Tag: Joe Decuir

Joe Decuir’s VCF East 2019 Keynote is now available – The designer of Atari early computers tells his story

May 6, 2019 0 Comments on Joe Decuir’s VCF East 2019 Keynote is now available – The designer of Atari early computers tells his story
Posted in Atari 2600, Atari News, Atari XL/XE, News

On this last weekend, I was at VCF East for the first time and the whole experience was a blast. I plan to talk more about on a specific article but while that doesn’t happen, I am happy to say that one of the main presentations of the show is already online: Joe Decuir’s keynote. Joe Decuir is a key…

A piece of history: Atari 2600 designer Joe Decuir publishes his notes from 1977

June 27, 2016 1 Comment on A piece of history: Atari 2600 designer Joe Decuir publishes his notes from 1977
Posted in Atari 2600, Atari News, Games Consoles, Hardware, News, Programming, Retro Computing History, Retro Gaming

Joe Decuir started to work for Atari in 1975 and was one of the engineers responsible for designing the iconic Atari 2600 and the 8-bit computers 400/800. The historian-podcaster-writer-archivist Kevin Savetz scanned Joe’s engineering notebooks from the time he worked at Atari and now the precious document is available at Internet Archive. With handwritten notes and schematics, the content of the…