Ep. 2: 1980, Part 1: Super Breakout

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