Bill Kendrick: Atari Party, Gem Drop, Tux Paint, XL-Search

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An interview with Bill Kendrick, father of the Atari Party, author of Gem Drop, and Tux Paint, and maintainer of the XL-Search Atari software search engine.

This interview occurred May 23, 2014.

Bill's Atari software: newbreedsoftware.com/atari

Tux Paint: tuxpaint.org

XL Search, the Atar i8-bit search engine: newbreedsoftware.com/xlsearch

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