ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

By Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold

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Retrocomputing podcast about the Atari 8-bit line of personal computers

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ANTIC Episode 72 - Pick and Place In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… we have as a guest Mr. Gavin Haubelt who runs the Vintage Computer Center and who is feverishly producing #FujiNets for the Atari ...

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11.07.2020 ANTIC Episode 72 - Pick and Place ANTIC Episode 72 - Pick and Place In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… we have as a guest Mr. Gavin Haubelt who runs the Vintage Computer Center and who is feverishly producing #FujiNets for the Atari ...
11.01.2020 ANTIC Interview 399 - Jim Tittsler, Atari 1600 prototype Jim Tittsler, Atari 1600 prototype Jim Tittsler got my attention with a tweet, an old photo of a computer in a PC-style case, connected to Atari joysticks and disk drive. In the tweet, Jim wrote: "A prototype of what we ...
10.24.2020 ANTIC Interview 398 - Dan Noguerol (Farb): Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative Dan Noguerol (Farb): Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative Two interviews with the same person, recorded more than four years apart. Dan Noguerol is better known to the Atari community as Farb. He is the mastermind behind the Atari 8-bit Software ...
09.26.2020 ANTIC Episode 71 - Goodbye, Curt Vendel ANTIC Episode 71 - Goodbye, Curt Vendel In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast...we say goodbye to good friend and Atari legend Curt Vendel and bring you lots of other Atari news. READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days ...
09.20.2020 ANTIC Interview 397 - Youth Advisory Board: Steve Cohen Youth Advisory Board: Steve Cohen This is the eighth in a series of episodes featuring the kids of Atari's Youth Advisory Board. In 1983, Atari formed a Youth Advisory Board, selecting teenagers from around the United States to share their ...
09.13.2020 ANTIC Interview 396 - Kai and George Esbensen, Micro-Ed Software Kai and George Esbensen, Micro-Ed Software I first heard about the Micro-Ed software company when a member of the Atari community sent me a batch of educational cassette tapes to digitize. The tapes had titles like Maps and Globes, Punctuation, ...
09.05.2020 ANTIC Interview 395 - Myra Marshall, Computer Applications Tomorrow Myra Marshall, Computer Applications Tomorrow Myra Marshall, along with her husband-at-the-time Roger Marshall, was co-founder of Computer Applications Tomorrow, a small software company that specialized in educational software for microcomputers. Most of the company's software was self-published and sold in ...
08.29.2020 ANTIC Interview 394 - Michael Darland, Microperipheral Corporation and Sofcast Michael Darland, Microperipheral Corporation and Sofcast Michael Darland was co-founder of Microperipheral Corporation, and president of Sofcast, a system that sent computer data over AM and FM radio. Founded in 1979, Microperipheral Corporation produced 300 BPS modems for several brands ...
08.25.2020 ANTIC Episode 70 - Who Wants a FujiNet Anyway... I do! ANTIC Episode 70 - Who Wants a FujiNet Anyway… I do! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… we discuss the roll-out of the first 50 units of FujiNet, “virtual” shows remaining this year, new software, hardware ...
08.16.2020 ANTIC Interview 393 - Charles Marslett, MYDOS and FastChip Charles Marslett, MYDOS and FastChip Charles Marslett wrote floppy disk and hard drive drivers for Percom, and was the creator of MYDOS, a disk operating system for the Atari 8-bit computers that offered support for double density sectors, subdirectories, and ...
07.22.2020 ANTIC Episode 69 - Bill Collector ANTIC #69 Show Notes, July, 2020 Title: Bill Collector Guests Bill Lange - https://twitter.com/BillLange1968 Bill Kendrick - https://twitter.com/billkendrick Nir Dary - https://twitter.com/ndary Bill Winters - https://twitter.com/TheGuruMeditate What We’ve Been Up To https://archive.org/details/stx_Program_Protection_Methods_for_the_Atari https://archive.org/details/program-design-international-captivity-manual News ABBUC Magazine - http://abbuc.de uDOS (ultra ...
07.21.2020 ANTIC Interview 392 - Dorothy Siegel, Pioneer in Computer Music Dorothy Siegel, Pioneer in Computer Music I'm Kay Savetz, and this is ANTIC: The Atari 8-bit podcast. This interview, however, is about events that happened before Atari released its first computers. This interview is with Dorothy Siegel, a pioneer in ...
07.14.2020 ANTIC Interview 391 - Tracy Frey, Atari Birthday Girl Tracy Frey, Atari Birthday Girl There's an article in the New York Times, dated April 9, 1982: "8-Year-Old's Birthday Party in a Computer Center." The story, written by Barbara Gamareklin, is about the birthday party of Tracey Pizzo — now ...
07.06.2020 ANTIC Interview 390 - David Gedalia, Atari-controlled Telescope David Gedalia, Atari-controlled Telescope Listener Paul Somerfeldt sent me a blurb he found in a book titled "The Dobsonian Telescope" by David Kriege and Richard Berry. The book reads: "Computer-controlled Dobsonian telescopes entered amateur astronomy in the late 1980s. An ...
06.29.2020 ANTIC Interview 389 - Brad Stewart, Covox Brad Stewart, Covox Brad Stewart was the co-founder and chief designer of Covox, the company that created Covox VoiceMaster. VoiceMaster was speech digitizer and voice recognition hardware for the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, and Apple II computers. Covox's own demonstration ...
06.22.2020 ANTIC Interview 388 - Henry and Nancy Taitt, Creative Learning Association Henry and Nancy Taitt, Creative Learning Association Henry Taitt was founder of the Creative Learning Association, which created books and classes about how to program computers in BASIC. Henry, along with his wife Nancy Taitt, ran the company from 1982-1988. ...
06.16.2020 ANTIC Interview 387 - Claudia Cohl, Editor-in-Chief of Family Computing and K-Power Magazine Claudia Cohl, Editor-in-Chief of Family Computing and K-Power Magazine Claudia Cohl was the editor-in-chief of Family Computing Magazine for its entire run. Published by Scholastic, the magazine ran for 49 issues, from September 1983 through September 1987. Then it published ...
06.14.2020 ANTIC Episode 68 - What SIDE Are You On? With Jonathan Halliday ANTIC Episode 68 In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast… Jonathan Halliday joins as we discuss his amazing work on the SIDE loaders for the Incognito and Ultimate 1MB and the work going on for the SIDE3 ...
06.08.2020 ANTIC Interview 386 - Sherman Rosenfeld, Atari Institute for Education Action Research Sherman Rosenfeld, Atari Institute for Education Action Research Dr. Sherman Rosenfeld is an internationally-known leader in informal learning and science education. He was a consultant to the Atari Institute for Education Action Research. Founded in June 1981 and led by ...
06.01.2020 ANTIC Interview 385 - Software Automatic Mouth: Mark Barton Software Automatic Mouth: Mark Barton Mark Barton was creator of SAM — Software Automatic Mouth. Released in 1982, SAM was the first software-only speech synthesizer for personal computers. It was available for the Apple II, Commodore 64, and Atari 8-bit ...
05.27.2020 ANTIC Interview 384 - Fandal: Atari programer and archivist Fandal: Atari programer and archivist Frantisek Houra is better known to the Atari community as Fandal. He's an Atari computer programmer and long-time archivist of European Atari software. He has created many original Atari games and conversions from other platforms: ...
05.21.2020 ANTIC Interview 383 - Gregg Squires, Atari Manager of Hardware Engineering Gregg Squires, Atari Manager of Hardware Engineering Gregg Squires was a Manager of Hardware Engineering at Atari from 1982 through 1984, working from their New York office. He was project manager for Val, a cost-reduced version of the Atari 2600; ...
05.13.2020 ANTIC Interview 382 - Rik Dickinson, Encore Video Productions Rik Dickinson, Encore Video Productions Rik Dickinson is founder of Encore Video Productions, a company that rented Atari 8-bit computers to hotels for use as character generators. The computers would show information about the hotel on channel 2 of guests' ...
05.10.2020 ANTIC Episode 67 - Still Socially Distant ANTIC Episode 67 - Still Socially Distant In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast...Randy forgets to call the artist, formerly known as Kevin, as Kay about 100 times, we continue discussion on AtariFests and World of Atari, ...
05.03.2020 ANTIC Interview 381 - Youth Advisory Board: Tracey Cullinan Youth Advisory Board: Tracey Cullinan This is the seventh in a series of episodes featuring the kids of Atari's Youth Advisory Board. In 1983, Atari formed a Youth Advisory Board, selecting teenagers from around the United States to share their ...
04.26.2020 ANTIC Interview 380 - Atari Speed Reading: Karlyn Kamm and Brad Oltrogge Atari Speed Reading: Karlyn Kamm and Brad Oltrogge The Atari Speed Reading software package was released by Atari in 1981. It was a self-paced program, for use with the Atari computer and a cassette drive, that promised to teach you ...
04.17.2020 ANTIC Interview 379 - Gabriel Baum, Atari Conversational French and Spanish Gabriel Baum: Atari Conversational French and Spanish Gabriel Baum worked at Thorn EMI, where he managed the project to create two early language learning programs that were published by Atari: Conversational French and Conversational Spanish. (Atari's language learning series would ...
04.08.2020 ANTIC Episode 66 - Socially Distant ANTIC Episode 66 - Socially Distant In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: We talk about what we’re doing Atari-wise in these socially distant times and we bring you all the Atari news from around the world. ...
02.20.2020 ANTIC Episode 65 - Cats with umbrellas and dogs! ANTIC Episode 65 - Cats with umbrellas and dogs! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: Kevin’s dogs do their best to be a part of the podcast, we tell you all about a very busy month ...
02.01.2020 ANTIC Interview 378 - Craig Hickman, Atari Photography Software and Security System Craig Hickman, Atari Photography Software and Security System Craig Hickman was featured in the June 1982 edition of Atari Connection magazine for his photography software tools. "Craig has developed two programs written in Atari BASIC for use in his darkroom. ...
01.26.2020 ANTIC Episode 64 - Living in the Future ANTIC Episode 64 - Living in the Future In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: We talk about our Atari-related resolutions for the new year, how 2020 sounds like we’re living in the future, and bring you ...
12.20.2019 ANTIC Interview 377 - James Hugard, Neanderthal Computer Things James Hugard, Neanderthal Computer Things James Hugard was co-founder of Neanderthal Computer Things, a company that created just one product. "810 Turbo" was a hardware conversion board for the Atari 810 disk drive that promised true double density storage, and ...
12.15.2019 ANTIC Episode 63 - SillyVenture and FujiNet! SillyVenture and FujiNet In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: In the tradition of bringing you the latest Atari 8-bit news, we have a couple of very special guests in this episode. First of all, Bart comes ...
11.30.2019 ANTIC Interview 376 - Dennis Zander: Artworx, Hazard Run, Strip Poker Dennis Zander: Artworx, Hazard Run, Strip Poker Dennis Zander was one of the founding partners of the software publishing company Artworx. He programmed a number of games and educational titles, including Hazard Run, Rings of the Empire, Monkeymath, Giant Slalom, ...
11.24.2019 ANTIC Interview 375 - Bruce May, Unreleased Magic Castle Game Bruce May, Unreleased Magic Castle Game In 1982 Bruce May created Magic Castle, a game for the Atari 800 computer. He finished the game but was unable to find a publisher for it, so hardly anyone played it. In October ...
11.21.2019 ANTIC Interview 374 - Wolfgang Burger, President of Atari Bit Byter User Club Wolfgang Burger, President of Atari Bit Byter User Club Wolfgang Burger is the president and a founding member of the Atari Bit Byter User Club, the world's largest user group dedicated to the Atari 8-bit computer. The group was founded ...
11.14.2019 ANTIC Interview 373 - Bruce Irvine, Atari VP of Software Bruce Irvine, Atari VP of Software Bruce Irvine was Atari's Vice President of Software — heading the company's new computer software division — from September 1980 through approximately July 1982. Among other responsibilities, he oversaw Atari Program Exchange and the ...
11.09.2019 ANTIC Episode 62 - Incognito and 40 Years of Atari 8-Bits In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: Kevin hobnobs with Atari celebrities at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Brad and Randy find out they’re podcast hosts #2 and #3, respectively, and together we cover all the Atari ...
10.27.2019 ANTIC Special Episode — Atari 800 series computers: 40 years ANTIC Special Episode — Atari 800 series computers: 40 years This is Antic, the Atari 8-bit podcast. I'm Kevin Savetz. On Saturday, October 19, 2019 I had the privilege of taking part in a panel at the Portland Retro Gaming ...
09.25.2019 ANTIC Episode 61 - Fujiama, Ahl Collection, and Bill Lange In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: Kevin comes back from Fujiama with a report and Bill Lange joins us to talk about the David Ahl Collection that he acquired. READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org ...
09.02.2019 ANTIC Interview 372 - Andrew and John Lenz: Atari Still in Use Andrew and John Lenz: Atari Still in Productive Use in Store It’s very difficult these days to find vintage computers still in productive use out in the wild. Andrew and John Lenz have an Atari 8-bit still in use, at ...
08.08.2019 ANTIC Episode 60 - Podificating In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: We try to catch up after being on hiatus for 2 months by bringing you all the Atari news we could find and we learn a new word in the ...
05.23.2019 ANTIC Interview 371 - John Anderson: Rally Speedway and Arex John Anderson: Rally Speedway and Arex John Anderson worked at Adventure International, where he coded several games: Eliminator, Rear Guard, and Sea Dragon for the Apple II, then Rally Speedway and Arex for the Atari 8-bits. This interview took place ...
05.19.2019 ANTIC Episode 59 - Atari Computer Roundtable 2.0 In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: We have a special round table episode with Nir Dary, Darren Doyle, Roland Wassenburg, Thomas Cherryhomes joining the usual hosts of ANTIC where we discuss what everyone is up to ...
05.12.2019 ANTIC Interview 370 - Roy Goldman, Daisy Dot Roy Goldman, Daisy-Dot Roy Goldman was the creator of Daisy-Dot, a typesetting program for the Atari 8-bit computers which he published from about 1987-1990. There were three versions of Daisy-Dot, the original plus Daisy-Dot II and Daisy-Dot III. The earliest ...
04.13.2019 ANTIC Episode 58 - Show Fever In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: Kevin regales us with his exploits in the 10-Line BASIC Contest, we discuss the renewed efforts to show off Midi-Maze on the Atari 8-bits, and the entire staff prepares to ...
02.20.2019 ANTIC Episode 57 - Atari Pascal In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: Bill Lange joins us as a special guest, and he has lots of Atari Pascal news; we have all the Atari news fit to print, and more shows coming in ...
02.04.2019 ANTIC Interview 369 - Philip Bouchard, The Oregon Trail Philip Bouchard - MECC, The Oregon Trail Philip Bouchard spent over 30 years designing computer software, 18 of which were focused on educational software. He was the principal designer for the Apple II games The Oregon Trail and Number Munchers. ...
01.15.2019 ANTIC Episode 56 - Where's Randy!? In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: late-breaking up-to-the-minute Atari news, Randy disappears mid-episode, and we hear what Atari was like in Chile... READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin’s Book “Terrible Nerd” New Atari ...
01.12.2019 ANTIC Interview 368 - Stan Gilbert, Tricky Tutorials Stan Gilbert, Tricky Tutorials Hello, and welcome to an interview-only episode of Antic, The Atari 8-bit computer podcast. Stan Gilbert worked for Educational Software (previously known as Santa Cruz Educational Software) in the early 80’s and developed several products in ...

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ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast episodes:

ANTIC Episode 72 - Pick and Place

ANTIC Interview 399 - Jim Tittsler, Atari 1600 prototype

ANTIC Interview 398 - Dan Noguerol (Farb): Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative

ANTIC Episode 71 - Goodbye, Curt Vendel

ANTIC Interview 397 - Youth Advisory Board: Steve Cohen

ANTIC Interview 396 - Kai and George Esbensen, Micro-Ed Software

ANTIC Interview 395 - Myra Marshall, Computer Applications Tomorrow

ANTIC Interview 394 - Michael Darland, Microperipheral Corporation and Sofcast

ANTIC Episode 70 - Who Wants a FujiNet Anyway... I do!

ANTIC Interview 393 - Charles Marslett, MYDOS and FastChip

ANTIC Episode 69 - Bill Collector

ANTIC Interview 392 - Dorothy Siegel, Pioneer in Computer Music

ANTIC Interview 391 - Tracy Frey, Atari Birthday Girl

ANTIC Interview 390 - David Gedalia, Atari-controlled Telescope

ANTIC Interview 389 - Brad Stewart, Covox

ANTIC Interview 388 - Henry and Nancy Taitt, Creative Learning Association

ANTIC Interview 387 - Claudia Cohl, Editor-in-Chief of Family Computing and K-Power Magazine

ANTIC Episode 68 - What SIDE Are You On? With Jonathan Halliday

ANTIC Interview 386 - Sherman Rosenfeld, Atari Institute for Education Action Research

ANTIC Interview 385 - Software Automatic Mouth: Mark Barton

ANTIC Interview 384 - Fandal: Atari programer and archivist

ANTIC Interview 383 - Gregg Squires, Atari Manager of Hardware Engineering

ANTIC Interview 382 - Rik Dickinson, Encore Video Productions

ANTIC Episode 67 - Still Socially Distant

ANTIC Interview 381 - Youth Advisory Board: Tracey Cullinan

ANTIC Interview 380 - Atari Speed Reading: Karlyn Kamm and Brad Oltrogge

ANTIC Interview 379 - Gabriel Baum, Atari Conversational French and Spanish

ANTIC Episode 66 - Socially Distant

ANTIC Episode 65 - Cats with umbrellas and dogs!

ANTIC Interview 378 - Craig Hickman, Atari Photography Software and Security System

ANTIC Episode 64 - Living in the Future

ANTIC Interview 377 - James Hugard, Neanderthal Computer Things

ANTIC Episode 63 - SillyVenture and FujiNet!

ANTIC Interview 376 - Dennis Zander: Artworx, Hazard Run, Strip Poker

ANTIC Interview 375 - Bruce May, Unreleased Magic Castle Game

ANTIC Interview 374 - Wolfgang Burger, President of Atari Bit Byter User Club

ANTIC Interview 373 - Bruce Irvine, Atari VP of Software

ANTIC Episode 62 - Incognito and 40 Years of Atari 8-Bits

ANTIC Special Episode — Atari 800 series computers: 40 years

ANTIC Episode 61 - Fujiama, Ahl Collection, and Bill Lange

ANTIC Interview 372 - Andrew and John Lenz: Atari Still in Use

ANTIC Episode 60 - Podificating

ANTIC Interview 371 - John Anderson: Rally Speedway and Arex

ANTIC Episode 59 - Atari Computer Roundtable 2.0

ANTIC Interview 370 - Roy Goldman, Daisy Dot

ANTIC Episode 58 - Show Fever

ANTIC Episode 57 - Atari Pascal

ANTIC Interview 369 - Philip Bouchard, The Oregon Trail

ANTIC Episode 56 - Where's Randy!?

ANTIC Interview 368 - Stan Gilbert, Tricky Tutorials

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