ANTIC Episode 101 - “The Pronunciation Episode”

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…We discuss the antics of the company that calls itself Atari and their purchase of AtariAge and bring you all the other Atari 8-bit news we could find, while mispronouncing names all over the place…

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

• MULE Online with Thom, Wade, Robin - https://puzzud.itch.io/mule-online 

• Muffinterm:

• https://twitter.com/atari_bbs/status/1695216646338793591?s=20 

• https://muffinterm.app 

• VCFMW - http://www.vcfmw.org 

• http://www.ataribbs.com/ 

• https://www.southernamis.com/ 

• SCAT - http://www.scatarians.org/ 

News

•  Atari buys AtariAge:

• https://www.gamesindustry.biz/atari-acquires-atariage 

• https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354589-atariage-atari-qa/ 

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattgardner1/2023/08/25/atari-revisits-weird-past-with-summer-camps-merch-range/?sh=33e01a086df3 

• Interview with the new Atari CEO Wade Rosen on Mirror Gaming - https://youtu.be/l0Y2B9ljCv8?si=dV--bYuAFW7dqAyg 

• Infocom's Z-Machine ATR generator - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354888-infocoms-z-machine-atr-generator/ 

• FujiNet guide at SouthernAMIS - https://www.southernamis.com/_files/ugd/2800fc_3d4e4623a1f44862b46ccf643b9d65f0.pdf 

• Preorder open of FujiNet Professional for Atari 8-Bit computers - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=374 

• ATRFS: Mount ATR files as local directories under Linux or Mac - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354735-atrfs-mount-atr-files-as-local-directories-under-linux-or-mac/ 

• RM 800XL update - https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html 

• Silly Venture - https://sillyventure.eu 

• Firefighter - https://tuxpaint.org/ftp/atari/games/firefighter/alpha/ and https://github.com/billkendrick/firefighter 

• Popeye VBXE - https://www.indieretronews.com/2023/07/popeye-vbxe-another-arcade-port-but.html 

• New 576NUC+ Daughter Board in the Works - https://ataribits.weebly.com/blog/new-576nuc-daughter-board-in-the-works 

• Article on SillyVenture that just wrapped up - https://retrohclab.eu/the-silly-venture-2023-summer-edition-event-report-english/ 

• ABBUC made a special English edition of its magazine to celebrate the Silly Venture 2023 Summer Edition - https://abbuc.de/2023/08/abbuc-magazine-special-edition-for-sillyventure-sommer-2023/ 

• Pigwa collection - http://ftp.pigwa.net/ 

• Damien Guard’s "ZX Origins" font collection over on Facebook - https://damieng.com/typography/zx-origins/ 

• Atari 8-bit fonts - https://github.com/a8bit/EightBit-Atari-Fonts 

• A Look Back at the Greatness of the Atari 800 and Its Games By Jamie Lendino - https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/celebrating-the-atari-800-and-its-games 

• Backbit Pro Cartridge - https://store.backbit.io/product/backbit-pro/ 

• New podcast “The 8 Bit Files” with Atari 8-bit content and hosts John and Dave - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-8-bit-files/episodes/007---Atari-8-bit-Computers-e26e53q

• ATASCII Compo 3rd Edition 2023 - https://logiker.com/ATASCII 

Upcoming Shows

• World of Retrocomputing - September 16-17 - Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - https://www.worldofretrocomputing.com/2023-worc-expo 

• The Interim Computer Festival - Oct. 7-8 - Seattle, WA - https://sdf.org/icf/ 

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 13-15, 2023 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ 

• Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html 

• Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ 

YouTube Videos

• Hopman - Retro PC - https://youtu.be/mXCCs9zYe5s 

• Atari 800 Joystick Trigger Repair - Artifact Electronics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PH0hbfOve0 

• Building a better Atari 400 and Atari 800 diagnostic cartridge - AnotherMaker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdpx5usBi0E 

• Warranty Return 800XL - Client Video - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wRnngBTwSs 

• Building Eastern Front 1941 with the help of FujiNet - Thom Cherryhomes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Syzcwl1Tg 

• A pretty rare Atari computer shows up in the basement - Adrian’s Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIlxjd82ig0 

• The Complete Asteroids on Atari Home Systems Five Part Series - Steve and Jeff Fulton - https://intotheverticalblank.com/2023/08/01/the-complete-asteroids-on-atari-home-systems-series-the-latest-top-our-top-15-countdown/ 

New at Archive.org 

• Wing War Prototype - https://archive.org/details/wing-war-prototype/ 

• Atari User Magazine May 1991 - https://archive.org/details/atari-user-1991-05 

• Three Generations of Animation Machines Joe Decuir - https://archive.org/details/VCFW2023_Three_Generations_of_Animation_Machines_Joe_Decuir 

• Early Atari History and Stories - Al Alcorn -  https://archive.org/details/VCFW2023_Early_Atari_History_and_Stories_Al_Alcorn

• Early Commodore History - Leonard Tramiel - https://archive.org/details/VCFW2023_Early_Commodore_History_-_Leonard_Tramiel_and_Dave_McMurtrie 

• Computer Chronicles Revisited, Volume 6 (1987-1988) - https://archive.org/details/computer-chronicles-revisited-vol-06

New at Github

• https://github.com/pfusik/energy.scene.pl 

• https://github.com/tebe6502/Atari-8-bit-zines 

• https://github.com/atari8warez/ALibPc 

• https://github.com/sarnau/Atari8BitGhidra 

• https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/A8CLibrary 

• Box art - https://github.com/libretro-thumbnails/Atari_-_8-bit 

• https://www.retroarch.com/ 

ANTIC Episode 100 (Or Episode 4 in Binary)

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We celebrate our 100th (or is it the fourth, for you binary geeks out there?) episode by bringing you the latest news from across the Atari 8-bit computer landscape.

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

• The Atari newsletter at Internet Archive spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RkznDDlOL2O_K-RrbkajIuo6DvYof6Ajrn7j9NTcoDM/edit?usp=sharing 

• All Current Notes at Internet Archive - https://archive.org/details/currentnotesnewsletter?tab=collection&sort=-addeddate 

• MULE Online - http://muleonline.com 

• Discord thread on the Atari BASIC AI model, led by Jason Moore - https://discord.gg/WnEcxSvtS 

News

• AtariProjects, Jason Moore, back to publishing new material - https://atariprojects.org/ 

• Ted Richards died (April) - https://archive.org/details/TedRichardsInterview 

• Dealers Demo paper:

• https://www.academia.edu/10744534/Computer_Dealer_Demos_Selling_Home_Computers_with_Bouncing_Balls_and_Animated_Logos?email_work_card=view-paper 

• https://archive.org/details/computer-dealer-demos 

• https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-434-michael-park-swan-and-fujiboink-demos-midi-maze 

• Atari custom controllers - https://www.vikingvg.com/atari-controllers 

• UgBASIC:

• You can find the source by clicking here - https://github.com/.../main/examples/contrib_asm_mos6502.bas 

• The IDE for Windows can be found here - https://spotlessmind1975.itch.io/ugbasic-ide 

• Official site - https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/ 

• Unijoysticle 2 800XL - gamepad for Atari 800XL: 

• On sale at Tindie - https://www.tindie.com/products/riq/unijoysticle-2-800xl-gamepad-for-atari-800xl/ 

• At VCF West - ​​https://twitter.com/ricardoquesada/status/1687706816044752896?s=20 

• Game Cartridge Holder for Atari 400 & 800 - Tray Holds Up To 6 Games 400/800 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/175582283812 

• WEAVE MASTER - The Textile Design Tool Atari 400/800/XL/XE Cartridge: 

• https://www.ebay.com/itm/195892965783 

• https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-315-sarah-haskell-computerized-weaving 

• https://forums.atariage.com/topic/274921-atari-grad-school-thesis-weavemaster-and-designers-delight/?do=findComment&comment=5290125 

• Atari FujiNet Updates:

• High Score Enabled PAC-MAN - Thom Cherryhomes - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352884-high-score-enabled-pac-man-playthrough/ 

• game-dos folder added to DOS folder on atari-apps - Thom Cherryhomes - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352878-game-dos-folder-added-to-dos-folder-on-atari-apps/ 

• FujiNet Game Lobby - http://fujinet.online:8080/ 

• A8PicoCart - electrotrains - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/351546-a8picocart-unocart-on-a-raspberry-pi-pico/ 

• Sub(AVG)Cart - https://miscretro.com/product/subcart/ 

• SVI-CAS (link is broken)

• Poker Solitaire 2023 by Jerry White - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352920-poker-solitaire-2023-by-jerry-white/ 

• Decent XE mechanical keyboard for Atari XE computers - ScreamingAtTheRadio - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352558-decent-xe-mechanical-keyboard-for-atari-xe-computers-how-to-order-one/ 

Upcoming Shows

• Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 17-20 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2023-se 

• Fujiama 2023 - Aug. 30 - Sep. 3 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2023/ 

• VCF Midwest - September 9-10 - Waterford Banquets and Conference Center, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ 

• The Interim Computer Festival - Sep. 30 - Oct. 1 - Seattle, WA - https://sdf.org/icf/ 

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 13-15, 2023 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ 

• Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html 

• Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ 

YouTube Videos

• SIDE3 troubles with upgraded Atari 1200XL (U1MB, Sophia 2, Spectre AV) - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUJbWSWC9EM 

• Atari XEGS with SAVO (Saturn Atari Video Output), TK-II, Ultimate 1MB, VBXE and PokeyMAX - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bFajyugXF0 

• Let's repair an Atari 800XL - Adrian’s Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjOLAOrSY9M&t=342s 

• Atari XL/XE -=Doom=- - Saberman RetroNews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGfXhZJqHbY 

• Fixing the Atari 130XE: A Step-by-Step Repair Guide for Keyboard Issues - Steve’s Retro Gaming - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWrtAdvn5EY&t=2s 

• FujiNet, Atari 8-bit, and N: Fun: Making Game Disks - Thom Cherryhomes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S56KufpXlDQ&t=630s 

New at Archive.org 

• Facebook group for Cin’Tari - https://www.facebook.com/groups/cintari 

• https://archive.org/details/cintari-vol-10-no-2-winter-92 

• https://archive.org/details/cintari-vol-11-no-1-jan-93 

• https://archive.org/details/cintari-vol-11-no-2-feb-93 

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-february-1987 

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-january-1987 

• http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5543 

• https://archive.org/details/kaos-newsletters 

• Atari ST emulator now! - https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_atari_st_games?tab=collection 

ANTIC Episode 99 - 10-Year ANTICversary!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We bring in some of our Atari friends and talk about the last 10 years of Atari 8-bit happenings in this celebration of the ten-year anniversary of ANTIC!

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 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

• Scantastix project manual scanning - https://archive.org/search?query=identifier%3Astx_%2A&sort=-publicdate 

• Editing VCFE videos - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_e5fSxflvrx86M2x_D5rQLIGjeffQuUM 

• “How to Excel on Your Atari 600XL and 800XL” by Timothy Knight - https://archive.org/details/how-to-excel-on-your-atari 

• “Let’s Learn BASIC” by Ben Shneiderman - https://archive.org/details/Let_s_Learn_BASIC 

• Wade Ripkowski (Inverse ATASCII) text mode libraries for Action!, CC65, and MadPascal:

• https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/A8ActionLibrary 

• https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/A8CLibrary 

• https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/A8MadPascalLibrary 

• Inverse ATASCII web site: https://inverseatascii.info 

• Atari Projects (Jason Moore) - https://atariprojects.org/ 

• Bill Lange, Atari archivist - http://atari8bitads.blogspot.com/ 

• Bill Kendrick, Atari game and utility programmer - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atari/ 

• Atari Party events 

• Robin McMullen, Player/Missile podcast https://playermissile.com/ 

• Thom Cherryhomes, FujiNet - https://fujinet.online/ 

• Atariteca: https://www.atariteca.net.pe/ 

• VCF: https://vcfed.org 

• Old School Gamer Magazine: https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/ 

• Audacity Games (David Crane/Kitchen brothers, Circus Convoy): https://adgm.us/portal/index.html 

• Jamie Lendino’s Books - https://www.amazon.com/s?k=jamie+lendino&crid=2BJGJAZOJ5A2P&sprefix=jamie+lendino%2Caps%2C98&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 

• Jason Moore’s Book - https://www.amazon.com/Atari-Projects-Jason-Moore/dp/0578556421  

ANTIC Episode 98 - Don’t Toss Those Disks!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We talk about all the feedback we got concerning tossing or copying old non-commercial disks, we discuss the we-hope-it’s-not-vaporware RM800XL 800XL remake, we mention Thom Cherryhomes and FujiNet like 100 times, 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 

Next Without For 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• “Apple II Age” by Laine Nooney - https://amzn.to/3BOxbPC 

• Indy Classic Expo - http://indyclassic.org 

• 8-Bit Classics shop

• Jakadapter Dual Atari joystick adapter v2 - http://kair.us/projects/jakadapter/index.html 

• Happy 1050 from 8-Bit Classics 

• ATR8000 -  https://www.atarimagazines.com/v3n4/ATR8000.html 

• Brian Snyder (Reifsnyderb) and the 1090XL - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/318373-1090xl-remake/ 

• Southern AMIS and Atari non-commercial disks - https://www.southernamis.com/ 

News

• RM 800XL:

• Home page - https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html 

• Atariage - ​​https://forums.atariage.com/topic/350395-new-atari-800xl-revive-machine/#comment-5240788 

• YouTube video by GenXGrownUp  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCv2v08Amnc 

• Cease and desist tweet - https://twitter.com/atari_bbs/status/1654986930818531328 

•  Bob Smith died:

• ANTIC Interview 238 - Bob Smith: Video Pinball; Imagic co-founder; Sleazy Adventure

• https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/obituary-bob-smith-atari-2600-programmer-has-passed-away

• https://twitter.com/SeamusBlackley/status/1657795929951571968 

• FujiNet game server - https://twitter.com/tschak/status/1652819232067837952 

• Computer Chronicles Revisited, Volume 5 (1987) by S.M. Oliva. - https://archive.org/details/computer-chronicles-revisited-vol-5 

• 8-bit Slicks - https://8bit-slicks.com/ 

• FujiNet presentation from VCF East 2023 by Thom Cherryhomes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InQn_0nZ3Jo 

• Leonard Tramiel recent interview - https://hanselminutes.com/892/computing-history-with-atari-and-commodores-leonard-tramiel 

• Leonard Tramiel interview on Floppy Days - https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-104-interview-with-leonard-tramiel 

• A8DS - An Atari 8-bit Emulator for the DS/DSi/XL/LL:

• https://gbatemp.net/threads/a8ds-an-atari-8-bit-emulator-for-the-ds-dsi-xl-ll.632331/ 

• https://github.com/wavemotion-dave/A8DS 

• Using a #FujiNet, a SIDE 2 or 3 cart, and an Ultimate 1MB together (Thom Cherryhomes):

• https://forums.atariage.com/topic/350148-using-a-fujinet-a-side-2-or-3-cart-and-an-ultimate1mb-together/ 

• https://youtu.be/4mxJsTGNoGo 

• PAS6502 - https://syntaxerrorsoftware.itch.io/pas6502 

• ABBUC hardware and software contests 2023:

• https://abbuc.de/aktivitaten/hardware-competition/ 

• https://abbuc.de/aktivitaten/software-competition/ 

• Atari XL/XE font maker for PC - https://github.com/matosimi/atari-fontmaker 

• Inertia, new game for Atari 8-bit computers converted from 1990 original BBC Micro game - https://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=8440 

• Fast BASIC starter project - Eric Carr - https://github.com/EricCarrGH/fastbasic-starterproject 

Upcoming Shows

• The 64 bits or less Retro Gaming Festival - June 3-4 - Benton County Fairgrounds in Corvallis, Oregon (sponsored by the PortlandRetro Gaming Expo) - https://www.64bitsorless.com/ 

• Boatfest Vintage Computer Exposition - June 23-25 - Hurricane, WV - http://boatfest.info 

• VCF Southwest - June 23-25 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX - http://vcfsw.org 

• KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 18-23, 2023 (in-person), July 29–30, 2023 (virtual) - Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri - https://www.kansasfest.org/ 

• Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - July 28-30 2023 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ 

• Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 17-20 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2023-se 

• Fujiama 2023 - Aug. 30 - Sep. 3 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2023/ 

• VCF Midwest - September 9-10 - Waterford Banquets and Conference Center, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ 

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 13-15, 2023 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ 

YouTube Videos

• Installing Ultimate 1MB in Atari 800XL - Retro Tech Corner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he6RbVR_5nw 

• Atari Reimagined! - This Week In Retro 122 - This Week in Retro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0POBEBrfeg8 

• Bad Apple!! SV2K18 - a demo for Atari XL/XE with Rapidus by MadTeam (2018) [real HW] (re-upload) - VoyAtari - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns8V44pjrRs 

• ATARI XE/XL - Flashing and testing new OS rev 6.00, 2023, real HW - w1k-atari - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEDngCCnQdc 

• Randy Glover - Jumpman (1983):

• Q&A Sac Gamers Expo 2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-ppmTKIdyc 

• Kay’s interview - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-171-randy-glover-jumpman 

• BOULDER DASH: The Complete History - SGR | Retro Gaming Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0rYqG3GYvA 

New at Archive.org 

• Computer Entertainer - https://archive.org/details/@gameguy365?query=computer+entertainer 

• DX Distance and Bearing program for Atari computers - https://archive.org/details/atari-distance-and-bearing 

New at Github

• Bill Lange:

• https://github.com/billlange1968/Killer_Chess

• https://github.com/billlange1968/Trails_In_Action

• https://github.com/billlange1968/Demon-Birds 

• https://github.com/ivop/atariterm

Feedback

• “Starting Forth” by Leo Brodie - https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Forth-Introduction-Professionals-Prentice-Hall/dp/0138430799/ 

• The SLCC Atari club - meeting weekly on Zoom, and monthly in person at the San Leandro Library - https://slcc.wdgeo.com/ 

ANTIC Episode 97 - Don’t go to the Commodore Show!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Randy accidentally puts a link to an upcoming Commodore show in the show notes, we tell you how you too can emulate an Atari 1450XLD, and we give you the scoop on the Atari 8-bit entries in the BASIC 10-Liner Contest.

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 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• Allan’s disks - http://a8preservation.com 

• Ham sw:

• https://archive.org/details/cw-5_atari 

• https://archive.org/details/ham800 

• https://archive.org/details/qsoham-master 

• https://archive.org/details/stx_Datasoft_Alternate_Reality_The_City_manual_for_Macintosh 

• Case for XEP80-II - https://thebrewingacademy.com/products/xep80-ii-by-mytek?variant=39627658690662 

• 576NUC+ - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer 

News

• Atari Today - Andreas Bertelmann - http://www.ataritoday.net/ 

• Retro Roundup - https://retroroundup.com 

• a pair of 3D-printed hooks to hold your Atari 8-bit - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5336067 

• All you need to display a Mastodon post in Atari BASIC, with FujiNet by Thom Cherryhomes - https://www.reddit.com/r/atari8bit/comments/11o9z40/all_you_need_to_display_a_mastodon_post_in_atari/ 

• Retro Directory - https://retro.directory/ 

• Reboots of Atari 8-bit games:

• https://www.gamespress.com/Montezumas-Revenge-The-40-th-Anniversary-Edition-comes-to-modern-gamin 

• https://atari.com/products/caverns-of-mars-recharged 

• review of Caverns - https://cogconnected.com/review/caverns-of-mars-recharged-review/ 

• Altirra now supports Atari 1400XL and 1450XLD:

• https://mastodon.world/@Philsan/109982536080452626 

• https://forums.atariage.com/topic/345943-altirra-410-released/page/6/#comment-5220269 

• Atari XL - XE Sally to W65C02S adapter - Masteries - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/348982-atari-xl-xe-sally-to-w65c02s-adapter/ 

• Updated version of the In-Store Demonstration Program - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/349203-in-store-demonstration-program/ 

• ANALOG Computing Pocket Reference Card - SlagOMatic - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/349448-analog-computing-pocket-reference-card-redux/ 

• BASIC 10-Liner Contest - https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium 

• 7 x Atari 8-Bit 10 Liner Contest Entries, Cracky (A8): ZeroPage Homebrew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTTfuTJ24r4 

• ugBASIC - An isomorphic language for retrocomputers - https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/ 

• AtariInside - https://www.atarinside.com/blog/ 

Upcoming Shows

• VCF East 2023 - Apr 14-16, 2023 - InfoAge Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 

• Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 29 & 30 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/ 

• Boatfest Vintage Computer Exposition - June 23-25 - Hurricane, WV - http://boatfest.info 

• VCF Southwest - June 23-25 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX - http://vcfsw.org 

• Pacific Commodore Expo NW v4 - June 24-25 - “Interim” Computer Museum, Seattle, WA - https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=pacommex:start 

• KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 18–23, 2023 (in-person), July 29–30, 2023 (virtual) - https://www.kansasfest.org/ 

• Southern Fried Gaming Expo (VCF Southeast) - July 28-30 2023 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ 

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 13-15, 2023 - Oregon Convention Center - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ 

YouTube Videos

• I, Robot - Voy_NG - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqJ9KC0yWnE 

• Pimp my Atari 800XL - AtariInside - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WHI8v2AN3c 

• Cracky, thirteenth game by Inufuto - Atari 8 Bits For Ever -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hfPCfDi_I0 

• Cracky download - http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/cracky/ 

New at Archive.org 

• https://archive.org/details/commodityoptions0000maye/page/n19/mode/2up?q=%22Atari+800%22 

• https://archive.org/details/bowling-tk-computer-products/mode/2up 

• https://archive.org/details/utility-diskette-ii-apx 

• https://archive.org/details/nam-strategic-simulations 

• Computer Shopper:

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-august-1989-vol-9-num-8-atari-articles 

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-september-1988-vol-8-num-9-atari-articles 

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-may-1988-vol-8-num-5-atari-articles 

• https://archive.org/details/computersastheat0000laur_e8v2 by https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-420-brenda-laurel-atari-research 

New at GitHub

• https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-platformio/wiki/Atari-FujiNet-Programming-Series%3A-Roman-Checkers 

• https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/A8MadPascalLibrary 

• https://github.com/billlange1968/Demon-Birds 

• https://github.com/pkali/scorch_src 

ANTIC Episode 96 - Atari Dreams

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we talk about development for the Atari 8-bit, discuss a couple of highly-modified 800’s, dream about sleeping on an Atari pillow, and bring you all the other Atari 8-bit 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 

Next Without For 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• Converting Atari8BitBot to Mastodon with Papa Robot - @Atari8BitBot@oldbytes.space 

• Scantastix - https://archive.org/search?query=identifier%3Astx_%2A&sort=-publicdate 

• Dorm game - https://carringtonvanston.net/games/dorm/ 

• ANTIC sign - https://m.aliexpress.us/item/3256804531104852.html 

• BASIC 10-liner contest - https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium 

News

• Action! Tutorial at YouTube by David Arlington - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ8ABW8rY40 

• Browser-based Eastern Front 1941: 

• https://www.reddit.com/r/computerwargames/comments/10qhqb2/playtesters_wanted_chris_crawfords_eastern_front/ 

• https://github.com/patricksurry/eastern-front-1941 

• How to Use Classic Atari, Commodore and Sinclair Software on Your Mac - https://appleinsider.com/inside/macos/tips/how-to-use-classic-atari-commodore-and-sinclair-software-on-your-mac 

• Atari Software Pack - Dean Garraghty (Scotland) - DGS Software - http://www.dgs.clara.net/ 

• APX Atlas program - https://community.a8preservation.com/t/dumps-dumps-dumps/205/579 

• James Shackel passed away - https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/james-shackel-obituary?id=39585348 

• SuperSIO Splitter by Sikor - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/314342-supersio-splitter/ 

• Mr. Robot 3D printing models:

• http://www.atari8bit.net 

• https://www.printables.com/social/439944-mr-robot/models 

• Readytari items at Red Bubble by Steve Boswell (Mr. Robot) - https://www.redbubble.com/people/choccyhobnob/works/52776330-readytari-ntsc?carousel_pos=21&ref=work_carousel_work_portfolio&ref_id=30853044 

• Elite port - https://youtu.be/khhxWsZ7WC8 

• Goto10 newsletter - https://www.goto10retro.com/ 

• Mathy's new and improved homepage - https://mathyvannisselroy.nl/index.htm 

• Compiling a new Atari OS By reifsnyderb - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/347696-compiling-a-new-atari-os/ 

• hardware upgrades for all 8-bits by Brian Reifsnyder (reifsnyderb) - https://5cfab.com/ 

• Weird Modded Atari 800 Computer - https://www.ebay.com/itm/255980663210 

• Atari computer pillow - https://www.8bittees.com/product/atari-800-pillow/ 

• Chip-8 emulation on Atari:

• https://github.com/pkali/Chip-8 

• https://forums.atariage.com/topic/82003-chip8-emulator-version-10/ 

• 5th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/347449-5th-annual-atari-homebrew-awards-voting-information-discussion/ 

Upcoming Shows

• VCF East 2023 - Apr 14-16, 2023 - InfoAge Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 

• Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 29 & 30 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/ 

• KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 18-23, 2023 - Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri - https://www.kansasfest.org/ 

• Southern Fried Gaming Expo - July 28-30 2023 - Cobb Galleria Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ Keep an eye on the VCFSE section of the VCFED site for exhibit signups and more details.Use the discount code “INSERTCOIN” to save $5.

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 13-15, 2023 - Oregon Convention Center - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ 

YouTube Videos

• 5th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards Nominee Playthrough Part 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8L7MFrGMjI 

• 40th Anniversary of the excellent Atari 600 by The Centre for Computing History - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh3DEUO-V4o 

• "Square Monuments" 256 Byte Intro Atari XL/XE LoveByte 2023 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJmfJ2G8PSwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJmfJ2G8PSw 

• VGA from a VBXE Atari 800 - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4RBDY0Y100 

New at Archive.org 

• Hungarian Bit-Let - https://archive.org/details/bitlet_1983_1986 

• Allan - https://archive.org/details/@allan52 

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-may-86-vol-6-no-5-atari-articles/ 

• https://archive.org/details/lemonade-apx/ 

New at Github

• https://github.com/GSoftwareDevelopment/MIDICar-Player 

• MIDIcar - https://systemembedded.eu/viewtopic.php?t=51 

• https://github.com/ScotBaker305/Atari-Code  

• https://github.com/ThKattanek/cas_to_sio 

• https://github.com/sehugg/holiday2022 

ANTIC Episode 95 - Party at Brad’s House!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…we reluctantly add an “in memoriam” section, discuss other Atari news, and plan a party at Brad’s house during VCFSE.

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 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• Kay’s 2022 Wrap-up - https://www.patreon.com/posts/kays-2022-wrap-76408972 
• DLARC Amateur Radio Software for Atari computers -  https://archive.org/details/dlarc-software-atari 
• TANK, an unreleased, unpublished game by Pat Kennedy for Atari 8-bit computers - https://archive.org/details/tank_atari 
• Retroid 2 - https://www.goretroid.com/products/retroid-pocket-2-plus-handheld-retro-gaming-system 
• FASTBASIC - https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic 
• The Personal Computer BASIC S Reference Manual by Donald A. Sordillo
• Home Computer trading card deck - http://www.8bitkick.cc 
• ATARI 50: THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION - https://atari.com/products/atari-50th-the-anniversary-celebration 

News

• Rob 'n' Banks, new game - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/342151-rob-n-banks-new-game/ 
• Old School Gamer Magazine - https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/osgdigital/osg31free// 
• Atari Scene news - https://mastodon.world/@Philsan 
• v4.10 of Altirra, the Atari 8 bit computer emulator for Windows - https://www.virtualdub.org/altirra.html
• Atari Icons for Altirra by LesNick - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346537-atari-icons-for-altirra/
• via therealbountybob on AtariAge - https://forums.atariage.com/forum/60-8-bit-high-score-club/
• Ultimate Gated Video Board - https://ataribits.weebly.com/ugv.html
• Atari custom disks (pen plotting) from Paul Rickards - https://mastodon.social/@paulrickards/109661825716424393
• Update to LinguaXE (uses FujiNet) by Amarok:
  • https://forums.atariage.com/topic/343271-linguaxe-google-translator-for-atari-xlxe/?do=findComment&comment=5178964 
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-w5bBl1gUU 
• FASTFP version F+ for 400/800/XL/XE - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346575-fastfp-version-f-for-400800xlxe-in-final-version-5-new-roms/ 
• In Memoriam:
  • Glenn Botts (Glenn the 5200 man) passes away:
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D-2ep2DMGQ&lc=UgyPp_hkT9Txc36Vw154AaABAg 
    • Atariage discussion - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/345726-rip-glenn-botts-aka-glenn-the-5200-man/ 
  • Archer Maclean passes away:
    • https://www.dualshockers.com/archer-maclean-passes-away-aged-60/ 
    • http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-400-800-xl-xe-maclean-archer_team_844_8_G.html 
    • https://forums.atariage.com/topic/345523-archer-maclean-has-passed-away/ 
  • Sal Esquivel (KJMANN on atariage) died. He did the soundtrack to space harrier, Tempest extreme and outrun: 
    • ANTIC Interview 17 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Sal Esquivel - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-17-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-sal-esquivel 
    • http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-400-800-xl-xe-esquivel-sal_team_3357_8_G.html 
    • https://www.youtube.com/@salesquivel8562/videos 
    • http://archive.org/details/sal-esquivel-kjmann 
• Atari 800 Best Game Pack - link update - https://mega.nz/file/0xQn2BgQ#piHWwHpSjqXqImAGAXAkXT949ywvtDyqagxeNgW4F0g
• Atari 8-Bit/5200 Homebrew Games Released/Completed/WIP in 2023 - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/345916-atari-8-bit5200-homebrew-games-releasedcompletedwip-in-2023/ 
• Silly Venture 2022 WE results:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBoKKLquh3E&t=14044s 
  • https://demozoo.org/parties/4441/ 

Upcoming Shows

• VCF East 2023 - Apr 14-16, 2023 - InfoAge Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 
• Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 29 & 30 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/ 
• Southern Fried Game Expo - July 28-30 2023 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ 
• Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 13-15, 2023 - Oregon Convention Center - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ 

YouTube Videos

• VGA from a VBXE Atari 800 - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4RBDY0Y100 
• Poison (6502) - TNT (atari music, pokey, chiptune) - Marek Pešout - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAHlaCUJFCU 
• Last Ninja - Atari 8 Bits For Ever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43I0qpM0Udg 
• The Atari 800XL 8-bit computer - Keyboard repair and restoration - Arctic Retro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrsSvlTBEyc 
• Atari 8-bit VBXE Special - Zeropage Homebrew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjgS_P7BzZU 

New at Archive.org 

• https://archive.org/details/bestofcomputerfa0007vari/mode/2up?q=Atari 
• https://archive.org/details/completehistoric0000davi 
• https://archive.org/details/mundo-atari/MundoAtari-issue-00 
• https://archive.org/details/latarien_sep85/latarien_apr84/ 
• Many Mid-Florida Atari Computer Club Bulletin issues e.g. -  https://archive.org/details/mid-florida-atari-computer-club-bulletin-vol-11-no-10-oct-1994 
• MMG Micro Software's Final Flight Manual - https://archive.org/details/final-flight-mmg/page/1/mode/2up
• Sierra Service's Easyfind Index Disk Images and Documentation - https://archive.org/details/sierra-services-flyer-catalog/Easyfind_Docs/ 

Feedback

• Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland California - http://www.themade.org 

Personal Mastodon Accounts

• @savetz@oldbytes.space 
• @floppydays@oldbytes.space 
• @Antic_Brad@oldbytes.space 

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ANTIC Episode 94 - Are we just a chat bot?

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…we discuss the new book “Broken Computer Games” and other Atari news, and raise the question “are we just a chat bot”?

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 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• Secret Guide to Computers & Tricky Living Library- https://archive.org/details/secretguidetocomputers 
• Eaten By A Grue - http://monsterfeet.com/grue/ 
• Broken Computer Games - https://archive.org/details/broken-computer-games 
• ChatGPT chat bot - https://chat.openai.com/chat 
• Atari 50th Anniversary Collection - https://atari.com/products/atari-50th-the-anniversary-celebration 

News

• 4MB Axlon Compatible SRAM Card for the Atari 800  - reifsnyderb - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/344262-interest-in-a-4mb-axlon-compatible-sram-card-for-the-atari-800/ 
• new 8bitworkshop IDE release 
• Silly Venture 2K22 COMPO: 
• • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBoKKLquh3E 
  • https://www.sillyventure.eu/en/ 
• cracking archive - DjayBee:
• • https://archive.org/details/copyservicestuttgart?sort=-publicdate 
  • https://forums.atariage.com/topic/252283-straight-cracks-from-farbs-atx-torrent/page/15/#comment-5163187 
• Universal game Verbix written with Cross-Lib - Fabrizio Caruso:
• • https://www.facebook.com/groups/atari8bitcomputers/permalink/5648147985222661/ 
  • Atari 8-bit: https://github.com/.../download/verbix/Xverbix_atari.xex
  • Atari 5200:  https://github.com/.../download/verbix/Xverbix_atari5200.rom
• 3D printer file search engine - https://www.yeggi.com/q/atari+800/2/ 
• Computer Chronicles Revisited, Volume 4 - https://archive.org/details/computer-chronicles-revisited-vol-4 
• GEOS for Atari - other attempts at a graphical operating system for the Atari - http://atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1668428074&archive&start_from=0&ucat=1&ct=nowinki 

Upcoming Shows

• VCF East 2023 - Apr 14-16, 2023 - InfoAge Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 

YouTube Videos

• Over 50 Atari 400/800 Games In Under 30 Minutes - Laird’s Lair - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57CNQ7xp69o 
• C64 vs. Atari 800XL - 8 games from 1985 - RetroNoName - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cMH_WZ4-qU 
• C64 vs. Atari 800XL - 9 games Starting with Letter A - Floppy Deep Dive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv9Q7MoL88I 
• Atari 400/800/XL/XE - Cassette Dual Track system - Kingdom [ATARI] 1880 - StaxX28 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h0FQmpHtWA 
• Atari 800 games on Xbox Series X - Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration - Metal Mauler Gaming: 
• • Caverns of Mars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFGZftiGzMA 
  • Yoomp! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v4xrYjvVsI 
• This is the new best version of Atari's Star Raiders - ThisIsPete - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AstRleF8NAo 
• How Atari Fought & Lost The PC Wars! - Tech History Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKcQQZjp-Hc 

New at Archive.org 

• PSI Catalogue General 1986 - https://archive.org/details/psi-catalogue-general-1986acme 
• Avalon Hill Microcomputer Games V1N2 Winter 1982 - https://archive.org/details/Avalon-Hill-Microcomputer-Games-v1n2-winter-1982 
• Current Notes collection at archive.org - https://archive.org/details/currentnotesnewsletter?sort=titleSorter 

ANTIC Episode 93 - All FujiNet, All the Time!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Andy Diller (atariorbit) joins us to talk all things 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 

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

• FujiNet main site - https://fujinet.online/ 
• Andy’s blog - https://www.atariorbit.org 
• Andy’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/atariorbit
• Atari XDM121 printer on Shop Goodwill - https://shopgoodwill.com/item/154471414 

News

• Fast BASIC - https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic 
• Vintage Computer Center closing (Gavin Haubelt) - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/ 
• Ben Smith, owner of Bravo Sierra Computers has passed away:
• Bravo Sierra Computers website - http://atarisales.sdf.org/
• Interview on ANTIC with Ben - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-260-ben-smith-atari-sales-and-service 
• LinguaXE, a translator connected to Google with FujiNet - https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR2Qc5u7SfPz8EMAnqNAm4R7ZRPWxK2Zoz3qrkgKTmPNB0Q9T9C2uQs4dPg&v=dwMr9_h-WlY&feature=youtu.be 
• Nitelite BBS - https://www.reddit.com/r/atari8bit/comments/yl1nde/atari_bbsing_history_as_nitelite_bbs_software/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf 
• How to connect to the Atari BBS’s - https://southernamis.wixsite.com/website/how-to-connect 
• Atari XL/XE - rendering of unicode text" by YouTube user "amarok" -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_j0iSwbD7g 
• Second ATASCII Graphics Compo Results Are Out - https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/second-atascii-graphics-compo-results-are-out 
• ABBUC SW-Contest 2022 - https://abbuc.de/2022/11/ergebnis-abbuc-software-wettbewerb-2022/ 
• ABBUC Software Contest 2022 Games Playthrough Part 1: Atari 8-Bit Homebrew - Zero Page Homebrew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9fXI0iQh3U 
• Release of Break It! '22 Extended Version – https://forums.atariage.com/topic/343405-release-of-break-it-22-extended-version-abbuc-sw-contest-2022/ 
• New search engine for searching for vintage computer files from archive.org: 
• http://discmaster.textfiles.com/
• https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/lost-something-search-through-91-7-million-files-from-the-80s-90s-and-2000s/ 
• InstaDOS on cartridge - The VintNerd - https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0FzaYjwDVsxBAMkaMKVcWoWHe5HfuSPXJFZQZoNMTxMpiw4X4uu5kBNUks85M6WsKl&id=100063817554401 

Upcoming Shows

• VCF Zurich - November 19&20 - https://vintagecomputerfestival.ch/ 
• VCF East 2023 - Apr 14-16, 2023 - InfoAge Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 

YouTube Videos

• FlashJazzCat - Spectre Atari CVBS/s-video upgrade and UAV compared - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixBxTvo5yrU 
• 10 Amazing Atari 400/800 Facts - Laird’s Lair (Kieren Hawken) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1FysqYmR5I 
• RetroVGA new board preview Multi retro computer emulator (ZX128k, C64, Atari800) - Peter Misenko - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d1iRT5LjnE 
• Play Games with a S-Drive Max for Atari 8-Bit Computers - Retro Bliss Gaming - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d1iRT5LjnE 
• Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Nintendo Switch Gameplay - Handheld Players - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tl6WUGjwJA 

New at Archive.org 

• Get the most out of your Atari - 1984 - French - https://archive.org/details/eyrolles-obtenez-le-maximum-de-votre-atari 
• APX collection at archive.org - https://archive.org/details/atariprogramexchange 
• Current Notes collection at archive.org - https://archive.org/details/currentnotesnewsletter?sort=titleSorter 

New at Github

• https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-platformio/wiki/High-Score-writeable-ATR-example-in-BASIC 

ANTIC Episode 92 - I Played 1,000 Hours!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Randy talks about his great barn find and VCFMW, Kay gets a new personality (board), and Brad tries to accumulate 1,000 hours on Miner 2049’er.

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 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• Secret Guide to Computers and Tricky Living on IA - https://archive.org/details/secret-guide-33/page/684/mode/2up?q=Atari 
• Atari 800 Personality Board by santosp:
• • https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/atari-800-personality-board-62686
  • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/337925-new-personality-board-for-the-a800/?tab=comments#comment-5090556   
• VCFMW - http://www.vcfmw.org 
• Suburban Chicago Atarians - http://www.scatarians.org/ 
• Atari FujiNet NOS - https://www.atariorbit.org/ 
• The Taylor and Amy Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI8b_XAuYXU 
• 800XL cover from Paulo Garcia (Vintage is the New Old - https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/ ) 

News

• Retrochallenge 2022/10 - https://www.retrochallenge.org/2022/09/rc-202210-is-go.html 
• ASMA - Atari SAP Music Archive - http://asma.atari.org/ 
• “Computer Ads from the Past” substack entry on Alan Alda and Atariwriter- https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/alan-alda-and-atariwriter 
• Atari XL/XE fan scarf. Power Without the price since 1982 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/325252579215 
• Thom Cherryhomes call for game conversion for FujiNet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeImwNKp-yY 
• Andrew Diller (@atariorbit) put together a video showing the evolution of the FujiNet codebase, since its inception as "Atariwifi." - https://youtube.com/watch?v=pfeUelE9cYc… #RetroComputing 
• Atari 50th Anniversary Collection - https://park.london/products/atari-50-star-raiders-print-wall-art 
• Star Raiders will be included in Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration - https://twitter.com/DigitalEclipse/status/1577690194156785665 
• “Save Atari History” by playing minigames - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QErw-mKwLg 
• 3D printed Atari cases and keycaps - https://gp61.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR0jISsGhUARscNVb0ojRw8PQIuR8WZ2Z9BdLvHSefCmfuLzeLvELUl_MQU 
• 2nd ATASCII Compo - http://logiker.com/ATASCII 
• Atari EPROM Programmer - https://www.ebay.com/itm/374261668413  
• Atari sticker - https://www.ebay.com/itm/325374564098 
• ABBUC Magazine #150 - https://abbuc.de 

Upcoming Shows

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo = October 14-16 https://www.retrogamingexpo.com 

YouTube Videos

• Hibernated 1, Directors Cut on the Atari 8-bit (adventure game), with talk about FujiNet, XEP-80, CPM and the game - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPViSZD_O90 - Andrew Diller (@atariorbit) 
• Heavily modified NTSC Atari 600XL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8YdqUTKvSw - FlashJazzCat (Jonathan Halliday) 
• A bunch of things still in development from Lotharek and Candle like the Atari 400 Incognito Lite! - https://youtu.be/UN-8P3iK1IM - FlashJazzCat (Jonathan Halliday) 
• Evolution of Atari computers and consoles 1972 - 2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFtTWKdXaGQ - World in Statistics 

New at Archive.org 

• (Josh Malone->Allan for scanning) 
• • https://archive.org/details/word-search-generator-apx-manual-ver-2 
  • https://archive.org/details/word-search-french-pdi  
  • https://archive.org/details/spellakazam-designware 
• Art Of Computer Game Design PDF 
• • https://archive.org/details/ebook-pdf-programming-art-of-computer-game-design 
  • Vs book scan: https://archive.org/details/artofcomputergam00chri 
• https://archive.org/details/the-gospel-of-st.-pong-revisited-vol-4-april-1977 
• Scanned by https://archive.org/details/@decode_document_digitize 

Listener Feedback

• Piotr Bugaj’s ECI + Cartridge port expander - https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/atari-xe--port-expander.-eci-%2B-cart-x2-62320 

ANTIC Episode 91 - HAM Atari

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Kay gets a new job, Randy officially retires, and we cover a ton of hardware upgrades

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 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• Internet Archive job for Kay - https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1562130788602109952 
• Low-profile Atari 400 keyboard - https://mobeets.com/ 
• Atari XE Remake - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319881-atari-xe-remake-pre-order-thread/ 

News

• 1979 Atari 800 Personal Computer Metal Sign - https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/638738386 
• Best Electronics XE Touch upgrade:
• • AtariAge thread - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/338985-best-electronics-xe-touch-upgrade/ 
  • Best Electronics - https://www.best-electronics-ca.com/130xe.htm#TT 
• AtariOrbit and This Week in FujiNet - https://www.atariorbit.org 
• 822 printer on ebay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/314115004546 
• Revive 1027 - https://retrohax.net/shorts-atari-1027-printer-the-revive1027-project/#more-15516 
• Castlevania - https://www.indieretronews.com/2022/08/castlevania-thelen-is-still-working-on.html 
• Eci+Cart port replicator by Piotr Bugaj (Poland) - https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/atari-xe--port-expander.-eci-%2B-cart-x2-62320 
• FastBASIC -  https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic/releases/tag/v4.6 
• Atari 800 Personality Board by santosp:
• • https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/atari-800-personality-board-62686
  • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/337925-new-personality-board-for-the-a800/?tab=comments#comment-5090556 
• The 1056 Board -- Atari 400 1056k Memory Upgrade - reifsnyder_b  - https://www.ebay.com/itm/275417691367?fbclid=IwAR2KHKCUDIHQ_xs6xgxlpQWJQQl7s0Xgz4lx9Pyii1_PTXoIwzRcEaY7hhQ 
• 1064M 64k Memory Upgrade For the Atari 600XL - https://www.ebay.com/itm/1064M-64k-Memory-Upgrade-For-the-Atari-600XL/275368998887 
• Atari 800 48k RAM Card with Jumper Board - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Atari-800-48k-RAM-Card-with-Jumper-Board/275370454563 
• 320k Memory Upgrade For the Atari 600XL and Atari 800XL - https://www.ebay.com/itm/320k-Memory-Upgrade-For-the-Atari-600XL-and-Atari-800XL/275424247115 

Upcoming Shows

• Fujiama = Sept 8-11 in Lengenfeld Germany http://fujiama.eu/ 
• VCF Midwest = Sep. 10-11, Chicago area http://vcfmw.org/ 
• Portland Retro Gaming Expo = October 14-16 https://www.retrogamingexpo.com 

YouTube Videos

• Atari Computers 1985 Jack Tramiel interview - Atari XE SX and WHY he left Commodore Computers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGGx4MBKEgk 
• Hawkeye Tunetro - Atari 8-bit Demo by JAC! of WUDSN - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jo8gdFPFGU 
• C-Drug The BEST Atari XL/XE Demo I have ever seen ! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHAnahJ_D8 
• Are THESE the "Ultimate" upgrades for your Atari XL/XE? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZNO58TRsjQ 

Word from Our Sponsor

• Atari 800, (Atari, 1982) UK TV ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ed86r2uKQ - “The Science Museum 2040”

New at Archive.org

• https://archive.org/details/mini-office-ii-database-software 
• https://inverseatascii.info/2018/06/02/s4e09-database-software-mini-office-ii-supplement/ 
• https://archive.org/details/cassette-operating-system-alpha-systems 
• https://archive.org/details/raos-zobian-controls/ 
• https://archive.org/details/operation-whirlwind-broderbund 

New at Github

• https://github.com/Ian-McG-1970/Atari-8bit 
• https://github.com/dougdonohoe/dougs-origin-story, https://medium.com/@DougDonohoe/80s-word-puzzles-and-the-atari-800-my-origin-story-3c86fa5947dc 

ANTIC Episode 90 - Lets All Retire!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Atari hits 50 big years, Lego gets into the ballgame, and Randy talks retirement (no, not from the show).

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 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• http://blog.archive.org/2022/07/13/have-you-played-atari-today-2/  
• https://github.com/savetz/Phoenix_AdventureInTime 
• https://github.com/savetz/Phoenix_BirthOfThePhoenix 
• https://github.com/savetz/Phoenix_QueenOfPhobos 
• Sharp Aquos 15” LCD -  https://www.crutchfield.com/S-KJSgUXWo9OQ/p_284LC15S1U/Sharp-LC-15S1U.html 
• 512 ram expansion, Atari 800 XL on SellMyRetro - https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/61296 

News

• Atari 130XE Games Book  (Retro Reproductions) - https://www.amazon.com/Atari-130XE-Games-Retro-Reproductions/dp/1789826233 
• A Graphical OS for the Atari 8-bit by Flashjazzcat - https://atari8.co.uk/gui/ 
• SIO2PC USB at Vintage Computer Center - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product/sio2pc 
• Atari 800XL dust cover at VITNO - https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/989847739/atari-800xl-dust-cover-brand-new 
• “A decade-long attempt to enter PC history: Atari home computers” by Vilius Petkauskas at CyberNews - https://cybernews.com/editorial/a-decade-long-attempt-to-enter-pc-history-atari-home-computers/ 
• “Atari Turns 50: A Look Back on the Original Name in Video Games” by Jamie Lendino, PC Magazine - https://www.pcmag.com/news/atari-turns-50-a-look-back-on-the-original-name-in-video-games 
• Atari 2600 Lego - https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/atari-2600-10306 
• Dungeoneer by Ed Salisbury
  • The game can be downloaded directly - https://github.com/godlikemouse/atari-1200xl-asm/releases/download/v1.3/dungeoneer.xex 
  • You can find all the source code here - https://github.com/godlikemouse/atari-1200xl-asm 
  • YouTube channel - http://youtube.com/MissionEdPossible 
• Atari emulator for the Nintendo 3DS - https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Atari800-3DS 
• Timothy Kline - https://atari-owner.com/ 
• SWUtils (SimCheck, SimTest, OSDump) by Panther
  • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/333084-swutils-simcheck-simtest-osdump/
  • http://www.atariverse.com/files/utils/ 

Upcoming Shows

• VCF West 2022 =  Aug 6, 7, The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ 
• Long Island Retro Gaming Expo = Aug 12-14, Cradle of Aviation, Garden City, NY - https://liretro.com/?fbclid=IwAR1UBBrrkg-aoTwUb7fL_Rd56Chv29oyS7Ycxs7Wn5g4iyoN7q3JtWUxioE 
• Fujiama = Sept 8-11 in Lengenfeld Germany http://fujiama.eu/ 
• VCF Midwest = Sep. 10-11, Chicago area http://vcfmw.org/ 
• Portland Retro Gaming Expo = October 14-16 https://www.retrogamingexpo.com 

YouTube Videos

• Atari 800XL with the BackBit Pro - The Taylor and Amy Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI8b_XAuYXU 
• Atari XL/XE Hypra-Soft-Basic Tips - ???????????? ????????????????
• • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFG39jnAnH4
  • https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Hypra-Soft-Basic 
• Is this the “Ultimate” upgrade for your Atari XL/XE? - retrobits - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br6iUfl73IU 
• ReWind demo by NG & Zelax - philsan69 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s2vqN1jWgU 
• Alley Dog demo by Agenda - philsan69 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTHxkxdoRgU 
• SIDE3 Beta Loader Update: Part 1 - FlashJazzCat - https://youtu.be/LJgnJ10SVzU 
• SIDE3 Beta Loader Update: Part 2 - FlashJazzCat - https://youtu.be/roID-Rzy5Aw 

New at Archive.org

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-dec-87-vol-7-no-12-atari-articles 
• https://archive.org/details/atari-touch-the-future/Atari_PCS_Price_list 
• https://archive.org/details/waug-newsletter-january-1983 
• https://archive.org/details/waterloo-atari-users-group-newsletter-febuary-1983 
• https://archive.org/details/waug-newsletter-june-1983 
• https://archive.org/details/waug-newsletter-june-1983 
• https://archive.org/details/bace-newsletter-july-1983 
• https://archive.org/details/black-hawk-ace-newsletter-august-1983 
• https://archive.org/details/black-hawk-ace-newsletter-october-1983 
• https://archive.org/details/cintari0693 
• https://archive.org/details/atari_computer_enthusiasts_hawaii/acehi_1987_december 

ANTIC Episode 89 - Choke on it!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Brad regales us with his motherload of new Atari stuff, Kay solves the mystery of “Have You Played Atari Today?”, and we discuss 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 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• Kay contributed a story to Taper:
• • https://taper.badquar.to/8/ 
  • https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1537155185713160192 
• “Using Your Atari XL Computer” referenced at https://archive.org/details/Atari_Connection_Volume_3_Number_4_1983-09_Atari_US/page/n32/mode/1up 
• “Have You Played Atari Today?” - https://archive.org/details/graphisnewtalent0000unse_l9l8/page/7/mode/1up?q=atari 
• The ChalkBoard PowerPad by Chalkboard Inc. - https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n10/52_The_legend_of_the_pad_of_.php 

News

• Atari 130XE Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner (Retro Reproductions) - https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1789824338 
• Alan Alda CES tape! - https://archive.org/details/alan-alda-atari-ces-1983 
• Atari chat client for Fujinet, FujiTalk by bocianu:
  • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/336753-ann-fujitalk-fujinet-chat-client/ 
  • https://fujinet.pl/tnfs/networking/fujitalk.xex 
• [K] Computer Chronicles revisited - https://smoliva.blog and in book format at https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator:%22S.M.+Oliva%22
• Floppy Days interview of Stewart Chefeit (host of Computer Chronicles) - (https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-78-interview-with-stewart-chefeit-computer-chronicles )
• 576NUC+ Programmer Pack ROM - mytek - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/308191-the-worlds-smallest-atari-8-bit/page/28/?tab=comments#comment-5062163 
• 8-bit Workshop - https://8bitworkshop.com/ 
• ABBUC Magazine #149 - https://abbuc.de/mitglieder/ 
• Via BIll Lange: Rare Peruvian “Aventuras D'Onofrio” education series for Atari 8-bit family has been archived - http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-aventuras-d-onofrio_37340.html 
• Fujinet servers - maintained by Mr. Robot - https://atari8bit.net/projects/software/fujinet-server-status/ 
• Atari800 updated for Raspberry Pi 4 & 400 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/336269-installing-atari800-v500-on-the-raspberry-pi/ 

Upcoming Shows

• VCF Southeast - July 15-17  Southern Fried Gaming Expo https://gameatl.com/ 
• VCF West 2022 =  Aug 6, 7, The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ 
• Fujiama - Sept 8-11 in Lengenfeld Germany
• VCF Midwest - Sep. 10-11, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/index.html 

YouTube Videos

• How to Start Atari800 Emulator on RG350 - https://youtu.be/EguoIAq3qn8 - Mike Stringer - https://retrogamecorps.com/rg350/ 
• Atari 400 + UAV + Audio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di_xhZ8CM20 - Mr Lurch’s Things
• Retro 1982 - McDonald's Atari Game - Dayton, Ohio TV History - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKU2BuTAQiw - Craig’s Daybook 
• The start of an Atari 8-bit repair-a-thon! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrC_Ire_jEg - Adrian’s Digital Basement

New at Archive.org

• List of pirated programs on Atari 8 bit computers - https://archive.org/details/elenco-programmi-atari 
• https://archive.org/details/b-c-computervisions-leaflets-1992 
• https://archive.org/details/b-c-computervisions-catalog-handheld-and-8-bit-spring-1992 
• https://archive.org/details/b-c-computervisions-catalog-winter-1992 
• https://archive.org/details/american-techna-vision-catalog-1992 
• https://archive.org/details/american-techna-vision-catalog-1993 
• The Gospel of St. Pong - Original employee newsletter - Early Atari
• • https://archive.org/details/atari1
  • https://archive.org/details/atari2 

ANTIC Episode 88 - We need more Atari shows!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… lots of Atari action and news, loading Atari software from VHS, and a call for more Atari-specific shows

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 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• MT32-pi - https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi 
• https://archive.org/details/michigan-atari-magazine-complete-collection 
• https://archive.org/details/AtariFinalLegacyPoster 
• https://archive.org/details/ukraine-computer-poster-1989 
• https://rpilocator.com 
• 576NUC+ cartridge upgrade - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer/products/myteks-576nuc-and-internal-fujinet 
• AVG Cart .ATR mod - https://atari8bit.net/tutorials/de-re-avgcart/ 
• Cartridge shell from Vintage Computer Center - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product/atari-8-bit-cartridge-shells 
• 4-in-1 OSS cart - https://atariprojects.org/2021/11/21/purchase-a-new-4-in-1-oss-programming-language-cartridge-for-your-atari-8-bit-computer-5-10-mins/ 
• XEP-80 II - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/atari-800-xl-xe-xel-xld/products/xep80-ii-by-mytek 

Recent Interviews

• Anthony Ramos: Parrot, Creepy Caverns - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-432-anthony-ramos-parrot-creepy-caverns 
• Scott Savage: Lefty, the Checkers Playing Robot - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-433-scott-savage-lefty-the-checkers-playing-robot 
• ANTIC Interview 434 - Michael Park: Swan and Fujiboink Demos, MIDI Maze - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-434-michael-park-swan-and-fujiboink-demos-midi-maze 
• The looking for Xanth tweet - https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1509353652367998981 

News

• Allan: Software for Atari Coin Executive - 
• • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/320451-atari-coin-op-disks/ 
  • http://www.atarimania.com/documents/atari-coin-executive.pdf 
• mozzwald Wikipedia reader for Atari 8 Bit FujiNet. You can load it via fujinet.online as /wiki.xex - https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-apps/tree/master/wiki/atari 
• bocianu and mozzwald news reader for FujiNet - TNFS://fujinet.pl/Networking/fujinews.xex 
• Thom Cherryhomes Mastodon Client for FujiNet - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/335680-worlds-simplest-mastodon-client-in-basic/ 
• Bluetooth Wireless Atari Joystick and Paddle Adapter - 2 DB9 Ports 
• BASIC 10Liner Contest 2022 results - https://homeputerium.de 
• Atari 400 mini - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA8O_X8JGsA - Retro Relik (in French)
• Loading Atari software from VHS tape - Video Cartridge by Turbo Soft - https://retrogames.cl/vcturbosoft.html?fbclid=IwAR1jrCTTQR7RzH8nNGOUpZCtziSJDLxBxI3Kyoufgwnvh9ps2oxWUd_fDVc 
• http://atariemailarchive.org/ 
• playing Atari with your hands as motion controls - Eran Feit - https://youtu.be/vJO6nMwUBXw 
• ABBUC Magazine 148 released - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/335262-abbuc-magazine-148/ 

Upcoming Shows

• Boatfest Retro Computing Festival 2022 = June 24-25 - Hurricane, WV - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/boatfest-retro-computer-festival-2022-tickets-222333103297 
• VCF Southeast - July 15-17  Southern Fried Gaming Expo https://gameatl.com/ 
• KansasFest 2022 = July 19–24, 2022, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ in-person AND remote
• VCF West 2022 =  Aug 6, 7, The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ 
• VCF Midwest 17 - Sep 10-11, Elmhurst, IL http://vcfmw.org/ 
• Fujiama - Sept 8-11 in Lengenfeld Germany http://fujiama.eu/ 
• PRGE Oct 14-16 https://www.retrogamingexpo.com 

YouTube Videos

• Atari commercials - Seattle Retro Guy 
• • Mom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmg4JApvsV0 
  • Father and Son - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw_wQJXkens 
  • Bachelor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi95BYgwZPw 
• Atari 800XL - Asteroids Emulator - Real Arcade Rom On Atari 8-Bit Computer - Paul Westphal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7RLYRZQ5Jo  
• FlashJazzCat:
• • Atari 800 Super Color CPU Card Installation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlb1b4YYT70 
  • Video issues on Atari 130XE with vendor-installed VBXE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZLgbu41Kdc 
  • Atari 130XE: VBXE fixed, Rapidus/SIDE3/AKI tested - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d1ljmI7lCo 

New at Archive.org

• chickenman ACE NSW newsletters - https://archive.org/details/@chickenman 
• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-jan-87-vol-7-no-1-atari-articles 
• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-jun-87-vol-7-no-6-atari-articles 
• https://archive.org/details/Hexenkueche 
• https://archive.org/details/die-fundgrube 

New at Github

• https://github.com/DLehenbauer/c64-sam 

Listener Feedback

• FORK: The Great Underground Dining Room 

Scott Savage: Lefty, the Checkers Playing Robot

"Lefty" was the name of the world's first checker-playing robot, which was located at the Omniplex science museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The robot arm would play games of checkers against museum visitors, picking up and moving pieces on a physical checkerboard. Lefty's game logic ran on an Atari 800 computer, which controlled the robot through the joystick port. Lefty was programmed by Scott Savage, the subject of today's interview.

Before the interview, Scott digitized his Atari cassette tape with the code for Lefty. The tape had some problems, but Atari community member "atarigrub" successfully recovered the data. Scott also provided scans of several newspaper and magazine articles about Lefty. Both the Lefty program and those articles are available at Internet Archive.

Also, be sure to watch the only known video of Lefty in action: Scott and Lefty appeared on the TV show "Dannysday" which aired on KOCO TV in spring 1984.

This interview took place on April 14, 2022.

Scott and Lefty on Dannysday TV show

Lefty BASIC program and media mentions

Paper about Lefty (in Spanish)

Scott Savage Techno Scavenger YouTube channel

Omniplex is now called Science Museum Oklahoma

This interview on YouTube

Anthony Ramos: Parrot, Creepy Caverns

Anthony Dandrea is better known to Atari computer enthusiasts as Anthony Ramos.

Anthony programmed Creepy Caverns, a type-in BASIC game that was published in Antic magazine's August 1984 issue. Anthony also created the software for Parrot, a $40 4-bit sound sampler and playback package that was marketed by Alpha Systems.

In this interview, we discuss George Morrison of Alpha Systems, and Peter Langston of LucasArts, both of whom I have previously interviewed.

This interview took place on April 8, 2022.

Creepy Caverns in Antic magazine

Discape Atari 8-bit Demo

Discape disk image

"Talk is Cheap" by Ed Stuart in Antic magazine

Parrot manual

Parrot review in Antic magazine

Creepy Caverns with sampled audio

Parrot Christmas demo

Anthony's Conway's Game of Life

Anthony on AtariAge

ANTIC Interview 367 - George Morrison, Alpha Systems

ANTIC Interview 126 - Peter Langston, LucasArts

Ground Kontrol arcade

1984 article in Lorain Journal

This interview on YouTube

ANTIC Episode 87 - Good news, bad news

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we have tons of news, both good and bad, and lots of coverage of new hardware.

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 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• 576NUC+ cartridge upgrade - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer/products/myteks-576nuc-and-internal-fujinet 

News

• FujiNet multi-platform - https://www.facebook.com/groups/fujinetusers/permalink/3255652564716397/ 
• Brewing Academy updates - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/atari-800-xl-xe-xel-xld/products/xep80-ii-by-mytek 
• The SDRIVE Simple II from MyTek - https://ataribits.weebly.com/sdrive.html 
• ABBUC software competition 2022 opened! - https://abbuc.de/2022/04/abbuc-softwarewettbewerb-2022-eroeffnet/ 
• Neon by Gistov:
  • https://github.com/Gibstov/Neon/ 
  • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/322460-neon-demo-hypertext-adf-browser-for-atari/ 
  • Reference guide by MassiveRobot (Andrew Diller) - https://www.dropbox.com/s/4r5ib6u7b3b5oq3/Neon_Programmers_Reference_v1c.pdf?dl=0 
• Atari Reference Guide by MassiveRobot - https://www.dropbox.com/s/mrmoaykb8wuzgvy/AndyAtariReference_current.pdf?dl=0 
• Into the Vertical Blank Homesoft tweet - https://twitter.com/atari_vb_pod/status/1501596822250606600?s=21 
• Homesoft disk images - http://www.mushca.com/f/atari/index.php?idx=10 
• 8-bit Hub - http://8bit-unity.com/?page_id=551 
• Atari 800XL Keychain - https://www.the8bitguy.com/product/atari-800xl-keychain/ 
• Argon and Atari 8-Bit (phone/tablet/TV/Chromebook/PC) - bhall408:
  • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/332333-argon-and-atari-8-bit-phonetablettvchromebookpc/ 
  • https://www.markspace.com/argon/ 
• Starmaster port by Glurk - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/332899-starmaster-8-bit-final/ 

Upcoming Shows

• VCF East 2022  =   Apr 22, 23, 24, Infoage Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 
• Boatfest Retro Computing Festival 2022 = June 24-25 - Hurricane, WV - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/boatfest-retro-computer-festival-2022-tickets-222333103297 
• VCF Southeast - July 15-17  Southern Fried Gaming Expo https://gameatl.com/ 
• KansasFest 2022 = July 19–24, 2022, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ JUST ANNOUNCED it will be in-person AND remote
• VCF West 2022 =  Aug 6, 7, The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ 
• Fujiama - Sept 8-11 in Lengenfeld Germany 

YouTube Videos

• From $2 Billion to Nothing - The Rise and Fall of Atari by ColdFusion -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_kEhHAMupU 
• ATARI XL / XE =+ BERT += 10-LINERS BASIC CONTEST 2022 by Vitoco, posted by Atari 8 Bits For Ever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL7dpQkLZBo 
• Atari 800 Commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upfno98p1xE - uploaded by Nathan Hadley
• How to pronounce Atari 800 Computer FL in Telugu? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ztgGOscC7c 
• ATARI XL / XE =+ FREEWAY += NEW PORT GAME 2022 by Atari 8 Bits For Ever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX5ESH2UovA 

New at Archive.org

• German Atari books:
• • https://archive.org/details/das-assemblerbuch-fur-die-atari-computer-400-800-600-xl-800-xl-130-xe-finzel-1986 
  • https://archive.org/details/6502-assembler-kurs-fur-beginner-dripke-2.-aufl-1984 
  • https://archive.org/details/atari-profibuch-2018 
  • https://archive.org/details/chip-sonderheft-atari-600-xl-800-xl-65-xe-130-xe 
  • https://archive.org/details/800-xe-0787 
• Allen:
• • https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-october-1985-vol-5-num-10-atari-articles 
• Two more issues of Ad Astra from Michael Sternberg:
• • https://archive.org/details/AdAstraV2n3 
  • https://archive.org/details/AdAstraV2n4 
  • Discussion - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/284800-ad-astra-journal/?do=findComment&comment=5019277 

New at Github

• LLVM-MOS SDK - https://github.com/llvm-mos/llvm-mos-sdk/releases/tag/v0.1.0 
• https://8bitnews.io 

Tom Zimmerman, AMY chip

ANTIC Episode 86 - Tangents

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… the BASIC 10-liners contest and the AtariAge High Score Club contest are on like Donkey Kong, new software and hardware is available for our favorite machine, K continues his archiving work, and we go off on several tangents

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 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• Kay’s 2021 wrap-up - https://www.patreon.com/posts/kays-2021-wrap-60367090 
• Current Notes (and other Atari magazines) collection at Internet Archive - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RkznDDlOL2O_K-RrbkajIuo6DvYof6Ajrn7j9NTcoDM/edit?usp=sharing 
• OHAUG disks - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/331816-digitized-ol-hackers-atari-user-group-disk-library/ 
• ABBUC - http://www.abbuc.de 

News

• Goto10 - a retrocomputing substack with a focus on Atari 8-bit - https://goto10.substack.com 
• FujiNet
  • ​​Programming network games for the Atari 8-bit and Coleco Adam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWSmMqzmiyw 
  • Playing a Connect Four game across an #Atari8bit and a #ColecoAdam with FujiNet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehF68h_BD0M&t=1s 
• Atari flight sims on Steam
  • https://www.polygon.com/22892068/f-15-strike-eagle-solo-flight-ancient-art-of-war-skies-harrier-retro-pc-steam-release-date-price
  • https://readretro.com/classic-atari-flight-sims-are-coming-back-on-steam/ 
• Humble Bundle - https://www.humblebundle.com/ 
• AtariAge high score club - https://atariage.com/forums/forum/60-8-bit-high-score-club/ 
• Feb 26 2022 Atari 8-bit users meeting at the National Videogame Museum - http://nvmusa.org/ 
• Kim Slawson points us to new interviews at Ted Dabney Experience podcast -  https://www.teddabneyexperience.com/episodes 
• Atari Sprite Editor by bacianu
  • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/330217-spred-new-atari-sprite-editor/?fbclid=IwAR20pdi_zzjvgIrn8X3vco-bsqirDa2SdCizxKDD0NlYLD0OrfoF4H42S7o 
  • SprEd in the browser!
• 2021 BASIC 10-Liner Contest
  • https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/2021-basic-10-liner-contest-is-on 
  • https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/rules2021
• SDrive-Simple - mytek
  • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/327764-sdrive-simple-yet-another-hardware-variation/ 
  • This idea was born out of the discussion started by Chris Belcher - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/294991-sdrive-max-mini-no-screen-no-problem/ 
• Gacek - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2022/02/version-de-gacek-para-computadoras.html 
• The Little Book of Sound Chips, Volume 1: 1977-1981 - https://c64audio.com/products/the-little-book-of-sound-chips-volume-1 
• Topic for newbies or veterans returning to Atari - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/176545-topic-for-newbies-or-veterans-returning-to-atari/ 

Upcoming Shows

• VCF East 2022  =   Apr 22, 23, 24, Infoage Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 
• VCF Southeast - July 15-17  Southern Fried Gaming Expo https://gameatl.com/ 
• KansasFest 2022 = July 19–24, 2022, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ 
• VCF West 2022 =  Aug 6, 7, The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ 

YouTube Videos

• RetroVGA RP2040 #MCUME - Multi CompUter Machine Emulator Raspberry PICO - Peter Misenko - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKnAlRh_iew 
• Atari 800 XL Not Booting & Colour Problem Repair - GadgetUK164 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_KoT6X6yjY 
• 4th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards - Ceremony Event! LIVE Acceptance Speeches from Winners! - Zero Page Homebrew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieffcAugqto 
• 256-byte demos - For Lovebyte party 2022, "Oldschool 256 byte intro compo" 
• • https://lovebyte.party/ 
  • Rescue on Mars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg4FO7Jf1os 
  • Murkwood - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtfwDBb2_a0 

New at Archive.org

• https://archive.org/details/compute-best-of-atari-1988-1
• https://archive.org/details/copyservicestuttgart?tab=collection
• https://archive.org/details/ultra-disassembler-adventure-intl-1983/ 

ANTIC Episode 85 - Surprise Roundtable

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast...we have a surprise roundtable with guests Nir Dary, Jason Moore, Corey Koltz, and Bill Kendrick where we discuss numerous Atari 8-bit topics!

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 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

• Youtube interviews: https://www.youtube.com/c/KaySavetz 
• Tracy Cullinan’s Glutton: https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1482204397903904768?s=20 
• New Atari FB group - Atari 8-bit Trader - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1573723729649614/ 
• SIO2MIDI - https://thebrewingacademy.com/products/midi-for-your-atari-8-bit-400-800-xl-xe-xel-xld 
• Happy Drive - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_drives#Happy_Computers 
• Speedy 1050 -  https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=CompyShop%20Speedy%20Upgrades 
• Turbo 1050 - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Turbo1050%20Upgrades 
• Super Archiver - https://sites.google.com/site/ataripal/superarchiver 
• Top Drive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmkcD7nmxxo 
• Toms Multi Drive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1pFAcsD16Y 
• 1050 Disk Drive with the Mega Speedy enhancement demo -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbKYhzLJhJY&t=17s 
• Atari Happy 1050 Four Drive Duplication Station - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCKbd63fj4o 
• Atari 1050 megaspeedy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAUZye1Fk2A 
• Stella at 20 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/258130-stella-at-20-documentary/ 
• Raster Music Tracker - http://raster.infos.cz/atari/rmt/rmt.htm 
• Raster Music Tracker, Unofficial version 1.32 by VinsCool - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/328790-release-raster-music-tracker-unofficial-version-131-by-vinscool/ 
• Raster Music Tracker Demos - https://www.youtube.com/user/vinscool022 
• Jason Moore’s Atari Projects - http://www.Atariprojects.org 
• Corey Koltz’s 8-Bit Classics - http://www.8bitclassics.com 
• PokeyMax - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/295242-pokeymax-v2/page/6/ 
• FujiNet - https://fujinet.online/
• FujiNet Budget Version -  https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/61595 
• Gene Medic - https://genemedic.org 

ANTIC Episode 84 - Atari Resolutions for the New Year

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast...we each talk about our top Atari resolution for 2022 (although maybe not the type of resolution you were thinking), and discuss all the Atari news we could find for December, 2021.

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

• Kay finished getting interviews into youtube (https://www.youtube.com/c/KaySavetz) 
• Scanned material from Dan Kramer: 
• • Atari 2700 https://archive.org/details/atari-2700-rc-stella 
  • Atari Cosmos: https://archive.org/details/atari-cosmos 
  • Atari 810 side board https://archive.org/details/atari-810-side-board-schematic 
  • Atari 800XL SECAM (Rose) https://archive.org/details/atari-800xl-secam 
  • Atari 600XL/800XL PAL to SECAM Converter (Yvette): https://archive.org/details/Atari-600XL-800XL-PAL-to-SECAM-converter 
  • Atari 5200 and 7800 cartridge library list: https://archive.org/details/atari-5200-7800-cartridge-library-1984-08-28 
  • Final Legacy Manual Draft For Atari 8-Bit 
  • Omnimon User's Guide 
• Kay’s end of year summary letter https://www.patreon.com/posts/60367090 
• Indy VCC Midi Maze tournament in December - https://www.facebook.com/groups/IndyVCC 
• Atari Ugly Christmas sweater - https://animeape.com/products/atari-classic-ugly-christmas-sweater/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA5aWOBhDMARIsAIXLlkfyZk8YF3gJwpOgpLh39rOt0IXQWXFZXmAz4QE51pTW4iybPONNZkgaAk_rEALw_wcB 

Recent Interview Shows

• Tim Huntington: Krazy Kopter, Fire Chief, Adventures of Robin Hood - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-430-tim-huntington-krazy-kopter-fire-chief-adventures-of-robin-hood 
• Jack Verson, who programmed games for Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64. Action Quest, Ghost Encounters, Castle Hassle, Journey to the Planets, and Gyruss for Atari; Joust and Time Tunnel for C64 - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-429-jack-verson-action-quest-ghost-encounters-journey-to-the-planets-gyruss 

News 

• Atari 8-Bit/5200 Homebrew Games Completed/WIP in 2021 - by ZeroPage Homebrew - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/315811-atari-8-bit5200-homebrew-games-completedwip-in-2021/ 
• Phoenix 2021 - New AWA Game - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/328714-phoenix-2021-new-awa-game-and-christmas-reminiscing/ 
• The original BASIC version is available at Atarmania.com:  http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-phoenix_31474.html 
• Yahtzee 2021 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/327916-yahtzee-2021-new-atari-8bit-and-5200-game-release-by-anschuetzweisgerberanschuetz/ 
• This is a remake of a BASIC game written in 1987 which is available on Atarimania.com: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-yahtzee_31440.html 
• 8-bit Hub by 8Bit-Dude - http://8bit-unity.com/ 
• 8-bit Hub at YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK8DJswSw5c 
• Atari 800CX - Gunstar - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/328119-my-atari-800cx-an-homage-to-the-ibm-atari-pc/  
• Atari releases Sid Meier’s Command Series on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1703100/Crusade_in_Europe/ 
• PETSCII Robots now in color:
• • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/328259-petscii-robots-now-in-color/
  • https://www.the8bitguy.com/ 
  • https://youtu.be/uFtDSmFz_b0 
• Atari 130xe Keyboard Now Goes Clack - Hackaday - by Kristina Panos:
• • https://hackaday.com/2021/12/12/atari-130xe-keyboard-now-goes-clack/ 
  • https://youtu.be/r8T07Rskkgs 
• FLOP 66 magazine for Atari 8-bit computers - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2021/12/atari-bone-cruncher-y-otras-novedades.html 

YouTube videos this month

• A Very Retro Computer Yule Log with Atari 8-Bits - The VintNerd - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJ4Gu-ETKE 
• Dual Atari 8-Bit Power Supply Build - Jan Beta - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4_QXnqbjV0 
• The Atari 800XL - Seven billion screws and in need of a good scrub! - The Retro Shack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSe81rNT69E 
• Atari 800 Commercials 1983 (4) - Soga Natari:
• • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqWvQpbKT5U
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxKYQHnOsgU
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrP9ftclqBY
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp9UKfuM-IY (Mr. T, 1984)

New at GitHub

• SFX-Engine https://github.com/GSoftwareDevelopment/SFX-Engine#sfx-engine 

Word from our Sponsor

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp9UKfuM-IY 

ANTIC Episode 83 - The Dog Ate It

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast...Kay forgets to wear his ANTIC t-shirt, we all have new members of the family (and Brad’s eats everything in sight), Kay goes crazy scanning Atari magazines, and we have lots of listener feedback.

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 Interface (was there a July 1991 issue?)
  • https://archive.org/details/Atari_Interface_1989-11 
  • https://archive.org/details/Atari_Interface_1989-08 
  • https://archive.org/details/Atari_Interface_1989-07 
  • Atari Interface Magazine - The Complete Collection" - 2,350-page PDF  - https://archive.org/details/atari-interface-complete-collection 
• The Advanced Home Computer course 
  • https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Course?sort=-publicdate 
  • Atari 600XL/800XL: https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Advanced_Course_10/page/189/mode/1up 
  • 810 disk drive: https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Advanced_Course_04/page/63/mode/1up 
  • 130XE: https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Advanced_Course_66/page/1309/mode/1up 
• Indy Vintage Computer Club (VCC) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/IndyVCC 

News 

• Hyper Drive + RAM/ROM " Cartridge For The Atari 8 Bit Computer - https://www.ebay.com/itm/124998207996 
• ABBUC 2021 Software Contest winners announced 
• • https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2021/11/descarga-los-juegos-del-concurso-abbuc.html
  • https://abbuc.de/2021/11/ergebnisse-der-softwarewettbewerbs-2021/ 
  • http://www.atari.org.pl/informacje/wyniki-abbuc-software-contest-2021/2224 
  • CONTrollerTESTPRO - Jakub Husak - http://www.atari.org.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?id=17979 
  • Meta Programming Tool - Kaj de Vos - https://language.metaproject.frl/ - A New, Human-Friendly Programming Language 
• John Malone’s keypad usb mod - https://twitter.com/48kram/status/1462136144477499395?s=21 
• XEP80-II by MyTek - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/atari-800-xl-xe-xel-xld/products/xep80-ii-by-mytek 
• Final Assault first person shooter
• • https://atari8.dev/final_assault/ 
  • Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=92K9wnk_4Cw 
• Atari Projects by Jason Moore - http://atariprojects.org 
• Laser Squad https://mechanism.fr/getRecord.php?id=1002 
• TRY2EMU Web Site - Atari news - https://www.t2e.pl/tag/atari 
• https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/1053009480/atari-video-game-joystick-world-record-largest 

Shows

• Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people):
• • VCF East April 22-24: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall, NJ 
  • VCF West August 6-7: Vintage Computer Festival West , The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA 
• 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

• Old Time Radio Broadcasts on the 1 MB Atari 800xl - Red Rock Video Productions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gOxE5m6a6U 

New at Archive.org

• Atari Personal Financial Management System manual 
• Practicing Programming on the Atari 
• Review Catalog of Atari Learning Systems Fall 1983 
• Atari Special Additions Volume 1 Winter 1982 
• Collegiate Microcomputer:
• • Stevens Institute of Technology requiring freshmen to buy an Atari 800 - https://archive.org/details/sim_collegiate-microcomputer_1985-02_3_1/page/n36/mode/1up?q=atari 
  • Harvard Symposium “Video Games and Human Development” - https://archive.org/details/sim_collegiate-microcomputer_1984-11_2_4/page/334/mode/2up?q=atari 
  • Computer Drawn Polar Coordinate Graphs - https://archive.org/details/sim_collegiate-microcomputer_1984-08_2_3/page/n81/mode/2up 
  • Ideal Systems undimmed - https://archive.org/details/sim_collegiate-microcomputer_spring-1986_4_1/page/n27/mode/2up?q=atari 

New at GitHub

• https://github.com/spicyjack/atari8-syntax.vim 

Listener Feedback

• "Imagic 1-2-3" compilation - http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-comp-imagic-1-2-3_1235.html
• XDOS (c) 2009 by Stefan Dorndorf - http://www.atarimania.com/faq-atari-400-800-xl-xe-what-are-realdos-spartados-x-and-xdos_83.html

Jack Verson was the founder of JV Software, where he programmed and published several games for the Atari 8-bit computers: Action Quest, Ghost Encounters, and Journey to the Planets. Roklan Software repackaged Action Quest and Ghost Encounters into a single game, titled Castle Hassle.

As part of On-Time Software, Jack programmed the Atari versions of Gyruss, James Bond 007, and perhaps other games, published by Parker Brothers. He ported the Atari 8-bit version of Joust to the Commodore 64. As Applied Systems Engineering, he programmed Time Tunnel for Commodore 64.

This interview took place on December 2, 2021.

AtariMania's list of Jack's software
James Bond 007
Gyruss
Journey to the Planets version differences and bugs
Larry Kalpan thanks Jack in the manual for 2600 Activision Bridge
Time Tunnel for Commodore 64
Jack's company, CDOAN 
Mark Benioff review of Action Quest
Popeye "V1" for Commodore discovered
Verson quoted in Compute! "How the Pros Write Computer Games"

ANTIC Episode 82 -  FujiNet to Take Over the World!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast...we have special guest Thom Cherryhomes who tells us why FujiNet is aiming to take over the world, we discuss the recent VCF Midwest and VCF East, and of course tell you everything going on in the world of Atari.

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

• Thom’s talk about programming FujiNet at VCF East: https://youtu.be/A9jflXkSef4 
• Byte All Atari Articles - inspired by Allan Bushman's Computer Shopper All Atari - https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-atari-articles 
• Dan Kramer engineering notebook from his time at Atari - https://archive.org/details/dan-kramer-atari-engineering-notebook 
• VCF East video processing (Atari 2600 stuff, 8-bit specific stuff) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_e5fSxflvrwAsI8UG2Ey9Nwx2zzP1XED 
• Google Spreadsheet of Atari newsletters at Internet Archive - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RkznDDlOL2O_K-RrbkajIuo6DvYof6Ajrn7j9NTcoDM/edit?usp=sharing 
• • JACG, newsletter of the Jersey Atari Computer Group https://archive.org/details/jerseyataricomputergroup 
  • I/O Connector, newsletter of the San Diego Atari Computer Enthusiasts. https://archive.org/details/ioconnector 
  • Current Notes, Newsletter of the Washington Area Computer Enthusiasts https://archive.org/details/currentnotesnewsletter 
• Kay on TikTok - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRETKduF/ 
• 576NUC+ -  https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer 
• VCFMW - http://vcfmw.org 
• Indy Vintage Computer Club (VCC) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/IndyVCC 

News 

• New Labels – 800 Personality/Memory Modules – Mr. Robot (Steve Boswell) - https://atari8bit.net/new-labels-800-personality-memory-modules/ 
• Prince of Persia for Atari 8-bits - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/298914-unicorns-season-prince-of-persia-for-the-a8/#comments 
• ABBUC Magazine #145 is out! - http://abbuc.de/ 
• Atari User Issue 33 Is Out Now! - https://www.atariuser.com/atari-user-issue-33-is-out-now/ 
• Atari 815 sold on ebay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/124936737856?hash=item1d16cf5440%3Ag%3A3KgAAOSwRchhXcj3&nma=true&si=hxj5YADhiQ0fdSj5M3wmAhFvrcg%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 
• Anschuetz/Weisgerber/Anschuetz remakes - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-297-robert-anschuetz-eric-anschuetz-john-weisgberber-antic-magazine-games 
  • Overflow 2021 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/321417-overflow-2021-a-new-8-bit-and-5200-game-released-by-awa/ 
  • Kooky Diver - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/322470-kooky-diver-new-8bit-and-5200-game-by-awa/ 
  • Sokoban 2021 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/322674-sokoban-2021-5200-release-and-8-bit-update/ 
  • Night Rescue 1941 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/320224-night-rescue-1941-new-awa-game-release/ 
  • Piracy 1621 & Piracy 1981 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/324486-piracy-1621-and-piracy-1821-new-atari-5200-releases-by-anschuetzweisgerberanschuetz/ 
  • Alien Assault 2021 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/323778-new-8-bit-and-5200-game-release-alien-assault-2121-by-awa/?tab=comments#comment-4884530 
  • Kooky Klimber (Crazy Climber inspired) - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/319869-abbuc-software-contest-2021/?do=findComment&comment=4891011 
  • Robot Dungeon (Shamus/Berzerk inspired) - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/319869-abbuc-software-contest-2021/?do=findComment&comment=4891009 
  • Space Assailants 2021 - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2021/09/space-assailants-2121-nuevo-shooter.html 
• Brian Hall - Argon, a multi-system emulator -  http://playargon.com 
• XXX2CF3: CompactFlash HDD without using the cartridge port! – The Brewing Academy - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/atari-800-xl-xe-xel-xld/products/xxx2cf3-compactflash-hdd-without-using-the-cartridge-port 
• Shahid Kamal Ahmad’s epic thread about his development career, starting with the Atari 8-bit -  https://twitter.com/shahidkamal/status/1436771192892018693?s=20 
• FujiNet wiki enhancements - SpicyJack - AtariAge - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/298720-fujinet-a-wip-sio-network-adapter-for-the-atari-8-bit/page/87/?tab=comments#comment-4922271 
• Player MIssile Podcast released ep #30, 8-bit vs 5200 - https://playermissile.com/ 
• Loading Atari software from a record player
  • https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2021/10/cargan-juegos-de-atari-8-bits-desde.html?fbclid=IwAR3UGXLCzJqpB8U0MtGrv1Kd5fQqgdEQ-jHZPGEXxA_a8lYx0YGAaf9x7Bw
  • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/325860-im-loading-silent-service-from-a-vinyl-record/ 
• The 100 MHz 6502
  • http://www.e-basteln.de/computing/65f02/65f02/
  • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/326058-accelerated-6502/ 

Shows

• Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people):
• • VCF East April 22-24: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall, NJ 
  • VCF West August 6-7: Vintage Computer Festival West , The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA 
• 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

• “64K ought to be enough for anybody” - Tmp
• • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXE6Ua4Qquw 
  • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/278212-avgcart/page/67/#comments 
• “ATARI 800 XL repair + creating a USB power supply, a video cable & doing the CHROMA Mod” - RETRO is the new black (Wolfgang Kierdorf) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoFpFSrLoxA 
• “Atari 400 48k Ram - Sdrive2 & Uno Cart Tech Demo” - Paul Westphal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLuHPxBIgFk 
• “Stop using the Atari 'Ingot' power supply, Seriously!” - The VintNerd - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMlW0Bk_ueI 

New at Archive.org

• Pokey - French Atari newsletter: 
• • https://archive.org/details/pokey-3 
  • https://archive.org/details/pokey-34 
  • https://archive.org/details/pokey-5 
• Alan Bushman - https://archive.org/details/royal-software-catalog-winter-1982/ 

New at GitHub

• https://github.com/savetz/RAMbrandt 
• Eventure - Let's Write a Roguelike Game in 6502 Assembly on the Atari 8-Bit
• • https://github.com/EdSalisbury/edventure
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whhTuBpkcrY 
• companion code for element14 Presents episode 514: "Making a 3D Graphics Card for the Atari 800 XL" - https://github.com/andy-west/atari800xl-3d 
• Updates to annotated Star Raiders source code - https://github.com/achurch/StarRaiders 
• Tools and utils for the Atari xe 8-bit - https://github.com/pjones1063/atarixe 
• Python command line utility to manage file systems on Atari 8-bit and Apple ][ disk images - https://github.com/robmcmullen/atrcopy 

Listener Feedback

• RealSports Curling - https://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=7657

Dave Johnson: Demon Attack, Atlantis; APX Lookahead; Personal Financial Management

Dave Johnson programmed software for the little-known Interact Model One computer, and later worked as  a programmer for Atari, where he created the game Lookahead, which was published by Atari Program Exchange. Lookahead is a fun little strategy board game that you can play against the computer or another human.

We think Dave Johnson programmed the Atari Personal Financial Management System, a slick-looking but buggy home finance package that Atari kept delaying, finally released a year late, then quickly discontinued. Read Bill Lange's blog post for the full story about that program.

After Atari, Dave worked at Imagic, where he programmed the Atari 8-bit versions of the games Demon Attack and Atlantis. There, he also created the game Quick Step! for the Atari 2600.

This interview took place on October 12, 2021. A video version is also available.

AtariMania's list of Dave's Atari 8-bit games

Play or download Lookahead

Lookahead in the fall 1981 APX catalog

Bill Lange research on Atari Personal Financial Management System

Personal Financial Management System at AtariWiki

Interact Model One computer

Dave on Twitter

This interview on YouTube

Margaret (Akin) Guilbault, Atari Camper

Margaret Akin was one of the children who attended Atari's computer camps, and one of the kids who was featured in The Magic Room, Atari's movie about the camps. Her name is now Margaret Guilbault.

Atari ran its summer camps from 1982 through 1984 at several locations around the United States. That first year, Atari commissioned a film about its summer camps, which was filmed at the San Diego location. Margaret attended Atari camp that first year in San Diego, then again in 1983 the Minnesota location.

It turns out Margaret's first year at a computer camp was in 1981, the summer before Atari's first camps. Her first computer camp experience was at Zaca Lake -- near Santa Barbara, California -- hosted by a company called Computer Camp Inc., which used Atari computers.

I talked with Margaret about her experiences at those camps, and taking part in the filming of The Magic Room, on September 12, 2021.

You can watch The Magic room at YouTube and Internet Archive. In previous interviews I've talked with filmmaker Bob Elfstrom; Linda (Gordon) Brownstein, the Atari vice president who oversaw the camp project; and other Atari computer campers.

The Magic Room (18-minute version)

Newspaper article about Computer Camp Inc.'s Zaca Lake camp

ANTIC Interview 419 - Bob Elfstrom, The Magic Room

ANTIC Special Episode - Atari Summer Camp

Eric Podietz, Interactive Picture Systems

Eric Podietz was co-founder of Interactive Picture Systems, a company that created software for 8-bit computers from 1982 through 1984. The company's first program was PAINT! for the Atari 8-bits, which was developed at the Superboots software development lab located at the Capital Children's Museum in Washington, D.C.. PAINT! was first published by Reston then by Atari.

Their next program was Movie Maker, an animation program. Next came three educational titles published by Spinnaker Software: Trains, a business simulation; Grandma's House, a digital dollhouse; and Aerobics, a fitness program. The company also created Operation Frog, simulated frog dissection software for the Apple II and Commodore 64.

This interview took place on September 9, 2021. In it, we discuss Guy Nouri, Ann Lewin-Benham, and Bill Bowman, whom I have previously interviewed.

After the interview, Eric sent me the source code for his early Apple II program Painter Power, which I scanned and uploaded to Internet Archive.

This interview on YouTube

ANTIC Interview 410 - Ann Lewin-Benham, Director of Capital Children's Museum

ANTIC Interview 407 - Guy Nouri, Interactive Picture Systems

ANTIC Interview 278 - Bill Bowman, CEO of Spinnaker Software

Reston Software's Paint manual

The Designers Behind MovieMaker in Compute! Gazette Issue 15

IPS feature in Starlog Magazine Issue 084

Movie Maker feature in Creative Computing April 1984

Painter Power source code

Emma One Sock fabric

ANTIC Episode 81 -  Too Much Commodore

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we wax philosophical about Raspberry Pi upgrades for the Atari, discuss the drama that was the Atari fest of the past, and talk WAY too much Commodore!

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 
• The Magic Room - 18-minute version https://youtu.be/Cs7jnOlNl9Y 
• • (K’s tweets about it: https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1429130503622336514?s=20 )
• New old Bits & Bytes pictures - https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1422715900805869571?s=20 
• VCFSE 8.0 was a success! - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ 
• 576NUC+ -  https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer 
• VCFMW - http://vcfmw.org 
• Indy Vintage Computer Club (VCC) - http://indyvcc.c 

News 

• Atari 64. the Commodore 64 KERNAL, modified to run on the Atari 8-bit line of computers - https://github.com/unbibium/atari64 
• Indy Retro News - http://www.indieretronews.com/search/label/ATARI 
• Star Raiders pre-production manual - http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/star-raiders/preprod-manual/?fbclid=IwAR00ZBTKG-g2d83KDvZTtlqDpNqJ-e9z22JuJdRxR4tHcqCumXtMwIN8k54 
• Retrochallenge 2021/10 - http://www.retrochallenge.org/?fbclid=IwAR3Hi6PLMi3wpfQda2hHMZiQOAREGMnY_E1NF8AjXIDbfjXqvOBHK5md8sA 
• Attack of the PETSCII robots -  https://www.the8bitguy.com/product/petscii-robots-for-atari/ 
• BackBit Pro - https://store.backbit.io/product/backbit-pro/ 
• https://huddle.today/cfl-personalities-to-talk-football-on-halifax-made-social-media-platform/ 
• The Retroist: A 1982 video visit to the video game department of sears - https://retroist.com/a-1982-video-visit-to-the-video-game-department-of-sears/ (for video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPm7xbPzpUA&t=50s , starts at 4 minute mark and goes to 5 minute mark
• New ABBUC site available -  https://abbuc.de/ 
• Cart extender from BitsOfThePast - https://www.bitsofthepast.com/?product=130xe-ra-extenders-switchers 
• SIO Pass Through Breakout Board v2.2 (Mozzwald) - https://fujinet.online/shop/hardware/sio-pass-through-breakout-board-v2-2/ 
• https://8bitnews.io newsletter
• Atari Projects by Jason Moore - http://atariprojects.org/
• PICOmputer, pocket computer that emulates 8-bit computers - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2021/07/picomputer-computadora-de-bolsillo-que.html 

Shows

• Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people):
• • VCF Midwest Sep 11-12 http://vcfmw.org/announce , Elmhurst, IL (Chicago)
  • Fujiama Sep. 12-19, Lengenfeld, Germany, http://fujiama.eu/ 
  • VCF East October 8, 9, 10, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall, NJ 
• 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

• "The Story of the Atari 1200XL - Is It GOOD?" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_WpWOrIE9g 
• Making a 3D Graphics Card for the Atari 800 XL using the Raspberry Pi - element 14 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ffGLkgoEg&t=64s 
• Atari 800 with Sophia 2 DVI and Incognito plugins - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df3lfFLuUF 

New at Archive.org

• Allan Bushman uploaded “Hardcopy” newsletter April 1987 Allentown Bethlehem Easton’s Atari Computer Enthusiasts - https://archive.org/details/hardcopy-april-1987 

Tom Halfhill discusses Charles Brannon and SpeedScript

Charles Brannon was program editor at Compute! Publications from 1980 until 1986. He wrote and edited articles for Compute! Magazine and Compute!'s Gazette. His Linkedin profile says that his "primary responsibility was crafting BASIC and assembly language software creations. Secondary was managing other young programmers." Charles' wrote and ported many type-in programs for the Atari 8-bit and other computers. His Atari programs included FontMaker, a character set editor and The Atari Wedge, for adding commands To Atari BASIC.

His most popular and well-known program was SpeedScript, an assembly language word processor that was available first for the Commodore 64 in the March 1985 issue. In subsequent issues -- one month after another -- versions were published for VIC-20, then the Atari 8-bits, then the Apple II. Each version was a type-in listing that -- after excruciating hours of careful entry -- would build a powerful, functional word processor. Charles wrote a couple of books about SpeedScript (one specific to Atari and one specific to the Commodore versions) which contained the manual, type-in program code, and commented assembly language source code.

I've been trying to get an interview with Charles Brannon since 2015, to talk about his time at Compute! in general and SpeedScript specifically. This year, I heard back from his wife Margaret, who told me that Charles suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2016 and no longer feels confident in his memory. I won't be able to interview Charles.

But, Tom Halfhill, Charles' old friend and colleague at Compute!, volunteered to talk to me about Charles. Tom was a supervisor at Compute! when Charles wrote SpeedScript, and often discussed which features to include and the problems he encountered. Tom worked at Compute! Publications from 1982 to 1988, starting as the first Features Editor for Compute! Magazine later becoming Editor. He was the launch editor of Compute!'s Gazette for Commodore, Compute!'s Atari ST Disk and Magazine, Compute!'s PCjr Magazine, and Compute!'s PC Magazine.

This is not the first time I've talked with Tom: I interviewed him about his time at Compute back in 2016. This time I talk with him with an emphasis on Charles Brannon and SpeedScript. (To be perfectly honest, we stuck to those topics for about 35 minutes. After that, we found other interesting things to talk about, most of which I left in this episode.)

This interview took place on July 22, 2021.

This interview at Youtube

Compute! articles by Charles Brannon at AtariMagazines.com

SpeedScript book, Atari version, at Internet Archive

SpeedScript book, Atari version, at AtariArchives.org

Download SpeedScript for Atari or try it in your browser

My 2016 interview with Tom

Tom's web site

ANTIC Interview 206 - Richard Mansfield

ANTIC Interview 7 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Bill Wilkinson

Donald Dixon, Robotics R&D at Atari Research

Donald Dixon worked at Atari Research from 1983 through 1984, under Dr, Alan Kay. There, he worked in robotics research and development, working on a robotic wheelchair. After Atari, Donald worked at Axlon, Nolan Bushnell's toys and consumer robotics company; and Worlds of Wonder, the company most famous for the animatronic bear toy, Teddy Ruxpin.

This interview took place on July 27, 2021.

Don's web site

ANTIC Interview 11 - David Small

ANTIC 2013 Chris Crawford interview

ANTIC Interview 420 - Brenda Laurel, Atari Research

ANTIC Interview 421 - Jim Leiterman, Atari Research Group

Video version of this interview 

ANTIC Episode 80 -  Atari Dunking Booth

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we discuss the exciting progress being made around the 576NUC+ project, all of the great new Atari projects from the mind of Jason Moore, Kay’s awesome series of recent interviews, and we dunk your minds in the deep booth that is 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 

Intro

• Atari Ad Slicks, Line Art, Radio Scripts 1983-07-13 - https://archive.org/details/Atari_Ad_Slicks_Line_Art_Radio_Scripts_1983-07-13 

What We’ve Been Up To

• “How I accidentally archived hundreds of Apple II source code floppies” by Kay at KFest 2021 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFa75CqJw_4 
• https://archive.org/details/TheMagicRoomDocuments - (https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1416420208172957699?s=20) 
• MyTek’s 576NUC+ - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer/products/myteks-576nuc-and-internal-fujinet 

News 

• Atari 2” circle stickers available at the museum and VCF East and VCF West - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-Cl8ZPsxcT3d05krNtuam684_o6QdYAk?usp=sharing, http://www.vcfed.org 
• @atariorbit: wrote up a little bit about the history (so far) of the 576 NUC - https://www.atariorbit.org/2021/07/02/576-nuc-history/ 
• Atari Projects by Jason Moore - http://atariprojects.org/ 
• Allegro is a Polish online e-commerce platform - has lots of Atari upgrades available for purchase - https://allegro.pl/ 
• While ABBUC site being slowly put back together, alternate forum sites are being used:
• • temporary alternative forum at https://www.atari-portal.de/ 
  • https://www.forum64.de/index.php?board/161-atari-8bit/ 
• U1MB, Incognito, SIDE2, SIDE3, 1088XEL/XLD Firmware 4.0 Released by FlashJazzCat - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/321394-u1mb-incognito-side2-side3-1088xelxld-firmware-40-released/ 
• SNACK - SNES Atari Controler Kit - Irgwender - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/323171-snack-snes-atari-controler-kit/ 
• https://hackaday.com/2021/07/09/zooming-through-the-mandelbrot-set-on-an-atari/ 
• Tricky Tutorials archive - itaych - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/22905-tricky-tutorials/?do=findComment&comment=4866295 

Shows

• Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people):
• • VCF West August 7 & 8, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival West , The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA 
  • VCFSE Aug 20-22 https://gameatl.com/vintage-computing-festival-southeast-8-0-at-sfge/ or http://southernfriedgameroomexpo.com/ , Atlanta, GA
  • VCF Midwest Sep 11-12 http://vcfmw.org/announce , Elmhurst, IL (Chicago)
  • Fujiama Sep. 12-19, Lengenfeld, Germany, http://fujiama.eu/ 
  • VCF East October 8, 9, 10, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall, NJ 
• 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

• VT100 on the Atari 800/XEP80 - Cathryn Mataga - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8laMyHJbJzw 
• Atari XL -=512KB Rambo - Saberman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbEGeOR1TGM External 512KB memory expansion (Rambo) for Atari 800XL
• ISS Tracker on the Atari 800 XL - Retro Computer Paraguay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-hvt0gLkDY Let's follow the trajectory of the International Space Station from our 8-bit Atari computer equipped with FujiNet. Bill Kendricks’s ISS Tracker: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/fujin...
• Atari 800XL: Weird Video Issue and Botched Soldering - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8WGrTZXh20 

New at Archive.org

• Kay:
• • Cable Graphic Sciences Info-gen manual - https://archive.org/details/Cable_Graphic_Sciences_Info-gen_manual 
  • Ensign Communication Inc Information Display System - Ensign 5000 - https://archive.org/details/Ensign_Communication_Inc_Information_Display_System_-_Ensign_5000 
  • INFOsoft 7000 Quick Start Guide - https://archive.org/details/INFOsoft_7000_Quick_Start_Guide 
  • Atari Research Memos on the Subject of Interactive Fantasy - https://archive.org/details/brenda_laurel_atari_memos 
  • Unofficial Atari Computer Users Groups 1982-12-01 - https://archive.org/details/Unofficial_Atari_Computer_Users_Groups_1982-12-01 
  • Official Atari Computer Users Groups 1982-12-01 - https://archive.org/details/Official_Atari_Computer_Users_Groups_1982-12-01 
  • texts
  • How To Start an Atari Computer Users Group draft 1: https://archive.org/details/How_To_Start_an_Atari_Computer_Users_Group_draft_1
  • Atari Computer Users' Group Registration Form and Cover Letter - https://archive.org/details/Atari_Computer_Users_Group_Registration_Form_and_Cover_Letter 
  • Atari Ad Slicks, Line Art, Radio Scripts 1983-07-13 - https://archive.org/details/Atari_Ad_Slicks_Line_Art_Radio_Scripts_1983-07-13 
  • Bay Area Atari Users Group newsletters - https://archive.org/search.php?query=Bay+Area+Atari+Users+Group 
• Ornjuce:
• • Atari Computer Association Of Orange County Newsletter Vol 9 No 1 Qtr 11988 - https://archive.org/details/ornjuce-atari-computer-assocation-of-orange-county-newsletter-vol-9-no-1-qtr-11988 
• Allan:
• • Dal-Ace - Dallas Atari Computer Enthusiasts newsletters - https://archive.org/details/@allan52?query=dal-ace 
  • Computer Shopper Atari articles - https://archive.org/details/@allan52?query=computer+shopper 

New at Github

• Invenies Verba ("Find the Words") by Bill Kendrick - https://github.com/billkendrick/iverba-2
• Sebastian Igielski - ANTY *AJEK COPY - https://github.com/seban-slt/antyajek 
• An Atari BASIC program to render the Sierpinski Triangle on Atari 8-bit computers -  https://github.com/as6o/atari8bit_sierpinski
• KRET - The Mole - https://github.com/GSoftwareDevelopment/Mole

Jim Leiterman, Atari Research Group

Brenda Laurel, Atari Research

Dr. Brenda Laurel worked at Atari from 1980 through 1984. She began as software specialist for educational applications then soon became manager of software strategy for the home computer division. In mid-1982, she joined Atari Corporate Research at the Sunnyvale research laboratory, where she worked with Alan Kay.

After Atari, she worked at Activision as director of software development. Later she founded Purple Moon, a software company focused on creating games for young girls; and co-founded Telepresence Research, a company focused on first-person media and virtual reality.

This interview took place on July 15, 2021. Check the show notes for links to articles she wrote for Atari Connection magazine; her doctoral dissertation, "Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System"; scans of memos on the subject of interactive fantasy that she wrote while at Atari Research; and more.

Brenda's web site

ANTIC Episode 79 -  Basically MyTek and Nir

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we discuss all the great work that MyTek is doing with Atari hardware (including the 576NUC), Nir Dary surprises all of the hosts with (late/early) Christmas (or birthday) Atari gifts, and Randy gets unmercifully teased about his overuse of the word “basically”.

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

• Magic Dump! - http://atariprojects.org/2019/02/12/dump-your-atari-computer-screen-to-printer-or-disk-10-15-mins/ 
• CircuitScribe - https://circuitscribe.com/ 
• Monkey Wrench II - http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-monkey-wrench-ii_17608.html 

News 

• MyTek’s 576NUC+ and internal FujiNet!! - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer/products/myteks-576nuc-and-internal-fujinet 
• Latest Atari Projects by Jason Moore - http://atariprojects.org/ 
• • Upgrade an Atari 400 to Composite Video with the Super Color CPU Card (1-2 hours)
  • Read Creative Computing Magazine (30-60 mins)
  • Read the Book “The Creative Atari” (30-60 mins)
  • Upgrade an Atari 400 to 48K of RAM (1-2 hours)
  • Update the Firmware of Your Ultimate 1MB Upgrade for Atari 8-Bit Computers (5-10 mins)
  • Watch Curt Vendel’s Exhibit Presentation at VCF-East (30 mins)
  • Purchase or Download the Atari 8-Bit Programming Reference Book “Mapping the Atari” (5-10 mins)
  • Purchase the Book “Art of Atari” (5-10 mins) - Tim Lapetino
  • Purchase and Install a 64K RAM Upgrade for an Indus GT Floppy Drive (30-60 mins)
  • Run the CP/M Operating System on Your Atari 8-Bit Computer using an Upgraded Indus GT Floppy Drive (30-60 mins)
• Vice article about Best Electronics - https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvkx9/dont-piss-off-bradley-the-parts-seller-keeping-atari-machines-alive 
• Randy’s interview with Brad (interview #5 from 2014!) - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-5-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-brad-koda-of-best-electronics 
• Brewing Academy stocks Lotharek items - https://twitter.com/BrewingAcademy/status/1383459449692516352?s=20 
• ABBUC site status - http://abbuc.de 
• Online version of Atari emulator for web browsers: “Good Enough Atari Emulator" is the project of Mariusz "emrk" Kryński (Poland)
• • Article - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2021/06/version-en-linea-de-emulador-atari-para.html 
  • Try it at - https://mrk.sed.pl/bevy-atari/dev/#osrom%3D%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fatarionline.pl%2Futils%2F9.%2520ROM-y%2FSystemy%2520operacyjne%2FAtari%2520OS%2520v2%252083.10.05.rom 
• XEP80-II a new beginning - MyTek - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/322186-xep80-ii-a-new-beginning/ 
• SUPDUP terminal emulator
• • Code and discussion - https://github.com/PDP-10/its/pull/2034 
  • More discussion - https://twitter.com/larsbrinkhoff/status/1404700557286203393?s=21 

Shows

• Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people):
• • KansasFest July 23-24 https://www.kansasfest.org ; virtual event
  • VCF West August 7 & 8, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival West , The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA 
  • VCFSE Aug 20-22 https://gameatl.com/vintage-computing-festival-southeast-8-0-at-sfge/ or http://southernfriedgameroomexpo.com/ , Atlanta, GA
  • VCF Midwest Sep 11-12 http://vcfmw.org/announce , Elmhurst, IL (Chicago)
  • Fujiama Sep. 12-19, Lengenfeld, Germany, http://fujiama.eu/ 
  • VCF East October 8, 9, 10, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall, NJ 
• 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 Dealer Demo by MS-DOS Friends - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psxSm9PeVgA 
• New Games for Your Atari 8-bit (Part 20) - The New Retro Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWyiI5LNHSA 
• Massive Atari Software Archive - TOSEC and the Internet Archive by The Atari Geek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl7FfLuYGTg 
• Original Atari 800 POKEY Chiptune by Cobra Commander for ANTIC Podcast! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2klUVHRWtyk 

New at Archive.org

• 57 Atari Computer Enthusiasts newsletters 1982-1987 via Dale Lutz - https://archive.org/details/@savetz?query=atari+computer+enthusiasts+newsletter 
• Allan Bushman -  https://archive.org/details/@allan52?query=dal-ace 
• Richwood Software's The Gladiator manual - https://archive.org/details/gladiator-the-richwood-software/mode/2up
• Bill Lange - Creative Computing Software Thorn EMI - https://archive.org/details/creative-computing-software-disk-jacket 

New at Github

• https://github.com/kenjennings/Atari-1nvader
• https://github.com/bhall408/atari800-touchpad-keyboard-controller
• https://github.com/GSoftwareDevelopment/SFX-Tracker
• https://github.com/pkali/feudal-economy
• https://github.com/dgreefhorst/fujinews 

Listener Feedback

• Bits & Bytes and the Academy on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/bitsandbytestvo 

End of Show Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2klUVHRWtyk Original Atari 800 POKEY Chiptune by Cobra Commander 

Bob Elfstrom, The Magic Room

Interview and research by Kay Savetz.

From 1982 through 1984, Atari ran summer computer camps at several locations around the United States. I covered the Atari camps extensively in a special episode in 2015. Now it's summer 2021, and we're going back to camp!

That first year of the computer camps, in 1982, Atari commissioned a film about its summer camps, about the kids and teachers who were there, about the process of learning about computers, about kids challenging themselves, and about making friends at summer camp. Atari commissioned filmmaker Bob Elfstrom and his partner Lucy Hilmer to make the film. They shot the 26-minute film at the University of California, San Diego campus in 1982. It would be titled The Magic Room and was released the next year.

There are many scenes in the computer lab: we see close-ups of kids concentrating, thinking about the logic of their programming projects. Their faces light up as they solve their problem. There’s an adorable scene with a robotic, computer controlled turtle running across the floor, racing an actual turtle. There's kids riding horses at magic hour, and singing by the campfire, and finally an epic pillow fight, with feathers flying everywhere in the dorm hallways. The end credits were made with an Atari 800, naturally.

This interview is with the filmmaker, Bob Elfstrom. (Lucy Hilmer was unavailable for an interview.) Bob has a long list of film credits to his name. He is known for his work on Johnny Cash! The Man, His World, His Music (1969), and Mysteries of the Sea (1980) -- his IMDB page lists scores of credits.

It's easy to watch The Magic Room (and you should!). It's available at YouTube and Internet Archive.

My interview with Bob took place on June 17 and June 25, 2021.

Watch The Magic Room

The Magic Room Trailer

This is the second interview episode about Computers: Expressway to Tomorrow.

ANTIC Episode 78 -  The Extremely Elderly Computer Geeks Club

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We discuss lots of new things you can do with your FujiNet, the differences in FujiNet versions, the Old Computer Geeks Club, and other recent 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

News 

• FujiNet - Astronomy Pic of the Day (APOD) - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/fujinet-apod/?fbclid=IwAR3gDo6hV8Sgx4fPgcfE-5s0n26Rpe7jD_3O8V-vbAVPbFx5yq2gEzBoLYc by Bill Kendrick 
• Latest Atari Projects - http://atariprojects.org/ 
• • Purchase and Assemble a SpartaDOS X Cartridge (15-30 mins)
  • Explore Demoscene Demos (15-30 mins) 
  • Explore ANALOG Computing Magazine (30-60 mins)
  • Purchase a 3D Printed Case for your SIO2PC (10-15 mins)
• Michael Darland died - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-394-michael-darland-microperipheral-corporation-and-sofcast 
• and John Skruch, Atarisoft:
• • https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-299-john-skruch-atarisoft 
  • https://www.facebook.com/john.skruch 
• Personalized dust covers for the Atari XL series. - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/320047-personalized-dust-covers-for-the-atari-xl-series/ - nowy80 
• Dust covers for 1200XL users - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/318555-good-news-for-1200xl-lovers-new-dust-covers - "papa*nannysfunstuff" 
• Kilobyte Magazine - Jason Worley - https://archive.org/details/@kilobyte_magazine 
• Atari XE PCB Remake Pre-Order Thread - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/319881-atari-xe-remake-pre-order-thread/ 
• Sokoban 2021 http://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=8029 
• Old Computer Geeks Club (OCGC) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/atari8bitcomputers/permalink/3918610088176468/ - Monthly meeting 

Shows

• Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people):
• • KansasFest July 23-24 https://www.kansasfest.org ; virtual event
  • VCF West August 7 & 8, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival West , The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA 
  • VCFSE Aug 20-22 https://gameatl.com/vintage-computing-festival-southeast-8-0-at-sfge/ or http://southernfriedgameroomexpo.com/ , Atlanta, GA
  • VCF Midwest Sep 11-12 http://vcfmw.org/announce , Elmhurst, IL (Chicago)
  • Fujiama Sep. 12-19, Lengenfeld, Germany, http://fujiama.eu/ 
  • VCF East October 8, 9, 10, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall, NJ
• 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

• Spectrum, Commodore, and Atari emulators for Android - IT Guy in Action - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX9sj8OoK2Y&t=0s 
• 3D rendering of 800, 810 drive, and Amdek monitor by EmuRetro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCA5UshDfpY 
• How I built my modern Atari XL computer by GeSpy Build Stuff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fbeg5dx5CE 
• Atari 800XL: Sophia 2 DVI video upgrade - by Mr. Lurch’s Things - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQyNmJtPrBQ&t=1s 
• Dead Atari 800XL: Fix and Extreme Restoration by FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-IEetUJB1w 
• Atari Fujinet inside a 1030 Modem by Doug Venner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcmxCWUO2GE 

New at Archive.org

• The "Archives of CSS(tm)" can be found at https://archive.org/details/@cs_stuttgart by DjayBee (Joachim)

ANTIC Interview 417 - Computers: Expressway to Tomorrow

Bob Puff, Computer Software Services

Bob Puff is owner of Computer Software Services, a company that began creating hardware and software for the Atari 8-bit computers in 1982. Bob became president of the company in 1991. He designed a bevy of hardware products for the Atari computers, including The Black Box, a hard drive host adapter; The Multiplexer, a networking system; the UltraSpeed Plus operating system upgrade; upgrades for the XF551 floppy drive; the Super-E Burner EPROM burner; and others. He also created a number of popular utility programs, including the BobTerm terminal program; Disk Communicator, to convert boot disks to a single compressed file for transfer over modem; and MYDOS version 4.53; among other software.

This interview took place on April 27, 2021.

Computer Software Services legacy site

1993 Computer Software Services catalog scan

ANTIC Interview 393 - Charles Marslett, MYDOS and FastChip

Valerie (Atkinson) Manfull, Atari Game Research Group

Valerie Atkinson was a member of Atari's Game Research Group. Now named Valerie Manfull, she was on the team that designed and programmed the game Excalibur, along with Chris Crawford and Larry Summers. Excalibur was published by Atari Program Exchange in fall 1983. She is also one of the programmes of Ballsong, along with Douglas Crockford. Ballsong is a music and graphics demo program released by Atari, in which a ball bounces on the screen in response to an improvised tune. She was one of the programmers, with Ann Marion, of TV Fishtank, a demonstration of an artificially intelligent fish. (It's unclear if the fishtank program was released anywhere, though it apparently was shown at the 1984 SIGgraph conference.)

This interview took place on April 22, 2021.

ANTIC Episode 4 - Chris Crawford

ANTIC Interview 240 - Douglas Crockford

TV Fishtank at SIGgraph

Jim Leiterman describes TV Fishtank

Chris Crawford describes the development of Excalibur in The Art of Computer Game Design

Excalibur announced in Atari Program Exchange, fall 1983

Excalibur review in Atari Connection

Excalibur at AtariMania

Video of Ballsong

ANTIC Episode 77 - Jason Moore, PhD 

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Jason Moore joins us to discuss his atariprojects.org Web site and we discuss all the news rocking the Atari 8-bit 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 

Next Without For 

What We’ve Been Up To

• Ed Fries source code, mac/65 tokenized: 
• • https://github.com/savetz/edfries-seachase
  • https://github.com/savetz/edfries-anteater
  • https://github.com/savetz/edfries-frog
  • https://github.com/savetz/edfries-nitro 
  • https://github.com/savetz/edfries-chess (Xuel got it working at https://atariage.com/forums/topic/318961-assembly-source-code-for-5-programs-by-ed-fries/?do=findComment&comment=4799922 
• Prentice Associates Classroom Computer News and Apple II source code disks. Classroom computer news - https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Intentional+Educations%22&sort=-publicdate 

News 

• FrogFind! http://frogfind.com/ - The Search Engine for Vintage Computers 
• AtariAge thread on FrogFind! - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/319514-new-websites-for-your-old-computers/ 
• Atari Projects - Jason Moore does it again! - http://atariprojects.org/ 
• US based Amiga store, AmigaOnTheLake, has branched out into wider retro territory and now includes multiple Atari 8-bit items - http://amigaonthelake.com/atari-8-bit/ 
• ABBUC (Atari Bit Byter User Club) Website is down until further notice due to a hackers attack - https://vintageisthenewold.com/abbuc-atari-bit-byter-user-club-website-is-down-until-further-notice-due-to-a-hackers-attack/ 
• 10-line BASIC contest results
• • https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/results-2021 
  • Table of entries https://twitter.com/romwer/status/1378364035607977984?s=20 
• ABBUC 2021 Software Contest - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/319869-abbuc-software-contest-2021/ 
• 8-Bit Dungeon which is being created with the 8-Bit Unity platform has a tech demo out - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2021/04/descarga-demo-jugable-de-8bit-dungeon.html 
• TCL language - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/269553-test-computer-language-version-22-from-d-firth/?tab=comments#comment-4807575 
• ABBUC magazine #144 - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/319736-abbuc-magazine-144/ 
• Bill Kendrick transcribed 1982 Byte magazine article Advanced Star Raiders Tactics and Strategies - http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/star-raiders/advanced-star-raiders-tactics-and-strategies.html 
• Issue 32 of Atari User Magazine is available - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2021/04/atari-y-c64-se-enfrentan-en-nuevo.html 

Shows

• Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people):
• • KansasFest July 23-24 https://www.kansasfest.org ; virtual event
  • VCF West August 7 & 8, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival West 
  • VCFSE Aug 20-22 https://gameatl.com/vintage-computing-festival-southeast-8-0-at-sfge/ or http://southernfriedgameroomexpo.com/ , Atlanta, GA
  • VCF Midwest Sep 11-12 http://vcfmw.org/announce , Chicago area
  • VCF East October 8, 9, 10, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall, NJ
• 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

• CROSS HORDE =+ ATARI 800 XL += NEW GAME 2021 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcc4TtB1e9U - Atari 8 Bits For Ever 
• MOON CRESTA !!! ATARI 800 XL - VBXE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmH7_1hFGA&t=42s - Atari 8 Bits For Ever
• Atari 800XL Music - "Return of Atarians" - On Real Hardware (( IN STEREO )) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHQaT1Ei28 - Paul Westphal
• Retropie 4.6 Atari 5200 Tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTZCK5EX5AA - Ace1000ks1975
• Atari 800 - NOS Keyboard and Reassembly - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K-JRvFzci8 - ShadowTron Blog

New at Archive.org

• https://archive.org/details/zongmagazine
• Atari Playing David To The Giants - https://archive.org/details/atari-playing-david-to-the-giants
• GRASSHOPPER — A Low-Level Language for Use on the MOS 6502 Microcomputer - https://archive.org/details/grasshopper-6502

Linda Brownstein, Atari VP Special Projects

As I've researched Atari and it's 8-bit computer projects over the years, one name has come up over and over again, attached to the most interesting projects. Linda S. Gordon. Executive Director of Atari Computer Camps. Linda. Executive Producer of The Magic Room, Atari's movie about its camps. Atari's collaboration with Club Med to offer computer labs at vacation destinations — Linda again. Atari Club, the fan group that published Atari Age magazine - Linda launched that. More recently, in my interview with Ann Lewin-Benham of the Capital Children's Museum, Linda's name came up once again -- she was the liaison between Atari and the museum. Linda worked on the most interesting projects.

Today, her name is Linda Brownstein. Linda joined Atari in December 1980 as Vice President of Special Projects, where she worked on most of  the projects that I mentioned before. In October 1983 she became Senior Vice President in Atari's  Education group. She left the company in July 1984 after Jack Tramiel took over the company.

This interview took place on April 21, 2021.

ANTIC Interview 78 - Manny Gerard, The Man Who Fired Nolan

ANTIC Special Episode - Atari Summer Camp

ANTIC Interview 410 - Ann Lewin-Benham, Capital Children's Museum

ANTIC Interview 185 - Ted Kahn

Atari Computer Camps — The Magic Room

Video version of this interview

Mark Simonson, Atari Artist and Font Designer

Mark Simonson used his Atari computers who create art that was published in magazines in the 1980s, including a portrait of Nolan Bushnell that was commissioned by TWA Ambassador, an inflight magazine; a colorful street scene for the cover of Minnesota Monthly, the magazine of Minnesota Public Radio; and a juggler for the cover of Credit Union Advantage magazine, among others.

Professionally, Mark is a font designer. He created Atari Classic, a free TrueType font family for modern computers that looks like the Atari 8-bit screen font. Today, you'll see Atari Classic used in many Atari emulators, web sites, the WUDSN IDE, and elsewhere.

This interview took place on April 15, 2021.

Mark's Atari reminisce blog post

Mark's Mac/Atari Fusion site

Mark's Nolan Bushnell portrait in Hi-Res Magazine Issue 1

A wild Mark appears on AtariAge

FujiNet

This interview on YouTube

Ann Lewin-Benham, Director of Capital Children's Museum

Ann Lewin-Benham was executive director of the Capital Children's Museum in Washington, D.C. The museum was home to the first public-access computer center in the nation’s capital, and indeed, one of the first in the United States. In 1981, Atari and Apple each donated dozens of computers to the museum. The exact number is unclear, but 30 is the number I've seen most often for Atari's contribution.

The computer lab was called The Future Center. There, the museum offered computer literacy classes for people of all ages, from Compu-Tots for preschoolers, to programming classes for adults, there was even a computer literacy session for members of Congress. It also used the lab for birthday parties. (Last year, I interviewed a woman who had her 8th birthday party at the museum.) The museum used more of its computers in its exhibit on communication. It established a software development laboratory, called Superboots, in which developers created custom softare for the museum, and one product that was released commercially: the graphics program PAINT!

In a 1982 article titled A Day At The Capital Children's Museum, Melanie Graves described the scene:

"My twelve-year-old friend Sarah and I went to the museum to explore the computers. There are several dozen computers scattered throughout the building which are used for exhibits, classroom teaching and the development of educational software...

A machine that calls itself "Wisecracker" is the noisest of the computers that beckon visitors to the Communication exhibit. "My-name- is-Wise-crack-er," it says in a monotone, "Come-type-to-me." This message repeats endlessly until someone types at the keyboard or turns off the computer. "Hello, how are you?" Sarah typed, and pressed the return key. "Hel-lo-how-are-you," the machine’s voice responded. Sarah typed for awhile longer and then proclaimed, "It sure is dumb, but its voice is kind of cute."

The computer next to Wisecracker has a data base program that asked Sarah her name, where she came from, and other questions. It informed her that she was the thirty-seventh person from Virginia to type in data that day... "Fifty-five percent of the people who came here were girls," she told me. Next to the data base, a computer is set up with a music program. Sarah pressed some random keys, causing notes to sound. At the same time, the letter names of the notes appeared on the keys of a piano that was displayed on the screen.

There is also a Teletext terminal that tells inquirers about weather predictions, and news releases, the latest acquisitions at the public library, local cultural events and whatever else has been entered into the data base for that day...

After playing with Teletext, Sarah and I went to the Future Center, a room equipped with twenty Atari 800s. On weekdays, the classroom is available to school groups ranging from prekindergarten to high school. On weekends, families arrive for courses in programming. Classes have also been created for working people, senior citizens, community groups, congressional spouses and other special interest groups. This summer more than sixty students from the Washington, D.C. public schools attended one of two free month-long computer camps at the museum."

This interview took place on April 2, 2021.

Ann's web site

Museum in Atari ConnectionVolume 1 Number 4

A Day At The Capital Children's Museum

ANTIC Episode 76 - The Bill Kendrick Show

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Bill Kendrick gets more mentions than when he’s on the show, Kay discovers he owns more Atari disk drives than the rest of the Atari community combined, and we discuss all the news rocking the Atari 8-bit 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 

Next Without For