ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

ANTIC Episode 45 - Open Atari

Aug 31, 2017

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: Mike Maginnis of the Open Apple and Drop III Inches podcasts joins the Antic crew and starts a computer war, Nir Dary tells us about disk drive upgrades, we catch up with Curt Vendel about his projects including the 2nd Atari history book, and more Atari news...

ANTIC Interview 299 - John Skruch, Atarisoft

Aug 28, 2017

John Skruch, Atarisoft

John Skruch worked at Atari from 1982, under Warner Communications, all through the Tramiel era, until 1998 when the company was owned by JTS.

During that time, he was operations manager for Atarisoft, the arm of Atari that produced software for competing computer systems; software product...

ANTIC Interview 298 - Tom Hunt, Closer to Home BBS

Aug 13, 2017

Tom Hunt, Closer to Home BBS

Tom Hunt ran an Atari BBS called Closer to Home for 28 years. He also created a variety of utilities for the Atari 8-bit computers, including M.T.O.S. (Multi-Tasking Operating System), and The Armorizer (a file corruption detector). He created several languages including Atari...

ANTIC Interview 297 - Robert Anschuetz, Eric Anschuetz, John Weisgberber, Antic magazine games

Aug 9, 2017

Robert Anschuetz, Eric Anschuetz, John Weisgberber, Antic magazine games

Robert Anschuetz, Eric Anschuetz, and John Weisgberber are childhood friends who published three games in Antic magazine: Kooky's Quest was published in the February 1985 issue; Overflow in July 1985; and Robot Dungeon was the "disk bonus" in the...

ANTIC Interview 296 - Stan Osborne, Atari Design Research

Aug 6, 2017

Stan Osborne, Atari Design Research

Stan Osborne was a freelance software engineer in Atari's Design Research department from 1981 through 1984. He also worked on projects for coin-op and home computing departments. He created micro-kernels, proof of concepts, proto-applications and device drivers.

There are two...