> I'll ask more about the POKEY project here at work. Several people have are
> closely related to the 2600 and 7800. I only know snippets of their
> backgrounds. The CEO, Doug Macare, designed Ms Pac Man (arcade), Pole
> Position (2600), designed and lead the 7800 project. The VP, Jacques Hugon,
> did the kernel for Pole Position II (7800) and managed other projects like
> Desert Falcon, and the POKEY chip in Ballblazer. I think Tom Westberg did
> ASIC designs for various arcade games (like Ms Pac Man, 2600, 7800). One or
> two other people here have similar background.
Wow. That's quite a group! It's always cool to have guys like that around
work. I used to work with a 63 year old sys admin name Bruce Hunter. Man
he had some cool stories! Like how Unix and the C language were both written
so the engineers at Bell Labs could play a game simliar to Space Invaders...
> I did ask Doug, Jacques, and Tom about the 7800 encryption code. They said
> that the author is dead and if any hardcopies from the 2600 design still
> exist they may be in a place called the bunker. It is a building out back
> that is stuffed with old GTI project stuff.
Heh. I've heard of "the bunker" before. I wondered where this legend came
from. I'd sure like to go dig through there sometime!! :)
Let me know if you manage to turn anything up!
-Chris
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