December 18, 2015

ANTIC Episode 28 - Holiday Gift Guide, Archive.org Telethon

1 hour 47 minutes

On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast: our annual holiday buying guide for Atari 8-bit lovers, we announce the winner of the interview transcription contest, I test all of the BBUC game contest entries, and we outright start bribing people to donate to archive.org.

Recurring Links

Floppy Days Podcast

AtariArchives.org

AtariMagazines.com

Kevin’s Book “Terrible Nerd”

New Atari books scans at archive.org

ANTIC feedback at AtariAge

Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge

ANTIC Facebook Page

What we’ve been up to

Kevin KansasFest 2015 Session - https://archive.org/details/Kansasfest2015SessionsHowToGetInterviews part of https://archive.org/details/kansasfest

Gideon Marcus digitized many disks fromJacksonville Atari Computer Enthusiasts and Lotsabyes, put them online at http://sdfo.org/jace/

Tricky Tutorial #11 Memory Map

Tricky Tutorial #6 Sound and Music

News

Bill Wilkinson has died

Kevin’s 2014 interview with Bill - ANTIC Interview 7 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Bill Wilkinson, OSS

Retro Gamer Magazine - http://www.retrogamer.net/

Project Atari 13130 Teaser (2600, 5200, 7800, 130XE and Lynx in one case) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHLxpdGhao&feature=youtu.be

also another teaser video where 10p6 shows the universal cart adapter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF9vDI1Fny8

Atariteca Mr. Atari to release new game called Lost In Space on Christmas day - http://atariteca.blogspot.com/2015/12/video-publicaran-lost-in-space-en.html

new game Bobby Bearing - conversion from C64 by mariuszw on AtariAge - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/241972-new-game-port-bobby-bearing/

Star Raiders on GitHub - https://github.com/XioNYC/StarRaiders

Star Raiders II - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb03mSdMaYc

1400XL went for sale on ebay by bob1200xl on AtariAge

1400XL discussion - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/244786-1400xl-on-ebay/

A neat infographic on some Atari Floppy drives. And it’s in both Spanish and English - http://atariteca.blogspot.com/2015/11/el-mejor-disk-drive-para-atari.html

PRO-PROMPT Cart +OG Disk +OG 9pin Plug + COMPU= ATARI 800XL

ABBUC Software Contest Results - http://www.abbuc.de/atari/software-ressort/81-software/softwarewettbewerbe/1764-software-wettbewerb-2015

ABBUC winners at atarionline.pl - http://atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?ct=nowinki&ucat=1&subaction=showfull&id=1445715619

ABBUC software competition 2015 thread at AtariAge - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/235115-abbuc-software-competition-2015/

Vintage is the New Old - Paulo Garcia - www.vintageisthenewold.com

PC World: “This Old Tech: There’s nothing like M.U.L.E. on an Atari 800 to bring a family together” by Benj Edwards - http://www.pcworld.com/article/3008912/software-games/this-old-tech-theres-nothing-like-mule-on-an-atari-800-to-bring-a-family-together.html

First episode of The Atari XEGS Cart by Cart Podcast - Episode 0 - https://www.facebook.com/AtariXEGS.and.8Bit.Game.Podcast/ , http://xegs8bit.com/

Upcoming Shows:

VCF Southeast 4.0 - April 2 & 3 2016, Roswell, GA

VCF East - April 15-17, 2016 - InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, NJ, 07719 - http://www.vintagecomputerfederation.org/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/

New at Archive.org

Computer Magazine Archives - https://archive.org/details/computermagazines?sort=-publicdate&and[]=bang

Computer Manuals - https://archive.org/details/computermanuals?sort=-publicdate

Atari 800 XL User's Handbook By Weber Systems Inc - https://archive.org/details/Atari800XLUsersHandbookByWeberSystemsIncSearchable

Atari Explorer Magazine - https://archive.org/details/AtariExplorerOnline

A collection of digitized scans from a large cache of documents related to the game publisher Infocom - https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet

Holiday Recommendations

Rainbow sticker $5.25 on eBay

800XL iPhone case, $22.91 - http://www.redbubble.com/people/binman/works/13604428-atari-800xl?p=iphone-case

Glasses from MotoGlass. 10% for the next two weeks if you mention ANTIC podcast - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009331201970

Attract mode Tshirt $15.99 - https://www.etsy.com/listing/208328221/poke-77128-this-is-my-attractive-atari?ref=related_listings#

3D printed XEGS

3D printed 800XL and 1050 - https://www.etsy.com/listing/229656809/mini-atari-800xl-and-1050-disk-drive-3d?ref=shop_home_active_3

Atari 2600 RF TV Coaxial F Plug Female Adapter

Home Applications and Games: for the Atari 400/800 Computer - kindle $1.99 or paper $9.99 - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0934523061?keywords=timothy%20banse&qid=1449423083&ref_=sr_1_3&sr=8-3

The Atari Book, Second Edition - https://www.imagineshop.co.uk/bookazines/the-atari-book-second-edition.html

SIO2BT - bluetooth in an SIO plug by Marcin Sochacki (Montezuma) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.atari.montezuma.sio2bt, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3-191R-U_S1blpUTFBsRW1iRUE, http://atariage.com/forums/topic/241984-sio2bt-ordering-thread/

STAR RAIDER (RAIDERS) (LABEL ERROR!) - ATARI 400/800/XL/XE CARTRIDGE * V RARE *, $25 on eBay

PRO(C) Magazine - up to issue #7, 1.5 or 2 euros, or T-shirts, stickers, patches - http://proc-atari.de/

Midi-maze setup: cart (Lance Ringquist, http://atarisales.com ) , Midi-Mate (Bruce Carso, B&C ComputerVisions, http://www.myatari.com ), midi cable - Approx. $80 total

XL power supply from BEST that won’t die and kill your 800XL at the same time (Brad Koda, http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/ ) $20-$30 plus shipping

MaxFlash cart pre-loaded from AtariMax - 8 Mbit flash cart for $40 + shipping - http://www.atarimax.com/

Edladdin controllers http://edladdin.com/Atari-2600-7800-Controllers_c2.htm

Of the Month

Internet Archive telethon coming noon Dec 19-noon Dec 20 - http://www.archive.org

Programming Languages Segment

tiny-c by OSS - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=C, http://atariage.com/forums/topic/245227-oss-tiny-c-copyright-c-1978-tiny-c-associates-1982-oss-inc/, https://archive.org/details/tiny-c_manual

Closing

Yerz Myey wrote this for this year’s Glucholazy Atari Party 2015 (XL/XE MOD Compo) - https://soundcloud.com/yerzmyey/yerzmyey-mono-adventures

For more micromusic/lo-fi come to: yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/

If You're interested in making digi-music for XL/XE, You can use NeoTracker by Epi; requires at least 128K - http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/NEO17INS.COM

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