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