I don't think he stopped -- he tried to pull the industry in a direction he wanted to see it go and has not (yet) been successful.
When Java first started appearing on cell phones in the early 00's I tracked him down and sent him an email asking if he was interested in porting some of his old hits to a phone as they were about as powerful as a 80's PC. He responded with the source code of one I said I enjoyed, Eastern Front 1942, and said go for it. I spent a couple hours trying to make sense of the 6502 Assembly code and quit.
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His games pushed them limits and set the standards for what was possible with a computer game in the early 80's.
He literally wrote the book on how to write games for the Atari 800 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Re_Atari
I don't think he stopped -- he tried to pull the industry in a direction he wanted to see it go and has not (yet) been successful.
When Java first started appearing on cell phones in the early 00's I tracked him down and sent him an email asking if he was interested in porting some of his old hits to a phone as they were about as powerful as a 80's PC. He responded with the source code of one I said I enjoyed, Eastern Front 1942, and said go for it. I spent a couple hours trying to make sense of the 6502 Assembly code and quit.
That's what 6502 emulators are for! Do you still have the source?
It is now online: http://www.atariarchives.org/APX/showinfo.php?cat=20095
Porting it was a good idea when the Motorola RAZR was the new hotness, but it doesn't hold up as well now that the processor in my iPhone is almost as fast as the one in my laptop: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-eastern-f...