Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

By Player/Missile

A retrospective of the Atari 8-bit home computer systems, the magazines that covered them, and a somewhat chronological review of games as they arrived on the platform.... more

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Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective episodes:

June 25, 2015Ep. 14: Special Episode: Game Draft #1
Jack Nutting of the Retro Computing Roundtable, Victor Marland of Ten Pence Arcade, Wade Ripkowski of Inverse Atascii and Kevin Savetz of ANTIC join me for a 5 round draft of Atari 8-bit games.
Participants
Jack Nutting of Retro Computing Roundtable
Victor Marland of Ten Pence Arcade
Wade Ripkowski of Inverse Atascii
Kevin Savetz of ANTIC
Jack's Picks
Star Raiders
my Star Raiders speedup hack (in progress)
M.U.L.E.
Realm of Impossibility
Wizard of Wor
Dog Daze Deluxe
Victor's Picks
Alley Cat
Mr. Dig
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Kangaroo
Arkanoid
Wade's Picks
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1h 35min
June 03, 2015Ep. 13: Oct 1981: Missile Command
Summary of Bill Kendrick's Atari Party 2015 and review of the excellent port of Missile Command. In magazine coverage, I've added MICRO: The 6502/6809 Journal, and new contributor Michael Glaser takes over SoftSide Magazine.
Introduction
Atari Party in Davis, CA, May 2, 2015
Atari Party photos!
California Extreme Arcade/Pinball show July 18 & 19 2015
Feedback
ANTIC Podcast Interview #40: Doug Carlston of Br0derdund Software
BBC Micro magazine: Acorn User
ANTIC Magazine preview of the ATR8000
Kevin Savetz's site with full text to 21 flight simulator books
Intellivisionaries Podcast
Pictures of some of the Atari 'silver box' kits
UER Podcast
CoCo Crew Podcast
Listener Written Programs
Bill Kendrick's Combat-like game & tutorial in Action
HSC12r8 Ramp Rage by TRBB (Jason Kendall)
MAME Cabinet
MAME cabinet progress (AtariAge forum thread)
... For 37 more links, see the show notes
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1h 48min
May 04, 2015Ep. 12: Sep 1981: Flight Simulators, Part 1
Flight simulator roundup where Chris Olson and I review 5 noteworthy civilian aircraft sims on the 8-bits (military sims will be the subject of part 2). Also added Byte to the magazine to the coverage due to the serializiaton of De Re Atari.
Introduction
Atari Party in Davis, CA, May 2, 2015
RetroPie Raspberry Pi game emulation distro
Stella, the 2600 emulator
Atari800 emulator
Atari podcast interviews thread
Interview with David Fox
Floppy Days Episode 36 with all the Atari 8-bit podcasters
Listener Written Programs
Sudoku Solver in 6502 assembly
MAME Cabinet
MAME cabinet progress (AtariAge forum thread)
More details on MAME cabinet
Hacking Ms. Pac-Man
Pac-Man Dossier
Don Hodges: the Pac-Man kill screen
Commented Ms. Pac-Man source
Ms. Pac-Man annotated hex dump
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2h 11min
April 11, 2015Ep. 11: Aug 1981: Interview with James Hague
Interview episode with game developer James Hague who was published in ANALOG and Antic magazines, is the author of Halcyon Days & maintainer of the Giant List of Classic Video Game Programmers. Atari Party 2015 is just around the corner!
Introduction
Atari Party in Davis, CA, May 2, 2015
No Quarter is back with new co-host Rob O'Hara!
WICO Joystick review
Feedback
Inverse ATASCII Podcast
Rescue on Fractalis writeup by Trevor Briscoe
Listener Written Programs
Paul Nurminen's BASIC games and demos
The Intellivisionaries Podcast
Tech Section
My Star Raiders fork
example 16 bit division routine
4am
Algernon crack documentation
Open Apple Podcast
6502.org
6502 reference
... For 27 more links, see the show notes
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1h 50min
March 21, 2015Ep. 10: Jul 1981: Interview with Chuck Bueche
Interview episode with Chuck Bueche, tech section on Star Raiders and the Atari 8-bit executable format, guest magazine coverage of Softalk, and the Atari Party: Davis CA, May 2, 2015!
Introduction
The Atari 5200 Super Podcast
Atari Party in Davis, CA, May 2, 2015
KansasFest July 14-19 2015
California Extreme classic arcade games expo July 18-19 2015
AtariAge 8-bit High Score Club Season 12
Feedback
Computer Gaming World
MAME Cabinet
MAME cabinet progress (AtariAge forum thread)
More details on MAME cabinet
Let's Hack Arcade Games
Tech Section
my fork of the Star Raiders disassembly
CC65
CC65 source
AtariAge userdevwebcl's example CC65 files
AtariAge forum thread: Star Raiders - was it ever fixed?
... For 28 more links, see the show notes
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1h 30min
March 03, 2015Ep. 9: Jun 1981: Interview with Michael Current
Interview episode with Michael Current, maintainer of the Atari 8-bit FAQ and the Atari History Timeline; also covering the magazines from June 1981. Tech section on building Star Raiders, MAME cabinet update, and the Atari Party: Davis CA, May 2, 2015!
Introduction
Atari Party in Davis, CA, May 2, 2015
RetroLink DB9 Joystick to USB cables
My original linux driver
Improved linux driver
Raspberry Pi Model B
KansasFest July 14-19 2015
California Extreme classic arcade games expo
AtariAge 8-bit High Score Club Season 12
Feedback
Experiment in Forced Nostalgia
Inverse ATASCII episode guide
MAME Cabinet
MAME cabinet progress (AtariAge forum thread)
More details on MAME cabinet
Cabaret cabinets in Tipperary, Ireland
Tech Section
Reverse engineering the classic 1979 game Star Raiders
... For 24 more links, see the show notes
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1h 39min
February 14, 2015Ep. 8: May 1981: Eastern Front (1941)
Magazines from May 1981 and a review of Eastern Front (1941) by Chris Crawford, and the triumphant reinstatement of the tech section of the podcast because I've found a manageable topic. Also, info about the Atari Party 2015 which I will attend and give away a Raspberry Pi.
Introduction
Ringtones and notifications from Atari 8-bit games
Thread about building my MAME cabinet
Comparing the RPi to the Cray X-MP
Raspberry Pi 2 announcement
Raspberry Pi 2 specs
Atari Party in Davis, CA, May 2, 2015
RetroLink DB9 Joystick to USB cables
My original linux driver
Improved linux driver
Raspberry Pi Model B
AtariAge 8-bit High Score Club
AtariAge forum thread: 2 worthy video game podcasts
S1500's Classic Console Gamernews
Tech Section
Reverse engineering the classic 1979 game Star Raiders
6502 math operations
Simple 8bit division routine
Software - Math - Integer Division
ANALOG
ANALOG #3, May/Jun 1981
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1h 1min
January 09, 2015Ep. 7: Apr 1981: Gem Drop (Homebrew)
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
... For 22 more links, see the show notes
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1h 25min
November 23, 2014Ep. 6: Mar 1981: Sabotage
In addition to the usual magazine coverage for March 1981, we look at the Apple ][ game Sabotage, converted to run on the Atari. I talk with Paul Hagstrom to get background knowledge on the Apple hardware, and get the inside story on the Sabotage conversion by the guy who did it, AtariAge user Shamus.
Introduction
Sound explained in De Re Atari, Chapter 7
cc65 started on the Atari 8-bits!
Feedback
Christmas Vacation sled scene
ANALOG 400/800 Magazine #2, Mar/Apr 1981
Atari News
Atari word processor review at Inverse ATASCII
New Products
Using Note & Point
Type-in: Balance your Checkbook
Type-in: Player/Missile graphics
DMA timings
Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design, Chapter 6
ANTIC Techincal
Video timing diagram
Type-in: Cannon Duel
Listen: Music Composer Column
VCS update
Graphics clipping routine in BASIC by Tom Hudson
The Game Room by Tom Repstad
... For 32 more links, see the show notes
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1h 36min
November 08, 2014Ep. 5: Feb 1981: Jawbreaker
This episode reviews the game Jawbreaker by John Harris and covers the February 1981 magazines Compute #9, Creative Computing Vol 7 #2, and introduces coverage of SoftSide Magazine. Anacronisticly included is coverage of my trip to the Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2014.
Feedback
Sound Finder
Special Section: Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2014
Walkthrough of the arcade
Ms. Pac-Man FAQ
Howard Scott Warshaw's panel
David Crane, Gary Kitchen, Bob Smith from 2013 PRGE
Intellivision Producitons
Joe DeCuir from the 2013 PRGE
DubiousGamingOnline PRGE Experiences, part 1
DubiousGamingOnline PRGE Experiences, part 2
Compute #9, Feb 1981
History of Personal Computing podcast
MOS Technology KIM-1 single board computer
OSI Superboard
Editor's
Review of the Atari 825 printer
ad for daisywheen printer and typewriter combo
More on the mysterious and unpredictable RND function
Type-in: Ticker Tape Messages
Type-in: colors and sounds with paddles
... For 34 more links, see the show notes
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1h 7min

FAQs about Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective:

How many episodes does Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective have?

The podcast currently has 45 episodes available.