Feb 28, 2014
On this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit Podcast: an interview with Curt Vendel, Atari historian and co-author of “Atari, Inc: Business Is Fun” … and an interview with Dennis Harkins, author of the APX program Message Display Program … and how a pack of bubble gum led to life with an Atari and a career in computers.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Recurring Links
New Atari books scans at archive.org
What We’ve Been Up To
"Compute's Atari Collection Volume 1"
"CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer" by Boisy G Pitre and Bill Loguidice
“Sophistication and Simplicity, The Life and Times of the Apple II Computer” by Steven Weyhrich
Vintage Computer Festival Southeast (VCFSE) 2.0
Kevin's black metal 850 interface
"A Mind Forever Voyaging - a history of storytelling in video games"
News
Atari Gamer Promotion on YouTube
30th Anniversary Edition of Boulder Dash
Terry Stewart (Tez) HD remake of Atari 400 Video on YouTube
Band Of Outsiders Atari Clothing Article
Atari 800 mentioned on Colbert Report Video
Atari 800 on Colbert Report Discussion on AtariAge
Google and YouTube Atari Easter Eggs
Learning Curve programming articles
Learning Curve Discussion on AtariAge
NOMAM 2014 programming contest for 10 line games
Bill Kendrick - Paddleship Entry for NOMAM
Archive.org Computer Magazines
Archive.org Computer Newsletters
Archive.org The Business Case: Applications and Programs for the Home Office
Tips
History of Atari Computers from CIO Magazine
Interview - Curt Vendel
“Atari Inc.: Business is Fun (Volume I)” by Curt Vendel, Marty Goldberg at Amazon
Interview - Dennis Harkins
Unedited Dennis Harkins Interview
Closing
Taste My Beeper 1-bit GTIA Music
Mash-up of the Beastie Boys and the music from Ballblazer
How about a where are they now section? Interviews with Nolan Bushnell, Steve Wozniak. Also, interviews with some of the big contributors to Antic and Analog, like David Plotkin and J.D. Casten (http://jdcasten.info/).
Precisely one in a thousand listeners will actually care about this, but the mashup at the very end has profanity in the lyrics.