Mar 20, 2016
Steve Baker: Defender, Stargate
Steve Baker is well-known in the Atari world as having done the 400/800 and 5200 conversions of Defender. He also did ports of Stargate for the 5200 and the 400/800. Additionally, he developed Miniature Golf and Microgammon SB for the 400/800 and 5200, and Reversi and Gomuku for the...
Mar 18, 2016
Mike Potter: Protector II, Shadow World, Nautilus, Chicken
Mike Potter ported several Apple II games to the Atari 8-bit computers
for Crystalware, including Protector. He later developed five programs
for Synapse Software: Protector, Protector II, Chicken, Nautilus and
Shadow World — in a one year period, with the...
Mar 16, 2016
Arthur Leyenberger, Atari columnist
Arthur Leyenberger wrote the "Outpost: Atari" column in Creative Computing magazine, the End User column in A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing, and the ST User column in ST-Log magazine. He was also editor of the Jersey Atari Computer Group newsletter.
This interview took place on November 10,...
Mar 14, 2016
Jeff Bell, Atari coin-op
Jeff Bell worked for Atari Games for 31 years. He stated in 1973 as a Pong inspector, then moved to the engineering department, specifying requirements for parts. He worked in IT and system administration, and did other jobs in his more than three decades with the company. He also ran the...
Mar 12, 2016
Stephen Lawrow, Mac/65 assembler
Stephen Lawrow created the Mac/65 assembler, which was published by Optimized Systems Software. Stephen became an employee of OSS, where he also worked on the company’s enhanced BASIC products, BASIC XL and BASIC XE.
This interview took place on November 1, 2015. In this interview we...