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	Title	Pub. Date	Duration
	ANTIC Episode 122 - Atypical Kay	28 Oct 2025	01:24:49
ANTIC Episode 122 - Atypical Kay In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we introduce a new format for the news, there's lots of archiving going on, new software and hardware for our favorite 8-bits, and we find out Kay is atypical… READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kay's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Next Without For What we've been up to Via Mark Knudsen: 2" binder of "August 1987": Atari newsletter time capsule 1987-08 - https://archive.org/details/antc_Atari_newsletter_time_capsule_1987-08/ And individual newsletters - https://archive.org/details/@savetz?query=identifier%3Aantc_1987-08 scanning Harry Stewart material: Here's his obit - https://www.mercurynews.com/obituaries/harry-stewart-san-jose-ca/ https://archive.org/details/stx_MicroTec_6500_Relocatable_Macro_Assembler_Manual https://archive.org/details/Bruce_Sherwood_Articles_about_Speech_Synthesis https://archive.org/details/Atari_Speech_Handler_Preliminary_Specification_1983-03-31 https://archive.org/details/Steve_Bristow_memo_on_Atari_810_drive_manual_1981-02-22 https://archive.org/details/atari-810-model-810-rear-board-schematic https://archive.org/details/Atari_810_disk_controller_firmware_memo_1980-12-22 https://archive.org/details/Atari_810_Disk_Drive_Peripheral_Device_Description_preliminary_release https://archive.org/details/Atari_810_Disk_Drive_Controller_Program_Report_1980-11-18 Atari Usenet groups on IA (so far, more to come): https://archive.org/details/net_micro_atari https://archive.org/details/net_micro_atari8 https://archive.org/details/net_micro_atari16 https://archive.org/details/comp_sys_atari https://archive.org/details/comp_sys_atari_announce https://archive.org/details/comp_sources_atari_st Allan and Kay continuing work to archive all APX programs. Still need: Missing (any version) manuals: Algicalc Basic Arithmetic Basic Renumber Utility (Renum) Character Set Editor Database/Report System Deep Blue C Disk Menu Dragons Quest or a twist in the tail Geography Gossip. (?) Home Loan Analysis Market Place Reversi Missing programs (some have other versions other than APX): Basic Utility for Renumbering Programs BURP Calculator Earth Science Geography (both lists) Home Loan Analysis (both lists) Instructional Computing Demonstration Market Place (both lists) Variable Changer Spreadsheet of APX archiving progress Atari poster - https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/BASIC-Programmers-Guide-from-1981-by-ChoccyHobNob/39504539.LVTDI?asc=u&c=1128814-wall-art&ref=work_collections_grid Tricky Tutorial #7 from Kevin Lund - https://www.atarimania.com/documents/Tricky-Tutorial-7-Disk-Utilities.pdf News* New and Updated Games: FujiLlama: https://www.atariorbit.org/2025/09/26/fujilama-is-a-new-multiplayer-game/ https://forums.atariage.com/topic/384764-a-new-fuji-net-game-fuji-llama-coming-soon/ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/266083/llama New Italian text adventures for the Atari 8-bit: https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/10/nuevas-aventuras-de-texto-italianas.html Wild West - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/385434-wild-west-text-adventure-released/ Tin Star - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/385435-tin-star-text-adventure-released/ Desperados - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/385436-desperados-text-adventure-released/ New & Updated Software: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/234684-atari-8-bit-software-preservation-initiative/page/113/#findComment-5735315 Atari OS ROM collection - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/201133-os-source-code-all-revisions/page/6/#findComment-5730231 Mark "atarimac" Grebe updated Atari800MacX to 6.1.0 - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/385276-atari800macx-61-released/ Paulo Garcia continues his fantastic work on the FujiSan emulator (based on Atari800 emulator with emphasis on UI). - https://github.com/pedgarcia/fujisan/releases/tag/v1.0.5 Eric Carr updates the VSCode Extension for FastBASIC - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/351055-fastbasic-debugger-extension-for-vscode/ Publications Atari Insights October issue - https://ataribasics.com/newsletter-hub/ Compute's Gazette October issue - https://www.computesgazette.com ABBUC Magazine Special Mag 56 available in English (downloadable) for members - https://abbuc.de/download/abbuc-sondermagazin-56-papierbeilage-englisch/ Old School Gamer #48 - https://shop.oldschoolgamer.com/products/osg-issue-48-september-2025 New & Updated Hardware Atari 1027 printer belt by Jeri Ellsworth - https://bsky.app/profile/jeriellsworth.bsky.social/post/3m3ojeg7x6c2e New 1:1 1000dpi Replica of Atari XE Motherboard in production - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/383379-new-11-1000dpi-replica-of-atari-xe-motherboard-%E2%80%93-interest-check/page/7/ New 1:1 1000dpi Replica of Atari 600XL Motherboard – Interest Check - Piotr D. Kaczorowski - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/384709-new-11-1000dpi-replica-of-atari-600xl-motherboard-%E2%80%93-interest-check/ Contests ABBUC Software Competition: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381593-abbuc-software-contest-2025 Video of the 13 games from the contest run on real hardware (Philsan) - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381593-abbuc-software-contest-2025/page/5/#findComment-5735942 ABBUC Hardware Competition - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381594-abbuc-hardware-contest-2025/ ATASCII Compo 2025: https://atariscne.org/news/index.php/atascii-compo-2025-is-running https://logiker.com/ATASCII Other https://tedium.co/2025/10/20/computers-fcc-rf-interference-history/ Atari 8-bit calendar (from Atariteca on Facebook): Article - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17NVFQ4pA8/ Ordering - https://www.facebook.com/martin.grundy.94 Upcoming Shows 2025 Atari Party 2025 - Nov. 22, 2025 (noon to 4) - Quakertown, PA Train Station - http://atariparty.org/ 2026 Vintage Computer Festival Montreal - Jan. 24-25, 2026 - Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC - https://vcfed.org/vcf-montreal/ Vintage Electronics Expo - Jan. 31, 2026 - Oakland Expo Center, Waterford, MI - https://www.thevee.org/ Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 14-15, 2026 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - vcfsocal.com Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - March 20-22 - Wyndham Indianapolis Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/ VCF East - April 17-19 2026 - InfoAge Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ Midwest Gaming Classic - April 24-26 - Baird Center, Milwaukee, WI - https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ VCF Southwest - May 29-31, 2026 - Westin Dallas Ft. Worth Airport - https://www.vcfsw.org/ Retrofest 2026 - May 30-31 - Steam Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon, UK - https://retrofest.uk/ Southern Fried Gaming Expo - July 31-Aug 2, 2026 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ Fujiama - August 26-30 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2026 Event page on Floppy Days Website - https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSeLsg4hf5KZKtpxwUQgacCIsqeIdQeZniq3yE881wOCCYskpLVs5OO1PZLqRRF2t5fUUiaKByqQrgA/pub YouTube Videos A Brilliant Failure: The Atari 400 & 800 Story - Little Car - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcUt0GCk-YI Atari Now! October 2025 News and Home brew for all Atari systems - Steve & Jeff Fulton - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMhNSFx6gyg New at Archive.org Allan: https://archive.org/details/@allan52 : https://archive.org/details/math-mission-apx-ver-3 https://www.oconnormortuary.com/obituaries/david-paul-kosmal/ https://archive.org/details/wordgo-apx-ver-3 https://archive.org/details/atari-xl-product-line-fact-sheets https://archive.org/details/@archivingisimportant : I Heart Atari newsletters french - https://archive.org/details/atarinews_1 https://archive.org/details/@ted_skrecky New at GitHub https://github.com/illuminated-g/atari_asm_moon Feedback https://oldbytes.space/@fluidlogic/115248639418865349
	ANTIC Episode 121 - Dongle Disaster	24 Sep 2025	01:23:08
ANTIC Episode 121 - Dongle Disaster In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Special guest Brent Carroll joins as we bring you the Atari news and narrowly avoid disaster with our dongle talk … READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kay's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Next Without For What we've been up to CX40+ Wireless Joystick: https://atari.com/products/wireless-cx40-joystick-atari https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Silver-Wireless-Joystick-Atari-2600/dp/B0DDR68ZXR Harry Stewart died: his daughter sent me documents https://bsky.app/profile/savetz.bsky.social/post/3lyj77tjtns2j Kay's 2017 interview with Harry - ANTIC Interview 295 - Harry Stewart, Pilot and WSFN VCFMW - https://www.vcfwm.org Video interview of Cynthia Solomon and Brian Silverman - https://youtu.be/lWmXPEyl9T8 FujiNet-enabled Atari800Macx: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/382899-adding-fujinet-support-to-atari800macx/page/3/#findComment-5709456 https://github.com/atarimacosx/Atari800MacX/releases/tag/Release_6.1.0Beta1 News Nick DiMasi (SCAT) passed way: Interview with Nick at VCFMW 13 - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-episode-5-connect-your-atari-to-a-pc (Nick's interview is near the end of the show) SCAT - http://www.scatarians.org/ Rare sighting of a working 1027 printer at latest TACO meeting - https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16vmTRRzHD/ Modified Atari 800 with a custom cpu board and a hp 1611a logic analyzer would plug into the external port - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Fv8FM9yxz/ RM800XL update on X - https://x.com/rm_800xl/status/1964665547821637818 Microsoft open-sources the 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates himself: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/microsoft_open_sources_6502_basic/ https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502 Atari XL/XE -=Elite=- beta version: From AtariTeca - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/09/inesperado-beta-jugable-de-elite.html Saberman Retronews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi8Fr9XFxKQ Download - https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-elite_44548.html 5.25" Floppy Envelope Generator from Pawel "Lexx" Kawka: From Atariteca - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/09/nuevo-generador-de-fundas.html online tool for designing covers - https://ataricovers.com/generator-kopert/?lang=en Cassette Cover Generator Newsletter News September, 2025 issue of Atari Insights - https://www.ataribasics.com ABBUC magazines 162 and special mag 56 - https://www.abbuc.de Upcoming Shows Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 17-19 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ Vintage Computer Festival Montreal - Jan. 24-25, 2026 - Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC - https://vcfed.org/vcf-montreal/ Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 14-15, 2026 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - vcfsocal.com Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - March 20-22 2026 - Wyndham Indianapolis Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/ VCF East - April 17-19 2026 - InfoAge Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ Southern Fried Gaming Expo - July 31-Aug 2 2026 - Atlanta, Ga - https://gameatl.com/ Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html Event page created by Floppy Days on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Floppy Days Website - https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSeLsg4hf5KZKtpxwUQgacCIsqeIdQeZniq3yE881wOCCYskpLVs5OO1PZLqRRF2t5fUUiaKByqQrgA/pub YouTube Videos How did the Atari beat the Commodore 64 in Chile thanks to Coelsa? - Frognum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NW2ZkWQ-nw Atari Now! News and Homebrews, September 2025 - Into the Vertical Blank - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKlmVrEHhhI Atari 800XL FujiNet and Sega Genesis Retro.Link Networking Test - Greg Gallardo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdYFlnNGm9o New at Archive.org Ted Skrecky continues uploading XIO3 newsletters - https://archive.org/details/@ted_skrecky https://archive.org/details/de-re-atari-spanish_202508 Listener Feedback O'Shea limestone cave - http://www.oshealtd.com/atari.htm Long Island Gaming Expo in NY - https://liretro.com/
	ANTIC Interview 454 - Steve Kranish, Parker Brothers Frogger	06 Mar 2025	01:26:36
Steve Kranish, Parker Brothers Frogger Steve Kranish is the creator of the Atari 8-bit and Atari 5200 versions of Frogger, the versions published by Parker Brothers. Parker Brothers had the rights to publish cartridge versions of Frogger. Sierra On-Line had already published versions of Frogger on floppy disk and cassette, so Parker Brothers bought the rights to use that version as the basis for its cartridge version. But there were a few problems: for one, the 13K cassette game would need to be shrunk to fit on an 8K cartridge. Another: the source code was lost. Steve also worked on an Atari 8-bit version of the board game Risk, and a game called Baker's Dozen, both of which were unfinished. He also worked on Project Zelda, Parker Brothers investigation into distributing Atari VCS games via cable television. This interview took place on March 2, 2025. In 2016, I interviewed John Harris, who programmed the Sierra Online version of Frogger (as well as Jawbreaker and Mouskattack). Check the show notes for the link to that. Video version of this interview 2007 interview with Steve at Atari Compendium Steve's games at AtariMania Steve on Atariage ANTIC Interview 200 - John Harris: Jawbreaker, Frogger, Mouskattack Support Kay on Patreon
	ANTIC Episode 75 - Video Wars	27 Feb 2021	01:08:31
ANTIC Episode 75 - Video Wars In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… we discuss the merits of Sophia vs. VBXE for video upgrades, kick off the BASIC 10-liners contest, discuss some new games, and talk about numerous hardware upgrades that are coming. READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Next Without For What We've Been Up To Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games - https://amzn.to/3k8avzS Code for Atari8BitBot (https://twitter.com/atari8bitbot) now on GitHub - (https://github.com/savetz/Atari8BitBot) PC BASIC Bot - https://pcbasicbot.com ACE80XL cart - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/ Interview with Claus Buckholz and Lance Ward - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-292-claus-buchhoz-lance-ward-ace-80 in 2017 Recent Interviews https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-403-dan-kramer-atari-trak-ball-controllers https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-special-episode-my-atari-by-suzanne-ciani News External version of Ultimate1MB for Atari XL/XE under development by Sebastian 'Candle`o`Sin' Bartkowicz - https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Rx20IQ94UuU&fbclid=IwAR0gZj99WWBTq1EDMLK5yUkmpTqa51-f7dLwighOuZUqjIRr-HU0Pjwn8Q8 Atari800MacX emulator update - https://github.com/atarimacosx/Atari800MacX/releases/tag/Release_6.0.0 Atari Projects: http://atariprojects.org/ - Jason Moore - latest project is on using Atari FastBASIC. Also recent projects on using CP/M through FujiNet, and the ACE80 carts. Version 6.0.0 of the RECOIL graphics browser from Atari computers and others has been released - http://recoil.sourceforge.net BASIC 10-Liner Contest 2021: https://gkanold.server.deerpower.de/ https://twitter.com/Basic10L MouSTer for Atari 8-bit: https://hackaday.com/2020/07/14/modern-mice-on-old-computers/ https://retrohax.net/shop/amiga/mouster/ https://retrohax.net/shop/ Thingiverse Atari 800 Pi case - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3110334 Atari Homebrew Awards - BINARIES, INSTRUCTIONS & PACKAGING New game Albert by kski: http://atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?ct=nowinki&ucat=1&subaction=showfull&id=1613313216 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=atari+800&sp=CAISBAgEEAE%253D Atari 800 / Sophia-2 Install by Faicuai: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/317398-atari-800-sophia-2-install-letting-antic-and-gtia-be-the-best-they-can-be/ https://thebrewingacademy.com/products/sophia-2-dvi-output-gtia-replacement?variant=32256340164710 Shows Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): VCFSE June 11-13 http://southernfriedgameroomexpo.com/ KansasFest July 23-24 https://www.kansasfest.org ; virtual event August 7 & 8, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival West 2021 (VCF West) October 8, 9, 10, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival East 2021 (VCF East) Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ YouTube videos this month Atari 800 VBXE installation - gyorka (Candle o Sin) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=CvoUvU4AFEc&fbclid=IwAR0GQZIvUSN3-cwGnMR0tZSIZ9xTpoGAvkkvN-t7M1zMVJsLSVVydqk-6qk zxEmu and 8bit Atari (Rapidus, Ultimate 1MB, VBXE) - nowy80Retro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzrXcf-WBXA Dingux-atari, new Atari 800 and Atari 5200 emulator for Miyoo consoles - silvacam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXJ2Ekv7KiY Back to the Future Java (b2fJ) - Eduardo Ahumada Gallardo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQllSZyGrjI Download - https://github.com/mzattera/b2fJ/releases/latest Polish games for Atari 8-bit developed after 2000 - https://youtu.be/GQQR7Xy-nTk New at Archive.org Hobbit, Dutch computer magazine, March 1983 - https://archive.org/details/HOBBIT_1983_0003/mode/2up Paul Daniels: Video - https://archive.org/details/twitter-710542070373429248 Paul Daniels' Magic Adventure - http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-paul-daniels--magic-adventure_3906.html Allan Bushman: Strategic Simulations, Inc's Fall 1987/Winter 1988 Catalog - https://archive.org/details/strategic-simulations-inc-catalog-fall-87-winter-88-catalog/mode/2up
	ANTIC Special Episode - My Atari by Suzanne Ciani	30 Jan 2021	00:13:54
ANTIC Special Episode: My Atari by Suzanne Ciani Over the years many of the people I've interviewed have generously sent me all different kinds of historical Atari material — including source code, schematics, documentation, books and articles, and design documents — and allowed me to share them. This is the first time someone has sent me a professionally produced song they created for Atari. After I published my interview with Suzanne Ciani, she sent me an email: she had found an unpublished Atari spot in her archives. It's a tune titled "My Atari". She sent it to me and graciously allowed me to share it with you. She wrote "I don't think it is a final. There are a bunch of mixes. Maybe you could shed some light on this as to whether it was ever used." Well, I'd certainly never heard it before, and don't think it was ever used. I suppose it might have been used internally by Atari, but it wasn't released to the public. Suzanne later said that she believes it was a demo for a campaign, but as far as she knows it was never used. She hasn't found records indicating what year the song was made. My guess is probably between 1981 and 1984. Lyrics: I've been to lots of places There's more I wanna see And being young is all that's stopping me Beyond my time I know there's more A whole world waiting to explore But I can't seem to get past my back door But when I sit At my Atari I know the world is mine And the future is my time When I sit At my Atari There's no mountain I can't climb No adventure I can't find I know the world is mine When I sit behind My Atari I know the world is mine I know the world is mine My Atari I know the world is mine I know the world is mine It's a rockin' tune with a powerful bassline that propels the song forward, but beyond that, the lyrics tell a poignant story of a person who feels ready to explore and conquer the world — but is still too young. Until their time comes, their Atari video game provides an exciting glimpse into a future of exploring the world for themselves. It strikes me sad, but hopeful. Suzanne sent me several versions of the song, and there doesn't seem to be a definitive final version. Some have differences in length of a few seconds. My untrained ear can't tell any difference between some variations. One is significantly shorter, leaving out some lyrics. Others abruptly stop, due to technical issues during mixing or perhaps because they were meant as insertion edits. You've heard one of the complete versions. For completionists and the curious, I'll play the other versions she sent me now. I've uploaded high-quality versions of all of these audio files to Internet Archive. Thank you to Suzanne Ciani for taking the time to recover these files, and for sharing them with me and the world. "My Atari" audio at Internet Archive My interview with Suzanne: audio, YouTube, Internet Archive
	ANTIC Interview 403 - Dan Kramer, Atari Trak-Ball Controllers	23 Jan 2021	00:48:29
Dan Kramer, Atari Trak-Ball Controllers Dan Kramer worked at Atari from 1980 to 1984 in the consumer engineering group where he created products for the home computers and home video games. He championed the creation of the Trak-Ball accessories for the Atari game consoles and computers, and received a patent for his digital-to-analog interface for the Atari 5200 trak-ball. He also worked on the French (SECAM) version of the Atari XL computers, the Atari 2700, and various other projects. This interview took place on December 18, 2020. Playing Catch-Up: Dan Kramer (2005 interview): https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/97175/Playing_CatchUp_Dan_Kramer.php Patent: Digital-analog conversion for shaft encoders: https://patents.justia.com/patent/4496936 Video version of this interview at YouTube: https://youtu.be/l0E6BCrhka0
	ANTIC Episode 74 - Name Wars	16 Jan 2021	01:26:48
ANTIC Episode 74 - Name Wars In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… Kevin (er... Kay) and Randy have a name fight and, as usual, we bring you all the Atari 8-bit news that's fit to print. READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Next Without For What We've Been Up To Atari Party Dec 19 - https://www.facebook.com/groups/281252672436874 Kay's 2020 Post-Mortem - https://www.patreon.com/posts/2020-post-mortem-45658000 Retrotink zero-latency HDMI converter - https://www.retrotink.com/product-page/2x-mini Sid Meier's Memoir - https://amzn.to/3oyobG4 BASIC games Kay recovered - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/315354-a-few-basic-games-i-recovered/ SIO2PC-USB case - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product/sio2pc-universal-interface-case , https://atariage.com/forums/topic/313161-atarimax-sio2pc-and-sio2pc-usb-cases/#comments Recent Interviews ANTIC Interview 401 - John F. White: Writing Strategy Games On Your Atari Computer & Superquerg ANTIC Interview 402 - The Famous Computer Cafe News Fractalus 1.0 Released - https://www.lsdwa.com/blog/2020/12/18/fractalus-1-0-released/ ACE80 cart run at Vintage Computer Center - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/312362-ace80-ace80xl-dt80-pre-order/ Tfhh list - http://www.van-radecke.de/STUFF/tfhh_HW_info.pdf Mystery cart - https://www.facebook.com/groups/floppydays/permalink/2840376299554125/ Fresh interview with Mark Reid, Author of Getaway - https://www.everythingamiga.com/2021/01/a-conversation-with-mark-reid-author-of-getaway.html Rob's 2016 interview with Mark - http://playermissile.com/podcast/ep019.html A-Train Systems A-TRACK - model railroad electronics and control - https://www.a-train-systems.co.uk/getatrack.htm History and Features of the Original Atari A-TRACK Version - https://www.a-train-systems.co.uk/projects.htm#atHistory 'FLOP' Magazine - http://flop.atariportal.cz/index.en.php Atari800MacX v5.5.0 - https://github.com/atarimacosx/Atari800MacX/releases/tag/Release_5.5.0 Authentic Reproduction ATR8000 Interest - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/312890-authentic-reproduction-atr8000-interest/#comments Invitation to play in the new season of the HSC, first round starting now! - http://atariage.com/forums/forum/60-8-bit-high-score-club/ Real 16KB RAM game compo from Sikor Soft - Sikor on AtariAge - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/315158-real-16kb-ram-game-compo-from-sikor-soft/ Atari 8-bit on hackaday - https://hackaday.com/2020/12/30/alien-inspired-cyberdeck-packs-vintage-atari-800xl/ https://github.com/eizen6/6502portable AspeQt on a Raspberry Pi how-to - https://13leader.net/AspeQT2RasPI.pdf Once Upon Atari: How I made history by killing an industry Paperback – December 14, 2020 by Howard Scott Warshaw - https://amzn.to/3mjSC0u http://www.atariwomen.org Shows Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): April 9, 10 & 11, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival East 2021 (VCF East) VCFSE June 11-13 http://southernfriedgameroomexpo.com/ KansasFest July 19-25 https://www.kansasfest.org August 7 & 8, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival West 2021 (VCF West) Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ YouTube videos this month Atari Quirks and Solutions - Thomas Cherryhomes - https://youtu.be/3lPsd0FkNss Thomas Cherryhomes - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwP6ehTJXvcI-JOWTEwnyGQ U1MB and SpartaDOS X with FujiNet and a whole series of videos around FujiNet FujiNet Disk Copy - Vintage Computer Center (Gavin Haubelt) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YovR3mrCmQ0&t=731s Building the FujiNet - Vintage Computer Center - Parts 1-5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqKOGyEjYec SDrive-Max videos - Vintage Computer Center - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOp5f6eC-yh4cLnxfw2yrxQ FlashJazzCat (Jonathan Halliday) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4nx-i-2K34RDHyDn06i7Ng Atari XEGS with UAV, VBXE, U1MB, and PokeyMAX, Various videos on repairing and upgrading a 600XL New at GitHub https://github.com/codingbychanche/atariParallelDataTransfer Bill Lange's Exploring Atari Action https://github.com/billlange1968/ExploringAtariAction to accompany https://exploringaction.blogspot.com New at Archive.org New collection "Atari Computer Disk Images" https://archive.org/details/ataridiskimages Antic magazine renewal letters https://archive.org/details/1986.07-antic-renewal https://archive.org/details/1986.05-antic-renewal https://archive.org/details/rearc_atr-8000-newsletter-august-1984-08-swp-inc-us/mode/2up Chalk Board Inc's Power Pad Programming Kit manual https://archive.org/details/power-pad-programming-kit-chalk-board-inc/mode/2up Strategic Simulations, Inc. Spring, 1987 Catalog https://archive.org/details/strategic-simulations-inc-spring-1987/mode/2up Atari Home Computer Products Premium Incentive Confidential Price List https://archive.org/details/atari-home-computer-products-1-1-82/mode/2up Feedback Adam Trionfo video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJcftw31VQw a nice tweet we got - https://twitter.com/dneedham8302/status/1335755648278155267?s=21 Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. Certain conditions apply. Offer good for those with approved credit. Member FDIC. An equal housing lender.
	ANTIC Interview 402 - The Famous Computer Cafe	19 Dec 2020	01:38:32
The Famous Computer Cafe This is a podcast episode featuring three interviews with people who created a radio show that did hundreds of interviews. The Famous Computer Cafe was -- not a restaurant -- but a radio program that aired from 1983 through the first quarter of 1986. The program included computer news, product reviews, and interviews. The program was created by three people — who were not only the on-air voices, but did all the work around the program: getting advertisers, buying air time, researching each day's computer news, booking interviews -- everything. Those three people were Andrew Velcoff, Michael Walker (now Michael FireWalker), and Ellen Fead Hansen (later Ellen Walker, now Ellen Fields.) For this episode of Antic, I got to talk with all three of The Famous Computer Cafe's proprietors. There were several versions of the show, which aired on several radio stations, primarily in California. A live, daily half-hour version allowed phone calls from listeners. Taped versions (running a half-hour and up to two hours) also aired daily. The show started in 1983 on two stations in the Los Angeles area: KFOX 93.5 FM and KIEV 870 AM. In 1985 it began airing in the California Bay Area: on KXLR 1260 AM in San Francisco and KCSM 91.1 FM in San Matro, and KSDO 1130 AM in San Diego. Also in 1985 a nationally syndicated, half-hour non-commercial version of The Famous Computer Cafe was available via satellite to National Public Radio stations around the United States, though it's not clear today which stations ran it. To me, the most exciting thing about the show was the interviews. The list of people that the show interviewed is a who's-who of tech luminaries of the early 1980s. But not just computer people: they interviewed anyone whose work was touched by personal computer technology. musicians, professors, publishers, philosophers, journalists, astrologers. The cafe aired interviews with Philip Estridge, the IBM vice president who was responsible for developing the PC; Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates; Atari Chairman Jack Tramiel; Bill Atkinson, developer of MacPaint; Infocom's Joel Berez; Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek; musician Herbie Hancock; Trip Hawkins, founder of Electronic Arts; author Douglas Adams; Stewart Brand, editor of the Whole Earth Catalog; psychologist Timothy Leary; science fiction writer Ray Bradbury; synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog; and pop star Donny Osmond. The list goes on and on and on. By mid-1985, the show had run more than 300 half-hour interviews. Here's the bad news. Those episodes, those interviews, are lost. Today, a recording of only one Cafe episode is known to exist. That show, which aired January 2, 1986, includes an interview with Rich Gold, creator of the Activision simulation Little Computer People; a call-in from tech journalist John Dvorak; and commercials for Elephant Floppy Disks and Microsoft Word. The entire 29-minute episode is available at Internet Archive, with the gracious permission of the show's creators. It's an amazing time capsule -- which survived because Rich Gold, interviewed on the program, saved a cassette of that show. Perhaps, somewhere, there are hundreds more episodes waiting to be re-discovered — if someone has the recordings. If you do, contact me at antic@ataripodcast.com. FOUND IN 2024!: 53 episodes of Famous Computer Cafe The good news is that transcripts of six interviews do exist (and are now online): Timothy Leary, Donny Osmond, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky; Frank Herbert, author of the Dune series; Tom Mahon, author of Charged Bodies; and Jack Nilles, head of the University of Southern California Center for Futures Research. Check this episode's show notes, at AtariPodcast.com, for links to the one episode, the six transcripts, and the cool Famous Computer Cafe logo. You'll hear the interviews in the order in which I recorded them. First up is Michael FireWalker, then Ellen Fields, then Andrew Velcoff. The interview with Michael FireWalker took place on May 27, 2020. The interview with Ellen Fields took place on June 1, 2020. The interview with Andrew Velcoff took place on July 3, 2020. Special thanks to fellow researcher Devin Monnens, and the Department of Special Collections at Stanford University. This podcast used excerpts from the one The Famous Computer Cafe episode that is known to exist. That episode, now available at Internet Archive, was digitized by Stanford University (the physical tape is in their special collections located in the Stanford Series 9 of the Rich Gold Collection (M1510), Box 2.) If you have any other recordings of any Famous Computer Cafe episodes, please contact me at antic@ataripodcast.com. The Famous Computer Cafe 1986-01-02 episode The Famous Computer Cafe interview transcripts The Famous Computer Cafe ads, photos, articles
	ANTIC Interview 401 - John F. White: Writing Strategy Games On Your Atari Computer & Superquerg	12 Dec 2020	00:20:11
John F. White: Writing Strategy Games On Your Atari Computer & Superquerg John F. White is author of the book Writing Strategy Games On Your Atari Computer and the creator of Superquerg and Negaquerg, computer chess programs that were distributed in New Atari User magazine. He was also a contributor to the UK computer magazines Popular Computing Weekly, Personal Computing, Practical Computing, and Computer Weekly, often writing about computer chess and game strategy. His book Writing Strategy Games On Your Atari Computer, published in 1983, offers "techniques for intelligent games," with advice and BASIC code for programming tic-tac-toe, checkers, chess, and other board games. New Atari User's description of SuperQuerg — it was a "disk bonus," not a type- in program — was: "SuperQuerg Chess is a third generation program with alpha-beta pruning and iterative deepening. An alpha-beta window is also employed. Uses Shannon A and B strategies, killer heuristic and chopper functions, new methods for searching to deep levels and for other game strategies. ... Querg Chess is unusual among chess programs in that it relies more on the strength of its positional strategy than on its tactical play. Artificial Intelligence methods are used to switch between strategic and tactical searching, as the program considers appropriate." John organized the 1982 Chess Computer Symposium, the first major tournament to assign gradings to chess computers by their play against human opponents. He is co-creator of Blitz Latin, Latin-to-English language translation software. This interview took place via email from July 13 through 16, 2020. You will be hearing John's words but not his voice. John preferred not to do a voice interview, so for this audio podcast, his emailed responses will be read by Victor Marland. Canonical text version of this interview John F. White at ChessProgramming.org Querg at ChessProgramming.org John F. White at AtariMania Download SuperQuerg and NegaQuerg Querg Chess article in ICCA Journal The Amateurs' Book Opening Routine in ICCA Journal Blitz Latin Superquerg announcement in New Atari User Writing Strategy Games on Your Atari Computer: UK version, US version A Colorful Combination article Weather Center adventure game articles: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Checkers program by John White, Creative Computing Bill Lange's blog on Writing Strategy Games On Your Atari Computer
	ANTIC Episode 73 - Randys Personality Board	09 Dec 2020	01:08:02
ANTIC Episode 73 - Randy's Personality Board In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… we have a ton of Christmas gift ideas for that Atari nerd in your life (even if that nerd is you); we find out Randy has a broken personality board; and we bring you the Atari 8-bit news to fill out your life. READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Next Without For What We've Been Up To https://twitter.com/Atari8BitBot Recent Interviews ANTIC Interview 400 - Suzanne Ciani, pioneer in electronic music - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-400-suzanne-ciani-pioneer-in-electronic-music News River Raid "Cold Winter" for the Atari XL/XE Article at Vintage is the New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/river-raid-cold-winter-for-the-atari-xl-xe-a-new-take-on-a-classic-game-that-goes-beyond-a-simple-rom-hack/ short video as a teaser: https://youtu.be/CnviviXT6wg Download: AtariOnline.pl Pokey Explorer POKEY explorer - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/313338-pokey-explorer-v11-release/ and https://github.com/ivop/pokey-explorer atarimacosx Version Release_5.4.0 - https://github.com/atarimacosx/Atari800MacX/releases/ New software coming for the Atari 8-bit at AtariAge - https://mobile.twitter.com/atariage/status/1324466917051113472/photo/2 - 2 new games for Atari 8 Bit computers in the AtariAge Store later this month: Adventure II XE and Scramble! Inverse ATASCII Season 6 podcast - https://inverseatascii.info/ Chicken Missile Podcast https://chickenmissile.com Michael Sternberg got Magic Castle working: https://github.com/michaelsternberg/magic-castle ANTIC Interview 375 - Bruce May, Unreleased Magic Castle Game - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-375-bruce-may-unreleased-magic-castle-game ABBUC 2020 Software Contest Winners - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/304311-atari-8-bit5200-homebrew-completedwip-in-2020/?do=findComment&comment=4678322 Shows Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): December 19, 2020: Atari Party (Bill Lange), virtual - https://t.co/uAEmMqlZz2?amp=1 April 9, 10 & 11, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival East 2021 (VCF East) June 11-13, 2021: http://southernfriedgameroomexpo.com/ August 7 & 8, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival West 2021 (VCF West) Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ Christmas Gift Ideas Atari 1020 Tissue Box - https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/911472311/atari-1020-tissue-paper-box?ref=cart buy or build a FujiNet https://fujinet.online/shop/ don't forget about $5 off coupon at http://www.vintagecomputercenter.com Coupon code:"antic5", limit 1 per person and only good for the FujiNet. No expiration Atari face mask - https://www.etsy.com/listing/840113927/atari-face-mask ABBUC membership - http://www.abbuc.de/mitgliedschaft/mitglied-werden SDrive Max - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product/atari-1050-sdrive-max ArcadeR Joystick - https://retroradionics.co.uk/#!/ArcadeR-9-pin-ATARI-standard-Joystick/p/168982750/category=0 Atari XL/XE 5-Pin DIN S-Video & Composite AV Cable - https://www.8bitclassics.com/product/atari-xlxe-5-pin-din-to-s-video-composite-av-cable/ RetroTink2X Pro - https://www.retrotink.com/product-page/retrotink-2x-pro or RT2xMini https://www.retrotink.com/product-page/2x-mini (converting component, S-video and composite signals from retro consoles to a modern digital display) Atari Badges/Stickers - https://www.mateoproceo.com/search?controller=search&orderby=position&orderway=desc&search_query=atari&submit_search= books Terrible Nerd by Kevin Savetz - https://www.amazon.com/Terrible-Nerd-Kevin-Savetz/dp/1939169003 Atari: Visual History of the Atari 8-bit Computer by Darren Doyle - https://www.greyfoxbooks.com/product/the-atari-a-visual-history/ Atari Inc. Business is Fun by Marty Goldberg and Curt Vendel - https://www.amazon.com/Atari-Inc-Business-Curt-Vendel/dp/0985597402 Breakout: How Atari 8-bit Computers Defined a Generation by Jamie Lendino - https://www.amazon.com/Breakout-Atari-Computers-Defined-Generation/dp/0692851275 Atari Projects by Jason Moore - https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jason-moore/atari-projects/paperback/product-196qrpj9.html?page=1&pageSize=4 Art of Atari by Tim Lapetino - https://www.amazon.com/Art-Atari-Tim-Lapetino/dp/1524101036 Art of Atari Poster Collection by Tim Lapetino - https://www.amazon.com/Art-Atari-Poster-Collection-Lapetino/dp/1524103020 Missile Commander https://arcadeblogger.com/mcbookusa/ Make a donation to Internet Archive https://archive.org/donate/ YouTube videos this month Atari 400 and 800 Computer Comprehensive Presentation 2019 VCF EAST Festival - DRGUILLOTINE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rT8QzHWTFQ - Curt Vendel All About Atari 8-Bit Programming - Rhode Island Computer Museum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF97bRp8tKo Atari 8 Bit OS Boot Sequence - Dendrite Digital - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56ZRKFpsu48 - Find out how the Atari 8 Bit Computer initializes. New at GitHub syntax highlighting for Visual Studio Code - https://github.com/pedgarcia/ossaction-vscode New at Archive.org Invitation to Programming 1,2,3 manuals in Italian: https://archive.org/details/invito-a-programmare-1 https://archive.org/details/invito-a-programmare-2 https://archive.org/details/invito-a-programmare-3 Atari 130 XE, 600 XL, 800 XL für Einsteiger (for beginners) in German by Norbert Szczepanowski - https://archive.org/details/atari-130-xe-600-xl-800-xl-fur-einsteiger Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. Certain conditions apply. Offer good for those with approved credit. Member FDIC. An equal housing lender.
	ANTIC Interview 400 - Suzanne Ciani, pioneer in electronic music	05 Dec 2020	00:43:48
Suzanne Ciani, pioneer in electronic music Suzanne Ciani is a pioneer in electronic music, Grammy-nominated composer, and recording artist. In the 1980's, she created music for television commercials, corporate tags, and audio logos for Atari as well as many other companies. She also created the soundtrack for the 1980 Bally pinball machine, Xenon. In addition to being an early adopter of electronic music, she educated the world about it, demonstrating sound design techniques on The David Letterman Show, 3-2-1 Contact, and other popular media. This interview took place on November 5, 2020. Suzanne Ciani's web site Suzanne Ciani Creates The Soundtrack For A Pinball Machine A Life In Waves trailer Suzanne Ciani interview in ANP Quarterly Vol 2/No 7 2012 Suzanne Ciani interview in LA Times Music Blog Suzanne Ciani on Letterman Suzanne Ciani on 3-2-1 Contact Atari Video Game Summer commercial This interview at YouTube After the interview, Suzanne found an unreleased Atari song
	ANTIC Episode 72 - Pick and Place	07 Nov 2020	01:24:05
ANTIC Episode 72 - Pick and Place In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… we have as a guest Mr. Gavin Haubelt who runs the Vintage Computer Center and who is feverishly producing #FujiNets for the Atari community, Brad as the host of this episode shows why he's considered the master of segues, and we talk about all the new hardware available or coming (such as the world's smallest Atari 8-bit). READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Next Without For What We've Been Up To Atari8BitBot https://twitter.com/Atari8BitBot/with_replies and https://atari8bitbot.com/ Weather app for #FujiNet: https://gitlab.com/bocianu/weather https://www.howtogeek.com/697300/a-vintage-atari-is-an-amazing-weather-terminal-in-2020/ ABBUC membership and newsletters - http://www.abbuc.de Vintage Computer Center - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com News The World's Smallest Atari 8-bit (mytek, Michael St. Pierre) - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/308191-the-worlds-smallest-atari-8-bit/ "random image from curated collections" from Steve Boswell: New https://twitter.com/a8bitrobot (also Kay's older https://twitter.com/Atari800screens) To get SAM audio: tweet "@a8bitrobot SAM: hello" #FujiNet Links: Vintage Computer Center (Gavin) and others creating run of FujiNet boards - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/fujinet Coupon code:"antic5" to get $5 off at Vintage Computer Center; limit 1 per person and only good for the FujiNet; No expiration Thom Cherryhomes video on the FujiNet at VCF East - #FujiNet in 15 Minutes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izdCLDQ1ZxU&fbclid=IwAR0X7-2Lz8oM18t3MgPtp1Ra4Dp82gsgsF-7cz4JVbM-GUVWie9X6gvWNKU #FujiNet Quick Start Guide - https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-platformio/wiki/FujiNet-Quickstart-Guide Transparent plexiglass 800XL case: Bernd Heraleo on Atari 8-bit Computers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/atari8bitcomputers/) https://www.plexilaser.de/Retro-Computer-Gehaeuse https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3371131223000011&set=gm.3377139998990149&type=3&eid=ARAOHLxXHWsWcELxuZzpB-nQ9Q4hFX_WDXMiTaLjUkf_SwEW9Bul2eDQXTuy8E-3NsTar1GOgh9kMDhO&ifg=1 Rick Trotter, Atari Dealer, Horizon Computers - Article from 1996 (WestWorld) - https://www.westword.com/news/game-over-5056756 Bill Lange's "Atari Community Awareness Program" post at Atari8BitAds: https://atari8bitads.blogspot.com/2020/10/atari-community-awareness-program.html https://www.ebay.com/itm/Atari-RARE-Arcade-Game-FLYER-Original-1986-Space-Duel-Dig-Dig-Awareness-Program/402464695055?hash=item5db4c3e30f:g:x5IAAOSwYCtfczVp ATARI 5200 CONTROLLER - RIGHT STICK, NO CABLE - https://www.maker-matrix.com/product/5200-controller-right Mark Simonson's blog post about his Atari 8-bit history - https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/de-re-atari The Easy 6502 - http://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/ 1979 Atari 800 Personal Computer Vintage Look Metal Sign More Current Notes scanned by Allan Bushman - https://archive.org/details/current-notes-volume-14-number-5-june-july-1994/mode/2up SIDE3 from Jonathan Halliday (firmware) and Candle (hardware) - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=143 Atari Fan #1 – A new Paper magazine in English for all Atari fans out there - https://vintageisthenewold.com/atari-fan-1-a-new-paper-magazine-in-english-for-all-atari-fans-out-there/ Shows Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): April 9, 10 & 11, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival East 2021 (VCF East) VCFSE June 11-13 http://southernfriedgameroomexpo.com/ August 7 & 8, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival West 2021 (VCF West) Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ YouTube videos this month Atari 800XL - Collector's Box - 2020 - retro eighties - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qJ9K96gbYY Making the Boxes for collectors of the Atari 800 xl and the Drive 1050 to keep the collections in perfect condition The scheme and prints in: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zE68... Atari FujiNet for Dummies - Doug Venner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZx1aCD1G4Y&t=1177s Atari XEGS: Installing Ultimate 1MB and s-video jack - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7nfMNz_CCc Atari Fan Magazine 1/2020 Review - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zk-Jxr3uSo&t=577s How to use SIDE3: Part 1 - Stand Alone - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKPjbVyrgBQ New at Archive.org https://archive.org/search.php?query=Layton+Atari+Computer+Enthusiasts Allan Bushman adding Current Notes (Washington Area Atari Computer Enthusiasts) And manual for Timework's Swiftax manual https://archive.org/details/swiftax-timeworks Happy Computer 5/86 https://archive.org/details/happy-computer-programmiersprachen Atari 600 XL 800 XL Intern - https://archive.org/details/atari-600-xl-800-xl-intern-data-becker https://archive.org/details/%40bultro Many issues of ZONG https://archive.org/details/zong-sonderheft-1 And many issues of Boletín Informativo Centro Atari (Chili, Spanish) https://archive.org/details/boletin-informativo-centro-atari-1986-05-06 Listener Feedback Adam Trionfo Atari collection video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08ztNibKzy8 "My Atari 800 XL (Part 2) Troubleshooting, Getting it Working, So Many Games..." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ7KgwjwVb4 Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. 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	ANTIC Interview 399 - Jim Tittsler, Atari 1600 prototype	01 Nov 2020	00:35:40
Jim Tittsler, Atari 1600 prototype Jim Tittsler got my attention with a tweet, an old photo of a computer in a PC-style case, connected to Atari joysticks and disk drive. In the tweet, Jim wrote: "A prototype of what we hoped would become the #atari 1600: an Atari 800 grafted on to an IBM PC compatible. A Jekyll/Hyde mashup allowing you to plug in cartridges, SIO drives, and PC expansion cards. It seemed a good idea at the time." So I reached out to Jim to learn more about that computer, and his time at Atari. Jim worked in Atari's Special Projects Group, where he worked on several pie-in-the-sky, unreleased, home computer projects including the Atari 1600. When Atari was sold to Jack Tramiel, he was re-hired, where he worked on the Atari ST, the Atari PC-1 IBM compatible, and other projects. He worked at Atari for more than a decade. This interview took place on September 9, 2020. Video version of this interview at YouTube Jim's Atari 1600 tweet Atari Museum on the Atari 1600
	ANTIC Interview 453 - Giann Velasquez, Atariteca	18 Feb 2025	00:31:13
ANTIC Interview 453 - Giann Velasquez, Atariteca Hello, and welcome to this interview-only episode of ANTIC, The Atari 8-bit computer podcast. I'm Randy Kindig, your host for this episode. Giann Velasquez is the owner and curator of the popular, Spanish-language, Atari 8-bit news site, Atariteca. Giann is a consummate Atari 8-bit fan and lives in Lima, Peru. This interview took place on June 30, 2024. Links Atariteca - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/ Blog about Atari 8-bit computers. News, guides and analysis on emulators, games and programs for Atari XL/XE series computers.
	ANTIC Interview 398 - Dan Noguerol (Farb): Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative	24 Oct 2020	00:52:31
Dan Noguerol (Farb): Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative Two interviews with the same person, recorded more than four years apart. Dan Noguerol is better known to the Atari community as Farb. He is the mastermind behind the Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative, and years ago created SIO2Arduino, an Arduino-based disk drive emulator. I interviewed Farb on August 29, 2019, where we talked primarily about the Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative. That interview took place at the Fujiama Atari event in Lengenfeld, Germany. Our friend Roland Wassenberg sat in on the interview. Shortly after doing that interview, I learned that Randy Kindig had also interviewed Farb, on April 20, 2015, but got busy and hadn't published the interview. So in this episode, two interviews with Farb: my more recent interview first, then we'll go back to 2015 to hear Randy's interview. ... Since this interview was recorded, I received my SuperCard Pro, and have used it to digitize a couple hundred Atari disks. I've also digitized dozens of Atari cassette tapes. With the Software Preservation Initiative web site, the process has gotten a lot easier. The Kryoflux and SuperCard Pro hardware and software still isn't as foolproof as I'd like, but there's been progress on that front for sure. Next, Randy's 2015 interview. In it, they discuss the Software Preservation Initiative, which was at a much earlier stage at that point, and SIO2Arduino. SIO2Arduino is an Atari 8-bit device emulator that runs on the Arduino platform. It connects to Atari 8-bit hardware and emulates a single Atari 1050 disk drive. In the years since this interview was recorded, the project has largely been made obsolete by projects like the S-Drive-MAX and FujiNet. But Farb's work on SIO2Arduino, and making it open-source, absolutely laid the groundwork for those newer hardware projects. Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative SIO2Arduino web site SIO2Arduino at GitHub Farbish.com is offline but archived at Internet Archive
	ANTIC Episode 71 - Goodbye, Curt Vendel	26 Sep 2020	01:07:40
ANTIC Episode 71 - Goodbye, Curt Vendel In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast...we say goodbye to good friend and Atari legend Curt Vendel and bring you lots of other Atari news. READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Next Without For What We've Been Up To Atari8BitBot https://twitter.com/Atari8BitBot/with_replies and https://atari8bitbot.com/ https://twitter.com/Atari8BitBot/status/1307715507391324162/video/1 Indy Vintage Computer Club - https://www.facebook.com/groups/IndyVCC/ Recent Interview Shows K's twitter thread about Sofcast - https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1299759503039062016?s=20 News Curt Vendel died Aug 30 - https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-09-08-gaming-historian-curt-vendel-dies-at-53 and https://ruggieroandsonsfh.com/tribute/details/2607/Curtis-T-Vendel/obituary.html Gofundme for Curt's daughter's education: https://www.gofundme.com/f/24lkoij26o Jack Rickard died - https://www.semissourian.com/story/2831878.html Paulo Garcia ACTION! Series - https://vintageisthenewold.com/going-into-action-with-atari-xl-xe-part-1-hello-world/ Atari800MacX Version Release_5.3.1 - http://www.atarimac.com/atari800macx.php Vintage Computer Center (Gavin) creating run of FujiNet boards - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/fujinet The 20 greatest home computers – ranked! - The Guardian - Keith Stuart - https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/sep/07/the-20-greatest-home-computers-ranked QuadTari - Champ Games - Sep. 1 post on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/champdotgames/posts/2758300214426652?comment_id=2759157137674293&reply_comment_id=2759988334257840¬if_id=1599159184524954¬if_t=comment_mention&ref=notif Atari Paints - "RETROCOMPUTING SPRAY PAINTS: AMIGA BEIGE, COMMODORE, AND ATARI GREY" at Hackaday - https://hackaday.com/2020/09/01/retrocomputing-spray-paints-amiga-beige-commodore-and-atari-grey/ also Hackaday - https://hackaday.com/2020/09/07/miniature-faux-floppy-for-8-bit-atari-looks-the-part/ Gr9Lab, Photoshop for Atari computers - https://atariteca.net.pe/gr9lab-el-photoshop-para-computadoras-atari/ Gr9Lab example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf-eK0A_iIE tree simulator - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/311454-tree-simulator-4k-abbuc-contest-2020/ Atari User Magazine is back! - http://www.atariuser.com/ Elegy for XL-Search - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/xlsearch/ and https://twitter.com/billkendrick/status/1305027460254191616?s=20 Jason Moore's Atari Projects continues - http://atariprojects.org/ Shows Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): October 10 - 12, VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ GONE VIRTUAL + LIVE. NOTE: You can order a t-shirt to support the VCF events at http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/ for $20 + shipping Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ YouTube videos this month #Atari8bit #FujiNet Hacking on Battleship - Thom Cherryhomes - a simple game in Turbo Basic XL for Atari systems with a #FujiNet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTpascJqw10&feature=push-lsb&attr_tag=AhNtji2D_09IhuJz%3A6 Silicon Valley CEO's Childhood Computer - Vintage Unboxing - by Borderline OCD - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pjvBwErl4o&feature=youtu.be Bill Kendrick Radix sort (using counting sort & prefix sum) in TurboBASIC XL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXEAAvRYeO4 New at Github https://github.com/pfeuh/AtariCreditsEditor https://github.com/pfeuh/atariCreditsRoller https://github.com/savetz/ColleenCalculator New at Archive.org https://archive.org/details/das-atari-buch-band-1-happy-computer https://archive.org/details/strategiespiele-und-wie-man-sie-auf-dem-atari-programmiert-data-becker https://archive.org/details/atari-basic-handbuch-sybex Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. Certain conditions apply. Offer good for those with approved credit. Member FDIC. An equal housing lender.
	ANTIC Interview 397 - Youth Advisory Board: Steve Cohen	20 Sep 2020	00:42:53
Youth Advisory Board: Steve Cohen This is the eighth in a series of episodes featuring the kids of Atari's Youth Advisory Board. In 1983, Atari formed a Youth Advisory Board, selecting teenagers from around the United States to share their opinions about computers and video games, test software, and promote Atari's computers at events. The group consisted of kids aged 14 through 18, including Steve Cohen. He attended George Washington High School in Denver Colorado, where his teacher, Dr. Irwin Hoffman, taught. George Washington High School received a grant from the Atari Institute for Education Action Research, Atari's educational support arm, The Atari Institute Newsletter (fall 1982) wrote: "High school students in a model math and computer program will use their grant of ATARI Home Computer systems to develop individual and group research projects in their own fields of interest. Extensible programming languages, such as FORTH, will be used to develop new syntax for use in other high school subjects: electronics, music, art, history, mathematics, and home economics. This project supports a major 'model school' known for its innovations in computer education over the last twenty years." This interview took place on May 21, 2020. Enter Magazine—When These Kids Talk, Atari Listens Using Fig FORTH On The Atari 800 By Stephen A. Cohen High school teacher Irwin Hoffman IBM PC Commercial Atari Institute for Education Action Research Report Feb. 1983 Atari in Action — Atari Institute Newsletter Fall 1982
	ANTIC Interview 396 - Kai and George Esbensen, Micro-Ed Software	13 Sep 2020	00:42:42
Kai and George Esbensen, Micro-Ed Software I first heard about the Micro-Ed software company when a member of the Atari community sent me a batch of educational cassette tapes to digitize. The tapes had titles like Maps and Globes, Punctuation, and Spelling Level E. Intriguingly, the tape labels said "Micro-Ed, creators of more than 2,500 programs, pre-school through adult." 2,500 programs? Why had I never heard of this company? I asked 4AM, a software preservationist specializing in the Apple II — and specializing in little-known educational software — if they had heard of the company. The answer was also no. So I started to research. A two-page advertisement in Compute! magazine issue 4, May 1980, provided my first glimpse into the company: "LOOK at all the MICRO-ED programs for the PET!" The titles listed include Agreement of Subject and Verb; Run on Sentences; Higher, Same, Lower; Word Demons; and (oddly) Usage Boners. Many of the software tapes were sold in packs, for instance $84 for a pack of 12 elementary school programs. $49.95 for a grade's worth of spelling lessons on 7 tapes. An item in the Washington Apple Pi journal, four years later, January 1984, intrigued me: "$10,000 EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE GIVEAWAY. Micro-Ed Incorporated has announced its willingness to donate up to $10,000 worth of software to any school district, Special Education cooperative, or parent group willing to establish a school-to-home lending library. No limit has been established on the number of grants Micro-Ed will make. The donation is not contingent upon the purchase of any Micro-Ed products. ... Thorward Esbensen, Micro-Ed's president, 'envisions the establishment of a free lending library of educational software for families.'" Less than a year later, in November 1984, the Commodore magazine The Transactor (v5n3) wrote that Micro-Ed had donated "more than a half million dollars worth of its instructional programs to school systems" for those free software lending libraries. So. Micro-Ed was established in 1979 by Thorward (Tory) Esbensen. Based in Eden Prairie, MN, the company specialized in low-cost educational software. The software, written in the BASIC programming language, was available for Commodore PET, VIC-20, and Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, Apple II, TRS-80, and Texas Instruments computers. Micro-Ed's best-known title was perhaps "Trail West," an Oregon Trail-like game. Mr. Esbensen died in 2012. I interviewed two of his sons, both of whom worked with their father at Micro-Ed. First, I talked with Kai Esbensen, the youngest in the family. Kai told me in email: "My siblings had all moved out by the time Micro-Ed was in motion, but I lived it. Helping out with Micro-Ed was my first paid job, in 2nd/3rd grade, and I was still on the payroll helping out through age 22." This interview took place on May 28, 2020. ... Next, I talked with Kai's older brother, George Esbensen, who was a salesman for Micro-Ed, and later was president of Cycle Software Services, a software duplication company that spun off from Micro-Ed. This interview took place on June 3, 2020. Very old Micro-Ed/Thorwald Esbensen web site AtariMania's partial list of Micro-Ed Software for Atari Micro-Ed advertisement in Compute! magazine May 1980 Thorwald Esbensen obituary in StarTribune Thorwald Esbensen obituary in Duluth News Tribune Washington Apple Pi, January 1984 The Transactor v5n3
	ANTIC Interview 395 - Myra Marshall, Computer Applications Tomorrow	05 Sep 2020	00:21:24
Myra Marshall, Computer Applications Tomorrow Myra Marshall, along with her husband-at-the-time Roger Marshall, was co-founder of Computer Applications Tomorrow, a small software company that specialized in educational software for microcomputers. Most of the company's software was self-published and sold in small computer stores, including titles such as USA States and Capitals, Spelling Exam, and Alphabet Keyboard Primer. One title, Musical Computer: The Music Tutor, was sold by Atari Program Exchange. It first appeared in the spring 1982 APX catalog. It was available on disk and cost $14.95. This interview took place on August 26, 2020. Musical Computer in the spring 1982 APX catalog AtariMania's list of Computer Applications Tomorrow software
	ANTIC Interview 394 - Michael Darland, Microperipheral Corporation and Sofcast	29 Aug 2020	01:03:04
Michael Darland, Microperipheral Corporation and Sofcast Michael Darland was co-founder of Microperipheral Corporation, and president of Sofcast, a system that sent computer data over AM and FM radio. Founded in 1979, Microperipheral Corporation produced 300 BPS modems for several brands of microcomputers, including models compatible with the Atari 8-bit computers. Using telecommunications software called TariTerm, the Atari compatible-modems worked with the Atari 850 interface, or by connecting directly to the SIO bus. Michael was also co-founder of Sofcast. Launched in August 1984, Sofcast was a system that sent computer programs and other data over traditional AM and FM radio stations. Listeners would use a $70 receive-only modem, called a Shuttle Communicator, to receive the programs that were transmitted over radio waves at up to 4800 bits per second. According to an article in the June 1986 issue of Modern Electronics magazine, "The software itself actually originates at the radio studio as a tape recording of what is essentially a modem's output. It's the same as if you fed an ASCII file through a modem, but recorded the modem's output instead of sending into a telephone line." An article in PC Magazine, May 28, 1985, provides more detail: "The show's format falls under the bailiwick of Robert E. Lee Hardwick, a veteran radio announcer of 25 years. Harwick's articulate voice serves as the common thread tying together the distinct parts of the weekly 30-minute show. At the microphone, Hardwick interviews guests like Bob Landware, developer of software for synthesizing music on PCs, or he demonstrates computing curios such as the Ghostbusters theme played over a Commodore computer speaker. ...What separates Hardwick's show from its counterparts, though, is the transmission of software, or sofcasts. Midway through the show, Hardwick advises the listening audience to ready their equipment for sofcasts. He briefly describes the program or data file to be sent and counts down the sofcast like a rocket launch. A 1-second beep follows, after which the actual software is broadcast. This typically lasts 10 to 12 seconds, terminated by another 1-second beep. Then Hardwick's voice returns. To transmit or download software across the air, Hardwick cables a device called a Shuttle Encoder to the serial interface port of his PC. With a program written by Microperipheral, he transfers the file to be sofcast to the Encoder, which converts it to analog signals. These signals can be taped or broadcast directly. ... The show is subsequently played on two AM stations in the Seattle/Tacoma area on Sunday nights, KAMT...and KXA. ...On the receiving end, the audience has an AM radio tuned to the show. Prior to the sofcast, listeners attach a Shuttle Communicator to the radio. A cable coming from the Communicator connects to the radio earphone jack. Another cable connects the battery-powered Communicator with the computer through the serial port. ...A special program, also developed by Microperipheral, is executed on the computer... It accepts a stream of data sent by the Shuttle Communicator to the serial interface and writes the data to a disk file. Since the show first went on the air in August 1984, Hardwick has sofcast a plethora of programs. The list includes spreadsheets, flight simulators, picture files, and games aimed at Commodore, Atari, Macintosh, Radio Shack, and IBM PC computers, among others. The public-domain programs distributed through the sofcast were initially received by only a few computers because of the limited availability of Shuttle Communicators." Later in the article, it says: "One of the biggest tasks facing Hardwick and his colleagues is to convince radio stations to air the show. ...Sofcast airs Sunday nights, sandwiched, on one station, between two religious broadcasts, a time when there 'is no revenue possibility at all, and hasn't been for 20 years.' Yet a computing audience is tuning in, and businesses can reach them through advertising without paying exorbitant rates." Sofcast would grow to broadcast on 30 radio stations in the United States. Michael Darland's co-founder for both ventures, Donald L. Stoner, was a world-renowned ham radio operator who died in 1999. This interview took place on May 24 and May 31, 2020. "Software Takes To The Air" in PC Magazine 1985-05-28 "Free BASIC programs by Radio" in Modern Electronics 1986-06 "Software On The Air" in Computer Shopper 1985-08 Cable Systems Talk to Computers by Donald L. Stoner Wave of Future in Computer Software May Come Over The Radio Sofcast receive-only modem Donald L. Stoner obituary Microconnection modem review in InfoWorld, Sep 20, 1982 Microperipheral Launches Low-Cost Videotex System Microconnection User Manual 2.0 Microconnection User Manual 4.0 Microperipheral Corporation Sofcast FSK data communication system patent Microperipheral Corporation Sofcast data communication system patent
	ANTIC Episode 70 - Who Wants a FujiNet Anyway... I do!	25 Aug 2020	01:02:58
ANTIC Episode 70 - Who Wants a FujiNet Anyway… I do! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… we discuss the roll-out of the first 50 units of FujiNet, "virtual" shows remaining this year, new software, hardware and all the current Atari news riding the waves. READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Next Without For What We've Been Up To FujiNet - https://fujinet.online Lurking Horror, Infocom text adventure - http://monsterfeet.com/grue/notes/38 Atari Memopad from Wade at Inverse ATASCII - https://inverseatascii.info/2015/04/01/s1e14-atari-memo-pad/ SIO2BT - https://github.com/TheMontezuma/SIO2BT News Atari 1600xl prototype pics - Jim Tittsler - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/310176-new-atari-1600xl-prototype-pics-on-twitter/ Revive1027 Revived - Dragonstomper (Sascha Kriegel): AtariAge thread - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/271589-revive1027-order-thread/page/6/?tab=comments#comment-4614352 ABBUC forum - http://www.abbuc.de/community/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10455 Decrunch 2020 Demo Party was held in Poland - https://atariteca.net.pe/intros-atari-participantes-del-decrunch-2020/ ABBUC Magazine #141 - http://www.abbuc.de Atari dust covers at Retro Ready. - https://retroready.one/collections/atari/dust-covers Old Games Finder - http://www.oldgamesfinder.com/ Steve Boswell (Atari8bit) - De Re AVGCART - https://atari8bit.net/de-re-avgcart/?fbclid=IwAR1Y9clA_WOgBhStZnE33AzCHqpY9MkF-G5GZZ64-6I2kn5xm_WrZrDF8Ok New game on cartridge "Adam Is Me" pre-order - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/309962-new-game-on-cartridge-adam-is-me-pre-order-starts-today/ Shows Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): September 12-13, VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ CANCELLED, but there was a call for virtual exhibits October 10 - 12, VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ GONE VIRTUAL + LIVE. NOTE: You can order a t-shirt to support the VCF events at http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/ for $20 + shipping Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ YouTube videos this month Atari 800xl and 1010 loading with Rambit turbo upgrade - Mat Barker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gomWkGo5Q-g Atari 800XL motherboard restoration and system overview (Pimp My Eight, episode 6, part 1) - The Byte Attic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scifA1AUZlo Dead Atari 800XL gets Sophia RGB after repair - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CHreoZNTIY New at Github Effectus - ACTION! Cross-compiler - https://github.com/Gury8/effectus Parallel data transfer between the Atari 8- bit computers and the modern world via the Atari's joystick ports - https://github.com/codingbychanche/atariParallelDataTransfer Bruce Lee Construction Kit (BLCK): build your own Bruce Lee for Atari 8-bit - https://github.com/fa8ntomas/blck Sally-to-W65C02S-adapter https://github.com/TheByteAttic/Sally-to-W65C02S-adapter Commercial https://archive.org/details/Hey_Australia_1982_Atari_AU_a.mp4 New at Archive.org https://archive.org/details/games-for-your-atari-600-xl/mode/2up (w disk image!) https://archive.org/details/mace-journal-v-5n-6-july-1985 New Atari User/Page6 https://archive.org/details/newatariuserpage6?sort=-publicdate Listener Feedback Rob Sherman - BBS - southernamis.com interview with Konstantinos Giamalidis (TIX) from Greece - https://atariteca.net.pe/tix-mi-objetivo-es-producir-la-mejor-version-de-los-sprites-de-8-bits-para-prince-of-persia/ "Compute!'s Third Book of Atari", first chapter, "Exponents" by Matt Giwer - https://www.atariarchives.org/c3ba/page003.php Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. Certain conditions apply. Offer good for those with approved credit. Member FDIC. An equal housing lender.
	ANTIC Interview 393 - Charles Marslett, MYDOS and FastChip	16 Aug 2020	00:54:20
Charles Marslett, MYDOS and FastChip Charles Marslett wrote floppy disk and hard drive drivers for Percom, and was the creator of MYDOS, a disk operating system for the Atari 8-bit computers that offered support for double density sectors, subdirectories, and hard drives. He also created FastChip, a hardware add-on for the Atari, sold by Newell Industries, that claimed to speed up floating point routines by 300%. He also created the A65 Assembler, a macro assembler. He has released the source code for MYDOS and FastChip. This interview took place on July 13, 2020. Charles' web site MyDOS at AtariWiki MyDOS 3.0 User Guide A65 Assembler at AtariWiki ANTIC Interview 212 - Wes Newell, Newell Industries ANTIC Interview 7 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Bill Wilkinson, OSS ANTIC Interview 11 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - David Small ANTIC Interview 22 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Kathleen O'Brien, OSS Michael Abrash Zen of Assembly Language by Michael Abrash Zen of Assembly Language by Michael Abrash: free eBook version; code at GitHub
	ANTIC Episode 69 - Bill Collector	22 Jul 2020	01:49:07
ANTIC #69 Show Notes, July, 2020 Title: Bill Collector Guests Bill Lange - https://twitter.com/BillLange1968 Bill Kendrick - https://twitter.com/billkendrick Nir Dary - https://twitter.com/ndary Bill Winters - https://twitter.com/TheGuruMeditate What We've Been Up To https://archive.org/details/stx_Program_Protection_Methods_for_the_Atari https://archive.org/details/program-design-international-captivity-manual News ABBUC Magazine - http://abbuc.de uDOS (ultra small DOS) - http://www.abbuc.de/community/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10347#p86149 Screaming Wings 2000 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/308643-improved-version-of-screaming-wings/ Atari 8-bit Display List Encoder - https://github.com/jtsom/DisplayListDecoder Atari 1064 memory expansion for 600XL - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Atari-1064-Speichererweiterung-für-600-XL-RAM-Expansion-working/203022106013?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649 , http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/XL/xlperipherals/1064.html Atari800MacX 5.0.4 - https://github.com/atarimacosx/Atari800MacX Atari Wall Art - https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/584958100/atari-wall-art-logo-sticker-decal?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=atari+computer&ref=sr_gallery-2-16&organic_search_click=1 Flop65 - http://flop.atariportal.cz/index.en.php Atari copyright registrations - https://archive.org/details/atari-copyright-registrations/ Kilobyte Magazine - https://retro.wtf/ Run Your Favorite 8-bit Games On An ESP32 - https://hackaday.com/2020/06/09/run-your-favorite-8-bit-games-on-an-esp32/ Bonus Life Computers - https://bonuslifecomputers.com/ Shows July 24-25, KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ (virtual) August 1, VCF West, http://vcfed.org/wp/2020/05/24/vcf-west-2020-will-be-a-virtual-event/ Aug. 20 - Aug. 23, 2020, Fujiama, Lengenfeld, Germany - http://abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/2020/ September 12-13, VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ , CANCELLED (might go virtual) October 10 - 12, VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ YouTube Atari 1200XL with UAV, Sophia DVI and Ultimate 1MB - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNj4vOQSv0o SIDE3: Final Progress Update - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65QOMDfYric Feedback Corey Huinker - https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/comments/gzr1tc/atari4001981seigelike_game/ Adam Trionfo Family Computing TV Show (Wikipedia) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubxigAp14Jg Ad for Family Computing TV Show - https://archive.org/details/family-computing-18/page/n103/mode/1up
	ANTIC Interview 392 - Dorothy Siegel, Pioneer in Computer Music	21 Jul 2020	01:07:37
Dorothy Siegel, Pioneer in Computer Music I'm Kay Savetz, and this is ANTIC: The Atari 8-bit podcast. This interview, however, is about events that happened before Atari released its first computers. This interview is with Dorothy Siegel, a pioneer in computer music. The music she created was on an IMSAI 8080 computer and a clarinet. The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival was held August 25, 1978 as part of a show called Personal Computing '78 held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. In 1979, Creative Computing Magazine published a record album, also titled First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival. The 12" 33 RPM record was of music performed at the festival: 18 pieces, including Dorthy's. Dorothy was co-founder of Newtech, along with her husband Michael Abram and business partner Stuart Newfeld, a company that built add-on music cards for two S-100 bus computers: the IMSAI 8080 and the Southwest Technical Products Corporation 6800. The Newtech Music Cards cost $59.95 each. (Newtech was not the same company as NewTek, the company that sold the Video Toaster in the 1990s.) Dorothy performed Johann Wanhal's Rondo from Sonata in B-flat for Clarinet and Piano. The IMSAI, with three Newtech music boards, performed the piano part, and Dorothy accompanied it on clarinet. I'm going to play the song now. It's about four minutes long. Regarding Dorothy's song, the album notes read: "Newtech's music card for the S-100 bus is essentially a digital-to-analog converter controlled by an output port on the computer. The analog output is fed into amplifiers to be heard. This approach to computer music synthesis is extremely flexible since hypothetically any possible sound can be created. In actual practice the performance of the music circuitry is somewhat limited by the speed of the host computer. Each card can produce up to three voices output to one channel. Newtech's music software consists of a BASIC program which converts music into binary tables, and a machine-language interpreter to play the music with three voices and different envelopes. The piece on this record uses three cards each playing one voice." Check the show notes for an extensive list of links to people that we talk about and the articles that Dorothy wrote for ROM Magazine and Popular Electronics. You can hear the entire First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival at VintageComputerMusic.com or buy the album on a remastered audio CD directly from Dave Ahl of Creative Computing Magazine. This interview took place January 7, 2014, when I was doing research for a book about the first personal computer magazines. Although I've decided not to write the book, I am publishing the interviews that I did while doing the research. Personal Computing '78 flyer Popular Electronics magazine, January 1975 Edward Miller's Piece for Clarinet & Tape Stan Viet Electro-Harmonix ANTIC Interview 332 - Mike Matthews, founder of Electro-Harmonix ANTIC Interview 280 - David and Betsy Ahl, Creative Computing Magazine Samuel Abram, Dorothy's son ROM Magazine Issue 4: Scott Joplin on Your Sci-Fi Hi-Fi by Dorothy Siegel ROM Magazine Issue 5: Make Me More Music, Maestro Micro by Dorothy Siegel Popular Electronics November 1979: CP/M: The Standard Microcomputer Software Interface by Dorothy Siegel Listen to/download First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival album Buy the album on a remastered audio CD from Dave Ahl
	ANTIC Episode 114 - Andy Diller Returns!	28 Jan 2025	01:37:10
ANTIC Episode 114 - Andy Diller Returns! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we have special guest Andy Diller for a FujiNet update and to let us know about all the great things he's working on… READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kay's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Next Without For Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we've been up to ANTIC Interview 450 - Robert Leyland: AtariArtist, KoalaPainter, MicroIllustrator Kay's 2024 wrapped - https://www.patreon.com/posts/kays-2024-119233408 Lee Pappas ANALOG disks treasure hunt: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378256-lee-pappas-analog-disks-treasure-hunt/ https://github.com/scttgs0/titan-prototype-atari8 S.T.A.R. newsletter - https://www.atariorbit.org/star/ Rogul game: https://www.atariorbit.org/2025/01/16/rogul-an-interview-with-wojciech-bocianski/ http://bocianu.atari.pl/ YouTube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOm0njTd4tI Installing Altirra on ARM Macs - https://www.atariorbit.org/2024/12/26/altirra-arm-and-sequoia/ News TNFS GUI for OSX & Windows (nwah) - https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/tnfsd-gui?tab=readme-ov-file#tnfs-server-manager FujiNet Virtual Printer Output Examples (Thom Cherryhomes) - https://fujinet.online/2025/01/22/fujinet-virtual-printer-examples/ FujiNet and GitHub (Thom Cherryhomes) - https://youtu.be/aYwUGnfU5c0 FujiNet NOS By Example (Thom Cherryhomes) - https://fujinet.online/2025/01/08/fujinet-nos-a-network-only-dos/ Atari 65XE in laptop form on Hackaday - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/05/atari-65xe-in-laptop-form/ New season 2025 of the High Score Club: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378830-new-season-2025-of-the-high-score-club/ https://forums.atariage.com/forum/60-8-bit-high-score-club/ Replacement Case for 800XL Coming to Kickstarter Q2 2025 - joeventura - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378702-replacement-case-for-800xl/ from Atariteca: Inufuto releases «Mieyen» for Atari 8-bit and 60 other retro systems: Article at Atariteca - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/01/inufuto-lanza-mieyen-para-atari-8-bits.html YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqRwCAygyeI (Atari 8 Bits For Ever) A8E - Atari 800 Emulator - https://www.zerstoerung.de/ A JavaScript emulator built using A8E - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/224709-jsa8e-javascript-atari-800-xl-emulator-online/ BW-DOS 1.5 update - https://github.com/HolgerJanz/BW-DOS Upcoming Shows Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 15-17, 2025 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - vcfsocal.com Midwest Gaming Classic - April 4-6 - Baird Center, Milwaukee, WI - https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ VCF East - April 4-6, 2025 - Wall, NJ - http://www.vcfed.org Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 12-13 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/ VCF Europe - May 3-4 - Munich, Germany - https://vcfe.org/E/ Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo - June 14 - New Westminster, BC, Canada - https://www.vancouvergamingexpo.com/index.html VCF Southwest - June 20-22, 2025 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - https://www.vcfsw.org/ Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - June 20-22, 2025 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - July 31-Aug. 3 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2025-se Fujiama - August 11-17 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2025/ VCF Midwest - September 13-14, 2025 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 17-19 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ YouTube Videos Using Atari with FujiNet to build source from Github Part 2: The Princess and the Frog - Thom Cherryhomes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppbV50iHFN4 Atari 8-bit Vs. Commodore 64 TV commercial - DashRetroTV - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JpsQTVoXq3U I Won Atari 8-Bit eBay Auction for $71.00 : Was It Worth It? - Into the Vertical Blank - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhys9krXtA How to implement a Hopfield network in BASIC on the ATARI 800 - BASIC Hacking - 11 - Jean Michael Sellier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqAEClxrCsw ATARI Party! - Retro Repair Roundup Episode #71 - Retro Repair Roundup - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cybgH9hKC2Y Atari 8-bit computer 400/800: The first gaming PC? - Stay Forever Podcast (German) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMJkq2D4oyc Commercial https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JpsQTVoXq3U Feedback Stray Pointers Podcast - with the Antic hosts Closing Andy Diller's site - https://www.atariorbit.org/
	ANTIC Interview 391 - Tracy Frey, Atari Birthday Girl	14 Jul 2020	00:27:35
Tracy Frey, Atari Birthday Girl There's an article in the New York Times, dated April 9, 1982: "8-Year-Old's Birthday Party in a Computer Center." The story, written by Barbara Gamareklin, is about the birthday party of Tracey Pizzo — now Tracey Frey — which took place at the Capital Children's Museum in Washington, DC. Quoting the article: Tracy Pizzo decided that Chunky's Cheese Pizza Parlor was not the place for her eighth birthday party after all. She chose the Future Center of the Capital Children's Museum, where her 13 guests were able to try their hand at the video games on 20 Atari 800 microcomputers. Without waiting to remove their coats and jackets, the girls, most of them 6 to 8 years old, rushed toward the glowing multicolored screens. In no time they were engrossed in computer games — from Asteroids and Find Hurkle to Lemonade Stand. "Go, Megan, go!" cried 6-year-old Enid Maran, who was still wearing her black kid gloves. "We have to explode those little stars." Megan Thaler worked her control lever and sent a stream of blue and red simulated antiaircraft fire across the screen in the direction of a small green airplane. Tracy's mother, Peggy Pizzo, said that Tracy's older sister, Cara, had been to the Future Center on a school field trip "and Tracy got so excited when she heard about it that she insisted we have a computer birthday party." ... "Tracy said the reason she wanted to come was because her friends liked to push buttons," said 11-year-old Cara, who had baked the white birthday cake with pink frosting that had "Eight" spelled out in strawberries. "What is your name?" the Birthday Banner computer asked. "And how old are you now? Are you a boy or a girl?" As Tracy typed in the answers and her friends serenaded her with "Happy Birthday," a five-foot computer tape slowly emerged from the machine, reading in letters six inches tall: "Happy Birthday Tracy."... Tracy, aided by her friends, Katherine Herz and Annamaria Hibbs, tried out her entrepreneurial skills at Lemonade Stand. ... Tracy played Hangman with her father, Dr. Philip Pizzo. She said, "Make it hard, but not too hard," as she closed her eyes and her father entered the word "Christmas" for her to guess, each incorrect guess slowly forming a hangman's noose on the screen.... Asteroids is the only noneducational game offered in the computer room... Computer birthday parties cost $5 a person, with a minimum of eight in a party... As for Tracy Pizzo, as she and her friends filed down the hall to the balloon-festooned party room for ice cream, cake and presents, she pronounced the day "just perfect." (end quote) In 1981, Atari donated 30 Atari computer systems to the Capital Children's Museum. The contribution allowed the museum to establish the Future Center "computer learning environment", to put computer programs in exhibits, and to create a software development lab. By the way, the Capital Children's Museum still exists — it's now called the National Children's Museum, but there probably aren't any Atari computers around to play with anymore. This interview took place on June 26, 2020. NYT — 8-Year-Old's Birthday Party in a Computer Center: https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/09/style/8-year-old-s-birthday-party-in-a-computer-center.html Picture of Tracey and her friends: https://imgur.com/a/pD7RTF6 National Children's Museum https://nationalchildrensmuseum.org
	ANTIC Interview 390 - David Gedalia, Atari-controlled Telescope	06 Jul 2020	00:22:51
David Gedalia, Atari-controlled Telescope Listener Paul Somerfeldt sent me a blurb he found in a book titled "The Dobsonian Telescope" by David Kriege and Richard Berry. The book reads: "Computer-controlled Dobsonian telescopes entered amateur astronomy in the late 1980s. An outstanding early example was David Gedalia's 10-inch f/4.5 Dobsonian driven by an Atari 800XL computer, shown at the 1987 Riverside Telescope Makers Conference. With the Atari driving altitude and azimuth stepper-motors, the telescope would move automatically to coordinates entered on the computer's keyboard. David was a third-year engineering student when he built this telescope." I sought out David to find out more about his Atari-controlled telescope. This interview took place on May 29, 2020. Photos of David with his telescope The Dobsonian Telescope by David Kriege and Richard Berry New Horizons in Amateur Astronomy by Grant Fjermedal
	ANTIC Interview 389 - Brad Stewart, Covox	29 Jun 2020	00:40:05
Brad Stewart, Covox Brad Stewart was the co-founder and chief designer of Covox, the company that created Covox VoiceMaster. VoiceMaster was speech digitizer and voice recognition hardware for the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, and Apple II computers. Covox's own demonstration audio tape describes it well, although the demo tape that I found doesn't mention the Atari. This interview took place on May 21, 2020. Aerosynth Brad's blog post about Covox Voice Master Kay plays with VoiceMaster in 2014 Covox Voicemaster Demo cassette A Bionic Approach to Speech Processing Escape from Planet X at AtariMania
	ANTIC Interview 388 - Henry and Nancy Taitt, Creative Learning Association	22 Jun 2020	00:42:50
Henry and Nancy Taitt, Creative Learning Association Henry Taitt was founder of the Creative Learning Association, which created books and classes about how to program computers in BASIC. Henry, along with his wife Nancy Taitt, ran the company from 1982-1988. The book series, TLC For Growing Minds — TLC means Thinking, Learning, Creating — delivered self-paced lessons about the BASIC programming language. Versions of the series were available for Atari 8-bit, Apple II, IBM PC, TRS-80, and other platforms. Each platform series had seven books with color-coded covers: the red cover was level 1, orange for level 2, yellow for level 3, and so on down the rainbow. Another series offered platform-agnostic microcomputer projects. The material was used as the bases for in-person classes at computer labs around the United States. Creative Learning Association also published a newsletter and a "national registry of computer programers" highlighting students who had progressed in the book series. I have been able to find and scan some of Creative Learning Association materials and upload them to The Internet Archive. This interview took place on April 14, 2020. TLC for Growing Minds book scans Nancy Taitt died in 2022. Her obituary.
	ANTIC Interview 387 - Claudia Cohl, Editor-in-Chief of Family Computing and K-Power Magazine	16 Jun 2020	00:49:32
Claudia Cohl, Editor-in-Chief of Family Computing and K-Power Magazine Claudia Cohl was the editor-in-chief of Family Computing Magazine for its entire run. Published by Scholastic, the magazine ran for 49 issues, from September 1983 through September 1987. Then it published 11 more issues, though August 1988, as "Family and Home Office Computing." Finally, it was rebranded "Home Office Computing". Claudia remained editor there until a new division was formed, and she moved to the Professional Publishing department to focus on magazines for teachers. In a 1983 New York Times article "Children's Magazine for a Computer Age," Claudia is quoted: "Our magazine is primarily for parents. Parents feel confused about computers and software and they feel they have no place to turn. We think parents will be using our magazine themselves or with their kids. Children will be picking up the magazine too." Claudia was also editor-in-chief of K-Power magazine, a computer magazine for kids. Only eight issues of K-Power were published, running from February 1984 to November/December 1984, after which it was merged with Family Computing. Our interview took place in two portions, on June 29, 2018 and December 11, 2019. Read Family Computing at Internet Archive Read K Power at Internet Archive Wikipedia on Family Computing New York Times article "Children's Magazine for a Computer Age"
	ANTIC Episode 68 - What SIDE Are You On? With Jonathan Halliday	14 Jun 2020	01:26:43
ANTIC Episode 68 In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… Jonathan Halliday joins as we discuss his amazing work on the SIDE loaders for the Incognito and Ultimate 1MB and the work going on for the SIDE3 cart. READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue What We've Been Up To plotter ink https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1258830441320079360 But steve bowsell @A8bit working on 3-D printable solution Kay's old Atari games https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1259569122364407808 ; https://github.com/savetz (Scavange, boggler, rats, testtube, hubcap of fortune, Komix Creator) Carrington and Kay play Scavange at Eaten By A Grue http://monsterfeet.com/grue/notes/35 play it at https://archive.org/details/Scavange Catalina broke Altirra under WINE and Xformer, Kay got them both fixed https://atariage.com/forums/topic/286036-altirra-on-macos-update-thread/page/2/#comments and https://atariage.com/forums/topic/289510-xformer-emulator-running-on-macos/?do=findComment&comment=4544143 Updated firmware to Jonathan Halliday's for Incognito in 800 - https://atari8.co.uk/firmware/incognito/ RetroPie on Pi4 - https://retropie.org.uk/ 8Bit Classics - https://www.8bitclassics.com/ News Retro Format is a physical print magazine covering computers and game consoles from the 1970s to the early 2000s; including Atari - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/8bitmagazine/retro-format-magazine-issues-1-to-12 PaperCraft - Rocky Bergen: "I've been working on an entire Atari 8-bit tradeshow display. But it may be some time before I can finish. I have an 800XL at home so that may actually show up before I finish this display." - http://rockybergen.com/ ; https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10158054518491047&set=p.10158054518491047&type=3&theater MicroProse is back. Seems that one of the original founders, Bill Stealy, and a new partner have purchased the company back from whoever had it last (Infogrammes/Atari?) https://www.microprose.com/#; Kay's 2017 interview with Bill Stealy - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-263-bill-stealey-co-founder-of-microprose-software Compute magazine disk image depository - Allan Bushman - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/307591-compute-magazine-disk-image-depository/ Break Into Chat, Josh Renaud's blog about BBS history, retro computing post "Unearthed: My Atari 8-bit cassette tape" - https://breakintochat.com/blog/2020/05/30/unearthed-my-atari-8-bit-cassette-tape/ Atari Portable Project - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/306569-atari-portable-project/ Kickstarter: The 8-BIT WARS - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andyremic/the-8-bit-wars New version of Atari800MacX - makes it compatible with Catalina - https://github.com/atarimacosx/Atari800MacX/releases also fixed plotter support for Renderrific - https://github.com/atarimacosx/Atari800MacX/issues/10 Shows Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): July 10 - 12, VCF Southeast, in conjunction with Southern Fried Gaming Expo in Atlanta, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ CANCELLED July 24-25, KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ (virtual) cost $20, opened registration on April 30th August 1, VCF West, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/2020/05/24/vcf-west-2020-will-be-a-virtual-event/ GONE VIRTUAL - The entire event will be scheduled for 6-8 hours on Saturday August 1st; call for exhibitors and keynote speakers Aug. 20 - Aug. 23, 2020, Fujiama, Lengenfeld, Germany - http://abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/2020/ September 12-13, VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ October 10 - 12, VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ NOTE: You can order a t-shirt to support the VCF events at http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/ for $20 + shipping Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ YouTube videos this month Games That Push the Limits of the Atari 8-Bit Family - Sharopolis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTUmiot6vyM ANALOG Computing Games on your Atari 8bit - The New Retro Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9xOpFnqo88 Several demos from Poland, including one called Windows 95 - American NTSC - demo for Atari XL/XE from Poland - Miesiu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7qy3DwsIX4 The Atari 8bit and ST games by Jon Williams - Into the Vertical Blank - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-HJR2WpWTc A companion to the Into The Vertical Blank: Generation Atari Season 3 Episode 11 Episode interview with Jon. New at Github Bill Kendrick pointed to omc65 (Our Macro Crossassembler for 6502) at https://GitHub.com/pkali/omc65 Disassembling SynCalc - https://github.com/jduerstock/syncalc Alternate Reality: The Dungeon for Atari 8-bits cartridge project - https://github.com/Wilheim1977/ARDungeonCartridge New at Archive.org Italian XL catalog - https://archive.org/details/1984-catalogo-atari-home-computer/mode/2up and advertisements https://archive.org/details/@philsan69 Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. Certain conditions apply. Offer good for those with approved credit. Member FDIC. An equal housing lender.
	ANTIC Interview 386 - Sherman Rosenfeld, Atari Institute for Education Action Research	08 Jun 2020	00:45:34
Sherman Rosenfeld, Atari Institute for Education Action Research Dr. Sherman Rosenfeld is an internationally-known leader in informal learning and science education. He was a consultant to the Atari Institute for Education Action Research. Founded in June 1981 and led by Ted Kahn, the Institute provided equipment, advice, and financial support to non-profit educational organizations. It granted more than $1 million in hardware and software to schools, science museums, vocational and special education programs, even a prison. Ted Kahn, whom I have previously interviewed, recently dug through his files to uncover several documents about the Institute, including "Informal Learning and Computers," the working paper written by Sherman Rosenfeld for the Atari Institute for Education Action Research in September 1982. Ted also graciously scanned a 1981 Atari Institute brochure, a 1983 progress report, and "Atari in Action," the Institute's newsletter, dated fall 1982. This interview took place on May 25, 2020. Sherman talked to me from his office in Israel. A video version of the interview is also available. Informal Learning and Computers Atari Institute For Educational Action Research Brochure Atari in Action — Atari Institute Newsletter fall 1982 Atari Institute Report Feb. 1983 Caspi Towards Creative Self Education Synopsis ANTIC Interview 185 - Ted Kahn, Atari Institute for Educational Action Research ANTIC Interview 288 - David Thornburg, Koalapad inventor Antic magazine: Atari Institute—Grants support educational projects by Gary Yost Dr. Rosenfeld's web site
	ANTIC Interview 385 - Software Automatic Mouth: Mark Barton	01 Jun 2020	00:55:23
Software Automatic Mouth: Mark Barton Mark Barton was creator of SAM — Software Automatic Mouth. Released in 1982, SAM was the first software-only speech synthesizer for personal computers. It was available for the Apple II, Commodore 64, and Atari 8-bit computers. He later developed Macintalk, speech synthesis for the Macintosh computer; and narrator, the speech system for the Commodore Amiga. This interview took place on May 22, 2020. SAM Demo Disk Steve Jobs movie Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh Peter Ladefoged at Wikipedia Peter Ladefoged at UCLA SAM in your browser Switched On Bach by Wendy Carlos Why Modern Digital Synthesis Is More Analog Than Analog by Mark Barton Mark's Soundcloud ANTIC Interview 124 - Jerry White, programmer of Poker SAM. and Chaterbee Bill Lange's deep dive into SAM ads and reviews
	ANTIC Interview 384 - Fandal: Atari programer and archivist	27 May 2020	00:43:54
Fandal: Atari programer and archivist Frantisek Houra is better known to the Atari community as Fandal. He's an Atari computer programmer and long-time archivist of European Atari software. He has created many original Atari games and conversions from other platforms: including Fruity Pete, Mashed Turtles, Crescent Solitaire, and Diamondz. This interview took place on August 28, 2019, during the Fujiama Atari conference in Lengenfeld, Germany. Roland Wassenberg sat in to assist with the interview. Shortly after, Fandal and I and several other attendees hooked up a multijoy and played some rounds of Mashed Turtles with six players (up to eight can play), and it was so. much. fun. Fandal's web site Mashed Turtles Xenophobe game for sale at Video61
	ANTIC Interview 383 - Gregg Squires, Atari Manager of Hardware Engineering	21 May 2020	01:52:59
Gregg Squires, Atari Manager of Hardware Engineering Gregg Squires was a Manager of Hardware Engineering at Atari from 1982 through 1984, working from their New York office. He was project manager for Val, a cost-reduced version of the Atari 2600; and project manager for the Atari XL computer series. He was co-designer of the 65816 microprocessor architecture. Greg sent me a scan of an Atari 600XL Product Status Meeting handout dated January 1983. It's an impressive 45 pages and paints a clear picture of the timeline, costs, and issues involved with creating that computer. This interview took place on February 13, 2019. Atari VAL photo Atari 600XL Product Status Meeting Handout The Working Clock-Timer by Joel Moskowitz ANTIC Interview 65 - Steve Mayer, 400/800 Designer
	ANTIC Interview 452 - Dean Garraghty, DGS Software	23 Jan 2025	00:32:27
ANTIC Interview 452 - Dean Garraghty Hello, and welcome to this interview-only episode of ANTIC, The Atari 8-bit computer podcast. I'm Randy Kindig, your host for this episode. Dean Garraghty is the proprietor of DGS Software, which sold, and continues to sell, software for the Atari 8-bit computers since the 80's. This is a very low cost, 191-disk set that includes an entire utility pack, games, issues of a disk-based newsletter, a sound and music package, an interesting programming language called Quick, and more. Dean has been an Atari enthusiast since the 80's and has an interesting story to tell concerning his journey with the Atari 8-bit. This interview took place on April 6, 2024. Links DGS Website - http://www.dgs.clara.net/ DGS post on AtariAge - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/268373-dgs-pd-library-the-whole-lot-to-download/ YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLn2nyiuk_OaW1Is4cZtvtQ
	ANTIC Interview 382 - Rik Dickinson, Encore Video Productions	13 May 2020	00:22:18
Rik Dickinson, Encore Video Productions Rik Dickinson is founder of Encore Video Productions, a company that rented Atari 8-bit computers to hotels for use as character generators. The computers would show information about the hotel on channel 2 of guests' televisions. This was part of a service that Encore offered to provide in-room movies that ran off videotapes. The tape machines ran on a timer, and when the movie ended, the video feed switched back to the text information displayed by the Atari. This interview took place on April 20, 2020. Forum about Encore Video Productions Display System Encore Video Productions
	ANTIC Episode 67 - Still Socially Distant	10 May 2020	01:04:29
ANTIC Episode 67 - Still Socially Distant In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast...Randy forgets to call the artist, formerly known as Kevin, as Kay about 100 times, we continue discussion on AtariFests and World of Atari, we help you with your free time by telling you about papercraft computers and RetroPie, and help you navigate what's happening with vintage computer shows; plus a whole lot more Atari news! READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue What We've Been Up To Carol Shaw's Colleen Calculator - View the pages or download the images - https://archive.org/details/ColleenCalculator9K/mode/2up Carol also sent the printout of Rev. A of Atari VCS Checkers - https://archive.org/details/VCScheckersA/mode/2up A community member has digitized the listing - https://github.com/white-flame/vcs-checkers Kay's 10-line contest entries 2014-2020 on GitHub - https://github.com/savetz?tab=repositories Bankster http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-bankster_35883.html https://atariage.com/forums/topic/236768-the-atari-interview-discussion-thread/?do=findComment&comment=4506193 Video of Bankster - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0cAf8ydvQc Kay's 10-line videos 256 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Qh-JVKaBM 120 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2CmDYKIU6s 80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awNkk8yNkDU 2020 Atari 10-liners on one disk, by vitoco - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/301250-2020-basic-10liner-contest/?do=findComment&comment=4502763 AtariFest/World of Atari thread on AtariAge - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/304554-atarifest-and-world-of-atari ABBUC (Atari Bit Byter User Club) - http://www.abbuc.de/ Recent Interviews http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-378-gabriel-baum-atari-conversational-french-and-spanish http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-380-atari-speed-reading-karlyn-kamm-and-brad-oltrogge News Jason Moore - Atari Projects on HackaDay https://hackaday.com/2020/04/29/classic-8-bit-computing-the-atari-way/ http://atariprojects.org/ PaperCraft models - http://rockybergen.com/ Atari 800, and NeXT Cube are on the short short list MidiMax at Best Electronics - http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/laser_printers.htm#MidiMax RetroPie 4.6 released with Raspberry Pi 4 support - https://retropie.org.uk/2020/04/retropie-4-6-released-with-raspberry-pi-4-support/ RetroMagazine - https://www.retromagazine.net/ Jonathan Halliday has updated his Incognito, Ultimate 1MB, etc. to 3.1 - https://atari8.co.uk/ Shows Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): July 10 - 12, VCF Southeast, in conjunction with Southern Fried Gaming Expo in Atlanta, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ July 24-25, KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ (virtual) cost $20, opened registration on April 30th August 1-2, VCF West, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ Fri, Aug 14, 2020 – Sun, Aug 16, 2020, Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Portland OR - https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ CANCELLED Aug. 20 - Aug. 23, 2020, Fujiama, Lengenfeld, Germany - http://abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/2020/ September 12-13, VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ October 10 - 12, VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ YouTube videos this month 20MHz Atari 800XL: Rapidus, U1MB, and Sophia DVI: Part Two - Flashjazzcat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnfjxNqoZ7Y 800XL with Rapidus and Ultimate 1MB: What Have We Learned? - Flashjazzcat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2go2VU7xyYU How to flash Ultimate 1MB and SIDE/SIDE2 with new firmware - flashjazzcat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SLyjhLba6c New Games for your Atari 8 bit Part 12 - The New Retro Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIrZHksTKIM - Time Pilot (2018) and Runner Bear (2020) SpartaDos X Cartridge - 8-bit and more - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkvIyj6-lMQ Bits of the past - Super Sparta DOS PCB - https://www.bitsofthepast.com iCore64 - Atari ICD R-Time 8 Cartridge Case, XL/XE cart extender - https://corei64.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&path=62_87&product_id=67 New at Github https://github.com/A-Fitz/Atari-8bit-Pac-Man-Port https://github.com/jtsom/AnalogSourceCode New at Archive.org Current Notes Volume 10 Number 9 - https://archive.org/details/current-notes-volume-10-number-9-november-1990/mode/2up Many issues of Atari Interface magazine: https://archive.org/details/@scottithgames Steve Boswell many issues of Atari User: https://archive.org/details/@choccyhobnob Feedback Rare Atari software found: Atamon DXG 5724 V1.3 is an Atari Germany title - https://www.atarinside.com/blog/index.php/atamon-dxg-5724/ https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ATA%20MON%20DXG%205724 German version of Sky Writer was the last puzzle of the series: Spielend lernen mit Atari-Programmen- https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Articles#section-Articles-GermanyAtariDeutschlandGmbH From CSS, we have the BUG/65 manual Rev. 1.0 missing page - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Bug65 Tanktics bits and piece to play this hybrid game. These are available at https://www.mobygames.com/game/tanktics_/cover-art/gameCoverId,349600/. The parts for Dnieper River Line are there as well - https://www.mobygames.com/game/dnieper-river-line/cover-art/gameCoverId,348252/ Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. Certain conditions apply. Offer good for those with approved credit. Member FDIC. An equal housing lender.
	ANTIC Interview 381 - Youth Advisory Board: Tracey Cullinan	03 May 2020	00:42:48
Youth Advisory Board: Tracey Cullinan This is the seventh in a series of episodes featuring the kids of Atari's Youth Advisory Board. In 1983, Atari formed a Youth Advisory Board, selecting teenagers from around the United States to share their opinions about computers and video games, test software, and promote Atari's computers at events. The group consisted of kids aged 14 through 18, including Tracey Cullinan. Tracey worked as a salesperson at the ComputerLand store in Los Altos, California — starting at the age of 12. He started a software company, Superior Software, which produced custom software for local businesses, as well as a couple of games for the Apple II computer. At 14, Tracey was invited to be a member of the Youth Advisory Board. As part of that job, he went to the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago to demonstrate Atari computers. The next year, as a 15-year-old, Tracey was interviewed on the "Today" show as a young entrepreneur. There's a chapter about Tracey in the 1984 book "Computer Kids" by George Sullivan. (His picture in on the back cover of the book.) I'm going to read several passages from that book, quotes from Tracey. ...A Computerland store opened in a mall near my home. I made friends with the people who worked in the store, and they let me use the computers there. The store happened to be within walking distance of where I live, and I'd go there after school and on week- ends, or almost anytime I had free time. I often wrote game programs on the computers, and I bought a disk on which to store the programs. They let me keep the disk at the store. When customers came into the store, I'd sometimes help out by showing them what a computer could do. They'd be amazed. "What's this nine-year-old kid doing showing me how a computer works?" I'm now working at the store. I started as an employee when I was twelve. I was in sales at first but later I shifted over to computer repair... I now know five or six computer languages — BASIC, Pascal, LOGO, plus three machine languages: 6502, the one that's used on the Apple and Atari and the one I use the most, Z-80. I'm starting to learn 8086, the language for the IBM Personal Computer... The company that I operate is called Superior Software. I prepare custom programs for businesses in the area. One program involves inventorying and invoicing for a company that sells charcoal fire starters. I've got another program that gathers stock market prices from a computer, and then correlates them and prints them out for a local stockbroker. A third program I wrote for the Los Altos Little League. It's a mailing list program. They use it in sending out notices about tryouts, practices, and things like that. I became a member of the Atari Youth Advisory Board because someone at the consulting firm that was getting the names of kids together for Atari happened to know my dad. When the consulting firm found out that I was into computers, they put my name on the list. Then the people at Atari picked me. We've been giving Atari advice mostly on their home computers. Later, I think they're going to ask us for advice on their video games and arcade games... I also use the computer to write game programs once in a while. One that I've written is called Glutton [for the Apple II.] You, the shooter, are armed with little missiles and positioned on the right side of the screen. You can move up and down only. You shoot to the left. The glutton moves back and forth across the screen. The glutton likes to eat. Different kinds of food fall from the top of the screen. Some of it is good food, like apples, carrots, and chicken drumsticks. But some of the food is junk food, like cupcakes and soda pop. The object of the game is to keep the glutton well fed, but healthy, You try to eliminate the pieces of junk food by blasting them with your missiles. I've tried to sell Glutton to some of the companies that market game software to computer owners, to companies such as Broderbund and Sirius. But I haven't been successful yet. ...As far as the future is concerned, I plan to go to college. I'd like to go to a good private university, a technical one, like MIT, Cal Tech, or Stanford... After that, I think I'd like to be a game programmer, and maybe work for Atari, Imagic, or Activision, or some company like that. Tracey didn't go to any of those colleges. He died 1986 of brain cancer. He had just turned 18. I talked with Tracey's mother, Leola Wooldridge; and his younger brother, Cory Cullinan, about their memories of Tracey. This interview took place on April 17, 2020. In it, we discuss John Dickerson, whom I previously interviewed. Tracey in Computer Kids book Demystifying Excellence by Cory Cullinan John Dickerson interview Tracey Cullinan On Today Show on Youtube or Internet Archive
	ANTIC Interview 380 - Atari Speed Reading: Karlyn Kamm and Brad Oltrogge	26 Apr 2020	00:55:51
Atari Speed Reading: Karlyn Kamm and Brad Oltrogge The Atari Speed Reading software package was released by Atari in 1981. It was a self-paced program, for use with the Atari computer and a cassette drive, that promised to teach you to increase reading speed and comprehension with 30 days of practice. The package contained a workbook and five cassette tapes. This is an interview with two of the people who created the Atari Speed Reading package. Karlyn Kamm created the speed reading educational material at the University of Wisconsin with Dr. Wayne Otto. In 1975, she and Dr. Otto published a book titled "Speedway, the Action Way to Read." Dr. Otto died in 2017. Brad Oltrogge is president of Learning Multi-Systems, the software publisher that was contracted by Atari to turn Kamm and Otto's speed reading material into a product for the Atari home computer. This interview took place on April 16, 2020. Atari Speed Reading Workbook Atari Speed Reading at AtariWiki Dr. Otto obituary Speedway: The action way to speed read The Study Skills Component of the Wisconsin Design Learning Multi-Systems 1983 purchase order, letter, and check from Atari to Learning Multi-Systems
	ANTIC Interview 379 - Gabriel Baum, Atari Conversational French and Spanish	17 Apr 2020	00:39:32
Gabriel Baum: Atari Conversational French and Spanish Gabriel Baum worked at Thorn EMI, where he managed the project to create two early language learning programs that were published by Atari: Conversational French and Conversational Spanish. (Atari's language learning series would also include Conversational German — Gabriel started that, but left Thorn EMI before that project was finished — and Conversational Italian.) After Thorn EMI, Gabriel moved to Mattel where he became one of the "Blue Sky Rangers," creating Intellivision games. If you'd like to hear more about that, Paul Nurminen interviewed him about that time in episode 37 of The Intellivisionaries podcast. For a deep dive into the Atari Conversational French software, listen to season 5, episode 1 of the Inverse ATASCII podcast. You can download the software and audio for all of the conversational language series from AtariWiki. This interview took place on March 31, 2020. In it, Gabriel mis-remembers a bit of the technical capabilities of the Atari cassette drive, which was a lot less sophisticated than he recalls. If you'd like to read the technical details of how the Atari 410 and 1010 program recorders worked, check out Appendix C of De Re Atari. Conversational language series at AtariWiki Inverse ATASCII podcast covers Atari Conversational French Gabriel interview on the Intellivisionaries podcast De Re Atari on the Atari cassette capabilities
	ANTIC Episode 66 - Socially Distant	08 Apr 2020	01:14:08
ANTIC Episode 66 - Socially Distant In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: We talk about what we're doing Atari-wise in these socially distant times and we bring you all the Atari news from around the world. READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue What We've Been Up To Bill Lange points us to Atari 1020 plotter pen refill / restoration video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdVHkZwGZhk Thornton's Luxury Goods Premium Fountain Pen Ink Bottle 30ml - https://amzn.to/2RcNtL6 5 Pack 5ML/CC Premium Ink Filling Syringe - https://amzn.to/34gxctN Supercard Pro and Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative - http://a8preservation.com/ AtariFest/World of Atari thread on AtariAge - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/304554-atarifest-and-world-of-atari Home Computer Course and Home Computer Advanced Course magazines https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Course https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Advanced_Course_01/ News Rare Atari software found: Atamon - https://www.atarinside.com/blog/index.php/atamon-dxg-5724/ German Sky Writer: https://twitter.com/Atarinside_fr/status/1245701156183162883 https://www.atarinside.com/blog/index.php/himmelschreiber-aka-himmelsschreiber-dxg-5704/ Bill Lange Exploring Kyan Pascal blog: https://exploringkyanpascal.blogspot.com/p/table-of-contents.html https://twitter.com/BillLange1968/status/1246150884603711491 1200XL - An Atari 8 Bit Gaming Podcast - https://anchor.fm/1200xl BASIC 10-liners contest winners: https://youtu.be/XxSSgHi81b4 https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/kopie-von-results-2018 Atari Disk Image Studio project on FB - Mike Fulton - https://www.facebook.com/Atari-Disk-Image-Studio-112460410404811/?pageid=112460410404811&ftentidentifier=112493333734852&padding=0 Dropcheck (Lenore, bitsofthepast.com) donations voted project - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/301569-donation-voted-projects-proposed/ ABBUC software competition 2020: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/304677-abbuc-software-competition-2020/ http://www.abbuc.de/atari/software-ressort/81-software/softwarewettbewerbe/1846-software-wettbewerb-2020 Six Atari games on epidemics and diseases (Atariteca) - http://atariteca.blogspot.com/2020/03/seis-juegos-de-atari-sobre-epidemias-y.html Shows Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): CANCELLED Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Fri, Aug 14, 2020 – Sun, Aug 16, 2020, Portland OR POSTPONED TO Oct 10-12, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east VCF Southeast July 10-12 2020, in cooperation with SFGE - http://southernfriedgameroomexpo.com/ Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ YouTube videos this month 20MHz Atari 800XL: Rapidus, U1MB, and Sophia DVI: Part One - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r42zsEc6pUo Joystick Reading on the Atari 800 / 5200 - 6502 Lesson S13 - ChibiAkumas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CAbqfu_1jI Backing up 5 1/4" disks to ATR images using Atari 800XE, Atari 1050 disk drive and Sio2sd - Marek Chorvat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1Am3zbWSZ0 Commercial Skit from Selling the Atari 400/800 Computers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKxN59fuXsg New at Archive.org Online Computer Centers Inc. Pro Card reference card - https://archive.org/details/procardonlinecomputercentersinc/mode/2up Atari Camp newsletters scanned by https://archive.org/details/@david_gaxiola: https://archive.org/details/ataricomputercampsnewsletterv2n1fall1983/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/ataricomputercampsoldwestnewsletter19830805/mode/2up new torrent release zip for easy downloading of Atari software archive - https://archive.org/details/a8sp_archives Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. Certain conditions apply. Offer good for those with approved credit. Member FDIC. An equal housing lender.
	ANTIC Episode 65 - Cats with umbrellas and dogs!	20 Feb 2020	01:12:52
ANTIC Episode 65 - Cats with umbrellas and dogs! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: Kevin's dogs do their best to be a part of the podcast, we tell you all about a very busy month of personal Atari stuff, all the programming contests going on, and all the other news we could find. READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Donate to Ted Nelson project at: https://paypal.me/Savetz TEH: Tech Enthusiast Hour - https://tehpodcast.com What We've Been Up To Kevin's Atari workbench set up! - https://twitter.com/KevinSavetz/status/1220554086593904644 AVG cart. Moon Patrol, and Redux - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/297535-moon-patrol-redux/ XC-11 cassette drive from Rodrigo Castro Sage - https://twitter.com/KevinSavetz/status/1223696069302706176 https://github.com/savetz/Renderific updates Charlie Kulas disks - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/287589-leafer-madness-by-charlie-kulas/?do=findComment&comment=4458986 Supercard Pro and Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative - http://a8preservation.com/ Astra 1620 dual disk drive - http://gury.atari8.info/hardware/162.php SDrive Max (810) - Gavin at Vintage Computer Center - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product/atari-810-sdrive-max Incognito for Atari 800 - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=275 Tricky Tutorials - https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-tricky-tutorials-1-6/mode/2up Recent Interviews http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-378-craig-hickman-atari-photography-software-and-security-system News Thunderdome the Atari Site - https://atari.fox-1.nl/ - games, tools, demos, emulation Atari hotels - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/business/atari-hotel-phoenix.html 10-line BASIC contest https://gkanold.server.deerpower.de/ https://twitter.com/Basic10L/ AtariAge discussion - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/301250-2020-basic-10liner-contest/ https://atariaction.tumblr.com/post/190760859977/10-line-poker-machine https://atariaction.tumblr.com/post/190761401187/10-line-blackjack 12th Kaz Compo announces the best Atari games released in 2019 - https://vintageisthenewold.com/12th-kaz-compo-announces-the-best-atari-games-released-in-2019/ Atariage Thread - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/300855-kaz-kompo-2019-vote-for-the-best-game-of-2019/#comments Adventure II XE – New game for the Atari 8-bit demo released - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/213695-adventure-ii-xe-demo-and-testing Fandal's game updates - http://a8.fandal.cz/news.php?news_id=1685 Spotify client for Atari 8-bit - https://github.com/possan/atari-spotify-app , https://twitter.com/possan/status/1225530633621032961 Magazine type-in work - http://forum.atarimania.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18619, http://forum.atarimania.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18847 ZX-Uno FPGA - http://www.zxuno.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=2814 , http://zxuno.speccy.org/faq.shtml Shows Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): March 21 & 22, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle,Washington - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest March 21, Indy Vintage Computer Club Expo 2020, Camby, IN - https://www.facebook.com/events/188334755647918/ April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Fri, Aug 14, 2020 – Sun, Aug 16, 2020, Portland OR Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ YouTube videos this month UAV Atari 800XL still has poor video - Jonathan Halliday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh1YQ8oU7LU A First Look at the SIDE3 SD card multicart for the Atari 8-bit - Jonathan Halliday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oayRUtTFVDE Display List Programming Introduction on the Atari Computer - 8-bit and More - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io4AZmT9Bnw #FujiNet - Simple Terminal program for N: Device in 10 lines of BASIC. - Thomas Cherryhomes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL6PhXULdFE Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. Certain conditions apply. Offer good for those with approved credit. Member FDIC. An equal housing lender.
	ANTIC Interview 378 - Craig Hickman, Atari Photography Software and Security System	01 Feb 2020	00:32:52
Craig Hickman, Atari Photography Software and Security System Craig Hickman was featured in the June 1982 edition of Atari Connection magazine for his photography software tools. "Craig has developed two programs written in Atari BASIC for use in his darkroom. One of the programs times the negative's development, and the other monitors and times enlargements and the making of the positive prints." His Developing program could store up to 30 film processing combinations. "Once the film is developed into a negative, you are ready to use Craig's Enlarger/Timer program to make a positive print." The Atari 400 was connected to the enlarger with relays: the computer would turn the enlarger on and off at precise intervals for making photographic prints. Craig also rigged up an apartment security system using his Atari 400, which he wrote about in an article on his web site. He wrote: "I designed a home surveillance system for our apartment in Seattle that used little magnetic switches from Radio Shack. It displayed a representation of our apartment on the screen and showed when a door or window was open. It worked so well I expanded the system to include little tilt switches placed on bushes outside the windows. This also worked fine until one windy night when I was away from home and it set off the alarm every few minutes. The next day my wife told me to dismantle it." Later, Craig created the popular program Kid Pix for the early Macintosh computer. This interview took place on January 29, 2020. See the show notes for links to Craig's web site and YouTube channel, and the Atari Connection magazine article. Craig's web site Craig's darkroom timer in Atari Connection Magazine Craig's YouTube channel
	ANTIC Episode 64 - Living in the Future	26 Jan 2020	01:12:19
ANTIC Episode 64 - Living in the Future In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: We talk about our Atari-related resolutions for the new year, how 2020 sounds like we're living in the future, and bring you news and feedback from across the Atari 8-bit landscape. READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Donate to Ted Nelson project at: https://paypal.me/Savetz TEH: Tech Enthusiast Hour - https://tehpodcast.com What We've Been Up To Faster Than Light: The Atari ST and the 16-Bit Revolution by Jamie Lendino - https://amzn.to/2v5823V Kevin's annual computer history work post mortem article - https://www.patreon.com/posts/2019-post-mortem-33065636 Punctuation Put-On - https://archive.org/details/PunctuationPutOn4amCrack https://twitter.com/KevinSavetz/status/1217869228939862023 Portland Retro Gaming Expo panel "Atari 800 series computers: 40 years" that Kevin did with Joe Decuir and David Crane, is now on youtube - https://youtube.com/watch?v=lIaxXumt1zY Kevin's Poker Machine and Blackjack games for 10-line BASIC contest - https://twitter.com/KevinSavetz/status/1210786683135725571 Dneiper River Line & Tanktics - http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-dnieper-river-line_1651.html Atari Visual History book - https://www.greyfoxbooks.com/ SDrive Max 1050 Case - Steve Boswell (A8bit) - https://atari8bit.net/sdrive-max-cases/ SDrive Max 810 (labeled) - Vintage Computer Center - Gavin Haubelt - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product/atari-810-sdrive-max Incognito for Atari 800 - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=275 Interviews Interview index: here Atari News High Score Club Season 17 - https://atariage.com/forums/messenger/447762/?tab=comments#comment-1667618 Rescue Expedition - http://atariteca.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-rescue-expedition-para-computadoras.html#more Allan Bushman antic disks 1-9 https://archive.org/details/@allan52?and[]=creator%3A%22antic+magazine%22 Atari article in Fast Company by Benj Edwards - https://www.fastcompany.com/90432140/how-atari-took-on-apple-in-the-1980s-home-pc-wars Fandal's monthly update http://a8.fandal.cz/ and Monty On The Run - http://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=7774 Runner Bear, first game of 2020 for Atari - http://atariteca.blogspot.com/2020/01/runner-bear-primer-juego-del-2020-para.html Atari Retro-pen: mass storage device for Atari 8-bits - http://atariteca.blogspot.com/2019/12/atari-retro-pen-dispositivo-de.html Great website to download game XEXs is Homesoft SIO2Midi 3D-printed Case - https://ataribits.weebly.com/midi-3d-printed-cases.html Thanks to Mr Robot (Steve Boswell) of AtariAge there is now a 3D printed enclosure design available to protect your SIO2MIDI board (https://ataribits.weebly.com/midi.html) Atari800 emulator new version 4.2.0 - https://github.com/atari800/atari800/releases/tag/ATARI800_4_2_0 Upcoming Shows with Atari Computers March 21 & 22, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle,Washington - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest March 21, Indy Vintage Computer Club Expo 2020, Camby, IN - https://www.facebook.com/events/188334755647918/ April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ New event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ YouTube Videos Debugging With the Altirra Atari 8-bit Emulator by Jonathan Halliday (flashjazzcat) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4sS_xv7oBs Sprites using Assembly language on the Atari with Joystick control by 8-bit and more - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uYc1cdB-mY Atari 800XL MiSTer Core Available on DE10-Standard and Arrow SoCKit FPGA by ModernHackers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ7lcWp3B0k Atari 8 Bit - Sphere Demo Benchmark in Fast BASIC by Atari 800XL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRr94ZxaOLw Lesson S4 - Bitmap Drawing on the Atari 800 / 5200 by ChibiAkumas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogt1WFoHTvk Second Life Syndrome Demo by Lamers group in SillyVenture 2k19 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2fzv3-mXKs Far Away By Agensa group Demo at SillyVenture Atari Party Poland - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYDLX1-c8NI New at Archive.org Issues of Hardcopy newsletter (Lehigh Valley, PA) - https://archive.org/details/@allan52?and%5B%5D=hardcopy McDonnell Douglas Recreational Computer Club's Atari Syncalc Demo - https://archive.org/details/syncalcdemojune1985mcdonnelldouglasrecreationalcomputerclub/ Elfin Magic's Super 3D Plotter II manual - https://archive.org/details/super3dplotter2elfinmagic/ Feedback Incognito firmware from FJC (Jonathan Halliday) - https://atari8.co.uk/firmware/incognito/ Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. 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	ANTIC Interview 377 - James Hugard, Neanderthal Computer Things	20 Dec 2019	00:23:30
James Hugard, Neanderthal Computer Things James Hugard was co-founder of Neanderthal Computer Things, a company that created just one product. "810 Turbo" was a hardware conversion board for the Atari 810 disk drive that promised true double density storage, and faster data reading and writing. The device, released in 1983, could be installed inside your 810 disk drive with "no jumpers, no soldering, no extra box." It cost $295. James wrote the firmware for the device. Check the show notes for links to the 810 Turbo Manual and advertisement, photos of the board, and a lively discussion on AtariAge (in which James has answered some questions and added more commentary.) This interview took place on June 7, 2019. 810 Turbo ad 810 Turbo Manual 810 Photos and software NCT Letter to Atari users groups Discussion on AtariAge
	ANTIC Episode 113 - Feeling Fancy!	04 Jan 2025	01:05:08
ANTIC Episode 113 - Feeling Fancy! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… The clear case Kickstarter doesn't make it, lots of FujiNet news, and we end the year 2024 with a bang by bringing you all the rest of the Atari news; all while Kay is feeling fancy… READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kay's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Next Without For Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we've been up to FASTBASIC on Mac - (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EricCarr.fastbasic-debugger) 10-liner option of FASTBASIC - https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic/blob/master/compiler/USAGE.md#passing-options-to-the-compiler Finished archiving Lee Pappas' disks!! - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378256-lee-pappas-analog-disks-treasure-hunt/ Eaten by a Grue is back - https://monsterfeet.com/grue/notes/56 Kay TODO - https://www.atariorbit.org/2024/12/26/altirra-arm-and-sequoia/ https://www.smoliva.blog/post/friend-of-the-blog-006-kay-savetz-antic-hybrid-arts/ Keeping Up With Atari: Neoliberal Expectations in Early Electronics Advertising - https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.847 keyboard to replace domes on 130XE - https://amzn.to/4i10QZz News Clearcase Kickstarter update - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seethruit/injection-molded-clear-case-for-atari-800xl-computer SpartaDOS 4.50 update - https://sdx.atari8.info/index.php?show=en_download_release RM800XL update (from Philsan) with images: Philsan post - https://mastodon.world/@Philsan/113627289787765526 RM 800XL site - https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html FujiNet news: FujiNet RAPID 13 (2024 wrap-up) and RAPID 12 by Andy Diller - https://www.atariorbit.org/rapid/ FujiNet news substack by Brian Cox - https://fujinews.substack.com/ Video by The VintNerd and Brian Cox on FujiNet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XcsSznKbTs Atari FujiNet User's and Programmer's Guide (First Draft) - Thomas Cherryhomes - https://fujinet.online/2024/12/31/early-draft-of-fujinet-users-manual-for-atari-users-0-0-2/ Atari Party East 2024 update from Andy Diller (Photos): https://www.flickr.com/photos/vladimirvince/albums/72177720322425117 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/t0qh6ekylnscbq6vbkkh8/APXF0_WBraGyO64fhDhVFIQ?rlkey=iey7dmfhet3ecahy229tzhfsy&e=1&dl=0 Atari 1200XL-1MB, Solder-Less 1088K SRAM-Based Memory Replacement Board by MyTek - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378131-atari-1200xl-1mb-solder-less-1088k-sram-based-memory-replacement-board/ The Joy of Sticks article in ROMchip Journal https://www.romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/article/view/204 Altirra V4.30 - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378003-altirra-430-released/ ABBUC Magazine 159 - http://www.abbuc.de Bubble-Bobble for the Atari 8-bit released - https://vega.atari.pl/main-page/bubble-bobble/ Via Bill Lange on bluesky: "Playing "Kaiser", a pretty version of "Hammurabi" or "Kingdom" on the Atari 8-bit. I translated most of the German to English here" - https://github.com/billlange1968/Kaiser/wiki "Archer Maclean's DropZone returns with 40th Anniversary Edition landing this December" - https://www.flickeringmyth.com/archer-macleans-dropzone-returns-with-40th-anniversary-edition-landing-this-december/ Upcoming Shows Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 15-17, 2025 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - vcfsocal.com Midwest Gaming Classic - April 4-6 - Baird Center, Milwaukee, WI - https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ VCF East - April 4-6, 2024 - Wall, NJ - http://www.vcfed.org Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 12-13 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/ SFGE / VCFSE - June 20-22 Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ Fujiama - August 11-17 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2025/ Event page on Floppy Days Website - https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSeLsg4hf5KZKtpxwUQgacCIsqeIdQeZniq3yE881wOCCYskpLVs5OO1PZLqRRF2t5fUUiaKByqQrgA/pub YouTube Videos How Atari 8-Bit Computers Work - The 8-Bit Guy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDAZAgrzNoo Bubble Bobble: Saberman RetroNews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXo462Es-lg Atari 8-bits Forever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dZcJqTdIlk CCA - Atari 8Bit Demoscene - 48k to 128k - The 400 Mini - Exploring Demos - CoffeeCupArcade - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ury9fxpwOvk Seven Amazing New Atari 8-Bit Games including Bubble Bobble & Time Wizard Deluxe Edition! - ZeroPage Homebrews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P-6zzDZpHg Silly Trip Demo for the Atari XL/XE PAL, 64kb and single POKEY by Desire - Heaven6502 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUEMvTSUEkE The Best #@! Christmas Ever: An Atari 8-bit Journey Into The Vertical Blank - Into the Vertical Blank - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9YfsN51kO0 Atari 2024 Recap video - https://youtu.be/J6PqOM9pXrA Al Alcorn presents "Early Days of Atari" Lecture @ Museum of American Heritage (August 22) - https://youtu.be/0fnMoMb32ak?si=S_PxYEzDJfemcaFs 6502 coding on Atari - Ellyse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfK78h8cvrQ New at Archive.org* https://archive.org/details/magatar-vol-2-num-1 https://archive.org/details/cheat-alpha-systems
	ANTIC Episode 63 - SillyVenture and FujiNet!	15 Dec 2019	01:35:52
SillyVenture and FujiNet In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: In the tradition of bringing you the latest Atari 8-bit news, we have a couple of very special guests in this episode. First of all, Bart comes to us literally direct from the fabulous SillyVenture show to give us a rundown, and then Thomas Cherryhomes tells us all about the amazing work going on with FujiNet! READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin's Book "Terrible Nerd" New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Donate to Ted Nelson project at: https://paypal.me/Savetz TEH: Tech Enthusiast Hour - https://tehpodcast.com What We've Been Up To SDrive Max from Vintage Computer Center - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product-category/atari Atari: A Visual History by Darren Doyle - https://www.greyfoxbooks.com/product/the-atari-a-visual-history/ Guests Thomas Cherryhomes FujiNet - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/298720-fujinet-a-wip-sio-network-adapter-for-the-atari-8-bit/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=8255002 Bart (SillyVenture) - http://www.sillyventure.eu/en/ Interviews Interview index: here Atari News A Crash Course on Advanced DLIs https://playermissile.com/dli_tutorial/ Galaga for the 8-bits - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/296152-another-galaga-thread/ - playsoft Into the Vertical Blank Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-vertical-blank-generation-atari/id1376995635 Prince of Persia WIP Demo has surfaced http://atariteca.blogspot.com/2019/12/primer-demo-jugable-de-prince-of-persia.html#more Nolan Bushnell interviewed At Computer History Museum from August - https://youtu.be/FyHbzhtrP0w ABBUC Software Contest - http://www.abbuc.de/atari/software-ressort and http://atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?ct=nowinki&ucat=1&subaction=showfull&id=1572114881 Upcoming Shows with Atari Computers March 21 & 22, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle,Washington - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ New at Archive.org MANUS Manual — Music Notation Software for Atari 8-bit computers - https://archive.org/details/MANUS/ Atari Karateka Development Disks - https://archive.org/details/AtariKaratekaDevelopmentDisks Magic Castle — unreleased game for Atari 8-bit computer - https://archive.org/details/magiccastle_atari Atari Telephone Directory - https://archive.org/details/ataritelephonedirectory Atari Office Supply Catalog and Office Administration Handbook - https://archive.org/details/atariofficesupplycatalog B.A.S.I.C. Bulletin disk newsletters - https://archive.org/details/@allan52?and%5B%5D=bulletin Silent Butler 80 - https://archive.org/details/SilentButler80 Atari 400 800 ROM Wizard - https://archive.org/details/romwizardsummary/page/n7 Success Magazine Feb 83 - https://archive.org/details/successfeb83 Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. Certain conditions apply. Offer good for those with approved credit. Member FDIC. An equal housing lender.
	ANTIC Interview 376 - Dennis Zander: Artworx, Hazard Run, Strip Poker	30 Nov 2019	00:53:54
Dennis Zander: Artworx, Hazard Run, Strip Poker Dennis Zander was one of the founding partners of the software publishing company Artworx. He programmed a number of games and educational titles, including Hazard Run, Rings of the Empire, Monkeymath, Giant Slalom, Intruder Alert!, Monkeynews, and others. He collaborated with Roger Harnish on Artworx popular Strip Poker game. This interview took place on June 13, 2019. In it, we discuss Art Walsh, whom I previously interviewed. Atarimania's list of Dennis' games Dennis' software at Archive.org ANTIC Interview 284 - Art Walsh, Dynacomp and Artworx Z-Stuff for Trains
	ANTIC Interview 375 - Bruce May, Unreleased Magic Castle Game	24 Nov 2019	00:29:33
Bruce May, Unreleased Magic Castle Game In 1982 Bruce May created Magic Castle, a game for the Atari 800 computer. He finished the game but was unable to find a publisher for it, so hardly anyone played it. In October 2019 he sent me scans of his original documents regarding Magic Castle: his design notes, and even rejection letters from the three companies that he submitted the game to: Catalyst Technologies, Avalon Hill, and Origin Systems. He hasn't been able to find the floppy disks with the game, but he does have printouts of the source code — which he also scanned and sent to me — so it could potentially be resurrected by the Atari community. This interview took place on October 13, 2019. Bruce's Magic Castle documents Michael Sternberg got Magic Castle running again!

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