Antic The Atari 8-bit Podcast
ANTIC Interview 228 - Steve Stone, POKEY and ANTIC layout design
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Steve Stone, POKEY and ANTIC layout design Steve Stone worked at Atari from 1977 through 1980, where he was a chip layout designer and engineer. He worked on the layout design for the POKEY and ANTIC chips. After Atari, he founded Macro Dienamics, Inc., a chip design firm that worked on custom chips for the Amiga computer. This interview took place on August 29, 2016. Video of this interview: https://youtu.be/JhGPasK_RmE "The concept of someone flying in from Manhattan for the week, wearing thousand-dollar suits, being chauffeured around the valley and then flying out on the weekends -- was quite a contrast..." Steve sent me a follow-up email after our interview: "It was a pleasure speaking with you yesterday. The conversation jarred my memory. There is a few more comments, and some clarification that I would like to add. I believe I stated that the disk capacity we used for the chip layout was 25-80KB. While it was literally as big as a washing machine, it was 25-80MB. Also, I may have left out Warren questi