Podcasts about atari dos

Interview with Michael Tomczyk, Vic-20 Commando Team Leader at Commodore Welcome to the Floppy Days Podcasts, where old computers are the best computers and new old computers are even better.  Last month, I covered the history of the Vic-20 computer with the help of Neil Harris, Brian Bagnall, and Michael Tomczyk.  Although I used some audio clips from each of those gentlemen to walk through the history timeline, I actually have a full-blown interview with each that I want to share with you over the span of three episodes.  For this episode, I will be publishing the interview with Michael Tomczyk.  Michael was with Commodore for some time, was an assistant to none other than Jack Tramiel, and was the leader of the team known as the Vic Commando Team.  He was happy to talk about his time at Commodore and turned out to be a very interesting interview and a great guy with which to talk. Before we get to that, I do have a few housekeeping items to cover, such as a few new acquisitions, some brief news, and a bit of feedback. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Ultimate 1MB - http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=67 “Atari DOS 2.5:1050 Disk Drive Owner’s Manual” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_DOS “Art of Atari” book by Tim Lapetino - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1524101036/?tag=flodaypod-20 News BASIC 10-liners contest - http://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/basic-10liners-2017 RetroChallenge 2017/04 - http://retrochallenge.tuxdriver.com/ Upcoming Shows VCF East - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/, March 31-April 2, 2017, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ CoCoFest - April 22 & 23, 2017 - Lombard, IL - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/index.shtml VCF Southeast 5.0 - April 29 & 30, 2017, Roswell, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/ TI Fest West - Saturday April 29th from 9 am to 5 pm,  Oak Tree Restaurant in Woodland, Washington - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/260465-fest-west-2017/ Pacific Commodore Expo at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle on June 10-11 2017 - https://www.facebook.com/events/1171192169619276/ KFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, July 18th-23rd Commodore Vegas Expo v13 - July 29-30, 2017, California Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex Vintage Computer Festival West - August 5-6, 2017, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west-xi/ VCFMW - September 9-10, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ , https://www.facebook.com/events/805945506224113/ Tandy Assembly - October 6-8, 2017 - Chillocothe, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/https://www.facebook.com/events/671911082972172/ Chicago TI International World’s Faire - October 15, Evanston, IL - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire World of Commodore - first weekend in December - Toronto - http://www.tpug.ca/ References “The home computer wars: An Insider's Account of Commodore and Jack Tramiel” by Michael Tomczyk - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0942386752/?tag=flodaypod-20 “The First Home Computer: 30 Years Later” by Michael Tomczyk - http://www.academia.edu/2242039/The_First_Home_Computer_30_Years_Later

In this episode of Antic the Atari 8-bit podcast: Nir Dary talks about all the available memory upgrade options (You need more memory!), we discuss what we’ve been up to in the Atari world, give you all the Atari 8-bit news that’s fit to print, and tell you about our “of-the-month” finds. READY 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   What we’ve been up to Vintage Computer Party in Indy - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/260834-indianapolis-area-vintage-computer-club/?hl=%2Bindy#entry3668612 Ultimate 1MB - http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=67 “Art of Atari” book by Tim Lapetino - http://amzn.to/2hrX54h “Atari Playground” by Fred D'Ignazio - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0810457709/?tag=ataripodcast-20 “Atari DOS 2.5 - 1050 Disk Drive Owner’s Manual” - http://www.atarimania.com/documents/Atari%20DOS%202.5%20-%201050%20Disk%20Drive%20Owner's%20Manual.pdf Kevin’s 2016 In Review - http://atariaction.tumblr.com/post/155282564737/2016-in-review Loyd Dorsett FBI FOIA Response Mark Reid — Getaway! archives and development documents Trinity and Seastalker: http://monsterfeet.com/grue/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/savetz News RECOIL 3.5.0 - View retro graphics formats: Atari, Amiga, Apple II, ZX81, more - http://www.techcentral.ie/recoil-3-5-0/ Mac GraphicConverter Awesome new 3D printed case for the Atari Ultimate Cart Dropcheck 1200XL Cartridge port extension ATR8000 on eBay The 8-bit High Score Club Season 14 - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/260911-high-score-club-season-14/ Pro(c) Atari Magazine Issue #12 &  Boxed Software - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/260700-p-r-o-c-a-t-a-r-i-issue-12-available-now/#entry3670879 Pro(c) Magazine Website - http://www.proc-atari.de/ Fairlight game -  http://atariteca.blogspot.com/2016/12/completan-port-de-fairlight-para.html Buy a piece of Atari stock! - http://scripophily.net/atcorfampion.html Joystick Breadboard Breakout - http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Joystick-Breadboard-Breakout-for-C64-VIC20-Atari-2600-VCS-Development/332087625644 Vintage is the New Old - http://www.vintageisthenewold.com/ Benj Edwards - “Baked at Atari” song - http://www.techsongs.com/index.php/2016/06/23/baked-at-atari/ https://soundcloud.com/benjedwards/baked-at-atari#t=0:00 Upcoming Shows: Atari Invasion - Feb. 18, 2017 - Marsveen, Holland - http://atari-invasion.nl/ VCF East - March 31 through April 2, 2017 - Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ VCF Southeast 4.0 - April 2 & 3, 2017, Roswell, GA - http://vcfse.org/ Tandy Assembly - October 6-8 - Chillocothe, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ https://www.facebook.com/events/671911082972172/ CoCoFest - April 22 & 23, 2017 - Lombard, IL - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/index.shtml KansasFest - July 18-23, 2017 - Kansas City, MO - http://www.kansasfest.org New at Archive.org https://archive.org/details/ForYourInformation https://archive.org/details/SilicaShop19880420 https://archive.org/details/Atari1200XLHomeComputerFieldServiceManualRev01 https://archive.org/details/Atari1027PrinterFieldServiceManualRev01 https://archive.org/details/Mosaic64KSelectNewsletterIssue1 Mark Reid — Getaway! archives and development documents https://archive.org/details/adventure-international-catalog-v2n4-1981 https://archive.org/details/adventure-international-catalog-v2n5-1982 https://archive.org/details/high-technology-software-catalog-1982 https://archive.org/details/the_tracer_201701 https://archive.org/details/book_atari_software_1983 Of-the-Month JOY-2-PIC Joystick to Microchip PIC MCU ICSP Programmer​ at Ataribits - http://ataribits.weebly.com/joy2pic.html Mathy van Nisselroy home page - http://www.mathyvannisselroy.nl/index.htm AtariLand - http://atariland.org/ - Rick Matias Nir Dary Segment - Memory Upgrades Memory upgrade tech info - http://home.arcor.de/walter.lojek/MyATARIHomepage/old_hp/MemUp/MemUp.HTM Memory upgrades banking scheme - http://www.atarimania.com/faq-atari-400-800-xl-xe-what-kinds-of-extra-ram-and-ramdisks-can-be-installed_73.html Software that support more than 64k ram - http://www.atarimania.com/faq-atari-400-800-xl-xe-what-programs-support-more-than-64k-ram_74.html Best Electronics 256k Memory upgrade kit - http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/800xl.htm#Wizz B&C ComputerVisions Memory upgrade - http://www.myatari.com/atarixlh.txt Lotharek Ultimate 1mb - http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=67 Ctirad 576XE external memory upgrade - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/232856-ram320xe576-order-thread/?hl=%20ctirad and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8M3wbwAzlQ Antonia 4MB memory upgrade - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/249405-new-4mb-ram-expansion/?hl=%20antonia and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkyXepEq4WI How to install ATARI 400 Upgrade to 48k from 16k - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBqqfqjb-x8 1MB Simm ram expansion - http://satantronic.atari.sk/?str=xe_1mbram Hiassoft 512k SRAM upgrade - http://www.horus.com/~hias/atari/#sram512k Byte Magazine Article on 256k memory upgrade - http://atariage.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=attach§ion=attach&attach_id=362652

Kevin interviews Bill Wilkinson, of Optimized Systems Software fame!   Links:   Bill’s INSIGHT: Atari column in Compute! Magazine   INSIDE ATARI DOS book by Bill   The development of Atari Basic and Atari DOS, article by Bill

Kevin interviews Paul Laughton.   Paul Laughton is the author of Apple DOS 3.1, Atari BASIC, the Atari DOS filesystem, and co-founder of Optimized Systems Software.     The Atari 400/800 and OSS at Paul's web site   Atari BASIC Source Book   Paul's BASIC for Android