ANTIC Episode 96 - Atari Dreams

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we talk about development for the Atari 8-bit, discuss a couple of highly-modified 800’s, dream about sleeping on an Atari pillow, and bring you all the other Atari 8-bit news we could find!

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Recurring Links 

Floppy Days Podcast 

AtariArchives.org 

AtariMagazines.com 

Kevin’s Book “Terrible Nerd” 

New Atari books scans at archive.org 

ANTIC feedback at AtariAge 

Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge 

Interview index: here 

ANTIC Facebook Page 

AHCS 

Eaten By a Grue 

Next Without For 

Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• Converting Atari8BitBot to Mastodon with Papa Robot - @Atari8BitBot@oldbytes.space 

• Scantastix - https://archive.org/search?query=identifier%3Astx_%2A&sort=-publicdate 

• Dorm game - https://carringtonvanston.net/games/dorm/ 

• ANTIC sign - https://m.aliexpress.us/item/3256804531104852.html 

• BASIC 10-liner contest - https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium 

News

• Action! Tutorial at YouTube by David Arlington - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ8ABW8rY40 

• Browser-based Eastern Front 1941: 

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/computerwargames/comments/10qhqb2/playtesters_wanted_chris_crawfords_eastern_front/ 

  • https://github.com/patricksurry/eastern-front-1941 

• How to Use Classic Atari, Commodore and Sinclair Software on Your Mac - https://appleinsider.com/inside/macos/tips/how-to-use-classic-atari-commodore-and-sinclair-software-on-your-mac 

• Atari Software Pack - Dean Garraghty (Scotland) - DGS Software - http://www.dgs.clara.net/ 

• APX Atlas program - https://community.a8preservation.com/t/dumps-dumps-dumps/205/579 

• James Shackel passed away - https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/james-shackel-obituary?id=39585348 

• SuperSIO Splitter by Sikor - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/314342-supersio-splitter/ 

• Mr. Robot 3D printing models:

  • http://www.atari8bit.net 

  • https://www.printables.com/social/439944-mr-robot/models 

• Readytari items at Red Bubble by Steve Boswell (Mr. Robot) - https://www.redbubble.com/people/choccyhobnob/works/52776330-readytari-ntsc?carousel_pos=21&ref=work_carousel_work_portfolio&ref_id=30853044 

• Elite port - https://youtu.be/khhxWsZ7WC8 

• Goto10 newsletter - https://www.goto10retro.com/ 

• Mathy's new and improved homepage - https://mathyvannisselroy.nl/index.htm 

• Compiling a new Atari OS By reifsnyderb - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/347696-compiling-a-new-atari-os/ 

• hardware upgrades for all 8-bits by Brian Reifsnyder (reifsnyderb) - https://5cfab.com/ 

• Weird Modded Atari 800 Computer - https://www.ebay.com/itm/255980663210 

• Atari computer pillow - https://www.8bittees.com/product/atari-800-pillow/ 

• Chip-8 emulation on Atari:

  • https://github.com/pkali/Chip-8 

  • https://forums.atariage.com/topic/82003-chip8-emulator-version-10/ 

• 5th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/347449-5th-annual-atari-homebrew-awards-voting-information-discussion/ 

Upcoming Shows

• VCF East 2023 - Apr 14-16, 2023 - InfoAge Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 

• Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 29 & 30 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/ 

• KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 18-23, 2023 - Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri - https://www.kansasfest.org/ 

• Southern Fried Gaming Expo - July 28-30 2023 - Cobb Galleria Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ Keep an eye on the VCFSE section of the VCFED site for exhibit signups and more details.Use the discount code “INSERTCOIN” to save $5.

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 13-15, 2023 - Oregon Convention Center - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ 

YouTube Videos

• 5th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards Nominee Playthrough Part 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8L7MFrGMjI 

• 40th Anniversary of the excellent Atari 600 by The Centre for Computing History - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh3DEUO-V4o 

• "Square Monuments" 256 Byte Intro Atari XL/XE LoveByte 2023 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJmfJ2G8PSwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJmfJ2G8PSw 

• VGA from a VBXE Atari 800 - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4RBDY0Y100 

New at Archive.org 

• Hungarian Bit-Let - https://archive.org/details/bitlet_1983_1986 

• Allan - https://archive.org/details/@allan52 

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-may-86-vol-6-no-5-atari-articles/ 

• https://archive.org/details/lemonade-apx/ 

New at Github

• https://github.com/GSoftwareDevelopment/MIDICar-Player 

• MIDIcar - https://systemembedded.eu/viewtopic.php?t=51 

• https://github.com/ScotBaker305/Atari-Code  

• https://github.com/ThKattanek/cas_to_sio 

• https://github.com/sehugg/holiday2022