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 let the user choose one to run. The
program was designed to fit into a floppy's three boot sectors, so
it didn't eat into any of the usable space on the disk. The program
was a popular interface to distribute disks of pirated programs,
but most people didn't know that Carlos was the author — there was
no room for his name in the tiny program. Carlos has found the
source code and released it into the public domain.
This interview took place on August 3, 2018. In it, we discuss
Jerry White, Fernando Herrera, and Bill Wilkinson, whom I have
previously interviewed.