Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The Famous Computer Cafe 1985-01-22 Larry Saltzman of the Association of Entertainment Industry Computer Professionals. Also a call-in report about the Consumer Electronics Show by Michael Tomczyk. Aired on KIEV.
Digitized from reel-to-reel tape by Harbor Digitizing of Friday Harbor, Washington.
The Famous Computer Cafe recovery and digitization project was done by Kay Savetz in 2024. If you have access to other episodes of Famous Computer Cafe on tape, please contact Kay Savetz.
The Famous Computer Cafe 1985-01-22 Larry Saltzman of the Association of Entertainment Industry Computer Professionals. Also a call-in report about the Consumer Electronics Show by Michael Tomczyk. Aired on KIEV.
Digitized from reel-to-reel tape by Harbor Digitizing of Friday Harbor, Washington.
The Famous Computer Cafe recovery and digitization project was done by Kay Savetz in 2024. If you have access to other episodes of Famous Computer Cafe on tape, please contact Kay Savetz.


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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/
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I talked with two of the other Hybrid Arts founders, Robert Moore and Paul Rother, in my previous interview.
This interview took place on February 20, 2024. [Video version available]
My interview with Robert Moore and Paul Rother: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mECmAHpOs1I
Hotz MIDI Translator: Atari Team Redefines Electronic Instruments: https://www.atarimagazines.com/startv5n2/hotzmidi.html
Frank Foster Biography: https://www.frankfosterfilms.com/pages/about-2/
Franks SIGGRAPH documentary on computer graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Iz18zC-OrE
Hybrid Arts Timeline, Founders, and Goals document by Robert Moore: https://archive.org/details/hybrid-arts
Midi Maze at AtariMania: http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-st-hybrid-arts-inc_publisher_2526_S_G.html
ANTIC Interview 434 - Michael Park: Swan and Fujiboink Demos, MIDI Maze
https://youtu.be/LhrRJMm35fg
ANTIC Interview 193 - Gary Yost, The Catalog and Cyber Studio: https://youtu.be/3Bw4BlG7ew0
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