ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast ANTIC Episode 34 - 3 Years!
Jul 3, 2016
01:37:39
In this three-year anniversary episode of Antic the Atari 8-bit podcast — we uncover an abundance of Atari source code, documentation, and engineering notes; Bill explores Five Dots, a new game; and we debate the fate of the 1200XL.
Recurring Links
New Atari books scans at archive.org
Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge
What we've been up to
- Norwegian Museum of Science & Technology
- Morse Code Tutor at APX
- Paul Westphal at Eight Bit Fix - http://www.eightbitfix.com
- PromoVision Pro-1000 software at archive.org
- PromoVision discussion at AtariAge
- Promovision Pro 1000 Youtube video
- Wes Newell Interview Source and Manuals Discussion on AtariAge
- Link to all Wes Newell scans on Internet Archive
- Databar - The Monthly Bar Code Software Magazine TI 994/A edition
- Atari Databar program from magazine
- Atari Databar programs in ATR format - https://archive.org/details/AtariDatabarOSCARSoftware
- PoC||GTFO
- Philippe's write-up of decoding the Databar format - wiki.yobi.be/wiki/Databar_decoding
- Philippe's decoding script on github - github.com/doegox/Oscar
- Rose City Atari Club meeting with speaker Joe Decuir
- American Computer Museum in Bozeman, MT - http://www.compustory.com/
- SIO2BT - Interview with Marcin Sochacki
- SIO2BT ordering thread on AtariAge
Interview Discussion
News
- Atari Party - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atariparty/
- Alan Ackerman, co-founder of MPP and Supra, died in March
- ANTIC Interview 106 - Alan Ackerman, MPP
- MPP/Supra product and design note pictures
- Sys-Check 2.2 - tf_hh on AtariAge
- Bally Alley Astrocast (Adam Trionfo and Chris Federico) - http://www.ballyalleyastrocast.libsyn.com/
- AtariBytes(2600) Podcast - http://ataribytes.libsyn.com/podcast
- Atari Kong Podcast (2600) - http://atarikong.com
- 3D Atari video by Oliver Rapp
- AtariAge 8-Bit User Age Demographics
- New video reviews: Amigos Plays Atari 800 - BoatOfCar on AtariAge
- ABBUC Software competition 2016 (AtariAge) , ABBUC Software Competition 2016 (ABBUC)
- AtariLand Deepth0ught Archive - Kernal on AtariAge (Rick)
- "Easy to Learn, Hard to Master - The Fate of Atari"
- Atari.io (Justin) has appointed the 26th of every month as Atari Day
New at Archive.org
- Mark Simonson sent a fat folder of Twin City Atari Interest Group newsletters to scan. 22 are online so far, with more to come - https://archive.org/details/@savetz?and[]=TAIG
- 1989 Bellcom Public Domain Shareware Catalog
- 1990 Bellcom Catalogue Supplement
- MWPDS Public Domain Software Catalog for Atari
- Allan:
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- https://archive.org/details/FoodFightAtari
- https://archive.org/details/OSSNewsletterOctober1984
- Atari Program Exchange Software Catalogue Spring 1983 Edition - https://archive.org/details/APXBritishCatalog
- https://archive.org/details/AtariXLHandbook
Bill's Modern Segment
- Gitlab page for 5dots (with source & ATR disk image downloads) - https://gitlab.com/bocianu/5dots
- WAP-NIAK website - http://wapniak.atari.org.pl/
- Atari.org.pl info (with large zip download) about WAP-NIAK competition (Polish)
- Atariteca post about the WAP-NIAK 2016 competition results (Spanish)
- AtariOnline.pl post about the WAP-NIAK 2016 competition results (Polish)
- "5 dots is from zero to assembler" thread at AtariOnline.pl (Polish)
- Wojtek "bocianu" Bociański's JavaScript proof-of-concept of the game - http://mimuma.pl/5dots/