Interview with David Galloway - Retro game dev, Game Boy dev and more!

This week I had the awesome opportunity to interview David Galloway, a long-time game developer across many platforms. We met because I was wrong about the nature of the Game Boy CPU in this post, and I’m glad I made that mistake, because what an amazing guy to meet! In this extra-length interview, we discuss early 6052 games, Apple II game development, early 1990s game dev, Game Boy dev, speed-code for sprites, texture atlases, radiosity maps, video card drivers, and more!

Links

• This post was wrong about the Game Boy CPU :)
• David is founding Victoria Satellite Studio
• Mattel Electronics Football
• Atari 2600 games: Demon Attack and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
• KIM-1 6502 single-board computer
• The First Book of KIM
• Jim Butterfield
• Ohio Scientific C4P
• RobotWar on the Apple II
• Java-based Robocode
• PLATO was ahead of its time
• Randall Hyde who wrote The Art of Assembly Language also created the Lisa assembler for the Apple II
• Robot Odyssey on the Apple II by Mike Wallace
• Distinctive Software
• Test Drive, renamed to Need for Speed
• Worked on unreleased Need for Speed II
• 3dfx Interactive made video cards like the Voodoo
• Mike Acton on Data Oriented Design
• Bitsquid development blog is fun to follow
• Mike Acton is at Unity now
• Lattice C compiler
• The Universal Map Editor (TUME)
• Total Annihilation
• Radiosity lighting
• Texture atlas for light maps
• Sleeping dogs game
• Small Device C Compiler (SDCC)A
• The Game Boy CPU is not a Z80, nor is it an 8080
• Game Boy dev tool list
• kickc compiler for 6502