Here is an illustration I did many years ago for a story about Nolan
Bushnell and Atari that appeared in the August 1982 issue of TWA Ambassador
magazine. (It was later reprinted in the premier issue of Hi-Res magazine,
1983.) I did it using a simple drawing program I wrote in BASIC which utilised
Graphics Mode 10 and used the joystick for input. I worked from a photograph
of Bushnell which I had blown up and then traced onto acetate. I attached
the tracing to my television monitor for reference. I worked with both
the television and the joystick turned 90° to accommodate the vertical
format. The final rendering was photographed off my television screen for
conventional full-color magazine reproduction. The aspect ratio of this
screen snapshot from Rainbow has been adjusted to compensate for the Atari's
non-square pixels. [Back to Emulators]
