ANTIC Interview 323 - Orson Scott Card, Compute! Books
Orson Scott Card, Compute! Books \xa0 Orson Scott Card is a Hugo Award winning, best-selling science fiction author, perhaps best known for his 1985 novel, Ender's Game.\xa0 \xa0 But we're not here to talk about that \u2014 because for about nine months, Orson Scott Card was an editor at Compute! Books, where we worked on several books about the Atari 8-bit and other computer platforms. His work appears in Compute!'s Third Book of Atari and Compute!'s Second Book of Atari Graphics. \xa0 He also wrote extensively for Compute! magazine, primarily about computer games. His FontByter and ScreenByter graphics utilities for the Atari computers were published in Compute! His short story The Lost Boys features a character that plays games on an Atari computer. \xa0 This interview took place on January 5, 2018. A video version of this interview is also available. \xa0 Teaser quote: "I really miss programming. I miss those nights, starting after the kids were in bed \u2014 8:30, 9 o'clock \u2014 just solving problems ... noticing that there was now light coming through the basement windows, and realizing that I had pulled an all-nighter ... just debugging three minutes of a game." \xa0 Video version of this interview \xa0 Card's articles in Compute! magazine \xa0 Home Computer Games Grow Up \xa0 Card's final column in Compute! \xa0 Compute!'s Second Book of Atari Graphics \xa0 Reading the Keyboard Codes in Compute!'s Third Book of Atari \xa0 Bill Wilkinson interview \xa0 Bev and Bryan Wilkinson interview \xa0 Richard Mansfield interview