san-d-2000 Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 Right now I´m reading Arcade Fever (by John Sellers), on page 19 it states Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak designed and programmed Breakout together. Did Jobs do the 2600 version on his own?, I´m just asking because I didn´t see Wozniak´s name in the list of programmers on this site. -San. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 They worked on the arcade version. Of course Woz did all the programming I'm sure BTW this is of course how they sort of started the Apple computer. IIRC they used parts from Atari. They joke about it on Stella at 20: Volume 1 and say that since Atari drove the price down for the 6502, Steve was able to make the Apple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRetroGamer Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 Neither one of them had anything to do with the Atari 2600. Jobs worked in coin-op and Woz was just his buddy who got to play free games when he stopped by, and happened to help him out a bit too. Woz was not empolyed by Atari, he worked for HP I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
san-d-2000 Posted February 14, 2002 Author Share Posted February 14, 2002 So why does Jobs get credit for the 2600 version here on AtariAge? Like do they list the programmers who did the original arcade version? -San. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irata_99 Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 As far as I know, Jobs left Atari before the VCS came out, so he couldn´t be involved in the VCS port. Even when Jobs and Woz programmed Breakout it was designed by Nolan Bushnell so there he should be named first if any in the VCS game. Anyway it would be fair to the original programmers to be listed in later ports of games, because it´s due to their efforts, that the game was created and became successfull enough to be ported. BTW, are there credits in the VCS Breakout? I don´t have this game... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
san-d-2000 Posted February 14, 2002 Author Share Posted February 14, 2002 I took a closer look at the AtariAge list, and found out Jobs is only mentioned as the designer of the game and not the programmer of the 2600 port. sandy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassidy Nolen Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 Funny that this thread would be on right now. Last night, there was a Biography on Woz on the Biography Channel. I only caught the middle of it, so I do not know what all they would have shown of his Atari days. They did show the tent at the US festival he had with Apple and Atari's hooked up to TVs everywhere. Here is his Bio, not sure how relevant it is to the thread, just sort of neat to see. Cassidy http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=20958 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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