ANTIC Episode 34 - 3 Years!

Jul 3, 2016

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

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

ANTIC Facebook Page

AHCS

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
• • Shot video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XjiX1nA3AI
  • Joe - two engineering notebooks to scan. Here’s the first one
  • Presentation video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XjiX1nA3AI
  • Here's the slide deck
• American Computer Museum in Bozeman, MT - http://www.compustory.com/
• SIO2BT - Interview with Marcin Sochacki
• SIO2BT ordering thread on AtariAge

Interview Discussion

• Rob Zdybel interview  
• Neil Harris interview
• Ted Kahn Interview

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:
• • 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/