Charles Marslett's guest appearances

Charles Marslett

ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

Jason Moore

Michael Phillips

Jason Scott

David Young

Steve Robinson

Scott Adams

Dave Johnson

Ben Smith

Michael Katz

Peter Shankman

Nolan Bushnell

Kevin Hayes

John Constantine

Peter Hirshberg

Steve Cohen

OwlTail

Charles Marslett, MYDOS and FastChip  Charles Marslett wrote floppy disk and hard drive drivers for Percom, and was the creator of MYDOS, a disk operating system for the Atari 8-bit computers that offered support for double density sectors, subdirectories, and hard drives. He also created FastChip, a hardware add-on for the Atari, sold by Newell Industries, that claimed to speed up floating point routines by 300%. He also created the A65 Assembler, a macro assembler. He has released the source code for MYDOS and FastChip.  This interview took place on July 13, 2020.  Charles' web site MyDOS at AtariWiki MyDOS 3.0 User Guide A65 Assembler at AtariWiki  ANTIC Interview 212 - Wes Newell, Newell Industries  ANTIC Interview 7 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Bill Wilkinson, OSS  ANTIC Interview 11 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - David Small  ANTIC Interview 22 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Kathleen O'Brien, OSS Michael Abrash Zen of Assembly Language by Michael Abrash  Zen of Assembly Language by Michael Abrash: free eBook version; code at GitHub 

<p>Charles Marslett, MYDOS and FastChip  Charles Marslett wrote floppy disk and hard drive drivers for Percom, and was the creator of MYDOS, a disk operating system for the Atari 8-bit computers that offered support for double density sectors, subdirectories, and hard drives. He also created FastChip, a hardware add-on for the Atari, sold by Newell Industries, that claimed to speed up floating point routines by 300%. He also created the A65 Assembler, a macro assembler. He has released the source code for MYDOS and FastChip.  This interview took place on July 13, 2020.  <a href="https://www.wordmark.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Charles' web site</a> <a href="https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=MyDOS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MyDOS at AtariWiki</a> <a href="https://archive.org/details/MyDOS30UserGuide" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MyDOS 3.0 User Guide</a> <a href="https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=A65%20Assembler" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A65 Assembler at AtariWiki</a> <a href="https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-212-wes-newell-newell-industries" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> ANTIC Interview 212 - Wes Newell, Newell Industries</a> <a href="https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-7-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-bill-wilkinson-oss" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> ANTIC Interview 7 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Bill Wilkinson, OSS</a> <a href="https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-11-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-david-small" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> ANTIC Interview 11 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - David Small</a> <a href="https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-21-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-kathleen-obrien-oss" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> ANTIC Interview 22 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Kathleen O'Brien, OSS</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michael Abrash</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/3gOIpap" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Zen of Assembly Language by Michael Abrash</a> </p> <p>Zen of Assembly Language by Michael Abrash: <a href="https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-zen-of-asm/releases" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">free eBook version</a>; <a href="https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-zen-of-asm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">code at GitHub</a> </p>

ANTIC Interview 393 - Charles Marslett, MYDOS and FastChip