09.18.2023 - By Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold
ANTIC Episode 101 - “The Pronunciation Episode” In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…We discuss the antics of the company that calls itself Atari and their purchase of AtariAge and bring you all the other Atari 8-bit news we could find, while mispronouncing names all over the place… READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kay’s Book “Terrible Nerd” New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge Interview index: here ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Next Without For Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we’ve been up to MULE Online with Thom, Wade, Robin - https://puzzud.itch.io/mule-online Muffinterm: https://twitter.com/atari_bbs/status/1695216646338793591?s=20 https://muffinterm.app VCFMW - http://www.vcfmw.org http://www.ataribbs.com/ https://www.southernamis.com/ SCAT - http://www.scatarians.org/ News Atari buys AtariAge: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/atari-acquires-atariage https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354589-atariage-atari-qa/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattgardner1/2023/08/25/atari-revisits-weird-past-with-summer-camps-merch-range/?sh=33e01a086df3 Interview with the new Atari CEO Wade Rosen on Mirror Gaming - https://youtu.be/l0Y2B9ljCv8?si=dV--bYuAFW7dqAyg Infocom's Z-Machine ATR generator - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354888-infocoms-z-machine-atr-generator/ FujiNet guide at SouthernAMIS - https://www.southernamis.com/_files/ugd/2800fc_3d4e4623a1f44862b46ccf643b9d65f0.pdf Preorder open of FujiNet Professional for Atari 8-Bit computers - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=374 ATRFS: Mount ATR files as local directories under Linux or Mac - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354735-atrfs-mount-atr-files-as-local-directories-under-linux-or-mac/ RM 800XL update - https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html Silly Venture - https://sillyventure.eu Firefighter - https://tuxpaint.org/ftp/atari/games/firefighter/alpha/ and https://github.com/billkendrick/firefighter Popeye VBXE - https://www.indieretronews.com/2023/07/popeye-vbxe-another-arcade-port-but.html New 576NUC+ Daughter Board in the Works - https://ataribits.weebly.com/blog/new-576nuc-daughter-board-in-the-works Article on SillyVenture that just wrapped up - https://retrohclab.eu/the-silly-venture-2023-summer-edition-event-report-english/ ABBUC made a special English edition of its magazine to celebrate the Silly Venture 2023 Summer Edition - https://abbuc.de/2023/08/abbuc-magazine-special-edition-for-sillyventure-sommer-2023/ Pigwa collection - http://ftp.pigwa.net/ Damien Guard’s "ZX Origins" font collection over on Facebook - https://damieng.com/typography/zx-origins/ Atari 8-bit fonts - https://github.com/a8bit/EightBit-Atari-Fonts A Look Back at the Greatness of the Atari 800 and Its Games By Jamie Lendino - https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/celebrating-the-atari-800-and-its-games Backbit Pro Cartridge - https://store.backbit.io/product/backbit-pro/ New podcast “The 8 Bit Files” with Atari 8-bit content and hosts John and Dave - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-8-bit-files/episodes/007---Atari-8-bit-Computers-e26e53q ATASCII Compo 3rd Edition 2023 - https://logiker.com/ATASCII Upcoming Shows World of Retrocomputing - September 16-17 - Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - https://www.worldofretrocomputing.com/2023-worc-expo The Interim Computer Festival - Oct. 7-8 - Seattle, WA - https://sdf.org/icf/ Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 13-15, 2023 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ YouTube Videos Hopman - Retro PC - https://youtu.be/mXCCs9zYe5s Atari 800 Joystick Trigger Repair - Artifact Electronics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PH0hbfOve0 Building a better Atari 400 and Atari 800 diagnostic cartridge - AnotherMaker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdpx5usBi0E Warranty Return 800XL - Client Video - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wRnngBTwSs Building Eastern Front 1941 with the help of FujiNet - Thom Cherryhomes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Syzcwl1Tg A pretty rare Atari computer shows up in the basement - Adrian’s Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIlxjd82ig0 The Complete Asteroids on Atari Home Systems Five Part Series - Steve and Jeff Fulton - https://intotheverticalblank.com/2023/08/01/the-complete-asteroids-on-atari-home-systems-series-the-latest-top-our-top-15-countdown/ New at Archive.org Wing War Prototype - https://archive.org/details/wing-war-prototype/ Atari User Magazine May 1991 - https://archive.org/details/atari-user-1991-05 Three Generations of Animation Machines Joe Decuir - https://archive.org/details/VCFW2023_Three_Generations_of_Animation_Machines_Joe_Decuir Early Atari History and Stories - Al Alcorn - https://archive.org/details/VCFW2023_Early_Atari_History_and_Stories_Al_Alcorn Early Commodore History - Leonard Tramiel - https://archive.org/details/VCFW2023_Early_Commodore_History_-_Leonard_Tramiel_and_Dave_McMurtrie Computer Chronicles Revisited, Volume 6 (1987-1988) - https://archive.org/details/computer-chronicles-revisited-vol-06 New at Github https://github.com/pfusik/energy.scene.pl https://github.com/tebe6502/Atari-8-bit-zines https://github.com/atari8warez/ALibPc https://github.com/sarnau/Atari8BitGhidra https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/A8CLibrary Box art - https://github.com/libretro-thumbnails/Atari_-_8-bit https://www.retroarch.com/