ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

Retrocomputing podcast about the Atari 8-bit line of personal computers

ANTIC Episode 114 - Andy Diller Returns! 01/28/2025

ANTIC Episode 114 - Andy Diller Returns! ANTIC Episode 114 - Andy Diller Returns! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we have special guest Andy Diller for a FujiNet update and to let us know about all the great things he’s working on… READY! Recurring Links Interview index: Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we’ve been up to Kay’s 2024 wrapped - Lee Pappas ANALOG disks treasure hunt: S.T.A.R. newsletter - Rogul game: YouTube video - Installing Altirra on ARM Macs - News TNFS GUI for OSX & Windows (nwah) - FujiNet Virtual Printer Output Examples (Thom Cherryhomes) - FujiNet and GitHub (Thom Cherryhomes) - FujiNet NOS By Example (Thom Cherryhomes) - Atari 65XE in laptop form on Hackaday - New season 2025 of the High Score Club: Replacement Case for 800XL Coming to Kickstarter Q2 2025 - joeventura - from Atariteca: Inufuto releases «Mieyen» for Atari 8-bit and 60 other retro systems: Article at Atariteca - YouTube - (Atari 8 Bits For Ever) A8E - Atari 800 Emulator - A JavaScript emulator built using A8E - BW-DOS 1.5 update - Upcoming Shows Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 15-17, 2025 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - Midwest Gaming Classic - April 4-6 - Baird Center, Milwaukee, WI - VCF East - April 4-6, 2025 - Wall, NJ - Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 12-13 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - VCF Europe - May 3-4 - Munich, Germany - Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo - June 14 - New Westminster, BC, Canada - VCF Southwest - June 20-22, 2025 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - June 20-22, 2025 - Atlanta, GA - Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - July 31-Aug. 3 - Gdansk, Poland - Fujiama - August 11-17 - Lengenfeld, Germany - VCF Midwest - September 13-14, 2025 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 17-19 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - YouTube Videos Using Atari with FujiNet to build source from Github Part 2: The Princess and the Frog - Thom Cherryhomes - Atari 8-bit Vs. Commodore 64 TV commercial - DashRetroTV - I Won Atari 8-Bit eBay Auction for $71.00 : Was It Worth It? - Into the Vertical Blank - How to implement a Hopfield network in BASIC on the ATARI 800 - BASIC Hacking - 11 - Jean Michael Sellier - ATARI Party! - Retro Repair Roundup Episode #71 - Retro Repair Roundup - Atari 8-bit computer 400/800: The first gaming PC? - Stay Forever Podcast (German) - Commercial Feedback Closing Andy Diller’s site - /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/35049480

ANTIC Interview 452 - Dean Garraghty, DGS Software 01/23/2025

ANTIC Episode 113 - Feeling Fancy! 01/04/2025

ANTIC Episode 113 - Feeling Fancy! ANTIC Episode 113 - Feeling Fancy! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… The clear case Kickstarter doesn’t make it, lots of FujiNet news, and we end the year 2024 with a bang by bringing you all the rest of the Atari news; all while Kay is feeling fancy… READY! Recurring Links Interview index: Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we’ve been up to FASTBASIC on Mac - () 10-liner option of FASTBASIC - Finished archiving Lee Pappas’ disks!! - Eaten by a Grue is back - Kay TODO - Keeping Up With Atari: Neoliberal Expectations in Early Electronics Advertising - keyboard to replace domes on 130XE - News Clearcase Kickstarter update - SpartaDOS 4.50 update - RM800XL update (from Philsan) with images: Philsan post - RM 800XL site - FujiNet news: FujiNet RAPID 13 (2024 wrap-up) and RAPID 12 by Andy Diller - FujiNet news substack by Brian Cox - Video by The VintNerd and Brian Cox on FujiNet - Atari FujiNet User's and Programmer's Guide (First Draft) - Thomas Cherryhomes - Atari Party East 2024 update from Andy Diller (Photos): Atari 1200XL-1MB, Solder-Less 1088K SRAM-Based Memory Replacement Board by MyTek - The Joy of Sticks article in ROMchip Journal Altirra V4.30 - ABBUC Magazine 159 - Bubble-Bobble for the Atari 8-bit released - Via Bill Lange on bluesky: “Playing "Kaiser", a pretty version of "Hammurabi" or "Kingdom" on the Atari 8-bit. I translated most of the German to English here” - “Archer Maclean’s DropZone returns with 40th Anniversary Edition landing this December” - Upcoming Shows Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 15-17, 2025 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - Midwest Gaming Classic - April 4-6 - Baird Center, Milwaukee, WI - VCF East - April 4-6, 2024 - Wall, NJ - Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 12-13 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - SFGE / VCFSE - June 20-22 Atlanta, GA - Fujiama - August 11-17 - Lengenfeld, Germany - Event page on Floppy Days Website - YouTube Videos How Atari 8-Bit Computers Work - The 8-Bit Guy - Bubble Bobble: Saberman RetroNews - Atari 8-bits Forever - CCA - Atari 8Bit Demoscene - 48k to 128k - The 400 Mini - Exploring Demos - CoffeeCupArcade - Seven Amazing New Atari 8-Bit Games including Bubble Bobble & Time Wizard Deluxe Edition! - ZeroPage Homebrews - Silly Trip Demo for the Atari XL/XE PAL, 64kb and single POKEY by Desire - Heaven6502 - The Best *#@! Christmas Ever: An Atari 8-bit Journey Into The Vertical Blank - Into the Vertical Blank - Atari 2024 Recap video - Al Alcorn presents "Early Days of Atari" Lecture @ Museum of American Heritage (August 22) - 6502 coding on Atari - Ellyse - New at Archive.org /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/34720205

ANTIC Interview 451 - Daniel Serpell, FastBasic 12/30/2024

ANTIC Interview 450 - Robert Leyland: AtariArtist, KoalaPainter, MicroIllustrator 12/25/2024

ANTIC Interview 449 - Tim Boehlert, Atari's WCI Labs Division 12/20/2024

ANTIC Interview 448 - Frank Foster, Hybrid Arts 12/13/2024

ANTIC Interview 447 - Robert Moore and Paul Rother, Hybrid Arts MIDIMate 12/11/2024

ANTIC Interview 446 - Mary Eisenhart, MicroTimes magazine 11/30/2024

ANTIC Episode 112 - Keeping Warm with Sweaters and Hot Sauce 11/26/2024

ANTIC Episode 112 - Keeping Warm with Sweaters and Hot Sauce ANTIC Episode 112 In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we have several Christmas ideas for you, we tell you about projects that would allow creating a new reproduction Atari 800XL, and we wet our appetites for the current Atari’s hot sauce while wearing their ugly Christmas sweater … READY! Recurring Links Interview index: Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we’ve been up to Vox ex Machina: A Cultural History of Talking Machines by Sarah A. Bell - Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie by Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman - MIT Press: Open Access Materials - A Treasure Chest of Ampex Tapes Saves Early Computer History - Atari 400/800 Reference Card (Atari BASIC and Microsoft BASIC) by Nanos Systems Corp. - Best of Creative Computing (Volumes I & III): Cassette repair - Stray Pointers podcast with the ANTIC crew - Jim Lawless - Recent Interview Shows News Ugly Christmas sweaters - Atari Hot Sauce - Christmas Critters: And at AtariAge - he just released an “engine prototype demo” - And Saberman has already done a quick video on it - Revive Machines is working on the injection molds of RM 800XL, the modern FPGA recreation of the Atari 800XL - Philsan69: Clear Case Kickstarter for 800XL has begun (Nov. 1) - Brian Reifsnyder Designs an "Advanced Remake" of Atari's 800XL Mainboard - AtariBASICs November newsletter - John Zielke - Atari Addict Collector’s Magazine - Atari Programmers Society Newsletter: v1n6 1983 - Cartridge extender card for the Atari 1200XL - ReifsnyderB - Improved Keyboard on an XE - Vintage Computer Center starting back up (Gavin Haubelt) - FastBASIC install/debugger - Eric Carr 400 mini it is available from Amazon Germany for $54 plus shipping. - Upcoming Shows REMAINING IN 2024 Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - Atari Party 2024 - Dec. 7 (noon - 4p.m.) - , Quakertown, PA - 2025 Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 15-17, 2025 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - Midwest Gaming Classic - April 4-6 - Baird Center, Milwaukee, WI - VCF East - April 4-6, 2024 - Wall, NJ - Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 12-13 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - Fujiama - August 11-17 - Lengenfeld, Germany - YouTube Videos The Atari 1200xl - Atari's 8-bit red-headed stepchild - Power of Vintage - Atari XE memory extension (512 KB) in 2 easy ways - RetroKernal - Atari 65 XE vs Commodore 64 | 70s 80s Computer System Competition TV Commercial - VideoGames Replay - Atari Computers Sales, Marketing Strategy 80's TV Commercial - VideoGames Replay - Atari 800 Game: Scram (1980 Atari) - Old Classic Retro Gaming - CHM: Oral History of Nolan Bushnell - New at Archive.org “The Dirty Book”: Referenced by - A Word From Our Sponsor New at GitHub /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/34169100

ANTIC Interview 445 - Vince Cate, The Critical Connection 11/22/2024

ANTIC Interview 445 - Vince Cate, The Critical Connection Vince Cate, The Critical Connection In , I talked with the creator of SIO2PC, which let Atari users use a DOS computer as its disk drive and printer. This interview is with the creator a product which - six years earlier - let Atari users use a CP/M computer as its disk drive and printer (and keyboard.) Vince Cate owned a company called USS Enterprises, with just one product: The Critical Connection. Critical Connection was a combination of a specialized cable and software for connecting an Atari 8-bit to a computer running CP/M. The long cable had an SIO plug on one end and a 25-pin serial plug on the other, and some chips in the middle, allowing the Atari and CP/M box to communicate at 19,200 bps. The Critical Connection was released in 1983, six years before SIO2PC. They shared many similar features: with it you could: use an entire CP/M floppy disk as an emulated 600K Atari disk drive, create 92KB CP/M disk files which emulated Atari 90KB disks, and print from the Atari to the CP/M computer's printer. The CP/M machine even acted as a print spooler. You could also use the CP/M machine's keyboard to type on the Atari. Vince needed to create a file format to store virtual floppy disks on the CP/M machine: the filename extension was .ATR. I don't know positively, but I'm pretty sure it's a different file format from the well-known .ATR format that Nick Kennedy created for SIO2PC six years later... just similar functionality given similar names. Nick Kennedy told me that he had never heard of The Critical Connection. Here's what Jerry Pournelle wrote about Critical Connection in the September 1983 issue of Byte magazine: "Vincent Cate continues to improve his Critical Connection. This gadget makes an Atari think a CP/M computer system is a set of disks. The only requirement is that your CP/M system have an RS-232C serial port operating at 19,200 bps. Given that, you needn't buy disks for an Atari; by using The Critical Connection, you can make the Atari believe you have four disks. The really nice part is that you can use 8-inch as well as 5 1/4 -inch disks. Cate's new software package has automatic installation for a number of CP/M systems, including Kaypro, North Star, Sanyo, CCS, Heath/Zenith, and Morrow. ... Cate's documentation is improved, but it's not what I'd call good. Still, you can puzzle it out, and if you don't want to invest a lot in an Atari system but still want to use disks with it, Cate's Critical Connection is the way to go." This interview took place on November 20, 2024. /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/34080606

ANTIC Interview 444 - Nick Kennedy, SIO2PC and ATR 11/15/2024

ANTIC Interview 443 - Rick Reaser, Current Notes Magazine 11/08/2024

ANTIC Interview 442 - Bob Stein, Atari Research 11/01/2024

ANTIC Interview 442 - Bob Stein, Atari Research Bob Stein, Atari’s Encyclopedia Project Bob Stein worked at Atari Research for 18 months beginning in 1981. He was hired by Alan Kay. He worked almost exclusively on an encyclopedia project, a potential collaboration between Atari and Encyclopaedia Britannica that never went anywhere. I learned about Bob after he uploaded an item called The Atari Drawings to Internet Archive. It's a collection of nine colorful pencil drawings, drawn in 1982 by Disney animator Glen Keane. The drawings depict futuristic scenarios where people use a computerized encyclopedia to get information: for instance, "An earthquake wakes a couple in the middle of the night. The Intelligent Encyclopedia, connected to an online service, informs them of the severity of the earthquake and makes safety tips readily available." and "A mother and her children looking into a tidepool in Laguna ask the Intelligent Encyclopedia about the plants and animals that they see." Bob described the collection of art in his introduction to the document: "In 1982 executives from Warner, Inc., Atari's parent company, were scheduled to visit the Research Lab where the Encyclopedia Project was located. Brenda Laurel and I came up with these scenarios to give the execs a sense of what we were working toward. The drawings were made by Disney animator, Glen Keane. When you look at these, remember they were made 16 years before Google and 12 years before Yahoo, even 8 years before the earliest web-based search engines. That said, one of the most interesting things about these scenarios as seen today, is that with the exception of the image of the architect and the teacher none of them indicated any inkling that the most important element of the web to come was that it would bring people into contact with each other. What we see here is almost entirely people accessing content from a central server, no sense that we would be communicating with each other or uploading our own contributions to the collective culture. My own explanation for this lapse focuses on the print-era mentality that saw readers purely as consumers of content." Bob saved and scanned a large number of materials from his time at Atari, and uploaded them to Internet Archive. In addition to the scans of Keane's Atari Drawings, the documents include memos about the encyclopedia project and a transcript of a 1982 seminar for Atari Research featuring Charles Van Doren. Check the show notes for those links. After Atari, Bob was co-founder of The Criterion Collection, which restores and distributes important classic films; and co-founder of The Voyager Company, the first commercial multimedia CD-ROM publisher. In 2004, he co-founded The Institute for the Future of the Book, a think tank "investigating the evolution of discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens." This interview took place December 16, 2023. /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/33711827

ANTIC Episode 111 - Is Kay Really Funny, or is it Just a Courtesy Snicker? 10/27/2024

ANTIC Interview 441 - Nick Kennedy, Atari Morse Code Keyer 10/26/2024

ANTIC Interview 441 - Nick Kennedy, Atari Morse Code Keyer Nick Kennedy, Atari Morse Code Keyer I was adding a batch of ham radio newsletters to the Internet Archive's Digital Library of Amateur Radio And Communications, and I noticed the word "Atari" on one of the pages. In the September 2019 issue of Solid Copy, the newsletter of The CW Operators Club, Nick Kennedy had written: "Few hams who are both CW [morse code] enthusiasts and programmers of microcontrollers have been able to resist trying their hand at a keyer or two. I’ve done several in the past 30+ years, starting with one for the 6502 in an Atari 800 and on through PICs, AVRs and now...the Arduino." So I contacted Nick, amateur radio call sign WA5BDU, to find out what his Atari project was all about. First, a tiny bit of ham radio background: Morse code, that language of dots and dashes, can be sent over the radio waves using a Morse code key. Even if you know nothing about ham radio, I bet you picture a basic Morse code key: when tap the little lever, it makes an electrical connection that makes a sound. That's called a straight key. Avid Morse code enthusiasts may prefer a fancier "paddle" key: with two levers, one for short beeps and one for longer ones. A keyer is a device that is connected between the paddle key and the radio: it allows the sender to control timing of the transmitted signals, and other factors. Nick's software, WA5BDU Computer Keyer, turned his Atari computer into a keyer. He wired his Morse code paddle and his ham radio to joystick port 2. As he sent a message using his paddle, the Atari interpreted the signal, adjusted it as necessary, displayed the outgoing message on the screen, and sent the signal to the radio. Or, Nick could simply type on the Atari's keyboard to send Morse code messages, skipping the paddle key altogether. Nick sent me the keyer program and source code — as well as a packet radio terminal program that he wrote, and a tank game written by his brother. Check the show notes for links to all of those. Our interview took place on January 21, 2023. /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/33621097

ANTIC Interview 440 - Ed Sabo, UltraBASIC 10/18/2024

ANTIC Interview 439 - Making Modern Atari Hardware 09/30/2024

ANTIC Episode 110 - Are the Grandkids Listening!? 09/23/2024

ANTIC Episode 110 - Are the Grandkids Listening!? ANTIC Episode 110 - Are the Grandkids Listening!? In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Kay makes TI users unhappy, VCFMW recap, we drool over an Atari Home Computer Demonstration Center display, we bid farewell to an Atari podcast, and Randy uses a word he wouldn’t want his grandkids to hear… READY! Recurring Links Interview index: Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we’ve been up to TI Fest West 2017 - Kay as Radio Survivor podcast guest about Famous Computer Cafe - ComputerLand radio commercials: VCFMW - Indus GT drive 10502PC cable - 6502 Software Gourmet Guide & Cookbook by Robert Findley - FujiNet-PC and Fujitzee - Recent Interviews ANTIC Interview 438 - John Carlsen, Atari Summer Employee - News FujiNet update (RAPID 11) Atari Calculator/Colleen Calculator information NotebookLM Inverse ATASCII update and final episode SE8EB1 - Best of/Worst of - SE8EB2 - Into the Vertical Blank (from Philsan) RM 800XL project by continues. Trademark is now registered and Revive Machines is working on injection molds: Revive Machines - Trademark - Atari Basics newsletter - XCF12 - “F-16 Falcon Strike” - Mention of Atari computer in “It's no longer as simple as hitting the print button” (Bluefield, WV) - NUC plus4 - Upcoming Shows Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - Tandy Assembly - September 27-29 - Courtyard by Marriott Springfield - Springfield, OH - Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - Event page on Floppy Days Website - YouTube Videos Carol Shaw's Road To River Raid - Revealing Gaming's History - Game Informer - 90 Minutes With Atari CEO Wade Rosen | All Things Nintendo - Decent USB Host: USB, Wifi and Bluetooth on Atari 8-bit computers - Screaming at the Radio! - Santosp Atari XE Remake Motherboard Build Part 1 - flashjazzcat - Atari 8-Bit Series: Part 7: 410 Program Recorder - 8 Bit Milli - 1090XL Video With New Cards - reifsnyderb - Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People - New at Archive.org Computer studio catalog at SDH Feniks - Warsaw - Github /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/33175027

ANTIC Interview 438 - John Carlsen, Atari Summer Employee 09/18/2024

ANTIC Episode 109 - Host Wars 07/31/2024

ANTIC Episode 109 - Host Wars ANTIC Episode 109 - Host Wars In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Brad and Randy cover VCFSE, Kay finishes archiving the Famous Computer Cafe and gets some great material from Dan Kramer and Larry Summers, and the hosts trade barbs… READY! Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we’ve been up to Larry Summers: Excalibur - Superboots business plan - Dan Kramer: Famous Computer Cafe - Book “Best of SoftSide - Atari Edition” - News Atari Insights newsletter V1#1 - John Zielke - Atari Opens Enrollment for its 2024 Summer Camp Program: New drop-in replacement mechanical keyboard for the Atari 800 - Article on how to repair the split collars on an Atari 800 - AtariProjects - - Jason Moore Inverse ATASCII Podcast - - Wade Ripkowski The content presented at the Atari Last Party 2024 (the oldest demo party in Poland) has been added to the Fujinet server ABBUC #157 magazine - German edition - A8Pico to win from ABBUC: Send the answer to the question: "What is the chorus in the Atari song?" You can find the answer on Wolfgang's YouTube channel: ( ) Send answer by e-mail to Enhanced 600XL PCB by kveldulfur - Atari FastBASIC - Upcoming Shows Atari Expo 2024 in Santiago Chile— Aug 3rd&4th.— Vintage Computer Festival West - August 2-3 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 15-18 - Gdansk, Poland - VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - VCF Europe - September 7-8 - Munich, Germany - World of Retrocomputing 2024 Expo - September 14-15 - Kitchener, ON, Canada - Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - YouTube Videos FlashJazzCat SIDE3 Video - Lotharek SIDE3 Video - MAC/65 Assembler Editor and Atari 8-bit Machine Language Programming - Part 1 - David Arlington - MAC/65 Assembler Editor and Atari 8-bit Machine Language Programming - Part 2 - David Arlington - The Atari 2024 Expo Preview - CmosGames (in Spanish) - Rewind 2 - a demo for Atari XL/XE by New Generation, Zelax & Radiance - VoyAtari - Now there's a Decent keyboard for each Atari 8-bit computer - Screaming at the Radio - New at Archive.org Bluegrass Region Atari Computer Enthusiasts newsletters /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/32367912

ANTIC Episode 108 - Randys Eyes Are Bleeding! 06/29/2024

ANTIC Episode 108 - Randys Eyes Are Bleeding! ANTIC Episode 108 - Randy’s Eyes Are Bleeding! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Kay visits VCFSW and the National Videogame Museum, tapes from the famous Computer Cafe are found, Atari acquires Intellivision, and Randy’s eyes start bleeding from watching YouTube videos 24x7… READY! Recurring Links Interview index: Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we’ve been up to VCF SW, National Videogame Museum - Titan - Development disk for Tom Hudson's "Adventure at Vendenberg A.F.B." - Sunday Driver - Famous Computer Cafe - Steve Roberts - A8PICO by Electrotrains - USB-C power supply adapter from Mozzwald - Atari photo shoot at IVCC - Recent Interviews ANTIC Interview 437 - Dr. Kristina Hooper Woolsey, Atari Research Labs and Apple Multimedia Lab - News FujiNet RAPID 7& 8 - Andy Diller - video on using CONFIG-NG the alternative CONFIG for Atari - video by Andy Diller - How Google's Rampant Sunnyvale Expansion Is Erasing Atari's History - - Atari watch faces for smart watches AtariAge thread on the RetroScaler from AliExpress - Revive RM 800XL box design! X - Facebook - Mastodon - Atari acquires Intellivision! - Living Computer Museum is dead: New game “Shift” - Atari 50 Update - Wireless tape player interface from Piotr Bugaj: Thanks to @TheTime, Tandy Trower's Character Set Editor published by APX is finally available after all these years: Kay’s 2015 interview- 1050 mini. Brand new floppy drive for Atari XL by Piotr Bugaj: New 576NUC+ 4-in-1 Expansion Module - The NUCplus4 - Upcoming Shows KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 16-21 (in-person), July 27-28 (virtual) - University of Illinois in Springfield, IL - Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - July 19-21, 2024 - Atlanta, GA - Nottingham Video Game Expo - July 20-21 - The Belgrave Rooms, Nottingham, U.K. - Fujiama - July 23-28 - Lengenfeld, Germany - Vintage Computer Festival West - August 2-3 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 15-18 - Gdansk, Poland - VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - VCF Europe - September 7-8 - Munich, Germany - Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - YouTube Videos Atari 800XL with GTIAdigitizer and RGB2HDMI - FlashJazzCat - Atari 810 drives with issues - Adrian’s Digital Basement - A8PicoCart for the Atari 8-bit machines - Building and testing - Arctic Retro - Soldering-Up an A8PicoCart for your Atari - The VintNerd - Atari 400 Mini cartridges and disk drive - GameRoomOfThrones - Atari 8-Bit: Mikie (Final), Missile Command Arcade w/ Trak-Ball (Final), Shift (Exclusive Final) - ZeroPage HomeBrew - New at Archive.org Atari Technische Informatie NR 12 Printer-Problemen - James Copland on the Computer Cafe - Jersey Atari Computer Group Newsletter, July, 1985 - JACG newsletters scanned spreadsheet - Scene World podcast Ep. #189 - THE400 Mini with Darren Melbourne - AtariUser Magazine Summer (July) 1992 - Feedback 8 Bit Workshop website - /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/31940132

ANTIC Interview 437 - Kristina Hooper Woolsey, Atari Research Labs and Apple Multimedia Labs 05/29/2024

ANTIC Episode 107 - 4 Times! 04/29/2024

ANTIC Episode 107 - 4 Times! ANTIC Episode 107 - 4 Times! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…we realize there are 4 times as many interview episodes as regular episodes and what that might say, Kay visits the Strong Museum, Randy attends the Indy Classic Expo, and Brad drools over a keyboard for the 400 Mini… READY! Recurring Links Interview index: Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we’ve been up to Strong Museum - Atari BASIC Tutorial book - Indy Classic Expo, April 16 & 17 - 80-column card for 1090XL - Brian Reifsnyder - Disk archiving setup, using FujiNet - new project by Randy at Jason Moore’s Atari Projects - News Andy Diller’s tnfs server for FujiNet - tnfs.Atari8bit.net or FujiNet.Atari8bit.net Other FujiNet goodness from Andy - Tim Lapetino Interview - BASIC 10-Liner Contest winners announced! - Vitoco has bundled Atari 8 Bit computer games competing in the BASIC 10 Liners Contest 2024 into a single disk - New Game! Missile Command Arcade (VBXE) - VCF East update by Thom Cherryhomes - FujiNet RAPID #6 from Andy Diller - Atari XF 351 floppy drive clone - Atari 8-bit machines comparison table - MrFish - keyboard for the 400Mini - ScreamingAtTheRadio - RastaConverter - Jakub "Ilmenit" Dębski: PAS 6502 - added Atari 8-bit support - Upcoming Shows VCF Southwest - June 14-16, 2024 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - Boatfest Retro Computer Expo - June 14-16 - Hurricane, WV - Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - July 19-21, 2024 - Atlanta, GA - KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 16-21 (in-person), July 27-28 (virtual) - University of Illinois in Springfield, IL - Fujiama - July 23-28 - Lengenfeld, Germany - Vintage Computer Festival West - August 2-3 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 15-18 - Gdansk, Poland - VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29, 2024 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - YouTube Videos Let's install a monitor jack and upgrade the RAM on a US Atari 600XL - FlashJazzCat - Simius Sophia 2 : Atari 800XL Install - Vintage Gaming Memories: ATARI XL / XE += GUNNER =+ BASIC 10LINER CONTEST 2024 - Atari 8 Bits For Ever - Atari XL/XE -=Tetris=- BASIC 10 Liner Contest 2024 - Saberman RetroNews - Every Atari 8-Bit Game in the BASIC 10 Liner Contest 2024 - ZeroPage Homebrew - New at Archive.org /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/31033403

ANTIC Episode 106 - Thom, Do you ever sleep? 03/31/2024

ANTIC Episode 106 - Thom, Do you ever sleep? ANTIC Episode 106 - Thom, do you ever sleep!? In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we cover all the recent contests involving new Atari software development, bring you all the other Atari news we could find, and marvel at the stamina of Thom Cherryhomes… READY! Recurring Links Interview index: Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we’ve been up to Atari’s 1986 prospectus and form S-1 - Titan game - 2.4A power supply for XL/XE from 8bitclassics.com - (affiliate link) 80-column card for 1090XL - Brian Reifsnyder - News Custom floppy disk envelopes - Atari 400 mini started shipping! (3/28) - BASIC 10-Liner Contest - Vitoco has bundled Atari 8 Bit computer games competing in the BASIC 10 Liners Contest 2024 into a single disk - 6th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards - Atari in a suitcase - Anode chat - you can use Anode chat and talk on the Fujinet discord to the anode channel - TNFS:// and search in it for "chat" - you'll need to register with the anode server first Including ACTION! code from GitHub - Thom Cherryhomes: FujiNet Patreon - ABBUC Software Competition 2024 opened: You can find all the rules here - ABBUC hardware contest 2024 starts now: You can find the rules here - YAIL (Yet Another Image Loader) - YouTube video by Thom Cherryhomes - Best Old School Tech Super Bowl Commercials, Ranked (Gizmodo) - Atari computer commercial (Atari: Get Started, 1984, with Alan Alda) #7 on the list - Upcoming Shows Midwest Gaming Classic - April 5-7 - Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee, WI - VCF East - April 12-14, 2024 - Wall, NJ - Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 13-14 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - VCF Europa - April 27-28, 2024 - Munich, Germany - VCF Southwest - June 14-16, 2024 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - Boatfest Retro Computer Expo - June 14-16 - Hurricane, WV - Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - July 19-21, 2024 - Atlanta, GA - KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 16-21 - University of Illinois in Springfield, IL - Fujiama - July 23-28 - Lengenfeld, Germany - Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 15-18 - Gdansk, Poland - VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29, 2024 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - YouTube Videos The end of the road for the Atari 800XL - FlashJazzCat - Saving Archer Maclean's Atari 8-bit Arcade Experiments - Games That Weren’t - FujiNet: Demoing the atari 8-bit Compuserve VIDTEX Terminal Emulator - Thom Cherryhomes - More about Videotex here - A version of the demo server is here on GitHub - A bootable copy of the Atari Compuserve VIDTEX 4.0 terminal is here via TNFS and HTTPS - Writing the FujiNet User's Guide for ATARI 8-bit Users - Thom Cherryhomes - A look at my new Encrypt Decrypt Basic Program for The Hardball Game on Atari 8 Bit - Red Rock Video Productions - New at Archive.org Allan: Portland Atari Club newsletters - Lending: Github (French) Feedback Peter Dell - installer which makes the installation of his WUDSN IDE for the Atari 8-bits () just two clicks on Windows, macOS and Linux. Peter Dell interview on ANTIC (2015) - Chris Lorenzo - Mozzwald's Atari USB-C Power Adapter - Video - Mozzwald’s USB-C Adapter - /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/30610673

ANTIC Episode 105 - Secret Club Meeting with Andy Diller 02/29/2024

ANTIC Episode 105 - Secret Club Meeting with Andy Diller ANTIC Episode 105 - Secret Club Meeting with Andy Diller In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we pull together our secret club of Atari hackers, including special guest Andy Diller, and talk FujiNet, archiving disks, VCF SoCal, VCF East, listener feedback and more in an extra-long episode. READY! Recurring Links Interview index: Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we’ve been up to FujiNet Updates FujiNet has a cheatsheet- on the wiki - a wealth of info Wiki: FujiNet GPT: Virtual FujiNet in a File - virtual machine created for virtual box or vmware FujiNet board for 1090XL Atari Classroom at VCF East 2024 in April SWAG: FujiNet, Signed BREAKOUT, VCF bag, Classroom T Shirt Classes: FujiNet, ACTION!, BASIC, Assembly - info on NOS updates- help and binary saves, read from SD card, XEP80 support FujiNet on 2600 - JeffP is actively working on this Al_Nafuur on discord playing with a 2600 version of 5 Card Stud? - 1090XL expansion unit and 320K RAM board - reifsnyderb Discussion - Purchase - Jersey Atari Computer Group newsletter and PD library archiving: JACG newsletter and PD disks discussion - Some archived PD disks - VCF SoCal - Jason Moore - Rob Sherman - AtariBBS - The VintNerd - Thom Cherryhomes - FujiNet - Steve & Jeff Fulton - (2021 interview) Lee Pappas Interview - (2015) News Atari 400 Mini!!! - Other “Company that calls itself Atari” shenanigans — AtariAge High Score Club - therealbountybob - CHIP-8 interpreter updates: BASIC 10-Liner Contest on! - Nancy Taitt has died: (2020 interview) Making new 1020 plotter pens - FieroDoug5 and RetroHax: Discussion on AtariAge - 6th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards: Awards Show - Thorn EMI's Wargames "inspired" Computer War is now HighScoreEnabled - Full list at Linejewels 0.5 (public beta) - cross platform basic game (c64,atarixl,ms-dos(gw), amstrad, micro bbc) - la1n - KARAI - Atari 8 Bit USB-C Power Adapter - Mozzwald - next Texas Atari 8-bit Computer Owners (T.A.C.O.) meeting is scheduled for Saturday, March 9th at the National Videogame Museum - RM 800XL - Upcoming Shows Interim Computer Festival SPRING - March 23rd and 24th, 2024 - Intraspace, Seattle, WA - Midwest Gaming Classic - April 5-7 - Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee, WI - VCF East - April 12-14, 2024 - Wall, NJ - Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 13-14 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - VCF Europa - April 27-28, 2024 - Munich, Germany - VCF Southwest - June 14-16, 2024 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - Boatfest Retro Computer Expo - June 14-16 - Hurricane, WV - Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - July 19-21, 2024 - Atlanta, GA - Fujiama - July 23-28 - Lengenfeld, Germany - Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 15-28 - Gdansk, Poland - VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - NEW VENUE TBD - Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29, 2024 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - Event page created by Floppy Days - YouTube Videos 25 FPS and 3D Action Games to Rock Your Atari400 Mini and Atari8bit - Into the Vertical Blank (the Fulton brothers) - All *25* Atari 400 Mini Games!!! Hidden Gems and Classics!!! - Greg’s Game Room - Let's install $800 of upgrades into an Atari 800XL - FlashJazzCat - Upgraded Atari 800XL comes back butchered - FlashJazzCat - Yorky Memory Expansion - Atari 800XL - RetroAndGaming - New at Archive.org Allen: Neponset NiteLite Atari BBS Listing 1985 Feedback Chris LaBuda - "That Atari Show 63: "Frantic For ANTIC!" ( w/ Special Guest, Bally Alley), Newsline & Kay Savetz" today - Atari Wiki - /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/30170783

ANTIC Episode 104 - You’re Gonna Label Me a Failure 01/08/2024

ANTIC Episode 104 - You’re Gonna Label Me a Failure ANTIC Episode 104 - You’re Gonna Label Me a Failure In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Kay plays with Pokey the AI chatbot some more, Kay’s cat tries to smack Randy in the head, we discuss what happens if we don’t meet our interview goals (hint: Randy will be labeled a failure), and we bring you all the Atari 8-bit news from the last month of 2023 READY! Recurring Links Interview index: Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we’ve been up to The genealogy program Max Derhak mentioned when he was in 2014 was just found - Antic Magazine v1n3, v1n4 and v1n5 (Aug, Oct and Nov 1982) software - Space War source - Wade’s podcast link - Kay’s 2023 Wrapped - Kay’s Juiced.GS articles - Recent Interviews News Digital Eclipse announces Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story - VCF East 2024: Dean Notarnicola - It’s Alive! - RM800XL - Archer Maclean A8 Defender and Stargate: Altirra 4.20 released - Homemade 300 baud modem - JohnPolka AKA Mark - 2023 Advanced PCB Remake For the 800XL -- Revision 1.1 - reifsynderb - Forgotten Gems: Lucasfilm's Rescue on Fractalus! At IGN: New FujiNet HighScoreEnabled Games! - Tom Cherryhomes - Pokey - Tenebra 2 ported to Atari 8-bit (tip of the hat to Philsan): Video: Download: Enjoy 2024 New Years Disk - Jerry White's Poker Solitaire 2024: Upcoming Shows Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 17-18, 2024 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - Interim Computer Festival SPRING - March 23rd and 24th, 2024 - Intraspace, Seattle, WA - Midwest Gaming Classic - April 5-7 - Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee, WI - VCF East - April 12-14, 2024 - Wall, NJ - Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 13-14 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - VCF Europa - April 27-28, 2024 - Munich, Germany - VCF Southwest - June 14-16, 2024 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - Boatfest Retro Computer Expo - June 14-16 - Hurricane, WV - Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - July 19-21, 2024 - Atlanta, GA - Fujiama - July 23-28 - Lengenfeld, Germany - Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 15-28 - Gdansk, Poland - VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - NEW VENUE TBD - Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29, 2024 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - Event page created by Floppy Days - YouTube Videos From Bill Kendrick: Peter Dell (JAC! / WUDSN guy) recent demo videos - Lumacode Easy HDMI for Retro Computers - YARC Yet Another Retro Channel - Making of Time Wizard - a game for Atari 8-bit computer - amarok - its development. The ATARI Christmas Massacre - Rebuilding an 810 from shattered pieces - Retro is the new black - SWP ATR8000 : The most expandable, versatile disk interface available for the Atari! - Vintage Gaming Memories - The story of the Atari 800XE, why did Atari release this model? - GeSpy Builds Stuff - The Granddaddy of Atari Computing - the Atari 800 - the power of vintage - New at Archive.org New at GitHub Feedback Book - /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/29395023

ANTIC Interview 436 - Rodrigo Castro, Atari in Chile 12/18/2023

ANTIC Episode 103 - POKEY The Atari Guru 11/26/2023

ANTIC Episode 103 - POKEY The Atari Guru ANTIC Episode 103 - POKEY The Atari Guru In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…results of the ABBUC 2023 Software Contest, upcoming 2024 shows (and an Atari Party yet in 2023), and Kay has a great time testing out POKEY The Atari Guru… READY! Recurring Links Interview index: Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we’ve been up to QSO Today Episode 475 Kay Savetz - The 1056 Board -- Atari 400 1056k Memory Upgrade - News Version 6.4.0 of the RECOIL (Retro Computer Image Library) graphics browser - POKEY The Atari Guru by Andy Diller - Atari 8-bit clubs - ABACUS - Atari Bay Area Computer User Society -- ABBUC - Atari Bit Byter User Club -- ABBUC HAR - Hanover ABBUC Regional Group -- ABBUC RAF - Frankfurt ABBUC Regional Group -- ABBUC RENO - ABBUC Regional Group North -- ACEC - Atari Computer Enthusiasts of Columbus -- AKPV - Atariklub Prostejov -- CCC - Chestnut Computer Club (UK) -- HA - HispAtari - El porto hispano de Usarios de Atari -- Rose City Atari Club SAK - The Swedish Atari Club (Svenska Atariklubben) -- SCAT - Suburban Chicago ATarians -- SPACE - Saint Paul Atari Computer Enthusiasts -- Terry Stewart new video on Atari 800 - ABBUC software contest 2023 - All entries in ABBUC Special Magazine 53 and on associate disk: ABBUC official results - Thread at AtariAge - Zero Page Homebrew, Part 1 - Zero Page Homebrew, Part 2 - Videos of the top 5 ABBUC winners: by Krzysztof "Amarok" Piotrowski - video by Saberman RetroNews by Lars Langhans - video by Saberman RetroNews by Olivier Cyranka - video by Saberman RetroNews by PopMilo - video by Saberman RetroNews by Janko Grewe - video by Saberman RetroNews Atari WozMon by freetz - Zylon Defenders, iOS game tribute to 1979 Atari 8 Bit computers killer app Star Raiders Apple Store - Github - New Atari podcast from Wade (Inverse ATASCII) called The ANTIC Files - Atari 8-Bit/5200 Homebrew Games Released/Completed/WIP in 2023 - Zero Page Homebrew - Celebrating the Iconic Atari Logo - AUSRETROGAMER - Upcoming Shows Atari Party 2023! - Saturday, December 2, 2023, 1pm to 4pm - Quakertown Train Station, Quakertown, PA - - organized by Peter Fletcher Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 17-18, 2024 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - Interim Computer Festival SPRING - March 23rd and 24th, 2024 - Intraspace, Seattle, WA - Midwest Gaming Classic - April 5-7 - Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee, WI - VCF East - April 5-7, 2024 - Wall, NJ - Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 13-14 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - VCF Southwest - June 14-16, 2024 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - Boatfest Retro Computer Expo - June 14-16 - Hurricane, WV - Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - July 19-21, 2024 - Atlanta, GA - Fujiama - July 23-28 - Lengenfeld, Germany - Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 15-28 - Gdansk, Poland - Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29, 2024 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - YouTube Videos A8PicoCart flash-cart ATARI 8-bit XL/XE/XEGS - hichal - How Do You Make Cartridges for the Gorgeous Atari 800? YARC Yet Another Retro Channel - New Atari solderless HDMI mod - LumaCode GTIA-digitizer - TheRetroChannel - 8x Cross Platform Games (Atari 8-Bit) from Fabrizio Caruso - ZeroPage Homebrew - New at Archive.org Atari Explorer espana - New at Github Feedback Michael Mulhern scanning of “Your Computer” - Ellen Jameson comment at /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/28796658

ANTIC Episode 102 - Randy, You Used to be a Nice Guy! 10/30/2023

ANTIC Episode 102 - Randy, You Used to be a Nice Guy! ANTIC Episode 102 - Randy, You Used to be a Nice Guy! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… All the Atari 8-bit news for this month, Kay breaks his Atari mug, Brad impersonates Kay, Kay decides to start up a cable company, and Randy changes in retirement … READY! Recurring Links Interview index: Links for Items Mentioned in Show: What we’ve been up to ICD Atari 8-Bit Info - ICD Multi I/O Board Manual - EPG Jr. thread on AtariAge - The Atari 8-Bit FujiNet N: device, in Perspective by Thom Cherryhomes - Atari 130XE Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner (Retro Reproductions) (sponsored link) - A8PicoCart - ABBUC Annual General Meeting 10/22 - Fastbasic install for Mac! - Interviews Cynthia Solomon and Brian Silverman (video to come) - News GTIAdigitizer HDMI output, by c0pperdragon: New Fujinet resource (ABBUC) - tnfs://fujinet.atari.social FujiNet release 1.2 - FujiNet RAPID by massiverobot - 130XE keyboard replacement: ultra-small DOS called uDOS - Super SpartaDOS X cartridges now available from COREi64: Announcement at AtariAge - Buy here - Pro(c) Atari Issue 16 - Pitfall II's Secret Sequel - SDrive mini at Lotharek - Starring the Computer - Revive 800XL Update (requires Twitter account) - Upcoming Shows (Remaining in 2023 and first half of 2024) Atari Party 2023! - Saturday, December 2, 2023, 1pm to 4pm - Quakertown Train Station, Quakertown, PA - Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 17-18, 2024 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - Midwest Gaming Classic - April 5-7 - Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee, WI - VCF East - April 5-7, 2024 - Wall, NJ - Indy Classic Computer & Video Game Expo - April 13-14 - Indianapolis, IN - VCF Southwest - June 14-16, 2024 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - not a show, but an Atari user group meeting - There’s one at the National Videogame History Museum in Frisco, TX (DFW area) every quarter - Texas Atari 8-bit Computer Owners (T. A. C. O.) YouTube Videos Darren Doyle's Unofficial Atari: A Visual History - Vintage Gaming Memories (Chris in the IVCC) - Final results of the 3rd ATASCII Compo 2023 for Atari 8 Bit computers revealed - Wozman for Atari 8-bit - freetz - FujiNet Game Alert System by Andrew Diller: The Atari 800XL (as seen in Terry Stewart's computer collection) - Atari 8-bit SIO Midi Player - Lotharek - New at Archive.org EOR #$FF: 6502 Ponderables and Befuddlements - BRE 1991 800/XL/XE Software Catalog - Feedback /episode/index/show/ataripodcast/id/28464788

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