08.28.2014 - By Player/Missile
Welcome to 1980! Episode 2 includes coverage of the Creative Computing and Compute! magazines through the first half of 1980 and a review of the game Super Breakout by Atari.
Introduction
Racing the Beam
Drawing kernels for the Atari 8-bits
Check out Ferg's 2600 Game-by-Game podcast for the contest I'm sponsoring!
Feedback
Rick Keene's artwork
Superplot by Michael Portuesi
blubalu's Star Raiders unboxing!
Magazines
Compute #2, Jan/Feb 1980
Creative Computing v6, #1 Jan 1980
Creative Computing v6, #2 Feb 1980
Compute #3, Mar/Apr 1980
Creative Computing v6, #3 Mar 1980
Creative Computing v6, #4 Apr 1980 (the famous April Fool's issue)
Compute #4, May/Jun 1980
C64 vs Apple 2 chess match
Creative Computing v6, #5 May 1980
Creative Computing v6, #6 Jun 1980
Game Review: Super Breakout
Atarimania Page
Atari 8-bit Forever Page
Author: Larry Kaplan
Ferg's review of Breakout for the 2600
Super Breakout at the Arcade Museum
Ferg's review of Super Breakout for the 2600
Steve Wozniak recalls designing Breakout
Breakout at Arcade History
Woz addresses Breakout payment from Woz.org
Manual
5200 Breakout Manual
Technical Details
Mapping the Atari: Display Lists
De Re Atari: ANTIC and the Display List
De Re Atari: Display List Interrupts
Non-Maskable Interrupt
My High Score
July 2013: HSC10, Round 12
SAP
ASMA: Atari SAP Music Archive
A Nice Morning Drive
Neil Peart & Richard S. Foster's Road Trip
Production Notes
Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page
Episode page: Episode 2
Twitter: @atari8bitgames