ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast ANTIC Episode 23 - Dorsett, Veronica, BASIC XL
On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast:
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We discuss new atari archive sites.
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Randy tells us all about BASIC XL
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Kevin delves into the sordid history of DorsETT Educational Systems
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Bill Kendrick fills us in on a panoply of stuff, including a brain transplant for your 8-bit.
Recurring Links
New Atari books scans at archive.org
What we’ve been up to
Alan Watson’s Gold Mine game at AtariMania
New Computing Pioneers Interview Transcript Site
Bob Kahn digitized material at Archive.org
"Inside Atari DOS" by Bill Wilkinson and Compute! Books
"Atari Player/Missile Graphics in BASIC" by Philip C. Seyer
“The VisiCalc Book, Atari Edition” by Donald H. Beil
Podcast Episode of Inverse Atascii about VisiCalc for the Atari
Floppy Days episode on the Atari 400/800, part 3 of 3
Interview Discussion
Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge
News
How To Turn Your Whole Car Into A Video Game Simulator by Jason Torchinsky
Classic Gamefest July 25, 26 Austin, TX
VCF Midwest 10 August 29-30, 2015, Elk Grove Village, IL
Portland Retro Gaming expo October 17-18 in Portland OR
Maury Markowitz Wikipedia article on the Atari Sierra
New issue of Pro(c) magazine - issue #6
AtariAge Thread on Modified Version of Silent Service
Delta Space Arena on cartridge
Project to Port Prince of Persia to Atari
Atari 8-bit software preservation project
Atari XL Basic Listings - in german - collection of type-in listings from magazines and books
New podcast on the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer - The CoCo Crew Podcast
New at Archive.org
Compuserve Computer Room Operations Training Manual
a javascript based Apple //GS emulator
Stuff Kevin has uploaded from Bob Kahn and other sources
Feature [K] Dorsett Educational Systems and Lloyd Dorsett
Dorsett’s letter in A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing
Thomas Cherryhomes’ demonstration of his edutape creation tool
Bill’s Modern Segment
"Project Veronica" thread at AtariAge Forums
Sal "kjmann" Esquivel (ANTIC interview ep. 17)
Dan Trak-ball man Kramer (5200 Super Podcast ep. 3)
Jerry Jessop (ANTIC interview ep. 30)
"Transform the Gotek Floppy Emulator into an Amiga Floppy emulator"
"ACA 500 Accelerator" for Amiga 500 (Sal Esquivel)
Internet Archive's Software Library: Atari Computer
atr_txt_dump extractor for Kevin Savetz / Internet Archive
Rob McMullen's "ATRCopy" on github
"Space Wall" Work-in-Progress video
The Atari 5200 Super Podcast ep. 1: "The Pac(k) Ins!"
Atari 2600 Game by Game podcast, ep. 100: "AX-018 Pitfall!"
Hardware of the Month - IDE Plus 2, Rev.D HDD Interface for Atari XL/XE computers
Software/Website of the Month - SpartaDOS X
Programming Languages - BASIC A+, BASIC XL & BASIC XE
BASIC XL Toolkit at AtariMania
BASIC XE Extension Disk at AtariMania
BASIC XE Article ANTIC VOL. 4, NO. 9 / JANUARY 1986
Feedback
Ed Rotberg, wrote a magazine article
YouTube video showing a demo program that Rotberg created