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ANTIC Episode 118 - Trigger Warning


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ANTIC Episode 118 - Trigger Warning

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…we have lots of user feedback and user projects to report on, we talk about a postage stamp-sized Atari computer, and (trigger warning!) there are a couple of Commodore references… 

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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

  • Photos from the Capital Children's Museum Communications Exhibit which opened November 1981 - https://archive.org/details/ccm-communications 

  • Narrascope 2025 - https://narrascope.org/ 

  • Learning about print shop font and border formats with Michael Sternberg - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/324752-print-shop-atari-related-graphics/#findComment-5667327 

  • “Unofficial Atari: a Visual History” by Darren Doyle - https://www.greyfoxbooks.com/shop/books/the-atari-a-visual-history/ 

  • Interview with Darren Doyle on ANTIC - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episode-10-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-darren-doyle-michael-current 

  • Atari800 emulator and FujiNet on Mac - Andy Diller - https://www.atariorbit.org/2025/06/19/fujinet-and-atari800-emulation/ 

News

  • The Retroist Podcast covers the Atari XEGS - https://www.retroist.com/p/retroist-atari-xegs-podcast 

  • Atari 800 red keyboard - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15fZrXoP24/ 

  • Atari 800 drum scanner project (Dave Porter) - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15rS9dcyzr/?mibextid=wwXIfr 

  • Atari home automation (Mike Hogan) - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16rNS2AZnv/?mibextid=wwXIfr 

  • Paper - https://www.academia.edu/13353149/Playing_and_copying_social_practices_of_home_computer_users_in_Poland_during_the_1980s 

  • Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/polish-engineer-creates-postage-stamp-sized-1980s-atari-computer/ 

  • Antonia2 interest post by Simius - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/382122-antonia2-interest/ 

  • Thomas Cherryhomes will be writing a monthly FujiNet column for the upcoming Compute!’s Gazette reboot - https://fujinews.substack.com/p/thomas-cherryhomes-named-monthly 

  • New game (news comes from Atariteca) - "Quadbination" for Atari 8-bit - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/06/reflejos-estrategia-y-paddles.html 

  • The story of how Boulder Dash was created:

    • https://spillhistorie.no/2025/06/06/how-boulder-dash-was-created/ 

    • Kay Interviewed Peter Liepa in 2015 - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-66-peter-liepa-boulder-dash 

  • June Atari Insights Newsletter - https://ataribasics.com 

  • Trigger Warning: Commodore news

    • https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/commodore-acquired-for-a-low-seven-figure-price-new-acting-ceo-comes-from-the-retro-community 

    • https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/06/this-man-is-buying-commodore 

Upcoming Shows

  • Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - July 31-Aug. 3 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2025-se 

  • VCF West - August 1-2 - Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/2025/03/05/vcf-west-2025-save-the-date/ 

  • Fujiama - August 11-17 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2025/ 

  • VCF Midwest - September 13-14, 2025 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ 

  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 17-19 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ 

YouTube Videos

  • Fixing bad key switches all at once (Atari 800XL AWC Type 2) - Adrian’s Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsSiEtSomQI 

  • Fixing a dead and dirty Atari 800XL - Adrian’s Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljBofLMPIeA 

  • Repairing a smashed-up Atari 400 computer - Adrian’s Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H4v-LVztk0 

  • Atari 8-Bit Reborn Smaller Than a Quarter—It Actually Works! + More Retro News! - Bit By Bit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT3kTi-hX_o 

  • Connecting a 15KHz CRT monitor to a Sophia 2 Atari 8-bit via the DVI-I jack - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaFCzydsUTI  

New at Archive.org 

  • https://archive.org/details/clevatari-newsletter-issue-77-dec-1987 

  • https://archive.org/details/clevatari-newsletter-oct-1987 

  • https://archive.org/details/gtia-demonstration-diskette-apx 

  • https://archive.org/details/transdisk-iv-version-4-2-manual-page-6-software/ 

  • Dutch “Atari Users Foundation” - https://archive.org/details/escape2_202506/ 

New at Github

  • CP/M on the Atari 8-bit - https://github.com/davidgiven/cpm65/blob/master/README.md 

  • https://github.com/nwah/fn-printer-examples 

  • https://github.com/itaych/Ice-T 

  • https://github.com/Cap-14/Atari-Cold-War 

  • https://github.com/seban-slt/antyajek 

Feedback

  • (Kevin Lund) VCF-W exhibit page with Atari entry write up - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/vcf-west-exhibits/ 

  • Dropcheck’s 1450XL Replica PCB - https://www.bitsofthepast.com/1450XL_Replica.html 

  • B & C ComputerVisions - Atari Sales & Service - https://www.myatari.com/ 

  • Best Electronics - https://www.best-electronics-ca.com/ 

  • Video61 and Atari Sales - http://www.atarisales.com/main.html 

  • Eight Bit Fix (Paul Westphal) - https://www.eightbitfix.com/ 

 

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