Friend of the Blog 6 — ANTIC the Atari 8-bit Podcast on Hybrid Arts
Since 2013, Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, and Brad Arnold have co-hosted ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast, which focuses on the Atari 8-bit line of personal computers produced between 1979 and 1992. In addition to their regular monthly podcast, the ANTIC catalog includes more than 450 interviews with individuals who worked at Atari and other companies involved in the 8-bit computer industry of the time.
I wanted to point out two recent interviews conducted by Kay Savetz with Frank Foster and Robert Moore, which he published earlier this month. Foster and Moore were two of the principals behind Hybrid Arts, one of the first companies to develop MIDI music applications for both the Atari 8-bit line and the 16-bit Atari 520ST. Moore appeared in a September 1986 Computer Chronicles episode to demonstrate Hybrid Arts’ EZ-Track, a consumer product that enabled ST users to send commands from an ST directly to a Casio keyboard; and ADAP, a high-end digital audio workstation that provided what Moore described as a “tapeless recording studio.”