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Scott Adams is probably best known for his line of text adventures
for early personal computers -- including AdventureLand, Pirate
Adventure, Mystery Fun House, and many others. He was also the
founder of Adventure International, the company that brought Atari
users myraid programs, including Preppie!, Rally Speedway, Whomper
Stomper, and lots of others. The company also released countless
programs for TRS-80, Commodore, Apple ][, and other
platforms.
This interview took place March 16 2015.
Scott Adams' web site: msadams.com/index.htm
Play Scott Adams' adventures on the web: ifiction.org/games/?cat=44
AtariMania's list of Adventure International games: atarimania.com/list_games_atari-400-800-xl-xe-adventure-international-usa_publisher_1061_8_G.html
Scott Adams is probably best known for his line of text adventures
for early personal computers -- including AdventureLand, Pirate
Adventure, Mystery Fun House, and many others. He was also the
founder of Adventure International, the company that brought Atari
users myraid programs, including Preppie!, Rally Speedway, Whomper
Stomper, and lots of others. The company also released countless
programs for TRS-80, Commodore, Apple ][, and other
platforms.
This interview took place March 16 2015.
Scott Adams' web site: msadams.com/index.htm
Play Scott Adams' adventures on the web: ifiction.org/games/?cat=44
AtariMania's list of Adventure International games: atarimania.com/list_games_atari-400-800-xl-xe-adventure-international-usa_publisher_1061_8_G.html


![Russ Wetmore: Preppie!, Sea Dragon, Homepak — interview
Russ Wetmore started at Adventure International, where he worked with Scott Adams on Savage Island Part II. He then went on to program Preppie!, Preppie! II, and Sea Dragon - all of which were published by Adventure International - and Homepak business software, which was published by Batteries Included.
This interview took place on September 24, 2015, and then a little bit more on January 4, 2016.
After the main interview took place, Russ sent me the source code for Preppie!, Preppie! II, and Sea Dragon, plus an demonstration disk of an unfinished Atari game called Lulu. I successfully archived all of those disks and have posted them to archive.org: check the show notes at AtariPodcast.com for the disk images, plus a link to a YouTube video of the Lulu game.
Links
Game source code: https://archive.org/details/@savetz?and[]=russ%20wetmore
Video of Lulu: https://t.co/SuRqBrRasd
Lulu discussion and ATR download: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/246903-lulu-russ-wetmores-unfinished-game/
AtariMania list of Russ Wetmore software: http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-400-800-xl-xe-wetmore-russ_team_1399_8_G.html
JavaScript version of Preppie! http://www.playmycode.com/play/game/krakatomato/preppie
Teaser quote:
“I actually only spent about 18 months writing those three games, and I probably would have done them in much sooner time, but I was 23 and lazy.” Russ Wetmore: Preppie!, Sea Dragon, Homepak — interview](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bMpikzBYmx4/mqdefault.jpg)







