ANTIC Interview 347 - Charlie Kulas: Musical Pilot, UpN Down

Published: June 4, 2018, 7 a.m.

Charlie Kulas: Musical Pilot, UpN Down \xa0 Charlie Kulas published Musical Pilot, an educational game, through Atari Program Exchange. Musical Pilot first appeared in the fall 1983 APX catalog, where it was awarded third prize in the Learning category. He later worked at McT (AKA Microcomputer Technologies), a company that was contracted to program games by Sega. There he programmed the game UpN Down for the Atari 8-bit computers. \xa0 This interview took place on April 20, 2018. \xa0 Musical Pilot in the fall 1983 APX catalog: https://archive.org/stream/APXCatalogFall1983/APX_Catalog_Fall_1983#page/n21/mode/1up/ \xa0 List of Kulas' software at AtariMania: http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-400-800-xl-xe-kulas-charlie_team_756_8_G.html \xa0 Buck Rogers source code: https://archive.org/details/BuckRogers_source \xa0 Up N Down source code: https://archive.org/details/UpNDown_source \xa0 McT at gdri: http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/McT \xa0 How to Build a Working Digital Computer Out of Paperclips: https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2013/paperclip/