ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

ANTIC Episode 83 - The Dog Ate It In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast...Kay forgets to wear his ANTIC t-shirt, we all have new members of the family (and Brad's eats everything in sight), Kay goes crazy scanning Atari magazines, and we have lots of listener feedback. READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Next Without For What We've Been Up To Atari Interface (was there a July 1991 issue?) https://archive.org/details/Atari_Interface_1989-11 https://archive.org/details/Atari_Interface_1989-08 https://archive.org/details/Atari_Interface_1989-07 Atari Interface Magazine - The Complete Collection" - 2,350-page PDF - https://archive.org/details/atari-interface-complete-collection The Advanced Home Computer course https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Course?sort=-publicdate Atari 600XL/800XL: https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Advanced_Course_10/page/189/mode/1up 810 disk drive: https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Advanced_Course_04/page/63/mode/1up 130XE: https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Advanced_Course_66/page/1309/mode/1up Indy Vintage Computer Club (VCC) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/IndyVCC News Hyper Drive + RAM/ROM " Cartridge For The Atari 8 Bit Computer - https://www.ebay.com/itm/124998207996 ABBUC 2021 Software Contest winners announced https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2021/11/descarga-los-juegos-del-concurso-abbuc.html https://abbuc.de/2021/11/ergebnisse-der-softwarewettbewerbs-2021/ http://www.atari.org.pl/informacje/wyniki-abbuc-software-contest-2021/2224 CONTrollerTESTPRO - Jakub Husak - http://www.atari.org.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?id=17979 Meta Programming Tool - Kaj de Vos - https://language.metaproject.frl/ - A New, Human-Friendly Programming Language John Malone's keypad usb mod - https://twitter.com/48kram/status/1462136144477499395?s=21 XEP80-II by MyTek - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/atari-800-xl-xe-xel-xld/products/xep80-ii-by-mytek Final Assault first person shooter https://atari8.dev/final_assault/ Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=92K9wnk_4Cw Atari Projects by Jason Moore - http://atariprojects.org Laser Squad https://mechanism.fr/getRecord.php?id=1002 TRY2EMU Web Site - Atari news - https://www.t2e.pl/tag/atari https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/1053009480/atari-video-game-joystick-world-record-largest Shows Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): VCF East April 22-24: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall, NJ VCF West August 6-7: Vintage Computer Festival West , The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ YouTube videos this month Old Time Radio Broadcasts on the 1 MB Atari 800xl - Red Rock Video Productions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gOxE5m6a6U New at Archive.org Atari Personal Financial Management System manual Practicing Programming on the Atari Review Catalog of Atari Learning Systems Fall 1983 Atari Special Additions Volume 1 Winter 1982 Collegiate Microcomputer: Stevens Institute of Technology requiring freshmen to buy an Atari 800 - https://archive.org/details/sim_collegiate-microcomputer_1985-02_3_1/page/n36/mode/1up?q=atari Harvard Symposium "Video Games and Human Development" - https://archive.org/details/sim_collegiate-microcomputer_1984-11_2_4/page/334/mode/2up?q=atari Computer Drawn Polar Coordinate Graphs - https://archive.org/details/sim_collegiate-microcomputer_1984-08_2_3/page/n81/mode/2up Ideal Systems undimmed - https://archive.org/details/sim_collegiate-microcomputer_spring-1986_4_1/page/n27/mode/2up?q=atari New at GitHub https://github.com/spicyjack/atari8-syntax.vim Listener Feedback "Imagic 1-2-3" compilation - http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-comp-imagic-1-2-3_1235.html XDOS (c) 2009 by Stefan Dorndorf - http://www.atarimania.com/faq-atari-400-800-xl-xe-what-are-realdos-spartados-x-and-xdos_83.html

Jack Verson was the founder of JV Software, where he programmed and published several games for the Atari 8-bit computers: Action Quest, Ghost Encounters, and Journey to the Planets. Roklan Software repackaged Action Quest and Ghost Encounters into a single game, titled Castle Hassle. As part of On-Time Software, Jack programmed the Atari versions of Gyruss, James Bond 007, and perhaps other games, published by Parker Brothers. He ported the Atari 8-bit version of Joust to the Commodore 64. As Applied Systems Engineering, he programmed Time Tunnel for Commodore 64. This interview took place on December 2, 2021. AtariMania's list of Jack's software James Bond 007 Gyruss Journey to the Planets version differences and bugs Larry Kalpan thanks Jack in the manual for 2600 Activision Bridge Time Tunnel for Commodore 64 Jack's company, CDOAN Mark Benioff review of Action Quest Popeye "V1" for Commodore discovered Verson quoted in Compute! "How the Pros Write Computer Games"

ANTIC Episode 82 - FujiNet to Take Over the World! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast...we have special guest Thom Cherryhomes who tells us why FujiNet is aiming to take over the world, we discuss the recent VCF Midwest and VCF East, and of course tell you everything going on in the world of Atari. READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Next Without For What We've Been Up To Thom's talk about programming FujiNet at VCF East: https://youtu.be/A9jflXkSef4 Byte All Atari Articles - inspired by Allan Bushman's Computer Shopper All Atari - https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-atari-articles Dan Kramer engineering notebook from his time at Atari - https://archive.org/details/dan-kramer-atari-engineering-notebook VCF East video processing (Atari 2600 stuff, 8-bit specific stuff) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_e5fSxflvrwAsI8UG2Ey9Nwx2zzP1XED Google Spreadsheet of Atari newsletters at Internet Archive - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RkznDDlOL2O_K-RrbkajIuo6DvYof6Ajrn7j9NTcoDM/edit?usp=sharing JACG, newsletter of the Jersey Atari Computer Group https://archive.org/details/jerseyataricomputergroup I/O Connector, newsletter of the San Diego Atari Computer Enthusiasts. https://archive.org/details/ioconnector Current Notes, Newsletter of the Washington Area Computer Enthusiasts https://archive.org/details/currentnotesnewsletter Kay on TikTok - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRETKduF/ 576NUC+ - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer VCFMW - http://vcfmw.org Indy Vintage Computer Club (VCC) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/IndyVCC News New Labels – 800 Personality/Memory Modules – Mr. Robot (Steve Boswell) - https://atari8bit.net/new-labels-800-personality-memory-modules/ Prince of Persia for Atari 8-bits - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/298914-unicorns-season-prince-of-persia-for-the-a8/#comments ABBUC Magazine #145 is out! - http://abbuc.de/ Atari User Issue 33 Is Out Now! - https://www.atariuser.com/atari-user-issue-33-is-out-now/ Atari 815 sold on ebay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/124936737856?hash=item1d16cf5440%3Ag%3A3KgAAOSwRchhXcj3&nma=true&si=hxj5YADhiQ0fdSj5M3wmAhFvrcg%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Anschuetz/Weisgerber/Anschuetz remakes - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-297-robert-anschuetz-eric-anschuetz-john-weisgberber-antic-magazine-games Overflow 2021 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/321417-overflow-2021-a-new-8-bit-and-5200-game-released-by-awa/ Kooky Diver - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/322470-kooky-diver-new-8bit-and-5200-game-by-awa/ Sokoban 2021 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/322674-sokoban-2021-5200-release-and-8-bit-update/ Night Rescue 1941 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/320224-night-rescue-1941-new-awa-game-release/ Piracy 1621 & Piracy 1981 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/324486-piracy-1621-and-piracy-1821-new-atari-5200-releases-by-anschuetzweisgerberanschuetz/ Alien Assault 2021 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/323778-new-8-bit-and-5200-game-release-alien-assault-2121-by-awa/?tab=comments#comment-4884530 Kooky Klimber (Crazy Climber inspired) - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/319869-abbuc-software-contest-2021/?do=findComment&comment=4891011 Robot Dungeon (Shamus/Berzerk inspired) - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/319869-abbuc-software-contest-2021/?do=findComment&comment=4891009 Space Assailants 2021 - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2021/09/space-assailants-2121-nuevo-shooter.html Brian Hall - Argon, a multi-system emulator - http://playargon.com XXX2CF3: CompactFlash HDD without using the cartridge port! – The Brewing Academy - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/atari-800-xl-xe-xel-xld/products/xxx2cf3-compactflash-hdd-without-using-the-cartridge-port Shahid Kamal Ahmad's epic thread about his development career, starting with the Atari 8-bit - https://twitter.com/shahidkamal/status/1436771192892018693?s=20 FujiNet wiki enhancements - SpicyJack - AtariAge - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/298720-fujinet-a-wip-sio-network-adapter-for-the-atari-8-bit/page/87/?tab=comments#comment-4922271 Player MIssile Podcast released ep #30, 8-bit vs 5200 - https://playermissile.com/ Loading Atari software from a record player https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2021/10/cargan-juegos-de-atari-8-bits-desde.html?fbclid=IwAR3UGXLCzJqpB8U0MtGrv1Kd5fQqgdEQ-jHZPGEXxA_a8lYx0YGAaf9x7Bw https://atariage.com/forums/topic/325860-im-loading-silent-service-from-a-vinyl-record/ The 100 MHz 6502 http://www.e-basteln.de/computing/65f02/65f02/ https://atariage.com/forums/topic/326058-accelerated-6502/ Shows Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): VCF East April 22-24: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall, NJ VCF West August 6-7: Vintage Computer Festival West , The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ YouTube videos this month "64K ought to be enough for anybody" - Tmp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXE6Ua4Qquw https://atariage.com/forums/topic/278212-avgcart/page/67/#comments "ATARI 800 XL repair + creating a USB power supply, a video cable & doing the CHROMA Mod" - RETRO is the new black (Wolfgang Kierdorf) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoFpFSrLoxA "Atari 400 48k Ram - Sdrive2 & Uno Cart Tech Demo" - Paul Westphal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLuHPxBIgFk "Stop using the Atari 'Ingot' power supply, Seriously!" - The VintNerd - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMlW0Bk_ueI New at Archive.org Pokey - French Atari newsletter: https://archive.org/details/pokey-3 https://archive.org/details/pokey-34 https://archive.org/details/pokey-5 Alan Bushman - https://archive.org/details/royal-software-catalog-winter-1982/ New at GitHub https://github.com/savetz/RAMbrandt Eventure - Let's Write a Roguelike Game in 6502 Assembly on the Atari 8-Bit https://github.com/EdSalisbury/edventure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whhTuBpkcrY companion code for element14 Presents episode 514: "Making a 3D Graphics Card for the Atari 800 XL" - https://github.com/andy-west/atari800xl-3d Updates to annotated Star Raiders source code - https://github.com/achurch/StarRaiders Tools and utils for the Atari xe 8-bit - https://github.com/pjones1063/atarixe Python command line utility to manage file systems on Atari 8-bit and Apple ][ disk images - https://github.com/robmcmullen/atrcopy Listener Feedback RealSports Curling - https://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=7657

Dave Johnson: Demon Attack, Atlantis; APX Lookahead; Personal Financial Management Dave Johnson programmed software for the little-known Interact Model One computer, and later worked as a programmer for Atari, where he created the game Lookahead, which was published by Atari Program Exchange. Lookahead is a fun little strategy board game that you can play against the computer or another human. We think Dave Johnson programmed the Atari Personal Financial Management System, a slick-looking but buggy home finance package that Atari kept delaying, finally released a year late, then quickly discontinued. Read Bill Lange's blog post for the full story about that program. After Atari, Dave worked at Imagic, where he programmed the Atari 8-bit versions of the games Demon Attack and Atlantis. There, he also created the game Quick Step! for the Atari 2600. This interview took place on October 12, 2021. A video version is also available. AtariMania's list of Dave's Atari 8-bit games Play or download Lookahead Lookahead in the fall 1981 APX catalog Bill Lange research on Atari Personal Financial Management System Personal Financial Management System at AtariWiki Interact Model One computer Dave on Twitter This interview on YouTube

Margaret (Akin) Guilbault, Atari Camper Margaret Akin was one of the children who attended Atari's computer camps, and one of the kids who was featured in The Magic Room, Atari's movie about the camps. Her name is now Margaret Guilbault. Atari ran its summer camps from 1982 through 1984 at several locations around the United States. That first year, Atari commissioned a film about its summer camps, which was filmed at the San Diego location. Margaret attended Atari camp that first year in San Diego, then again in 1983 the Minnesota location. It turns out Margaret's first year at a computer camp was in 1981, the summer before Atari's first camps. Her first computer camp experience was at Zaca Lake -- near Santa Barbara, California -- hosted by a company called Computer Camp Inc., which used Atari computers. I talked with Margaret about her experiences at those camps, and taking part in the filming of The Magic Room, on September 12, 2021. You can watch The Magic room at YouTube and Internet Archive. In previous interviews I've talked with filmmaker Bob Elfstrom; Linda (Gordon) Brownstein, the Atari vice president who oversaw the camp project; and other Atari computer campers. The Magic Room (18-minute version) Newspaper article about Computer Camp Inc.'s Zaca Lake camp ANTIC Interview 419 - Bob Elfstrom, The Magic Room ANTIC Special Episode - Atari Summer Camp ANTIC Interview 412 - Linda (Gordon) Brownstein, Atari VP Special Projects

Eric Podietz, Interactive Picture Systems Eric Podietz was co-founder of Interactive Picture Systems, a company that created software for 8-bit computers from 1982 through 1984. The company's first program was PAINT! for the Atari 8-bits, which was developed at the Superboots software development lab located at the Capital Children's Museum in Washington, D.C.. PAINT! was first published by Reston then by Atari. Their next program was Movie Maker, an animation program. Next came three educational titles published by Spinnaker Software: Trains, a business simulation; Grandma's House, a digital dollhouse; and Aerobics, a fitness program. The company also created Operation Frog, simulated frog dissection software for the Apple II and Commodore 64. This interview took place on September 9, 2021. In it, we discuss Guy Nouri, Ann Lewin-Benham, and Bill Bowman, whom I have previously interviewed. After the interview, Eric sent me the source code for his early Apple II program Painter Power, which I scanned and uploaded to Internet Archive. This interview on YouTube ANTIC Interview 410 - Ann Lewin-Benham, Director of Capital Children's Museum ANTIC Interview 407 - Guy Nouri, Interactive Picture Systems ANTIC Interview 278 - Bill Bowman, CEO of Spinnaker Software Reston Software's Paint manual The Designers Behind MovieMaker in Compute! Gazette Issue 15 IPS feature in Starlog Magazine Issue 084 Movie Maker feature in Creative Computing April 1984 Painter Power source code Emma One Sock fabric

ANTIC Episode 81 - Too Much Commodore In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we wax philosophical about Raspberry Pi upgrades for the Atari, discuss the drama that was the Atari fest of the past, and talk WAY too much Commodore! READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Next Without For What We've Been Up To Atari8BitBot - https://twitter.com/atari8bitbot The Magic Room - 18-minute version https://youtu.be/Cs7jnOlNl9Y (K's tweets about it: https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1429130503622336514?s=20 ) New old Bits & Bytes pictures - https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1422715900805869571?s=20 VCFSE 8.0 was a success! - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ 576NUC+ - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer VCFMW - http://vcfmw.org Indy Vintage Computer Club (VCC) - http://indyvcc.c News Atari 64. the Commodore 64 KERNAL, modified to run on the Atari 8-bit line of computers - https://github.com/unbibium/atari64 Indy Retro News - http://www.indieretronews.com/search/label/ATARI Star Raiders pre-production manual - http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/star-raiders/preprod-manual/?fbclid=IwAR00ZBTKG-g2d83KDvZTtlqDpNqJ-e9z22JuJdRxR4tHcqCumXtMwIN8k54 Retrochallenge 2021/10 - http://www.retrochallenge.org/?fbclid=IwAR3Hi6PLMi3wpfQda2hHMZiQOAREGMnY_E1NF8AjXIDbfjXqvOBHK5md8sA Attack of the PETSCII robots - https://www.the8bitguy.com/product/petscii-robots-for-atari/ BackBit Pro - https://store.backbit.io/product/backbit-pro/ https://huddle.today/cfl-personalities-to-talk-football-on-halifax-made-social-media-platform/ The Retroist: A 1982 video visit to the video game department of sears - https://retroist.com/a-1982-video-visit-to-the-video-game-department-of-sears/ (for video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPm7xbPzpUA&t=50s , starts at 4 minute mark and goes to 5 minute mark New ABBUC site available - https://abbuc.de/ Cart extender from BitsOfThePast - https://www.bitsofthepast.com/?product=130xe-ra-extenders-switchers SIO Pass Through Breakout Board v2.2 (Mozzwald) - https://fujinet.online/shop/hardware/sio-pass-through-breakout-board-v2-2/ https://8bitnews.io newsletter Atari Projects by Jason Moore - http://atariprojects.org/ PICOmputer, pocket computer that emulates 8-bit computers - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2021/07/picomputer-computadora-de-bolsillo-que.html Shows Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): VCF Midwest Sep 11-12 http://vcfmw.org/announce , Elmhurst, IL (Chicago) Fujiama Sep. 12-19, Lengenfeld, Germany, http://fujiama.eu/ VCF East October 8, 9, 10, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall, NJ Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ YouTube videos this month "The Story of the Atari 1200XL - Is It GOOD?" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_WpWOrIE9g Making a 3D Graphics Card for the Atari 800 XL using the Raspberry Pi - element 14 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ffGLkgoEg&t=64s Atari 800 with Sophia 2 DVI and Incognito plugins - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df3lfFLuUF New at Archive.org Allan Bushman uploaded "Hardcopy" newsletter April 1987 Allentown Bethlehem Easton's Atari Computer Enthusiasts - https://archive.org/details/hardcopy-april-1987

Jeffrey Sarnoff, Atari Research Group Jeffrey Sarnoff started at Atari in the home computer division in 1981 as a software architect, where he worked on a 3-D graphics library. The next year he moved to Atari's Research Group, under Alan Kay, where he worked on a holographic animation system and a 4-dimensional strategy game. This interview took place on August 25, 2021.

Atari at the Science Fair: Mark Knutsen, Star Cluster This is the third in a series of interviews called "Atari at the Science Fair" where I talk with people who used Atari 8-bit computers to create projects and enter them in science fairs. Today's interview is with Mark Knutsen, who wrote a star cluster simulation in the Forth programming language for his high school science fair. I found this blurb in the July 1986 edition of the Jersey Atari Computer Group newsletter: "June meeting highlights ... Mark Knutsen showed us his Star Cluster program in Forth that won a science fair prize for him. Mark's program demonstrates the interaction of four stars in two planes. Mark also discussed Forth in general." This interview took place on August 21, 2021. If you'd like to see our talking heads — and the visuals of his program running — a video version of this interview is available at YouTube and Internet Archive. Mark has shared his program and the source code: those links are in the show notes. This interview at YouTube Download Mark's Star Cluster program Star Cluster blurb in JACE newsletter July 1986 ValFORTH Documentation Computer Recreations - Star Clusters column in Scientific American: At JSTOR and At Internet Archive

Tom Halfhill discusses Charles Brannon and SpeedScript Charles Brannon was program editor at Compute! Publications from 1980 until 1986. He wrote and edited articles for Compute! Magazine and Compute!'s Gazette. His Linkedin profile says that his "primary responsibility was crafting BASIC and assembly language software creations. Secondary was managing other young programmers." Charles' wrote and ported many type-in programs for the Atari 8-bit and other computers. His Atari programs included FontMaker, a character set editor and The Atari Wedge, for adding commands To Atari BASIC. His most popular and well-known program was SpeedScript, an assembly language word processor that was available first for the Commodore 64 in the March 1985 issue. In subsequent issues -- one month after another -- versions were published for VIC-20, then the Atari 8-bits, then the Apple II. Each version was a type-in listing that -- after excruciating hours of careful entry -- would build a powerful, functional word processor. Charles wrote a couple of books about SpeedScript (one specific to Atari and one specific to the Commodore versions) which contained the manual, type-in program code, and commented assembly language source code. I've been trying to get an interview with Charles Brannon since 2015, to talk about his time at Compute! in general and SpeedScript specifically. This year, I heard back from his wife Margaret, who told me that Charles suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2016 and no longer feels confident in his memory. I won't be able to interview Charles. But, Tom Halfhill, Charles' old friend and colleague at Compute!, volunteered to talk to me about Charles. Tom was a supervisor at Compute! when Charles wrote SpeedScript, and often discussed which features to include and the problems he encountered. Tom worked at Compute! Publications from 1982 to 1988, starting as the first Features Editor for Compute! Magazine later becoming Editor. He was the launch editor of Compute!'s Gazette for Commodore, Compute!'s Atari ST Disk and Magazine, Compute!'s PCjr Magazine, and Compute!'s PC Magazine. This is not the first time I've talked with Tom: I interviewed him about his time at Compute back in 2016. This time I talk with him with an emphasis on Charles Brannon and SpeedScript. (To be perfectly honest, we stuck to those topics for about 35 minutes. After that, we found other interesting things to talk about, most of which I left in this episode.) This interview took place on July 22, 2021. This interview at Youtube Compute! articles by Charles Brannon at AtariMagazines.com SpeedScript book, Atari version, at Internet Archive SpeedScript book, Atari version, at AtariArchives.org Download SpeedScript for Atari or try it in your browser My 2016 interview with Tom Tom's web site ANTIC Interview 206 - Richard Mansfield ANTIC Interview 7 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Bill Wilkinson