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An interview with Mike Albaugh, who worked at Atari Corp. for about 25 years and was the programmer of the Atari 400/800 in-store demonstration program.
The interview was conducted on November 15, 2013.
An interview with Mike Albaugh, who worked at Atari Corp. for about 25 years and was the programmer of the Atari 400/800 in-store demonstration program.
The interview was conducted on November 15, 2013.







![Jon Freeman, co-founder of Automated Simulations / EPYX — Interview
Jon Freeman was co-founder of the computer game publisher Automated Simulations, which became EPYX. At Automated Simulations, he co-created Starfleet Orion and Gateway to Apshai. Then he and his wife Anne Westfall started the game development company FreeFall Associates, where they created Tax Dodge, Archon, Archon II, and Murder on the Zinderneuf.
This interview took place April 21, 2015.
Teaser quotes:
“That six months, I read two books in six months, and we went to one movie. The rest of the time we we just working on the game. That’s all we did. It was very, you know, intense.”
“You know, I could just basically flip that switch every VBI and have the computer play itself. That turned out to be one of the absolutely huge selling points of [Archon]. Stores could put it in the window, get it started, and let it run.”
Free Fall Games web site: http://www.freefallgames.com
Free Fall Associates chapter in Halcyon Days:
http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/FREEFALL.HTM
Tax Dodge
https://archive.org/details/a8b_Tax_Dodge_1982_Island_Graphics_US_k_file
1984 article about Free Fall: https://archive.org/stream/microtimesvolume00bamp#page/n11/mode/2up Jon Freeman, co-founder of Automated Simulations / EPYX — Interview](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DrXlx8pV5pM/mqdefault.jpg)

![David Cramer — Western Design Center — interview
David Cramer is the VP of Business Development at Western Design
Center, the company that still, today, manufacturers and sells the
6502 chip, the CPU thats at the heart of the Atari 800, Apple ][,
Commodore 64, and many other classic computers. In fact, the 6502
is used in many modern applications like pacemakers, and its also
available in development kits for hobbyists, as David explains.
This interview occurred on March 27, 2015.
Western Design Center: http://westerndesigncenter.com/
65xx.com: http://65xx.com/
mouser: http://mouser.com/
Jameco Electronics: http://www.jameco.com/ David Cramer — Western Design Center — interview](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DxXavIOU3ZM/mqdefault.jpg)
