Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

Ep. 7: Apr 1981: Gem Drop (Homebrew)

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Magazine coverage for April 1981 but jump ahead in time to cover our first homebrew game, Gem Drop by Bill Kendrick. Bill also invented one of the first software-driven graphics modes, called Super IRG, and we have an interview with him to talk about it.
Introduction
  • Ferg's review of BASIC Programming
  • River Raid
  • Linear Feedback Shift Registers
  • Elite II: 100 billion solar systems on 2 floppy disks
  • Ten Pence Arcade podcast, Episode 25: Space Invaders
    • Feedback
    • Cross-platform Apple ][ emulator
    • You Don't Know Flack Ep. 155: Cassettes
    • KansasFest
    • Inverse ATASCII
    • Vintage Computer Festival
      • Compute #11, Apr 1981
      • Sholes (QWERTY) vs Dvorak keyboard
      • Does the Dvorak keyboard increase typing speed?
      • VIC-20: First Look
      • The Mysterious and Unpredictable RND
      • The Atari Gazette
      • Unlease the Power of your Atari CPU
      • Weird Al's Word Crimes

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