Colin Hume worked at Thorn EMI for about a year, where he
programmed one game for the Atari 8-bit computers: Computer War.
Computer War was based on the 1983 movie War Games.
Thomas Cherryhomes joined us to ask Colin some questions of
his own.
Matthew McGinley was the creator and publisher of Elite
Personal Accountant, financial management software for the Atari
computer. He released it in mid-1985 after working on it for
several years.
The review of Elite Personal Accountant by Stephen Roquemore
in Antic...
Cynde Moya, Collections Manager at Living Computers:
Museum + Labs
Cynde Moya is Collections Manager at Living Computers: Museum
+ Labs. Located in Seattle, Washington, Living Computers is a
computer museum that provides hands-on experiences using computers
ranging from micros to mainframes. (Last time I was there,...
That voice you just heard in an Alien Group Voice Box II
connected to an Atari 800.
Voice Box was a external speech synthesizer box for the Atari
400 and 800. Voice Box, and its successor Voice Box II, was
marketed by "The Alien Group" starting in July 1982. The device
used the...
Winchell Chung worked at Avalon Hill computer games, where he
was the Atari 8-bit computer programmer. He worked on Nuke War, B-1
Nuclear Bomber, Free Trader, Paris in Danger, and Vorrak. His best
known game is probably Gulf Strike.