Floppy Days 155 - Interview with Karl Hornell, C64 Developer, cartoonist, author

About this episode

This episode features an interview with Karl Hornell, a C64 developer, cartoonist, and author.

Interview with Karl Hornell - C64 Game Developer, Cartoonist, Author Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper FutureVision Research Hello, and welcome to episode 155 of the Floppy Days Podcast for September, 2025! I'm Randy Kindig, your host for this podcast, where we talk about the computers that got many of us started in our careers and which still hold a lot of interest for us today. This month, I'm bringing you another interesting interview with someone who at an early age started developing commercial-grade software for the Commodore 64, which started him on an amazing trajectory with his career in software development, cartoonist, and more. His latest efforts include branching out into writing science fiction, which we will also discuss today. The person I'm referring to is Karl Hornell (Her-NELL). It's also an interesting story around how this interview opportunity came to me. I'm not used to getting contacted by an ad agency. This one indicated that their client, Karl, had just recently published a book and was looking for ways to advertise the book. They suggested that Floppy Days would be a great fit based on Karl's background…

People in this episode

Host: Randy Kindig

Guest: Karl Hornell

Topics covered

• C64 development
• interview
• software development
• cartooning
• science fiction writing

Keywords

• C64
• Karl Hornell
• software development
• cartoonist
• science fiction

Sponsors

Arcade Shopper, FutureVision Research, 8-Bit Classics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Patreon

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