ANTIC Interview 124 - Jerry White, Atari author and programmer - a podcast by Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold
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Jerry White, Atari author and programmer
Jerry White was a prolific Atari software developer and writer. He published Player Piano, Bowler's Database, and other software for Atari Program Exchange. He wrote Poker S.A.M. and Chaterbee, two talking programs distributed by Don't Ask Software. He was co-author of the book The Atari User’s Encyclopedia, and wrote dozens of articles for Antic, A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing, Compute! and other magazines. He wrote two lessons in the Tricky Tutorial series, and was the founder of the Professional Atari Programmers Information Exchange (PAPIE).
This interview took place on January 1, 2016.
Teaser quotes:
"Believe it or not, I think I got to like 30 things on the market at one time. I was really hellbelt on quantity rather than shoot-em-up games, because I didn't want to really spend my time trying to develop another game."
"My income from the Atari stuff was more than I was making [at my day job.] So I retired from the job I was doing so I could develop software 24 hours a day, and yeah - I was an addict."
Links
Jerry's articles in Antic magazine
Further episodes of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast
Further podcasts by Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold
Website of Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold