Amy Chen: Touch Typing, Amoeba Debugger, De Re
Atari
Amy Liu was an progammer at Atari. Her name was Amy Chen at
the time. She wrote Touch Typing, which was released by Atari on
cassette in 1980; an unreleased game called Aligator; and Amoeba, a
debugger utility that was used internally at Atari to create
assembly language games.
This interview took place on May 2, 2017. It in, we talk about
Paul Laughton and Lane Winner, and Chris Crawford, whom I
previously interviewed.
Teaser quote: "Well actually now I come to think of it,
assembly language is easier than C++. ... C++ is a total different
concept.”