ANTIC Episode 87 - Good News, Bad News

Apr 7, 2022

ANTIC Episode 87 - Good news, bad news

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we have tons of news, both good and bad, and lots of coverage of new hardware.

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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

• 576NUC+ cartridge upgrade - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer/products/myteks-576nuc-and-internal-fujinet 

News

• FujiNet multi-platform - https://www.facebook.com/groups/fujinetusers/permalink/3255652564716397/ 
• Brewing Academy updates - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/atari-800-xl-xe-xel-xld/products/xep80-ii-by-mytek 
• The SDRIVE Simple II from MyTek - https://ataribits.weebly.com/sdrive.html 
• ABBUC software competition 2022 opened! - https://abbuc.de/2022/04/abbuc-softwarewettbewerb-2022-eroeffnet/ 
• Neon by Gistov:
  • https://github.com/Gibstov/Neon/ 
  • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/322460-neon-demo-hypertext-adf-browser-for-atari/ 
  • Reference guide by MassiveRobot (Andrew Diller) - https://www.dropbox.com/s/4r5ib6u7b3b5oq3/Neon_Programmers_Reference_v1c.pdf?dl=0 
• Atari Reference Guide by MassiveRobot - https://www.dropbox.com/s/mrmoaykb8wuzgvy/AndyAtariReference_current.pdf?dl=0 
• Into the Vertical Blank Homesoft tweet - https://twitter.com/atari_vb_pod/status/1501596822250606600?s=21 
• Homesoft disk images - http://www.mushca.com/f/atari/index.php?idx=10 
• 8-bit Hub - http://8bit-unity.com/?page_id=551 
• Atari 800XL Keychain - https://www.the8bitguy.com/product/atari-800xl-keychain/ 
• Argon and Atari 8-Bit (phone/tablet/TV/Chromebook/PC) - bhall408:
  • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/332333-argon-and-atari-8-bit-phonetablettvchromebookpc/ 
  • https://www.markspace.com/argon/ 
• Starmaster port by Glurk - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/332899-starmaster-8-bit-final/ 

Upcoming Shows

• VCF East 2022  =   Apr 22, 23, 24, Infoage Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 
• Boatfest Retro Computing Festival 2022 = June 24-25 - Hurricane, WV - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/boatfest-retro-computer-festival-2022-tickets-222333103297 
• VCF Southeast - July 15-17  Southern Fried Gaming Expo https://gameatl.com/ 
• KansasFest 2022 = July 19–24, 2022, Kansas City, MO - https://www.kansasfest.org/ JUST ANNOUNCED it will be in-person AND remote
• VCF West 2022 =  Aug 6, 7, The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ 
• Fujiama - Sept 8-11 in Lengenfeld Germany 

YouTube Videos

• From $2 Billion to Nothing - The Rise and Fall of Atari by ColdFusion -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_kEhHAMupU 
• ATARI XL / XE =+ BERT += 10-LINERS BASIC CONTEST 2022 by Vitoco, posted by Atari 8 Bits For Ever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL7dpQkLZBo 
• Atari 800 Commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upfno98p1xE - uploaded by Nathan Hadley
• How to pronounce Atari 800 Computer FL in Telugu? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ztgGOscC7c 
• ATARI XL / XE =+ FREEWAY += NEW PORT GAME 2022 by Atari 8 Bits For Ever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX5ESH2UovA 

New at Archive.org

• German Atari books:
• • https://archive.org/details/das-assemblerbuch-fur-die-atari-computer-400-800-600-xl-800-xl-130-xe-finzel-1986 
  • https://archive.org/details/6502-assembler-kurs-fur-beginner-dripke-2.-aufl-1984 
  • https://archive.org/details/atari-profibuch-2018 
  • https://archive.org/details/chip-sonderheft-atari-600-xl-800-xl-65-xe-130-xe 
  • https://archive.org/details/800-xe-0787 
• Allen:
• • https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-october-1985-vol-5-num-10-atari-articles 
• Two more issues of Ad Astra from Michael Sternberg:
• • https://archive.org/details/AdAstraV2n3 
  • https://archive.org/details/AdAstraV2n4 
  • Discussion - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/284800-ad-astra-journal/?do=findComment&comment=5019277 

New at Github

• LLVM-MOS SDK - https://github.com/llvm-mos/llvm-mos-sdk/releases/tag/v0.1.0 
• https://8bitnews.io