ANTIC Episode 60 - Podificating

Aug 8, 2019

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:  We try to catch up after being on hiatus for 2 months by bringing you all the Atari news we could find and we learn a new word in the process.

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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 

ANTIC Facebook Page 

AHCS 

Eaten By a Grue  

Donate to Ted Nelson project at: https://paypal.me/Savetz 

TEH: Tech Enthusiast Hour - https://tehpodcast.com 

 

What We’ve Been Up To

• Whiz Kids - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiz_Kids_(TV_series) 
• KansasFest Megapodcast -  http://rcrpodcast.com/episodes/2019/7/28/rcr-episode-196-chicken-missile-kansasfest-megapodcast-i-don.html  
• Kevin’s Atari floppy drive stash - https://twitter.com/KevinSavetz/status/1158039012017205250 
• American Computer Museum, Bozeman, MT - https://acrmuseum.org/ 
• Indy Vintage Computer Club - https://www.facebook.com/groups/IndyVCC/ 
• Atari 800 5-pin DIN to S-video cable - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=198 , https://www.8bitclassics.com/shop/av-cables/atari-xlxe-5-pin-din-to-s-video-composite-av-cable/ 
• Atari 400/800 Programmer’s Guide poster - Steve Boswell - https://www.redbubble.com/people/choccyhobnob/works/39504539-basic-programmers-guide-from-1981?asc=u&c=1128814-wall-art&p=poster&ref=work_collections_grid 
• Atari XL/XE USB power supply - https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/32717 
• AVGCART - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/278212-avgcart/ tmp on AtariAge
• Nir Dary's demo of the AVGCART - https://youtu.be/j20PlHd6hWU 
• Clear For Action, Avalon Hill, http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-clear-for-action_1083.html 

Atari News 

• [R] pass-thru SDrive2-PT: alsp on AtariAge - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/262509-sdrive-arm-preorder/page-17#entry4277150 
• Atari 8-bit open-source hardware - GozdniJezek - https://medium.com/@gozdnijezek/atari-400-800-xl-xe-open-source-hardware-55cd06e7311c 
• Solderless Atari 1050 DD/Speed Upgrade: 1050E - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=250 
• The disk library of the Atari club KWEST (Kitchener Waterloo Atari Eight Sixteen Thirtytwo) has been found, copied and uploaded - http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=98&t=36939&sid=c66548d9600468cb9ab58df52cb1c9fc
• And at https://archive.org/details/KWEST 
• HP calculator emulators for Atari - http://members.aon.at/~nkehrer/a800_c64_hp_emu.html - Norbert Kehrer
• Discussion about Ethernet cart options for the Atari - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/287229-new-dragon-ethernet-cartridge-interest-check/page-8 
• Kevin’s blog post at Archive.org - http://blog.archive.org/2019/05/28/have-you-played-atari-today/ 
• Web Site - The Serious Computerist - http://seriouscomputerist.atariverse.com/pages/home/home.htm - Links to lots of Atari 8-bit information: books, disks, etc.
• Great Green Adv 2 Prologue, Indie Retro News - http://www.indieretronews.com/2019/07/great-green-adventure-2-prologue-very.html#more 
• Wasteland - http://www.indieretronews.com/2019/04/wasteland-journey-through-wasteland-in.html#more 
• Altirra Extended BASIC - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/284061-altirra-extended-basic 
• new version of SIO2SD at Lotharek - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=255 
• Amiga Bill: “Putting the final touches on our first non-Amiga video. Rare Atari 800 stuff from Curt Vendel of http://AtariMuseum.com The video comes out Monday August 5th”
• Guru Meditation: a Commodore Amiga YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/thegurumeditation 
• Bill Winters and Anthony Becker - http://www.thegurumeditation.org/ 
• Incognito board by Candle - http://spiflash.org/node/20 

Upcoming Shows with Atari Computers

• Fujiama 2019 - Monday, August 26, 2019 to Sunday Sep. 1, 2019 Fujiama 2019 will be held at the Schützenhaus, Schützenhausweg, Lengenfeld, Germany.  Visit atarixle's Fujiama page, Krupkaj's parties photos or mathy meetings page.
• VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - Sep. 14-15, 2019 - http://vcfmw.org/ 
• Portland Retro Gaming Expo Oct 18-20 - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com 
• 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/ 

YouTube Videos Since Last Show

• 2019 Toyota RAV4 hybrid unboxing - Every one includes an Atari 800 home computer in the trunk! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSrhvZ3wslY - GamedOut Gamer
• Introduction to the Platform Specific Series…  In this series of tutorials we're going to cover how to do simple common tasks on multiple 6502 systems - Joystick Reading on the Atari 800 / 5200 - Learn 6502 Assembly Lesson P11 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm1FyJ-NjxA (5 thousand 2 hundred) - ChibiAkumas
• 3.5" Drive for the Atari 8bit computer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MLhSWtX84M - Nir Dary (drive by Zaxxon for sale at https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/37199)
• How I connected by 800XL to Irata Online - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSv5bZT2SE - Jeff Thiele 

New at Archive.org

• https://archive.org/details/@jcbstein uploaded many Energy newslettters, Happy computer flyers
• Jason scott put many many Atari newsletters at https://archive.org/details/computermagazines?sort=-publicdate Light House, Tyne & Wear, Doktor Atari
• https://archive.org/details/BasicFunWithGraphicsTheAtariWay 
• https://archive.org/details/@moorejh  (Jason Moore) - letters from Atari, Adventure International, users group 
• And Dorsett Courseware Catalog - https://archive.org/details/dorsettcoursewarecatalog 
• Allan Bushman - https://archive.org/details/AtariVidtexUsersGuideCompuserve Compuserve's Atari Vidtex Users Guide
• And Twenty-Fifth Century Atari Software Catalog Summer Fall 1987 - https://archive.org/details/twentyfifthcenturyatarisoftwarecatalogsummerfall1987/page/n7 
• Kevin:  https://archive.org/details/@savetz Many Jersey Atari Computer Group newsletters, many Current Notes, a few Portland Atari Club; Many manuals and packages from that software store
• Purser's Magazine Atari Edition Summer 1981 - https://archive.org/details/pursersmagazineatarieditionsummer1981 
• https://archive.org/details/daisydotiiii 
• https://archive.org/details/daisydotii 
• Draper Pascal 1.5 And 1.6 Manual; Manual for Draper Pascal 1.5 with addendum for version 1.6 Posted with permission of Norm Draper. - https://archive.org/details/DraperPascal1.5And1.6Manual 
• https://archive.org/details/LetterEditorDonTippmann - Printed Atari BASIC source code for Letter Editor by Don Tippmann for Atari 8-bit computers

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