ANTIC Episode 117 - A Kiss on the Forehead

Jun 7, 2025

ANTIC Episode 117

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… lots of scanning talk, more new games for the Atari than you can shake a stick at, and how to win a kiss on the forehead…

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Recurring Links 

Floppy Days Podcast 

AtariArchives.org 

AtariMagazines.com 

Kay’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 

What we’ve been up to

• New scans for documents sent by Aaron Spurlock:

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

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

• New scan - https://archive.org/details/donnie-iris-do-you-compute 

• New scan -  https://archive.org/details/analog-computing-poster 

• Wade Ripkowski’s site - https://unfinishedbitness.info/ 

• In-progress quick reference book by Randy, with Atari 800 complete (for comment) - https://floppydaysqr.my.canva.site/ 

• Atari 8-bit development episode of Next Without For with Earl Evans and Randy Kindig - https://www.nextwithoutfor.org/2025/05/show-015-atari-8-bit-programming.html 

• Artistic disk envelopes and cassette covers - https://ataricovers.com/ 

News

• Source Code for Atari’s Editor/Assembler and Program/Text Editor RELEASED! - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381770-source-code-for-editorassembler-and-programtext-editor-released/ 

• ugBASIC 1.17.2 RELEASED - https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/ 

• Jerry White's TV Theme Songs - https://www.atarimania.com/demo-atari-400-800-xl-xe-tv-theme-songs_44160.html 

• Indus GT Mini (Piotr Bugaj) - https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=9725048287561907&set=gm.1671261500183510&idorvanity=484741565502182 

• The FourZeroZero keyboard series - http://www.norths.de/category/a400-design-tastatur/ 

• new Album called "Power of Myth" by Poison6502 - https://poison6502.bandcamp.com/album/power-of-myth 

• New Game Mazy 2 - ​​https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/05/mazy-2-mas-laberintos-y-estrategia-para.html 

• Mikie for Atari XL/XE - physical edition - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381444-mikie-for-atari-xlxe-physical-edition/ 

• The Best of Grawitacja 2025 for Atari 8-bit:

• https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/05/lo-mejor-del-grawitacja-2025-para-atari.html 

• Kara T-Rex - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myIQFTLGw28 

• Dinodrab - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiIDqf2Kl5g 

• Jurassic Spark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0dGyjIkDMY 

• ABBUC Software Contest - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381593-abbuc-software-contest-2025/ 

• ABBUC Hardware Contest - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381594-abbuc-hardware-contest-2025/ 

Upcoming Shows

• Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo - June 14 - New Westminster, BC, Canada - https://www.vancouvergamingexpo.com/index.html 

• VCF Southwest - June 20-22, 2025 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - https://www.vcfsw.org/ 

• Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - June 20-22, 2025 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ 

• Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - July 31-Aug. 3 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2025-se 

• VCF West - August 1-2 - Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/2025/03/05/vcf-west-2025-save-the-date/ 

• Fujiama - August 11-17 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2025/ 

• VCF Midwest - September 13-14, 2025 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ 

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 17-19 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ 

• Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html 

• Event page created by Floppy Days on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ 

• Event page on Floppy Days Website - https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSeLsg4hf5KZKtpxwUQgacCIsqeIdQeZniq3yE881wOCCYskpLVs5OO1PZLqRRF2t5fUUiaKByqQrgA/pub 

YouTube Videos

• FlashJazzCat AVG Cart/Sub Cart review video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQo1kXX0OBA  

• Atari's death...by the books - Power of Vintage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXUqBL4JHHQ 

• Luckyman (new Atari XL/XE game!):

• Atari Online PL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fBNeMkT--o 

• ZeroPage Homebrew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA2QtP8ssWs 

• The author shares his journey of creating games using Advan Basic (Polish) - Spowiedź autora #14: LukLab i gry w Advan ... 

New at Archive.org 

• Computer Shopper full issue scans - https://archive.org/details/@tenten10 

• https://archive.org/details/the-action-toolkit-reference-manual 

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

• Other The Soft Warehouse math software manuals -  https://archive.org/details/TheSoftWarehouseMathSoftwareManuals/AlgicalcManual/ 

• https://archive.org/details/reference-card-for-the-atari-400-800-microcomputers-nanos-systems-corp

• https://archive.org/details/ace-pocket-reference-card-atari/ACE_Pocket_Reference_Card_Atari/

• Allan Bushman’s scans of Magatar:

• https://archive.org/details/magatar-vol-1-num-7

• https://archive.org/details/magatar-vol-1-num-10

• https://archive.org/details/magatar-vol-1-num-8

• Atari newsletters at Internet Archive: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RkznDDlOL2O_K-RrbkajIuo6DvYof6Ajrn7j9NTcoDM/edit?usp=sharing 

Feedback

• Critical Connection source code https://github.com/savetz/critical-connection