ANTIC Interview 364 -Carlos Reyes: Quick Menu, Rent Wars
Carlos Reyes: Quick Menu, Rent Wars \xa0 Carlos Reyes wrote the game Rent Wars for the Atari 8-bit computers for First Star Software, which was never officially released but found its way onto the Internet years later. He also wrote Quick Menu, a 384-byte program that would display a menu of programs on a floppy disk and let the user choose one to run. The program was designed to fit into a floppy's three boot sectors, so it didn't eat into any of the usable space on the disk. The program was a popular interface to distribute disks of pirated programs, but most people didn't know that Carlos was the author \u2014 there was no room for his name in the tiny program. Carlos has found the source code and released it into the public domain.\xa0 \xa0 This interview took place on August 3, 2018. In it, we discuss Jerry White, Fernando Herrera, and Bill Wilkinson, whom I have previously interviewed. \xa0 A video version of this interview is available. \xa0 Video version of this interview \xa0 Quick Menu source code \xa0 AtariAge discussion about Rent Wars \xa0 Rent Wars at AtariMania \xa0 Rent Wars play video \xa0 Carlos on LinkedIn \xa0 ANTIC Interview 124 - Jerry White, Atari author and programmer \xa0 ANTIC Interview 7 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Bill Wilkinson, OSS \xa0 Fernando Herrera interview