ANTIC Interview 117 - Landon Dyer, Donkey Kong and Super Pac Man
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Landon Dyer, Donkey Kong and Super Pac Man
\\nLandon Dyer started as a software engineer in the Atari home computer division in 1982, where he specialized in converting arcade games to the Atari 8-bits. There, he programmed the Atari 400/800 versions of Donkey Kong, and Super Pac Man \\u2014 which was never officially released by Atari (but has been widely available for many years.) After the Tramiels bought Atari, he worked on the Atari ST, including BIOS boot code and the floppy disk driver. Landon\\u2019s blog, at DadHacker.com, has many interesting posts about his Atari days.
\\nThis interview took place December 9, 2015.
\\nTeaser quotes:
\\n\\u201cIn many ways, Atari marketing was completely divorced from the process of making games. They didn\\u2019t understand what programmers did, they didn\\u2019t understand what manufacturing cycles were.\\u201d
\\n\\u201cTo get ROMs made inside of Atari you had to go through a mastering lab. So basically you\\u2019d hand a couple of guys disks. They would disappear into their lab, smoke some dope, and come out with ROMs. And often, keep the disks.\\u201d
\\nLink
\\nLandon\'s web site: http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=987
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