Carlos Reyes wrote the game Rent Wars for the Atari 8-bit
computers for First Star Software, which was never officially
released but found its way onto the Internet years later. He also
wrote Quick Menu, a 384-byte program that would display a menu of
programs on a floppy disk and...
Greg Gibbons was the creator of Automated Library II, software
for running school libraries, which was available for the Atari
8-bit and Apple II computers.
There's an article about the software in the April 1985 issue
of American Libraries:
Tom Snyder was the founder of Computer Learning Connection,
which was later renamed to Tom Snyder Productions, a company that
created many educational software titles for the school and home
computer markets.
The company's home software included Agent USA and Bannercatch
(published...
In 1987, Bob Ertl’s master's thesis was titled "Narrowing the
Gap Between the Word Processing Needs of Teachers and the
Capabilities of Word Processors for Atari 8-bit Computers." As part
of that project, he created a word processor for the Atari
computers, aimed at the needs of math...
Ed Meyer, physical chemistry experiments with Atari
computers
In the 1990s, Ed Meyer was a professor at DePaul University in
Chicago, where he taught physical chemistry. In August 1990, The
Journal of Chemical Education published his article, "An
Inexpensive Computer Station for Undergraduate Laboratories Using
the...