ANTIC Episode 65 - Cats with umbrellas and dogs!

Feb 20, 2020

ANTIC Episode 65 - Cats with umbrellas and dogs!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast:  Kevin’s dogs do their best to be a part of the podcast, we tell you all about a very busy month of personal Atari stuff, all the programming contests going on, and all the other news we could find.

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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  

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

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

What We’ve Been Up To

• Kevin’s Atari workbench set up! - https://twitter.com/KevinSavetz/status/1220554086593904644 
• AVG cart. Moon Patrol, and Redux - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/297535-moon-patrol-redux/ 

• XC-11 cassette drive from Rodrigo Castro Sage - https://twitter.com/KevinSavetz/status/1223696069302706176 
• https://github.com/savetz/Renderific updates
• Charlie Kulas disks - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/287589-leafer-madness-by-charlie-kulas/?do=findComment&comment=4458986 
• Supercard Pro and Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative - http://a8preservation.com/ 
• Astra 1620 dual disk drive - http://gury.atari8.info/hardware/162.php 
• SDrive Max (810) - Gavin at Vintage Computer Center -  https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product/atari-810-sdrive-max 
• Incognito for Atari 800 -  https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=275 
• Tricky Tutorials - https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-tricky-tutorials-1-6/mode/2up 

Recent Interviews

• http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-378-craig-hickman-atari-photography-software-and-security-system 

News 

• Thunderdome the Atari Site - https://atari.fox-1.nl/ - games, tools, demos, emulation 
• Atari hotels - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/business/atari-hotel-phoenix.html 
• 10-line BASIC contest 

https://gkanold.server.deerpower.de/ 

https://twitter.com/Basic10L/ 

AtariAge discussion - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/301250-2020-basic-10liner-contest/ 

https://atariaction.tumblr.com/post/190760859977/10-line-poker-machine 

https://atariaction.tumblr.com/post/190761401187/10-line-blackjack 

• 12th Kaz Compo announces the best Atari games released in 2019 - https://vintageisthenewold.com/12th-kaz-compo-announces-the-best-atari-games-released-in-2019/ 

Atariage Thread - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/300855-kaz-kompo-2019-vote-for-the-best-game-of-2019/#comments 

• Adventure II XE – New game for the Atari 8-bit demo released - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/213695-adventure-ii-xe-demo-and-testing 
• Fandal’s game updates - http://a8.fandal.cz/news.php?news_id=1685 
• Spotify client for Atari 8-bit - https://github.com/possan/atari-spotify-app , 

https://twitter.com/possan/status/1225530633621032961 

• Magazine type-in work - http://forum.atarimania.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18619, 

http://forum.atarimania.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18847 

• ZX-Uno FPGA - http://www.zxuno.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=2814 , http://zxuno.speccy.org/faq.shtml 

Shows

• Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people):
• • March 21 & 22, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle,Washington - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-pacific-northwest 
  • March 21, Indy Vintage Computer Club Expo 2020, Camby, IN - https://www.facebook.com/events/188334755647918/ 
  • April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east 
  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Fri, Aug 14, 2020 – Sun, Aug 16, 2020, Portland OR 
• 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

• UAV Atari 800XL still has poor video - Jonathan Halliday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh1YQ8oU7LU 
• A First Look at the SIDE3 SD card multicart for the Atari 8-bit - Jonathan Halliday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oayRUtTFVDE 
• Display List Programming Introduction on the Atari Computer - 8-bit and More - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io4AZmT9Bnw 
• #FujiNet - Simple Terminal program for N: Device in 10 lines of BASIC. - Thomas Cherryhomes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL6PhXULdFE 

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