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 faster data reading and writing. The device, released in 1983, could be installed inside your 810 disk drive with "no jumpers, no soldering, no extra box." It cost $295. James wrote the firmware for the device. Check the show notes for links to the 810 Turbo Manual and advertisement, photos of the board, and a lively discussion on AtariAge (in which James has answered some questions and added more commentary.) This interview took place on June 7, 2019. 810 Turbo ad 810 Turbo Manual 810 Photos and software NCT Letter to Atari users groups Discussion on AtariAge

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 to us literally direct from the fabulous SillyVenture show to give us a rundown, and then Thomas Cherryhomes tells us all about the amazing work going on with FujiNet!

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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

AHCS

Eaten By a Grue

Donate to Ted Nelson project at: https://paypal.me/Savetz

TEH: Tech Enthusiast Hour - https://tehpodcast.com

What We've Been Up To

• SDrive Max from Vintage Computer Center -

https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product-category/atari

• Atari: A Visual History by Darren Doyle - https://www.greyfoxbooks.com/product/the-atari-a-visual-history/

Guests

• Thomas Cherryhomes
• • FujiNet - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/298720-fujinet-a-wip-sio-network-adapter-for-the-atari-8-bit/
  • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=8255002
• Bart (SillyVenture) - http://www.sillyventure.eu/en/

Interviews

• Interview index: here

Atari News

• A Crash Course on Advanced DLIs https://playermissile.com/dli_tutorial/
• Galaga for the 8-bits - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/296152-another-galaga-thread/ - playsoft
• Into the Vertical Blank Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-vertical-blank-generation-atari/id1376995635
• Prince of Persia WIP Demo has surfaced http://atariteca.blogspot.com/2019/12/primer-demo-jugable-de-prince-of-persia.html#more
• Nolan Bushnell interviewed At Computer History Museum from August - https://youtu.be/FyHbzhtrP0w
• ABBUC Software Contest - http://www.abbuc.de/atari/software-ressort and http://atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?ct=nowinki&ucat=1&subaction=showfull&id=1572114881

Upcoming Shows with Atari Computers

• March 21 & 22, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle,Washington - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest
• April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east
• Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8
• Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/

New at Archive.org

• MANUS Manual — Music Notation Software for Atari 8-bit computers - https://archive.org/details/MANUS/
• Atari Karateka Development Disks - https://archive.org/details/AtariKaratekaDevelopmentDisks
• Magic Castle — unreleased game for Atari 8-bit computer - https://archive.org/details/magiccastle_atari
• Atari Telephone Directory - https://archive.org/details/ataritelephonedirectory
• Atari Office Supply Catalog and Office Administration Handbook - https://archive.org/details/atariofficesupplycatalog
• B.A.S.I.C. Bulletin disk newsletters - https://archive.org/details/@allan52?and%5B%5D=bulletin
• Silent Butler 80 - https://archive.org/details/SilentButler80
• Atari 400 800 ROM Wizard - https://archive.org/details/romwizardsummary/page/n7
• Success Magazine Feb 83 - https://archive.org/details/successfeb83

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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 2019 he sent me scans of his original documents regarding Magic Castle: his design notes, and even rejection letters from the three companies that he submitted the game to: Catalyst Technologies, Avalon Hill, and Origin Systems. He hasn't been able to find the floppy disks with the game, but he does have printouts of the source code — which he also scanned and sent to me — so it could potentially be resurrected by the Atari community. This interview took place on October 13, 2019. Bruce's Magic Castle documents

Michael Sternberg got Magic Castle running again!

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 in 1985 in Herten, Germany. Today, the group has about 500 members from around the world. The group's quarterly magazine — still produced on an Atari computer — is almost certainly the longest continually published computer magazine anywhere. This interview took place on August 28, 2019, during the Fujiama Atari conference in Lengenfeld, Germany. Wolfgang doesn't speak much English, and I don't speak any German, so Roland Wassenberg provided real-time language translation. ABBUC web site

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 opening of Atari "software acquisition centers." After leaving Atari, he co-founded Mindset Corporation with Roger Badertscher. This interview took place on November 7, 2019. In it, Bruce mentions Steve Gerber, Fred Thorlin, Dale Yocum, and Manny Gerard, all of whom we have previously interviewed. Infoworld — Atari Opens Second Software-Acquisition Center ANTIC Interview 268 - Steve Gerber, VP of International New Product Development ANTIC Fred Thorlin interview ANTIC Dale Yocum interview ANTIC Interview 78 - Manny Gerard, The Man Who Fired Nolan

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 news that's fit to print.

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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

AHCS

Eaten By a Grue

Donate to Ted Nelson project at: https://paypal.me/Savetz

TEH: Tech Enthusiast Hour - https://tehpodcast.com

What We've Been Up To

• 1088XLD by The Brewing Academy https://thebrewingacademy.com
• Charlie Kulas' Leafer Madness — Development Notebook - https://archive.org/details/LeaferMadnessDevelopmentNotebook/ , https://twitter.com/KevinSavetz/status/1190788999884886017
• Incognito from Lotharek - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=275
• Atari Projects book by Jason Moore - http://www.lulu.com/shop/jason-moore/atari-projects/paperback/product-24223087.html
• Atari 800 from Bill Lange - https://twitter.com/BillLange1968/status/1183407999492206593
• Atari cartridge holder from Bill Lange - https://twitter.com/BillLange1968/status/1179041907978244096
• Vintage computer sign - https://twitter.com/FloppyDays/status/1188147474604539904?s=20
• Atari video cables from Corey Koltz, 8bitclassics - https://www.8bitclassics.com/

Atari News

• Team 6502 announces the launch of http://team6502.org
• Atari Tape Drive Turned Security DVR - https://hackaday.com/2019/11/01/atari-tape-drive-turned-security-dvr/
• fan remake of Rescue on Fractalus (Lucasfilm Games, 1984) is in development - https://twitter.com/LucasfilmGames/status/1168913659080445953/photo/1
• SDrive MAX from Vintage Computer Center - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product-category/atari
• Popeye hack http://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=7755 and http://www.indieretronews.com/2019/09/popeye-atari-8bit-arcade-classic.html?m=1
• TransKey-II PS/2 Keyboard Adapter (Michael St. Pierre) - https://ataribits.weebly.com/tk-ii.html
• Moon Patrol Redux - https://vintageisthenewold.com/moon-patrol-redux-a-revamped-version-of-the-classic-game-for-the-atari-xl-xe/ and https://atariage.com/forums/topic/297535-moon-patrol-redux/
• PRO(C) Atari #14 - WWW.PROC-ATARI.DE
• FLOP #64 - New Issue of the Floppy Disk Magazine - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/297963-flop-64-new-issue-of-the-floppy-disk-magazine/
• A Compendium of Atari 8-bit Games - Volume One by Kieren Hawken - https://amzn.to/2JhxBTK
• Star Vagrant XL/XE Game - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/298001-star-vagrant-atari-xlxe-game/ and http://madsoft.us/en
• Atari Museum patreon - https://www.patreon.com/atarimuseum
• ABBUC Software Contest - http://www.abbuc.de/atari/software-ressort and http://atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?ct=nowinki&ucat=1&subaction=showfull&id=1572114881

Upcoming Shows with Atari Computers

• March 21 & 22, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle,Washington - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest
• April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east
• Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8
• Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/

YouTube Videos Since Last Show

• 8-bit and more - Mac/65 Assembler introduction video just posted for those who want to learn about the best assembler/debugger ever created - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5drPFoMi4A
• Atari XEGS "2 Systems in 1" Ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Z7MwLu8-4
• Incognito (Flashjazzcat):
• • Installing Incognito Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vduEeKiMcWA
  • Installing Incognito Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNXDEm-E3pc
  • Incognito: Unboxing, Observations and Additional Information - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oIqSevx8X0
  • Incognito: Hands-on (What it can do and how to do it) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAma2d_QQIE
• Demos from Poland (Miesiu):
• • Garfield - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpHRc9HIapM
  • Forever or Never - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjrvCjRhbPM
  • Five to Five - Mirage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE3K7p2DqA8
  • Framed Again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLSmtltww7c

New at Archive.org

• https://archive.org/details/Atari_Woodshop_Physical_Inventory_Procedures
• Allan Bushman:
• • https://archive.org/details/metricandproblemsolvingatari
  • https://archive.org/details/easternfront1941atariposter
• (Bill Lange) Parrot by Alpha Systems - https://archive.org/details/ParrotDigitalSoundSystem
• Atari catalog in italian - https://archive.org/details/atarihomecomputercatalogo1984
• Atari 1050 disk drive users guide in Italian - https://archive.org/details/atari1050guidaalluso
• Atari 400 users guide (multilingual) - https://archive.org/details/atari400multilingualmanual
• Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell: Music for Soprano & Atari 800XL by Yoav Gal & Yael Kanarek ‎- https://archive.org/details/cd_bit-by-bit-cell-by-cell-music-for-soprano_yoav-gal-yael-kanarek

Listener Feedback

• Bombjack archive - http://commodore.bombjack.org/

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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 Expo. The session was titled "Atari 800 series computers: 40 years." The panelists were Joe Decuir, one of the hardware designers of the Atari 400 and 800; David Crane, who was one of the developers of the Atari's operating system before he famously left Atari to co-found Activision; and myself. The session was attended by roughly 50 people. There were some difficulties getting Joe's computer to throw its video to the projector, and you can hear some fussing with that in the recording before it gets resolved. I had a great time participating in this panel celebrating the Atari 800's 40th birthday. Joe Decuir's slide deck for this panel Joe Decuir 1977 Engineering Notebook Joe Decuir 1978 Engineering Notebook

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.

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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

AHCS

Eaten By a Grue

Donate to Ted Nelson project at: https://paypal.me/Savetz

TEH: Tech Enthusiast Hour - https://tehpodcast.com

What We've Been Up To

• Fujiama (some photos http://abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/2019/ )
• • Pac man source project https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=PAC-MAN and https://archive.org/details/pacmansourcecode
  • Gift of chocolate from Austria from Siegfried Lenz https://twitter.com/KevinSavetz/status/1167000448412409857
• Caverns of Mars poster https://archive.org/details/AtariCavernsOfMarsPoster
• VCF Midwest - http://vcfmw.org/
• SDrive MAX cases from Steve Boswell (MrRobot) - https://atari8bit.net/sdrive-max-cases/
• Atari XL/XE power supply & Atari 400/800 power supply from 8-bit Classics - Corey Koltz - https://www.8bitclassics.com/product/advanced-atari-xl-xe-power-supply/ and https://www.8bitclassics.com/product/atari-400-800-1050-ac-adapter/
• Atari Party East - https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNguze6iWf33GWEuU_-NFY36dwIU9pyDNiZQ34wwJjQs4WT3uaOzauAL-_7rvkCjQ?fbclid=IwAR3a7GKjJzuNQqY0o-cn8nQXzM-WMt0cJxlsYArfdmptXMH0-Aq8En8rQj4&key=N0N2Ny1hZFpoSF9nanR2emk2Y1JWN1dGMTM2VTl3 and https://www.flickr.com/photos/lambdacalculus379/sets/72157711003940108/
• Old School Gamer Magazine - https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com and https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/magazineosg/osg12/html5/index.html?page=19&noflash
• Kryofluxing - https://www.kryoflux.com/ and http://a8preservation.com/#/software?page=1 and http://www.atarimania.com/
• The David Ahl Collection - https://theahlcollection.blogspot.com/p/the-david-h-ahl-collection.html and https://theahlcollection.blogspot.com/p/documentation.html
• Okimate 10 Color Printer - https://archive.org/details/Okimate10PlugNPrintBack and https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002XJLIL6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (paper)

Atari News

• UniJoySticle 2 - https://retro.moe/unijoysticle2/
• Jason Moore's new Atari Projects book - http://www.lulu.com/shop/jason-moore/atari-projects/paperback/product-24223087.html and http://atariprojects.org/
• make retro-music on modern systems, a company called Micro-Routine has samples made on an Atari 8-bit. https://micro-routine.com/atari-8-bit-basic-sample-pack/
• Incognito Pre-Order @ Lotharek - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=275
• Atari 8-bit game AtariNet updated to version 1.1 (Slor/James Wilkinson) - http://atariteca.blogspot.com/2019/09/publican-actualizacion-de-juego-atarinet.html#more and https://atariage.com/forums/topic/296122-retronet-11-released/?tab=comments#comment-4351719
• PokeyMax, multiPokey board is now at Ver 2. Looks like this might be a quad-Pokey setup in FPGA. Very interesting. https://atariage.com/forums/topic/295242-pokeymax-v2/
• Atari 800 mouse mat - https://www.rhayadercomputers.co.uk/atari_800/p4866955_18074027.aspx
• "Amiga Bill" Bill Winters, Amiga enthusiast, closet Atari 800 fan , perennial VCF exhibitor, and along with Anthony Becker, shot the amazing "Tour of Ultimate 400/800 40th Anniversary Exhibit at VCF East" video was awarded an Emmy Award earlier this month for his work on the MLB Playoffs Opening last year - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlqxDgnYHWU
• PLATOTERM LITE 1.3 Cartridge Release - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/296293-platoterm-lite-13-cartridge-release/ - Thomas Cherryhomes

Upcoming Shows with Atari Computers

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo Oct 18-20 - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com
• March 21-22, 2020: Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest
• Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8
• Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/

YouTube Videos Since Last Show

• This is an Atari dealer sales information video explaining how to sell the Atari 400 and Atari 800 - Atari Museum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKxN59fuXsg (25 minutes)
• Atari I/O Seminar - Intro to Atari Pascal (Part 1 of 2) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IQEDCAmJTw&t=697s
• Atari I/O Seminar - Intro to Atari Pascal (Part 2 of 2) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV-4BcDKgwA&t=376s
• Atari XL LCD Prototype Display - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8P9Crbsd-E&t=265s

New at Archive.org

• https://archive.org/details/bellcompublicdomainsharewarecatalog/
• https://archive.org/details/atarihomecomputersanewgenerationatarijanuary1984
• https://archive.org/details/toadcomputers1996catalog
• https://archive.org/details/atariosseminaroutline An early seminar outline for the Atari 400/800 operating system
• https://archive.org/details/atarimonitor/page/n1 Atari Monitor Source Listing. An early source listing for a machine language monitor for the Atari 400/800 computers.
• https://archive.org/details/atarilecturenotes Atari lecture notes, most likely from programming seminars originally hosted by Atari's Chris Crawford
• https://archive.org/details/PreliminaryAtariBasic/ Preliminary Atari BASIC (Sheparson's) Documentation Rev 3 Very early documentation for Atari BASIC as provided by Shepardson Microsystems
• The https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_atari?sort=-publicdate category has lots of new intros and demos

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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 the time of this interview, in the picture framing department at Lenz Arts in Santa Cruz, CA, a store that sells art materials and custom framing services. The Atari computer has over 200,000 hours of operational time. (That's on and in use!) Running a program written in BASIC by Andrew in the mid-1980s. According to Andrew, it boots from a floppy every morning without fail.

Store Web Site - http://www.Lenzarts.com