Sam Dicker

Sam Dicker is an American software and audio engineer who developed sound software for the original Amiga. Before joining Amiga in 1983, he worked at Williams Electronics on arcade games including Defender and Sinistar, gaining experience with the close relationship between software, custom hardware and real-time audio.

At Amiga, Dicker helped define the software interface to the Paula audio hardware and worked on sound tools and demonstrations for the Lorraine prototype and Amiga 1000. His work made the computer’s four channels of sampled audio practical for application and game developers rather than leaving them as isolated hardware features.
Dicker also contributed to early Amiga demonstrations and the team’s distinctive engineering culture. He later continued a long career in audio and multimedia software at companies including Apple, Crystal Dynamics, Creative Labs, Lucasfilm and Magic Leap.