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Dave Small 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. This interview took place on September 4, 2014.

Dave’s articles in Antic: atarimagazines.com/index/index.php?author=David+Small&mag=antic

Dave articles in Creative Computing: atarimagazines.com/creative/index/index.php?author=David+Small

Nightmare mission articles: part 1 atarimagazines.com/v2n7/nightmare.html

part 2 atarimagazines.com/v2n8/missionaccomplished.html

part 3 atarimagazines.com/v2n11/nightmaredetour.html

part 4 atarimagazines.com/v2n12/nightmare.html

The 1450XLD Is Not Dead article from Creative Computing: atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n7/206_The_1450_XLD_is_not_dead.php

The Creative Atari Book: atariarchives.org/creativeatari
and archive.org/details/ataribooks-the-creative-atari