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ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

By: Randy Kindig Kay Savetz Brad Arnold
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  • ANTIC Episode 118 - Trigger Warning

    ANTIC Episode 118 - Trigger Warning
    Jun 30 2025
    ANTIC Episode 118 - Trigger Warning In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…we have lots of user feedback and user projects to report on, we talk about a postage stamp-sized Atari computer, and (trigger warning!) there are a couple of Commodore references… READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kay’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 Photos from the Capital Children's Museum Communications Exhibit which opened November 1981 - https://archive.org/details/ccm-communications Narrascope 2025 - https://narrascope.org/ Learning about print shop font and border formats with Michael Sternberg - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/324752-print-shop-atari-related-graphics/#findComment-5667327 “Unofficial Atari: a Visual History” by Darren Doyle - https://www.greyfoxbooks.com/shop/books/the-atari-a-visual-history/ Interview with Darren Doyle on ANTIC - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episode-10-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-darren-doyle-michael-current Atari800 emulator and FujiNet on Mac - Andy Diller - https://www.atariorbit.org/2025/06/19/fujinet-and-atari800-emulation/ News The Retroist Podcast covers the Atari XEGS - https://www.retroist.com/p/retroist-atari-xegs-podcast Atari 800 red keyboard - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15fZrXoP24/ Atari 800 drum scanner project (Dave Porter) - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15rS9dcyzr/?mibextid=wwXIfr Atari home automation (Mike Hogan) - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16rNS2AZnv/?mibextid=wwXIfr Paper - https://www.academia.edu/13353149/Playing_and_copying_social_practices_of_home_computer_users_in_Poland_during_the_1980s Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/polish-engineer-creates-postage-stamp-sized-1980s-atari-computer/ Antonia2 interest post by Simius - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/382122-antonia2-interest/ Thomas Cherryhomes will be writing a monthly FujiNet column for the upcoming Compute!’s Gazette reboot - https://fujinews.substack.com/p/thomas-cherryhomes-named-monthly New game (news comes from Atariteca) - "Quadbination" for Atari 8-bit - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/06/reflejos-estrategia-y-paddles.html The story of how Boulder Dash was created: https://spillhistorie.no/2025/06/06/how-boulder-dash-was-created/ Kay Interviewed Peter Liepa in 2015 - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-66-peter-liepa-boulder-dash June Atari Insights Newsletter - https://ataribasics.com Trigger Warning: Commodore news https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/commodore-acquired-for-a-low-seven-figure-price-new-acting-ceo-comes-from-the-retro-community https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/06/this-man-is-buying-commodore Upcoming Shows Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - July 31-Aug. 3 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2025-se VCF West - August 1-2 - Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/2025/03/05/vcf-west-2025-save-the-date/ Fujiama - August 11-17 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2025/ VCF Midwest - September 13-14, 2025 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 17-19 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ YouTube Videos Fixing bad key switches all at once (Atari 800XL AWC Type 2) - Adrian’s Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsSiEtSomQI Fixing a dead and dirty Atari 800XL - Adrian’s Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljBofLMPIeA Repairing a smashed-up Atari 400 computer - Adrian’s Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H4v-LVztk0 Atari 8-Bit Reborn Smaller Than a Quarter—It Actually Works! + More Retro News! - Bit By Bit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT3kTi-hX_o Connecting a 15KHz CRT monitor to a Sophia 2 Atari 8-bit via the DVI-I jack - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaFCzydsUTI New at Archive.org https://archive.org/details/clevatari-newsletter-issue-77-dec-1987 https://archive.org/details/clevatari-newsletter-oct-1987 https://archive.org/details/gtia-demonstration-diskette-apx https://archive.org/details/transdisk-iv-version-4-2-manual-page-6-software/ Dutch “Atari Users Foundation” - https://archive.org/details/escape2_202506/ New at Github CP/M on the Atari 8-bit - https://github.com/davidgiven/cpm65/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/nwah/fn-printer-examples https://github.com/itaych/Ice-T https://github.com/Cap-...
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • ANTIC Episode 117 - A Kiss on the Forehead

    ANTIC Episode 117 - A Kiss on the Forehead
    Jun 7 2025
    ANTIC Episode 117 In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… lots of scanning talk, more new games for the Atari than you can shake a stick at, and how to win a kiss on the forehead… READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kay’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 What we’ve been up to New scans for documents sent by Aaron Spurlock: https://archive.org/details/Mad_Scientist_Software_Hospital_ACLS_Teaching_Series_manual https://archive.org/details/Mad_Scientist_Software_Cardiac_Arrest_ACLS_Teaching_Series_manual/ New scan - https://archive.org/details/donnie-iris-do-you-compute New scan - https://archive.org/details/analog-computing-poster Wade Ripkowski’s site - https://unfinishedbitness.info/ In-progress quick reference book by Randy, with Atari 800 complete (for comment) - https://floppydaysqr.my.canva.site/ Atari 8-bit development episode of Next Without For with Earl Evans and Randy Kindig - https://www.nextwithoutfor.org/2025/05/show-015-atari-8-bit-programming.html Artistic disk envelopes and cassette covers - https://ataricovers.com/ News Source Code for Atari’s Editor/Assembler and Program/Text Editor RELEASED! - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381770-source-code-for-editorassembler-and-programtext-editor-released/ ugBASIC 1.17.2 RELEASED - https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/ Jerry White's TV Theme Songs - https://www.atarimania.com/demo-atari-400-800-xl-xe-tv-theme-songs_44160.html Indus GT Mini (Piotr Bugaj) - https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=9725048287561907&set=gm.1671261500183510&idorvanity=484741565502182 The FourZeroZero keyboard series - http://www.norths.de/category/a400-design-tastatur/ new Album called "Power of Myth" by Poison6502 - https://poison6502.bandcamp.com/album/power-of-myth New Game Mazy 2 - ​​https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/05/mazy-2-mas-laberintos-y-estrategia-para.html Mikie for Atari XL/XE - physical edition - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381444-mikie-for-atari-xlxe-physical-edition/ The Best of Grawitacja 2025 for Atari 8-bit: https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/05/lo-mejor-del-grawitacja-2025-para-atari.html Kara T-Rex - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myIQFTLGw28 Dinodrab - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiIDqf2Kl5g Jurassic Spark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0dGyjIkDMY ABBUC Software Contest - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381593-abbuc-software-contest-2025/ ABBUC Hardware Contest - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381594-abbuc-hardware-contest-2025/ Upcoming Shows Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo - June 14 - New Westminster, BC, Canada - https://www.vancouvergamingexpo.com/index.html VCF Southwest - June 20-22, 2025 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - https://www.vcfsw.org/ Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - June 20-22, 2025 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - July 31-Aug. 3 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2025-se VCF West - August 1-2 - Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/2025/03/05/vcf-west-2025-save-the-date/ Fujiama - August 11-17 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2025/ VCF Midwest - September 13-14, 2025 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 17-19 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ Event page created by Chicago Classic Computing - http://chiclassiccomp.org/events.html Event page created by Floppy Days on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/VintageComputerShows/ Event page on Floppy Days Website - https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSeLsg4hf5KZKtpxwUQgacCIsqeIdQeZniq3yE881wOCCYskpLVs5OO1PZLqRRF2t5fUUiaKByqQrgA/pub YouTube Videos FlashJazzCat AVG Cart/Sub Cart review video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQo1kXX0OBA Atari's death...by the books - Power of Vintage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXUqBL4JHHQ Luckyman (new Atari XL/XE game!): Atari Online PL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fBNeMkT--o ZeroPage Homebrew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA2QtP8ssWs The author shares his journey of creating games using Advan Basic (Polish) - Spowiedź autora #14: LukLab i gry w Advan ... New at Archive.org Computer Shopper full issue scans - https://archive.org/details/@tenten10 https://archive.org/details/the-action-toolkit-reference-manual https://archive.org/details/polycalc-apx Other The Soft Warehouse math software manuals - https://archive.org/details/TheSoftWarehouseMathSoftwareManuals/AlgicalcManual/ https://archive.org/details/...
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • ANTIC Episode 116 - AI-Generated Nonsense

    ANTIC Episode 116 - AI-Generated Nonsense
    Apr 30 2025
    ANTIC Episode 116 In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we talk about all the Atari things we did this month and discuss all the “AI-generated nonsense” going on in the Atari world…READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kay’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 https://github.com/savetz/critical-connection Fujinet update: Brian Cox - https://www.FVResearch.com Mozzwald (Joe) https://mozzwald.com/product-category/fujinet/ Problem was https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-hardware/tree/master/ATARI/Old-Versions/FN32ROV-1.3-Q24#important-bugfixes https://www.eightbitfix.com/ Archived 2 JACG Newsletters - March & April, 1986: https://archive.org/details/jacg-newsletter-1986-march-vol-5-no-7 https://archive.org/details/jacg-newsletter-1986-april-vol-5-no-8 Indy Classic Expo - https://www.indyclassic.org Vintage Computer Center - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com OmniView 80 card - https://archive.org/details/Atari_OMNIVIEW_manual ATR8000 manual - https://archive.org/details/atr-8000-owners-manual Astra 1620 manual and video - Chris Lorenzo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNZ_-Ig7rro https://archive.org/details/astra-1620-dual-disk-drive-user-manual News BASIC 10-Liners - Video showing every entry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27fHeOmV9es Compilation disk of all Atari entries - https://bunsen.itch.io/compilation-disk-2025-atari-8-bit-by-vitoco Atariteca: “BASIC 10 Liner 2025: Atari 8-bit games dominated major categories” - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/04/basic-10-liner-2025-carr-y-parada.html 14x New Atari 8-Bit Games from the 2025 BASIC 10 Liner Contest! - Zero Page Homebrew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63E0Jz9H7q0 https://fujinet.online/2025/04/02/fujinet-firmware-1-5-released AI Retro-computer starter kits - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BpCukKuwD/ Revive Machines update - https://x.com/rm_800xl/status/1912740178013085726 Atari XL 10.1 inch monitor housing - https://makerworld.com/en/models/1217900-atari-xl-10-1-inch-monitor-housing Rare Atari documents - Laurent Delsarte - https://www.atari800xl.eu/docs/rare/atari-rare-documents-by-document-type.html DungeonLords - Adam Trionfo and Chris Federico - https://www.orphanedgames.com/articles/DungeonLords/dungeonlords.html ABBUC Magazine 160 and Special Magazine 55 - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381058-abbuc-magazine-160-and-special-magazine-55/ New Atari Home Computer Cartridge guide book - scooter83 (Jason Philis) - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/380917-new-atari-home-computer-cartridge-guide-book/ https://atari.com/collections/star-raiders-45th-anniversary Apple II emulator on the Atari - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/04/charla-inedita-sobre-emulador-de-apple.html Ripduski (Wade Ripkowski) - https://unfinishedbitness.info/2025/04/02/crossing-over/ April 2025 Issue of Atari Insights - John Zielke - https://ataribasics.com/newsletter-hub/ Atari 800XL Replacement case Project Update - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/380857-atari-800xl-replacement-case-project-update/ GPB Board - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/379274-gpb-the-atari-800-personality-ramoscf-board-no-mods-required/page/3/ (from our friend Bill Kendrick) SpartaDOS X ver. 4.50 - User Guide book (English) - https://retronics.eu/?a=item&id=360&l=en Compute’s Gazette reboot - https://www.computesgazette.com/iconic-computes-gazette-magazine-returns-after-35-years-expanding-focus-to-entire-retro-computing-community/ https://forums.atari.io/topic/7577-vbxe-is-this-upgrade-for-you/ https://www.emulationonline.com/systems/chiplab/6502-lab-available/ https://www.ebay.com/itm/306172208391 https://forums.atariage.com/topic/380768-superware-basic-magic-programming-pamplets/ (from Bill Kendrick) Benj Edwards article about Salmon Run and Bill Williams on ArsTechnica - https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/04/how-a-1980s-atari-creator-with-cystic-fibrosis-crafted-a-story-of-salmon-survival Another Salmon Run article - https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-astorian/169125250/ Best Electronics article at Tom’s Hardware: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/u-s-atari-parts-store-still-open-after-41-years-has-spent-usd100k-designing-new-parts-last-original-atari-hardware-launched-32-years-ago https://boingboing.net/2025/03/26/atari-parts-store-still-operating-after-41-years.html Atari Repair Parts - https://atarirepairparts.com/ mozzwald — AI chat bot that speaks to you with SAM - https://tnfs.fujinet.online/ATARI/FujiNet-Apps/ai-sam.xex Upcoming ...
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    1 hr and 41 mins

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