ANTIC Episode 97 - Don’t go to the Commodore Show!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Randy accidentally puts a link to an upcoming Commodore show in the show notes, we tell you how you too can emulate an Atari 1450XLD, and we give you the scoop on the Atari 8-bit entries in the BASIC 10-Liner Contest.

READY!

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

• Allan’s disks - http://a8preservation.com 

• Ham sw:

  • https://archive.org/details/cw-5_atari 

  • https://archive.org/details/ham800 

  • https://archive.org/details/qsoham-master 

• https://archive.org/details/stx_Datasoft_Alternate_Reality_The_City_manual_for_Macintosh 

• Case for XEP80-II - https://thebrewingacademy.com/products/xep80-ii-by-mytek?variant=39627658690662 

• 576NUC+ - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer 

News

• Atari Today - Andreas Bertelmann - http://www.ataritoday.net/ 

• Retro Roundup - https://retroroundup.com 

• a pair of 3D-printed hooks to hold your Atari 8-bit - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5336067 

• All you need to display a Mastodon post in Atari BASIC, with FujiNet by Thom Cherryhomes - https://www.reddit.com/r/atari8bit/comments/11o9z40/all_you_need_to_display_a_mastodon_post_in_atari/ 

• Retro Directory - https://retro.directory/ 

• Reboots of Atari 8-bit games:

  • https://www.gamespress.com/Montezumas-Revenge-The-40-th-Anniversary-Edition-comes-to-modern-gamin 

  • https://atari.com/products/caverns-of-mars-recharged 

• review of Caverns - https://cogconnected.com/review/caverns-of-mars-recharged-review/ 

• Altirra now supports Atari 1400XL and 1450XLD:

  • https://mastodon.world/@Philsan/109982536080452626 

  • https://forums.atariage.com/topic/345943-altirra-410-released/page/6/#comment-5220269 

• Atari XL - XE Sally to W65C02S adapter - Masteries - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/348982-atari-xl-xe-sally-to-w65c02s-adapter/ 

• Updated version of the In-Store Demonstration Program - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/349203-in-store-demonstration-program/ 

• ANALOG Computing Pocket Reference Card - SlagOMatic - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/349448-analog-computing-pocket-reference-card-redux/ 

• BASIC 10-Liner Contest - https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium 

• 7 x Atari 8-Bit 10 Liner Contest Entries, Cracky (A8): ZeroPage Homebrew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTTfuTJ24r4 

• ugBASIC - An isomorphic language for retrocomputers - https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/ 

• AtariInside - https://www.atarinside.com/blog/ 

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/ 

• Boatfest Vintage Computer Exposition - June 23-25 - Hurricane, WV - http://boatfest.info 

• VCF Southwest - June 23-25 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX - http://vcfsw.org 

• Pacific Commodore Expo NW v4 - June 24-25 - “Interim” Computer Museum, Seattle, WA - https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=pacommex:start 

• KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 18–23, 2023 (in-person), July 29–30, 2023 (virtual) - https://www.kansasfest.org/ 

• Southern Fried Gaming Expo (VCF Southeast) - July 28-30 2023 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ 

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

YouTube Videos

• I, Robot - Voy_NG - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqJ9KC0yWnE 

• Pimp my Atari 800XL - AtariInside - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WHI8v2AN3c 

• Cracky, thirteenth game by Inufuto - Atari 8 Bits For Ever -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hfPCfDi_I0 

• Cracky download - http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/cracky/ 

New at Archive.org 

• https://archive.org/details/commodityoptions0000maye/page/n19/mode/2up?q=%22Atari+800%22 

• https://archive.org/details/bowling-tk-computer-products/mode/2up 

• https://archive.org/details/utility-diskette-ii-apx 

• https://archive.org/details/nam-strategic-simulations 

• Computer Shopper:

  • https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-august-1989-vol-9-num-8-atari-articles 

  • https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-september-1988-vol-8-num-9-atari-articles 

  • https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-may-1988-vol-8-num-5-atari-articles 

• https://archive.org/details/computersastheat0000laur_e8v2 by https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-420-brenda-laurel-atari-research 

New at GitHub

• https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-platformio/wiki/Atari-FujiNet-Programming-Series%3A-Roman-Checkers 

• https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/A8MadPascalLibrary 

• https://github.com/billlange1968/Demon-Birds 

• https://github.com/pkali/scorch_src