A couple of days after our interview, Dave Comstock (who
worked at Atari on E.T. Phone Home, Superman III, and Clock &
Dagger) e-mailed me saying he had remembered more stories from his
Atari days. So we set up a second interview.
Dave Comstock: E.T. Phone Home!, Superman III, Cloak &
Dagger
Dave Comstock worked at Atari from 1980 through 1984, first as
a software and hardware tester, then as a programmer. Dave worked
on three games for the Atari 8-bit computers: E.T. Phone Home!,
Superman III, and Cloak and Dagger.
There's a column in the November 1983 issue of Family
Computing magazine, by Jon Zonderman: "Home Business β Compute,
Control, and Create. A weaver combines the traditional skills of
her craft with a computer and reaps more than one
reward."
There's an article in the August 1984 issue of Family
Computing magazine, by Bill Camarda β
Behind The Screens: Family Dog. It's about Choose-A-Pooch, an
Atari computer program created by Dr. Randall Lockwood, to help
match people with the breed of dog that will work best in...
Last last year, I received a batch of Atari disks. One of the
disks was labeled Virtuoso Play Mode Sampler β a music
demonstration disk from Virtusonics, a company I had never heard
of.
Thanks to some old articles in Antic magazine, I learned a bit
about the product...