutsen, Star Cluster

Aug 28, 2021

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 I talk with people who used Atari 8-bit computers to create projects and enter them in science fairs.

Today's interview is with Mark Knutsen, who wrote a star cluster simulation...

ANTIC Interview 423 - Tom Halfhill discusses Charles Brannon and SpeedScript

Aug 7, 2021

Tom Halfhill discusses Charles Brannon and SpeedScript

Charles Brannon was program editor at Compute! Publications from 1980 until 1986. He wrote and edited articles for Compute! Magazine and Compute!'s Gazette. His Linkedin profile says that his "primary responsibility was crafting BASIC and assembly language...