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Fri, 20 February 2015
This is a different sort of interview. Kevin talked to three old friends reminiscing about their Atari days. Those friends are Dean Wittmann, Max Derhak and Dean Derhak (Max and Dean are brothers.)
These guys were best friends, Atari pals living in Salt Lake City, Utah area going to Atari computer club meetings, cracking programs, and running a BBS.
This interview was conducted on September 27, 2014 over Skype.
Links: Encore video system for hotels - AtariAge discussion
Picture of the "Atari Computer Enthusiast" t-shirt
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Wed, 11 February 2015
Sometimes fun to talk to CEOs, and sometimes fun to talk to the people in the trenches. This is an interview from the trenches. Kent Smith was an Atari customer service/technical support rep for the Atari 400/800 from 1982-1984. I interviewed him on September 19, 2014 via Skype.
The videotape that he mentions at the end of the interview -- you'll want to watch that too, for a look at life in some of the Atari offices around Christmas 1981, which has never been on the Internet until now. Kent sent it to me, and I posted it to Archive.org.
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Thu, 5 February 2015
Hello and welcome to Antic the Atari 8-bit podcast. My name is Randy Kindig and this is a special interview-only episode of Antic. This interview is with Chuck Peavey, who worked on games for the Atari 8-bit computer like Blue Max, Lode Runner, Fight Night, One on One Basketball, Panther, Ace of Aces, and Dark Chamber. We had a great conversation about his days programming the Atari and I hope you enjoy it.
This interview was recorded via Skype on October 4, 2014.
links: Atari Gamer Magazine with Chuck Peavey interview and review of Panther Atari User Magazine (Issue 27) with review of Panther Retro Gamer #132 - Chuck interviewed about the 7800 in the 30-year retrospective
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Tue, 27 January 2015
Ihor Wolosenko was co-founder of Synapse software, the company that brought us SynFile and SynCalc, and an amazing list of games including Blue Max, Zeppelin, Fort Apocalypse, Alley Cat and Shamus. And Nautilus, and Rainbow Walker, and Protector II, and others. Kevin interviewed Ihor on December 23, 2014.
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Tue, 20 January 2015
On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast:
Links mentioned in this episode:
Recurring Links New Atari books scans at archive.org the Atlanta Historical Computing Society
Commercial that advertises the Smurf Power Cycle FOIA Request for Activision/Infocom
News HAPPY 35TH BIRTHDAY, GAMING PC Washington Post talks about an early attempt of Atari’s at fitness Atari 7800 Game-by-Game Podcast (The No Swear Gamer) New Atari-8-bit game BIRDFOOD by Mr-Atari Creating a Commodore 64 Emulator in GameMaker Lotharek sio2pc -USB at AtariAge Lotharek sio2pc -USB at lotharek.pl New Atari emulator for Android Charles Mangin 3d-printed Atari 800XL that fits Raspberry PI computer cancer fighting nanobots are as powerful as an Atari 800? 8-bit networking discussion for VCF East X (10)
New at archive.org Computer Palace Spring 1984 Catalog Atari Claim Jumper Development Notebook Big news: in-browser DOS emulation, 2400+ games
Software of the Month - Midi Maze Midi Maze information at atariprotos.com
Hardware of the Month - Quintopus Quintopus review at realdos.net
Website of the Month - Google Alerts Feedback Atari Age Forum Blog "Out of the Pack" by Kevin Packard
Feature Topic - Atari Magazines Computer Magazines at Archive.org Full images of every Antic issue at Archive.org Episode 3 of Antic interview with publisher of Antic, Jim Capparell ANALOG Magazine at Archive.org Episode 4 of Player/Missile interview with Mike DesChenes, co-founder of ANALOG Atari Magazine info at Player/Missile Podcast page
Closing
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Sat, 17 January 2015
Hello, and welcome to this interview-only episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit computer podcast. My name is Randy Kindig and I’ll be conducting the interview for this show. The interview is with Paul Westphal, a much more recent Atari vendor than Brad Koda, Bruce Carso, or Lance Rinquist that I’ve recently interviewed. Paul not only offers some hardware and software but also offers service, which is hard to come by these days. Paul is located in Portland, Oregon and the interview was conducted on November 8, 2014.
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Sun, 11 January 2015
Kevin’s interview with Dave Small. Dave was half of the prolific writing and software team Dave and Sandy Small. He wrote the Outpost: Atari column in Creative Computing magazine, and the book Creative Atari. He also wrote for ANALOG, Antic, and Current Notes magazines. He was co-founder of LE Systems, a company that made disk duplicating hardware and the Integrator hard drive interface; and Gadgets By Small. He created Magic Sac and Spectre GCR, emulators that let you run Mac software on the Atari ST. He and Sandy developed a pair of Atari computer games for Boeing to be shown at trade shows, which they described in the Nightmare Mission series in Antic magazine.
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Dave's articles in Creative Computing Nightmare mission articles: The 1450XLD Is Not Dead article from Creative Computing
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Wed, 7 January 2015
Kevin interviews Mark Rustad, Mark worked at Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) where he developed "Classroom Star", classroom networking hardware for the Atari 8-bits -- a product that was not released by Atari. Then he worked at Atari 1983-1984 as Systems Project Leader, where he troubleshooted the DTMF dialing on the Atari 1030 modem. We also talk about Mark’s work with the PLATO educational computer system.
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Wed, 31 December 2014
Hello, welcome to Antic, the Atari 8-bit podcast. My name is Randy Kindig and this is a special interview-only episode. This is the third in an ongoing series of interviews with the people behind the companies that still provide hardware, software, or service today for our Atari 8-bit computers. The interview is with Lance Ringquist, owner of the Video 61 and Atari Sales Website. Lance has been in business selling Atari items and services for over 30 years and has a lot of great stories to share about his time in this business. I hope you enjoy this interview as much I enjoyed talking with Lance. Please let Lance know you appreciate everything he has done and continues to do for the Atari community.
Enjoy!
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Mon, 29 December 2014
Hello, welcome to a special interview-only episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit podcast. This interview is part of the ongoing set of interviews for the holiday season where I talk to many of the people still out there providing hardware, software, and/or support for our favorite computer. This interview is with Bruce Carso, of B&C ComputerVisions. As you will hear during the interview, Bruce has been in the Atari business for 34 years as of the recording of this episode and has many amazing stories to share. Bruce not only has a website where he sells hardware, software and service, but he also has a store on ebay. I hope you find this interview interesting and let Bruce know that you appreciate all he has done and continues to do for the Atari community.
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