ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

ANTIC Interview 456 - Stanley R. Trost, Electronic Arts Financial Cookbook

Mar 26, 2025

Stanley Trost, Electronic Arts Financial Cookbook

Stanley R. Trost wrote several books about early microcomputers, including Atari BASIC Programs in Minutes, Doing Business with VisiCalc, Multiplan on the Commodore 64, Useful Basic Programs the for IBM PC, VisiCalc for Science and Engineering, and others. He was also...

ANTIC Interview 455 - Bill and David Lappen, Buy-Phone

Mar 15, 2025

Bill and David Lappen, Buy-Phone

It's a dangerous game in the computer history field to call anything the "first." But Buy-Phone is a very strong contender call itself the first online yellow pages. Years before before Yahoo!, before Craigslist, Buy-Phone was a text-based dial-up service — available at 300 and 1200...

ANTIC Episode 115 - Exhausting Games for your Atari

Mar 10, 2025

ANTIC Episode 115

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we talk lots of contest news, Mr. Paint, a DIY Atari-themed monitor, and lots of other Atari 8-bit news. Plus, we find a book on “exhausting” Atari games!

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ANTIC Interview 454 - Steve Kranish, Parker Brothers Frogger

Mar 6, 2025

Steve Kranish, Parker Brothers Frogger

Steve Kranish is the creator of the Atari 8-bit and Atari 5200 versions of Frogger, the versions published by Parker Brothers. Parker Brothers had the rights to publish cartridge versions of Frogger. Sierra On-Line had already published versions of Frogger on floppy disk and...

ANTIC Interview 453 - Giann Velasquez, Atariteca

Feb 18, 2025

ANTIC Interview 453 - Giann Velasquez, Atariteca

Hello, and welcome to this interview-only episode of ANTIC, The Atari 8-bit computer podcast. I’m Randy Kindig, your host for this episode.

Giann Velasquez is the owner and curator of the popular, Spanish-language, Atari 8-bit news site, Atariteca. Giann is a...