On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast: Randy delves into Altirra BASIC, there’s another podcast to dilute our listenership, Kevin reports back from KansasFest, and there’s lots of new Atari stuff to download at Archive.org.

Recurring Links

Floppy Days Podcast

AtariArchives.org

AtariMagazines.com

Kevins Book “Terrible Nerd”

New Atari books scans at archive.org

ANTIC feedback at AtariAge

What we’ve been up to

Retrobright

"Microcomputer Primer" by Mitchell Waite

KansasFest - Retro Computing Roundtable episode

KansasFest - Wade talked about it in episode S1EB2 of Inverse ATASCII Podcast

KansasFest - Rob talked about it in episode 15 of Player/Missile Podcast

Atari Summer Camp Episode

Interview Discussion

Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge

Atari 5200 Trak-ball Controller

News

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'

U- BASIC

New Game "Jim Slide"

ABBUC Software Contest

Info about some of the ABBUC games

More detailed info about some of the ABBUC games

Retrochallenge 2015/07

TransKey II in development

new podcast Atari XEGS Cart by Cart Podcast

new Turbo BASIC XL handbook from ABBUC; shipped with ABBUC newsletter

XE-Lent Arcade Games videos on YouTube by Kieren Hawken

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

VCF Midwest 10 - August 29-30, 2015, Elk Grove Village, IL

Portland Retro Gaming Expo October 17-18 in Portland OR

High-Score Club at AtariAge - Season 12, Round 12

New at Archive.org

Monitor Atari Journal v1n1

https://archive.org/details/CandTComputerActiveAtariPublicDomainSoftwareCatalog

Atari Logo In The Classroom By Donna Bearden

Atari 6502 Programming Memo

Programming Languages - Altirra BASIC

Altirra BASIC Manual

Altirra BASIC Download at AtariAge

Altirra Download at VirtualDub

Speed test at AtariAge

Bill’s Modern Segment

"yet another..." (Apple Invaders 2010 announcement) topic on AtariAge forums

"Apple Invaders 2010" entry at AtariMania

Krzysztof Dudek (XXL)'s website

"Apple Invaders for the Atari 8-bit family" video on YouTube

"Superappleinvader Game captured" at Yesterbits

"Apple Invaders" entry at Apple2Games.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders

"Galaga for the Atari 800" (main homepage)

"PET Galaga for the Atari 800XL" topic on AtariAge forums

Interview with Henrik Wening (in German)

"Galaga" wikipedia article

Feedback

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