ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

Thomas Cherryhomes

Thomas Cherryhomes recently deciphered the Educational System Master Cartridge and decoded the “talk and teach” system used by Dorsett Educational Systems. He has created a C library called eduendcode which allows people to create new lessons using that format. Thomas and I are currently working to digitize and archive 46 sets of Dorsett courses.

To hear some background about Dorsett Educational Systems and their educational cassettes, listen to my feature about that topic in episode 23 of ANTIC.

This interview occurred on June 2, 2015.

Links

All About Cassette Tapes - Atari document

Strong Bad Email #45, if he used an Atari 800

Complete set of archived Dorsett Educational Systems cassette tapes

Teaser quotes:

“I decided on a whim to approach Joe Decuir. Joe wrote me back about five minutes later. ‘Hello Tom. I am very impressed with your research and your findings.’”

“If you want to make your own tape formats on the Atari, go right ahead. You can bit-bang the POKEY to do whatever the hell you want.”