Ep. 0: Introduction

In the inaugural episode of Player/Missile, I introduce myself, talk about my background with the Atari 8-bit systems, what the podcast will be about and what it won't be about, and describe the format of the subsequent episodes.

Podcasts

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

You Don't Know Flack with Rob O'Hara, a retro-technology themed podcast

Rob O'Hara's podcast about podcasting that inspired me to start this podcast

Sprite Castle, his C64 games review podcast

The Atari 2600 Game-by-Game Podcast with Ferg, the review of all 2600 carts in parts-number order

Retro Computing Roundtable with a rotating cast of several, talking about retro computing news and collecting

Floppy Days with Randy Kindig, a survey of vintage computer hardware

Drop /// Inches with Mike Maginnis and Paul Hagstrom, a fairly technical podcast about the Apple ///

References

Atari, Inc: Business is Fun

Full text of Atari 8-bit books

More Basic Computer Games

Kevin Savetz' Atari magazines

Archive.org's Computer Magazine Archives

Atari 8-bit Emulators

Atari800 emulator (multi-platform)

Altirra emulator (windows only)

MESS (multi-platform)

... For 4 more links, see the show notes