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ANTIC Interview 281 - Amy Chen: Touch Typing, Amoeba Debugger, De Re Atari

May 31, 2017

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...

ANTIC Episode 43 - Corporate Wars

May 28, 2017

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast, Randy and Kevin spar over where the ANTIC corporate headquarters should be, Kevin steps out on the Atari 8 bit and makes us proud in the 10-liner BASIC contest, and Nir Dary brings us the scoop on Wopniak 2017. Plus all the Atari news we could find this month.

ANTIC Interview 280 - David and Betsy Ahl, Creative Computing Magazine

May 24, 2017

David Ahl and Betsy Ahl, Creative Computing Magazine

Dave Ahl was the founder and editor-in-chief of Creating Computing Magazine, which was the first personal computer magazine. Four editors served in the first six years: Dave Ahl, Steve Gray, John Craig, and Ted Nelson. Betsy Staples (now Betsy Ahl) then took over...

ANTIC Interview 279 - Tom Eckmann, Kyan Software

May 21, 2017

Tom Eckmann, President of Kyan Software

Tom Eckmann was president and co-founder of Kyan Software. Kyan's flagship product was Kyan Pascal, an implementation of the Pascal programming language which was available for the Apple II, Atari 8-bits, and Commodore 64/128 computers.

This interview took place on May 19,...

ANTIC Interview 278 - Bill Bowman, CEO of Spinnaker Software

May 17, 2017

Bill Bowman, CEO of Spinnaker Software

Bill Bowman was co-founder and CEO of Spinnaker Software, one of the first software companies that focused exclusively on educational software. He was at the company from its founding in 1982 through 1987. Spinnaker's software line-up included Snooper Troops, Delta Drawing,...