ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

Diane Gaw, Managing editor of A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing

Links:

A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing magazine at AtariMagazines.com

A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing magazine at archive.org

Juiced.GS magazine

Solatrium House

Welcome to this special, interview-only episode of Antic the Atari 8-bit podcast. This is the first of a few interviews we’re planning to air in the month of December, 2014, leading up to the traditional US holidays of Christmas and New Years. As December tends to be a month where lots of purchases are made, I thought it might be a good idea to talk to each of the remaining Atari dealers in the US and to get their stories. This interview is with Brad Koda, proprietor of Best Electronics, certainly one of THE most popular Atari 8-bit outlets still in existence. Best Electronics is celebrating it’s 30TH year of business this year, which is absolutely amazing! Brad has a lot of stories about what it’s been like over those 30 years, from working closely with Atari in the 80’s & 90’s to what it’s like now.

Please enjoy and let Brad know you appreciate what he provides for the Atari community.

Links:

Best Electronics

Randy interviews a long-time friend of the show, Chris Olson. Chris is an Atari enthusiast from a very early age, as he discusses in this interview. His father taught in the computer camps that Atari used to run in the 80’s. Chris is known as CGOApps in the forums.

I hope you enjoy this interview with a general Atari 8-bit fan.

Links:

Aviation Careers Podcast episode with Chris as a guest (Episode 35, From Computers to the Cockpit)

DOS Nostalgia Podcast on flight simulators with Chris as a guest (mentions Atari 8-bit sims such as Flight Simulator II, Solo Flight, F-15 Strike Eagle)

Chris’ "Bingo Fuel" iOS Application (iPhone version)

Chris’ "Bingo Fuel" iOS Application (iPad version)

Rob Hubbard Soundtrack to Atari 8-bit version of Jet Set Willy (YouTube clip)

Chris’ Twitter: @CGOApps

Chris’ App Blog

On this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit PODCAST: We look at the Atari 850 interface, the SIO2SD device, and the right cartridge slot --- we strike out with Alan Alda --- and our friend Gray Chang sends us a care package of amazing previously-unreleased books and software.

Also with a great segment by our good friend Bill Kendrick about games converted from the Atari 2600 to the computers. And, a special segment by Chris Olson about Atari 8-bit emulation on IOS. It’s an information-packed episode you won’t want to miss!

Links mentioned in this episode:

Recurring Links

Floppy Days Podcast

AtariArchives.org

AtariMagazines.com

Kevins Book “Terrible Nerd”

New Atari books scans at archive.org

ANTIC feedback at AtariAge

the Atlanta Historical Computing Society

What We’ve Been Up To

Atari ITalk II Owners Manual

Commodore MOS FBI FOIA Response

Halftime Battlin’ Bands record, audio-instructions for CBS Software carts

AtariAge Forum - found pre-release versions of Atari documentation

Atari Operating System Users Manual November 1980

Atari 400/800 Hardware Manual November 1980

De Re Atari early version

Atari Company Store Price List

Gray Chang Source code!

AtariAge Discussion of Gray Chang source code and printed matter

Gray Chang ephemera collection

Blue Yeti Microphone

Mercenary: Escape from Targ

Best Electronics

News

New Video Game History Museum Being Built Near Dallas

MidiJOY

Atari 2600-PC-Interface

Digitized music demos

Digitized Music Demos Discussion on AtariAge

SIO2PC/10502PC

AtariAge discussion on FTDI chip brickingTHE!CART Website

AtariAge Discussion of The!Cart

"Classic Atari" book by Jason Morris at iTunes

Software Library at archive.org

Review Segment - SIO2SD

SIO2SD at Lotharek’s Web Site

Bill’s Modern Segment

"Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System" by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost

"Midnight Magic (Atari 2600)" at Wikipedia

"Midnight Magic for Atari 800" thread at AtariAge forums

Original Atari 2600 Midnight Magic manual at AtariAge

Seaquest AtariMania entry

"Seaquest for the 800" thread at AtariAge forums

Original Atari 2600 Seaquest manual at AtariAge

"Stampede new 2600 conversion" thread at AtariAge forums

Original Atari 2600 Stampede manual at AtariAge

"The Atari 2600 Game By Game Podcast", epsiode 52: Stampede & Ice Hockey

Atari 8-bit Emulation on IOS by Chris Olson

Guide to Atari 8-bit Emulation on IOS

Hardware/Software/Website of the Month

Atari 8-bit at Reddit

Listener Feedback

tutorial series on Programming the Atari XL/XE

Jay Kint blog post on rediscovering the Atari 8-bits

AtariAge link with joystick port pinouts and discussion about controllers

Feature Topic - Atari 850 Interface Module

Atari 8-bit FAQ

850 Information at Atari Museum

"Atari Meets the Real World" by Richard Kushner from Compute!s First Book of Atari

850 Interface Operator’s Manual

850 Interface Technical Manual

Closing

NEW music from RaphelGoulart using the TriTone GTIA beeper engine

Kevin interviews John Henson - The New Aladdin Magazine

Download issues of The New Aladdin

Henson’s new venture, Nuvolibri

Randy interviews Marty Goldberg, co-author of “Atari Inc.: Business is Fun” and Atari historian.

Atari Book

Atari Book Facebook

Atari Museum

Atari Museum Facebook

“Atari Inc.:Business is Fun” by Marty Goldberg and Curt Vendel at Amazon.com

Kevin interviews Paul Laughton.

Paul Laughton is the author of Apple DOS 3.1, Atari BASIC, the Atari DOS filesystem, and co-founder of Optimized Systems Software.

The Atari 400/800 and OSS at Paul's web site

Atari BASIC Source Book

Paul's BASIC for Android

On this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit PODCAST: We delve into the SIDE2 compact flash interface, look at arcade games ported to the 8-bits, discuss another new atari podcast, and interviews with Gray Chang -- author of Claim Jumper -- and Jonathan Halliday, creator of the new Atari GUI.

Links mentioned in this episode:

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

VCF Midwest 9.0

Jim Brain Retro Innovations

iTalk II Video on YouTube

Atari 800 with Encore Video Productions Info Display System

Covox VoiceMaster Video on YouTube

ValForth

SIO2PC

Atlanta Maker Faire

SpartaDOS

News

Retro Gamer Magazine

New Atari 8-bit Podcast Inverse Atascii

Mini Atari 800XL with Atari 1050 disk drive (3D printed) at MakerBot

Mini Atari 800XL with Atari 1050 disk drive (3D printed) Blog

Mini Atari 400 (3D printed) at MakerBot

Mini Atari 400 (3D printed) Blog

ABBUC 2014 Hardware contest entries

SIO2BT (SIO to Bluetooth) at YouTube

SIO2BT Discussion at AtariAge

New keyboard interface for Atari 8-bit

WUDSN Atari 8-bit cross-compiling

New Cover for the 2nd Edition of Atari Inc. - Business Is Fun

Nolan Bushnell Reddit AMA

Atari User Magazine

HTML5 version of the classic Star Raiders that runs in your browser

Bill’s Modern Segment

Asteroids Emulator at AtariMania

Norbert's Emulators page: Asteroids Emulator for the Atari 800XL

YouTube: Asteroids emulator on the Atari 800XL

Pac-Man Arcade Orders at AtariAge

AtariAge Forum: "Pac-man Update for Atari 8-bit"

The Pac-Man Dossier

Software of the Month

Aspeqt

Hardware of the Month

SIDE2

Website of the Month

Lotharek’s Lair

Feedback

McDonald’s Atari Commercial

AtariBBS by Thom Cherryhomes

AtariBBS ATA and ASC welcome screens

AtariBBS BBSConf status

AtariBBS User Module

AtariBBS filemenu functionality

AtariBBS flatmsg board functionality

Interview - Gray Chang

Gray Chang Website

another interview with Gray

archive.org full version

Download APX programs

Interview - Jonathan Halliday

GUI Videos

Jonathan’s Website

Closing

OUTRO MUSIC

On this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit codpast: interviews with atari author and enthusiast Kieren Hawken; and Dale Yocum, the guy who thought up Atari Program Exchange. And Bill kendrick complains and ends up with his own segment, reviewing Space harrier. . . And we don’t talk about the Atari Dump Dig.

Links mentioned in this episode:

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

Maker Faire Atlanta

Arduino

KansasFest

CC65

Briel Computers

Ten Pence Arcade

Defcon

Pro(c) Magazine -Euro 5,00 / World incl. postage. Payment by PayPal to [email protected]

News

Nolan Bushnell interview on Retro Obscura - Discussion on AtariAge

Nolan Bushnell interview on Retro Obscura

Dump Dig movie trailer. movie to be titled “Atari: Game Over”

RetroChallenge 2014

RetroChallenge 2014 - Earl Evans’ entry

Atari SAP Music Archive

Classic Gaming Expo

VCF Midwest

Portland Retro Gaming Expo

Player/Missile Atari Podcast

Translating ATASCII text files to ASCII text files on AtariAge

"Invenies Verba" for Atari 8-bit by Bill Kendrick on YouTube

Archive.org Atari Emulator Screenshots

Bill Kendrick’s Modern Segment

Chris Hutt's website (Wayback Machine archive)Chris Hutt's YouTube channelRelease announcement on AtariAge forums (with video and download link)AtariMania entry

Software of the Month

Atari 800 Best Game Pack

Hardware of the Month

Atari-styled USB Joystick

Website of the Month

Once Upon Atari

AtariMania

Listener Feedback

James Hague’s DaisyPop iPhone Game on iTunes

Computer Art and Animation: A User's Guide to Atari LOGO

Atari800MacX

Interview - Kieren Hawken

Retro Video Gamer

Homebrew Heroes

Revival Retro Event

ROM Retro Event

Retro Gamer Magazine

Atari User

Nolan Bushnell Interview by Kieren on YouTube

Interview - Dale Yocum

Unedited version of Interview at Archive.org

Closing

Atari Tape Music

On this one-year anniversary episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit Podcast: we serve up a steaming pile of Hashteroids, Kevin reminisces about his first modem (it was blue and 300 baud!) , and we wax hopeful about a new Atari podcast, book, and magazine. Happy birthday to us.

Recurring Links

Floppy Days Podcast

AtariArchives.org

AtariMagazines.com

Kevins Book “Terrible Nerd”

New Atari books scans at archive.org

ANTIC feedback at AtariAge

Intro

C64 Reloaded

What We’ve Been Up To

Nautilus video game for the Atari

Maker Faire Atlanta

Atari 8-bit Demos Discussion on AtariAge

Roguelike Radio podcast

Enhancements to Graph-It

Atari 7800 Multi-cart

BASIC Tenliners - German Edition book

News

Atari turns Asteroids into Hashteroids for Denny's

Atari is teaming up with Denny’s

Can Once Famous Gaming Giant Atari Turn a New Generation Onto Pong?

New Atari 8-bit Podcast called Player/Missile

Centron3D

AtariAge Discussion of Centron3D

Atari 800 - Best Game Pack

"Atari Corp.: Business Is War” book pre-announced

Lukas Ketner Art on Facebook

Possible new Atari programming magazine

"Atari party draws young and old to honor Sunnyvale's gaming heritage" at San Jose Mercury News

Photos of Atari Party

KansasFest

Classic Console & Arcade Gaming Show

Classic Gaming Expo

Classic Gaming Expo on Facebook

Vintage Computer Festival Midwest

Vintage Computer Festival Midwest on Facebook

Vintage Computer Festival Midwest on Twitter

Portland Retro Gaming Expo

ABBUC Software Contest 2014 (German)

ABBUC Software Contest 2014 - Rules in English

ABBUC Software Contest 2014 - Discussion on AtariAge

Software of the Month - LeBreak

LeBreak - break movie creator

Hardware of the Month - MPP Modems

Microbits Peripheral Products MPP 1000 Modem

Website of the Month - AtariLeaks

AtariLeaks at AtariArchives

AtariLeaks at Web.Archive.Org

Followup discussion on AtariAge

FBI FOIA Response regarding Jack Tramiel

Listener Feedback

Atari Ethernet

Matt Lacey

Atari BBS's

Feature Topic (Atari 8-bit File Extensions)

File Extensions Discussion at AtariAge

File Extensions at Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions

Interview - Fernando Herrera

AstroChase

Full Interview at Archive.org