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ANTIC Interview 207 - Tom Halfhill, Compute! Magazine

ANTIC Interview 207 - Tom Halfhill, Compute! Magazine

FromANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast


ANTIC Interview 207 - Tom Halfhill, Compute! Magazine

FromANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Jul 27, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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Tom Halfhill, Compute! Magazine Tom R. Halfhill was features editor of Compute! Magazine, and was later launch editor of several other magazines from that publisher, including Compute!'s Gazette, Compute's Atari ST, and Compute!'s PC Magazine. He co-wrote the book Advanced Amiga Basic and was later editor of Game Players magazine. This interview took place on March 29, 2016. Teaser quotes: "SpeedScript was written in a couple of months by our 18-year-old, untrained programmer. ... You've got a whole staff of professional programmers, and frankly, if you can't do better than him, then you don't deserve to be in business." "There was a full page ad for ... I think it was a strip poker program. ... He got a complaint letter, Robert [Locke] did, from a school principal at an elementary school somewhere in the U.S., saying, 'We've got this magazine in our school library, we can't have strip poker in there. This is unacceptable!'" Tom's web site: http://www.halfhill.com Some of Tom's articles in Compute! Nessie game The Basics Of Atari Graphics in Compute!'s First Book of Atari Graphics: http://www.atariarchives.org/c1bag/page003.php
Released:
Jul 27, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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We cover Atari news, reviews, and a special feature each show for the Atari 8-bit line of computers (400/800/XL/XE/XEGS)