ANTIC Episode 83 - The Dog Ate It

Dec 6, 2021

ANTIC Episode 83 - The Dog Ate It

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast...Kay forgets to wear his ANTIC t-shirt, we all have new members of the family (and Brad’s eats everything in sight), Kay goes crazy scanning Atari magazines, and we have lots of listener feedback.

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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 

What We’ve Been Up To

• Atari Interface (was there a July 1991 issue?)
  • https://archive.org/details/Atari_Interface_1989-11 
  • https://archive.org/details/Atari_Interface_1989-08 
  • https://archive.org/details/Atari_Interface_1989-07 
  • Atari Interface Magazine - The Complete Collection" - 2,350-page PDF  - https://archive.org/details/atari-interface-complete-collection 
• The Advanced Home Computer course 
  • https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Course?sort=-publicdate 
  • Atari 600XL/800XL: https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Advanced_Course_10/page/189/mode/1up 
  • 810 disk drive: https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Advanced_Course_04/page/63/mode/1up 
  • 130XE: https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Advanced_Course_66/page/1309/mode/1up 
• Indy Vintage Computer Club (VCC) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/IndyVCC 

News 

• Hyper Drive + RAM/ROM " Cartridge For The Atari 8 Bit Computer - https://www.ebay.com/itm/124998207996 
• ABBUC 2021 Software Contest winners announced 
• • https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2021/11/descarga-los-juegos-del-concurso-abbuc.html
  • https://abbuc.de/2021/11/ergebnisse-der-softwarewettbewerbs-2021/ 
  • http://www.atari.org.pl/informacje/wyniki-abbuc-software-contest-2021/2224 
  • CONTrollerTESTPRO - Jakub Husak - http://www.atari.org.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?id=17979 
  • Meta Programming Tool - Kaj de Vos - https://language.metaproject.frl/ - A New, Human-Friendly Programming Language 
• John Malone’s keypad usb mod - https://twitter.com/48kram/status/1462136144477499395?s=21 
• XEP80-II by MyTek - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/atari-800-xl-xe-xel-xld/products/xep80-ii-by-mytek 
• Final Assault first person shooter
• • https://atari8.dev/final_assault/ 
  • Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=92K9wnk_4Cw 
• Atari Projects by Jason Moore - http://atariprojects.org 
• Laser Squad https://mechanism.fr/getRecord.php?id=1002 
• TRY2EMU Web Site - Atari news - https://www.t2e.pl/tag/atari 
• https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/1053009480/atari-video-game-joystick-world-record-largest 

Shows

• Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people):
• • VCF East April 22-24: Vintage Computer Festival East , Wall, NJ 
  • VCF West August 6-7: Vintage Computer Festival West , The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA 
• Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fm5hf7PCQj0yXBxXvj9J8Mp8GDwD2w1bfD_qktpPOnNYNoQUmN_EpgB8 
• Event page created by Floppy Days - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ 
• Event page on Vintage Is The New Old - https://vintageisthenewold.com/vintage-is-the-new-old-releases-new-events-calendar/ 

YouTube videos this month

• Old Time Radio Broadcasts on the 1 MB Atari 800xl - Red Rock Video Productions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gOxE5m6a6U 

New at Archive.org

• Atari Personal Financial Management System manual 
• Practicing Programming on the Atari 
• Review Catalog of Atari Learning Systems Fall 1983 
• Atari Special Additions Volume 1 Winter 1982 
• Collegiate Microcomputer:
• • Stevens Institute of Technology requiring freshmen to buy an Atari 800 - https://archive.org/details/sim_collegiate-microcomputer_1985-02_3_1/page/n36/mode/1up?q=atari 
  • Harvard Symposium “Video Games and Human Development” - https://archive.org/details/sim_collegiate-microcomputer_1984-11_2_4/page/334/mode/2up?q=atari 
  • Computer Drawn Polar Coordinate Graphs - https://archive.org/details/sim_collegiate-microcomputer_1984-08_2_3/page/n81/mode/2up 
  • Ideal Systems undimmed - https://archive.org/details/sim_collegiate-microcomputer_spring-1986_4_1/page/n27/mode/2up?q=atari 

New at GitHub

• https://github.com/spicyjack/atari8-syntax.vim 

Listener Feedback

• "Imagic 1-2-3" compilation - http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-comp-imagic-1-2-3_1235.html
• XDOS (c) 2009 by Stefan Dorndorf - http://www.atarimania.com/faq-atari-400-800-xl-xe-what-are-realdos-spartados-x-and-xdos_83.html