Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

Ep. 1: 1979: Star Raiders

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Welcome to 1979! Episode 1 includes a brief summary of the technical specifications of the Atari 400 & 800 that were first released at the end of the year, discussion of Creative Computing issues starting from April and the very first Compute! magazine, and a review of a game original to the Atari 8- bits and destined to become an all-time classic game: Star Raiders.
Introduction
  • http://www.archive.org
  • Douglas Adams Collected Works
    • Feedback
    • ANTIC, The Atari 8-bit Podcast with Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz and Brad Arnold, all about Atari 8-bit computers
    • No Quarter with Carrington Vanston and Mike Maginnes, the classic arcade podcast
    • Drop /// Inches with Mike Maginnis and Paul Hagstrom, a fairly technical podcast about the Apple ///
    • The Atari 2600 Game-by-Game Podcast with Ferg, the review of all 2600 carts in parts-number order
    • Atari timeline
    • Atari Party
    • Arcade inspired artwork
    • Rick Keene's cover for STLog Issue 18
      • Technical details
      • Atari 8-bit FAQ
        • Other computers
        • http://atariage.com/forums/topic/183619-total-number-of-a8-units-sold-worldwide/

          • Creative Computing Overview

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