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In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: Kevin hobnobs with Atari celebrities at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Brad and Randy find out they’re podcast hosts #2 and #3, respectively, and together we cover all the Atari news that’s fit to print. 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 Donate to Ted Nelson project at: https://paypal.me/Savetz TEH: Tech Enthusiast Hour - https://tehpodcast.com What We’ve Been Up To 1088XLD by The Brewing Academy https://thebrewingacademy.com Charlie Kulas' Leafer Madness — Development Notebook - https://archive.org/details/LeaferMadnessDevelopmentNotebook/ , https://twitter.com/KevinSavetz/status/1190788999884886017 Incognito from Lotharek - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=275 Atari Projects book by Jason Moore - http://www.lulu.com/shop/jason-moore/atari-projects/paperback/product-24223087.html Atari 800 from Bill Lange - https://twitter.com/BillLange1968/status/1183407999492206593 Atari cartridge holder from Bill Lange - https://twitter.com/BillLange1968/status/1179041907978244096 Vintage computer sign - https://twitter.com/FloppyDays/status/1188147474604539904?s=20 Atari video cables from Corey Koltz, 8bitclassics - https://www.8bitclassics.com/ Atari News Team 6502 announces the launch of http://team6502.org Atari Tape Drive Turned Security DVR - https://hackaday.com/2019/11/01/atari-tape-drive-turned-security-dvr/ fan remake of Rescue on Fractalus (Lucasfilm Games, 1984) is in development - https://twitter.com/LucasfilmGames/status/1168913659080445953/photo/1 SDrive MAX from Vintage Computer Center - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product-category/atari Popeye hack http://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=7755 and http://www.indieretronews.com/2019/09/popeye-atari-8bit-arcade-classic.html?m=1 TransKey-II PS/2 Keyboard Adapter (Michael St. Pierre) - https://ataribits.weebly.com/tk-ii.html Moon Patrol Redux - https://vintageisthenewold.com/moon-patrol-redux-a-revamped-version-of-the-classic-game-for-the-atari-xl-xe/ and https://atariage.com/forums/topic/297535-moon-patrol-redux/ PRO(C) Atari #14 - WWW.PROC-ATARI.DE FLOP #64 - New Issue of the Floppy Disk Magazine - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/297963-flop-64-new-issue-of-the-floppy-disk-magazine/ A Compendium of Atari 8-bit Games - Volume One by Kieren Hawken - https://amzn.to/2JhxBTK Star Vagrant XL/XE Game - https://atariage.com/forums/topic/298001-star-vagrant-atari-xlxe-game/ and http://madsoft.us/en Atari Museum patreon - https://www.patreon.com/atarimuseum ABBUC Software Contest - http://www.abbuc.de/atari/software-ressort and http://atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?ct=nowinki&ucat=1&subaction=showfull&id=1572114881 Upcoming Shows with Atari Computers 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 April 24-26, 2020, Vintage Computer Festival East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east 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 8-bit and more - Mac/65 Assembler introduction video just posted for those who want to learn about the best assembler/debugger ever created - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5drPFoMi4A Atari XEGS “2 Systems in 1” Ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Z7MwLu8-4 Incognito (Flashjazzcat): Installing Incognito Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vduEeKiMcWA Installing Incognito Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNXDEm-E3pc Incognito: Unboxing, Observations and Additional Information - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oIqSevx8X0 Incognito: Hands-on (What it can do and how to do it) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAma2d_QQIE Demos from Poland (Miesiu): Garfield - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpHRc9HIapM Forever or Never - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjrvCjRhbPM Five to Five - Mirage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE3K7p2DqA8 Framed Again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLSmtltww7c New at Archive.org https://archive.org/details/Atari_Woodshop_Physical_Inventory_Procedures Allan Bushman: https://archive.org/details/metricandproblemsolvingatari https://archive.org/details/easternfront1941atariposter (Bill Lange) Parrot by Alpha Systems - https://archive.org/details/ParrotDigitalSoundSystem Atari catalog in italian - https://archive.org/details/atarihomecomputercatalogo1984 Atari 1050 disk drive users guide in Italian - https://archive.org/details/atari1050guidaalluso Atari 400 users guide (multilingual) - https://archive.org/details/atari400multilingualmanual Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell: Music for Soprano & Atari 800XL by Yoav Gal & Yael Kanarek - https://archive.org/details/cd_bit-by-bit-cell-by-cell-music-for-soprano_yoav-gal-yael-kanarek Listener Feedback Bombjack archive - http://commodore.bombjack.org/ Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. 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In today's Episode Andy is joined by Kieren Hawken. Today's episode is a tribute to the late great Ben Daglish who recently passed away. We play some of his music from varies 8bit computers and also talk about hiw his music stood out and will live on
On today's episode Andy is joined by a special guest Kieren Hawken, who is a retro gaming book writer, writer for Retro gamer,youtuber , atari expert and all round nice guy. Kieren tells us about his latest book "8 bit on a budget" https://unbound.com/books/8-bit-on-a-budget/ please check it out
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 What we’ve been up to 40 Great Flight Simulator Adventures - https://www.flightsimbooks.com/40gfsa/ Atari PILOT Source Code Nir Dary’s “Modern Atari 8bit Computer” channel on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmzjD_biYJ5hQf-MoK9Ztcw Atari Macro Assembler with Program Text Editor - http://mixinc.net/atari/amac.htm Atariteca - Giann Velasquez M - “Top seven upgrades for Atari computers” - http://atariteca.blogspot.pe/2016/10/siete-mejores-upgrades-para.html Randy’s presentation on modern upgrades at VCFMW 11 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNTiEZl30Fg Ultimate Cart runs by Santosp (Panagiotis Santos) VideoGames Hardware Handbook Volume 2 Revised Edition, 1977 to 2001, The Game Machine Collector’s Manual, From the Creators of Retro Gamer News Retrochallenge 2016/10 - http://retrochallenge.net/ Atari headphones article - http://thegadgetflow.com/portfolio/gameon-earphones-atari-roam/ Atari headphones at indiegogo - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gameon-sure-fit-earphones-studio-thumping-bass-headphones--3#/ Art of Atari hardcover by Tim Lapetino - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1524101036/?tag=ataripodcast-20 Atari Shows "Silly Venture" (http://www.sillyventure.eu/en/ ) November 11-13 (Friday-Sunday) in Gdansk, Poland Feb. 18, 2017 - "Atari Invasion", Marsveen, Holland - http://atari-invasion.nl/ VCF East - March 31 through April 2, 2017 - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ VCF Zurich, November 19 and 20, 2016 - http://www.vcfe.ch/ ABBUC 2016 hardware contest - http://www.abbuc.de/atari/hardware-ressort/80-hardware/hardwarewettbewerbe/1810-hardwarewettbewerb-2016 ABBUC 2016 software contest - http://www.abbuc.de/atari/software-ressort/81-software/softwarewettbewerbe/1795-software-wettbewerb-2016 Atari SIO plug at thingiverse - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1831769 Atari 8-bit Vs. Arcade - Part 9 - Kieren Hawken - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNDdIlYzVOo New at Archive.org https://archive.org/details/ServiceManualForTheAtari1050DiskDrive https://archive.org/details/AtariFlightSimulatorII https://archive.org/details/APXMankala VCF 1-4 audio - https://archive.org/details/vintagecomputerfederation?sort=-publicdate Also at http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/festival-audiovideo-archive/ Bill’s Modern Segment LaResistance website - http://laresistance.pigwa.net/ Crownland (2007, PAL, 128K (e.g., 130XE), final version) Crownland preview (2006, PAL, 64K, WIP; only one level) Crownland review from RGCD Issue #04, December 2007 "Racing the Beam" by MIT Press - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/racing-beam "Parallax Scrolling" article at Giant Bomb - http://www.giantbomb.com/parallax-scrolling/3015-2915/ "Parallax Scrolling" article at Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_scrolling "Jump! for the Atari 8-bit family" @ YouTube (Highretrogamelord) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGSTGTks6JI "Shadow of the Beast for 8-bit Atari" @ YouTube (CmdrJJA) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzWEpMl_kro "Amiga Longplay Shadow Of The Beast" @ YouTube (World of Longplays) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiAUZe_kL_Y "Flimbo's Quest Longplay (C64) [50FPS]" @ YouTube (Al82: Retrogaming Longplays & Reviews) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiCxXMquPKs "Parallax Demo" into at Atari 8-bit Forever - http://gury.atari8.info/demos/896.php "Revealing the secrets: A real 2 layer scroll on C64." - http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2922 "Atari Longplay - Crownland" @ YouTube (basicgamelover) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRuhcpSvXdk Feedback Living Computers: Museum + Labs - http://www.livingcomputers.org/
In Episode 3, we find out if the Choplifter! will be an uplifting experience, and we break out our loupe and peer into Crystal Castles to see if it's a cut above. Also, Kieren Hawken is back but this time he'll be bringing with him some of that British class live to our little show. This time we'll all review two budget titles; L.A. SWAT and Yogi Bear & Friends in The Greed Monster. Show Notes New Theme Song Software Remixes at Bandcamp ComputeHer (She's also part of 8 Bit Weapon) News Kieren's hosting "Revival" in July in Walsall, UK Bill's hosting "Atari Party" in July in Davis, California, USA Kieren's "Laird's Lair" channel, with lots of new stuff Fusion Retro Books, working on The Story Of The Atari ST In Pixels, may make an 8-bit one if there's interest The Atari XEGS Cart by Cart Podcast is now part of the Throwback Network Glen Planamento confirms The Ultimate Cart (SD multicart) works on Atari 400/800 (YouTube video) Rob "VectorGamer"'s TheRetrocade YouTube channel "bad-ass custom dust covers" thread on AtariAge Artcade by Bitmap Books is out (Kieren's review on YouTube) Photos from Sacramento Indie Arcade 2016 (Bill and others were there with Ataris) Search Google to learn about McWill's Lynx LCD upgrade Player/Missile Podcast is sorta back from hiatus ANTIC: The Atari 8-bit Podcast has been posting tons of interviews; check them out! Eight Bit Fix (Atari repair and sales) is selling new Atari 8-bit carts: Mr. Do! (new), Blaster (new), Space Harrier (homebrew port), Bruce Lee, and MIDIMaze (prototype) The next RetroGamer magazine will have an "Ultimate Guide to Mr. Do!", by Kieren Kickstarter for The Mastertronic Archives book Choplifter! Published by Atari Corp., 1988 Developed by Steve Aguirre, Sculptured Software Based on 1982 Brøderbund Software original, by Dan Gorlin Links: Atarimania Choplifter! (XEGS) Atarimania Choplifter! (1982 original) Other Reviews and Info: The Atari 7800 Game By Game Podcast, Episode 10 — Choplifter! & Karateka XE-Lent Arcade Games episode 14 ANTIC Podcast interview with Doug Carlston, Brøderbund Crystal Castles Published by Atari Corp., 1988 Developed by The Software Factory Based on Atari Inc. unreleased 1984 prototype, by Paul Metz and William Jahnke Where to buy: B & C ComputerVisions (1984 prototype): $30 Information Sources: Crystal Castles Wikipedia article Michael Current's A History of Tramel Technology / Atari Crystal Castles at Atarimania Paul Metz: 12/21/1961-8/27/2011 Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest 7800 game GDC Video: Making the Atari coin-op classic Crystal Castles Other Reviews and Info: No Quarter Podcast, episode 26 (arcade version) XL-Lent Arcade Games, part 13 AtariProtos review of 1984 prototype L.A. SWAT Published by Mastertronic, 1986 Developed by Randy Platt, Sculptured Software Information Sources: L.A. SWAT at Atarimania L.A. SWAT cover art Other Reviews and Info: Commodore 64 L.A. SWAT review video Amstrad CPC L.A. SWAT review L.A. SWAT at Moby Games Yogi Bear & Friends in The Greed Monster Published by Hi-Tec Software, 1990 Developed by Russell Knight (code) & Rich Morton (graphics), PAL Developments Information Sources: Yogi Bear & Friends... at Atarimania Other Reviews and Info: ZX Spectrum Yogi Bear... review by Crash magazine ZX Spectrum Yogi Bear... review by Your Sinclair magazine Amstrad CPC Yogi Bear... review Yogi Bear... at Moby Games
In Episode 2, we take to the skies with Blue Max, then dive down to the sewers to join the Mario Brothers. We also touch on Joust and Zaxxon, two games that share many similarities to our featured reviews. Kieren Hawken gives his two pence on Budget Titles, and we finally get to our user feedback. Show Notes New Theme Song Software Remixes at Bandcamp ComputeHer (She's also part of 8 Bit Weapon) News Bill's "Atari Party" in Northern California Sacramento Indie Arcade The Ultimate SD Mulitcart Missing Links (Ep 1.: Missile Command) 5200 Super Podcast Ep. 1: The Pac(k) Ins 5200 Super Podcast Ep. 3: TrakBallin' with Centipede and Missile Command 2600 Game by Game Podcast Ep. 49: Dodge 'Em & Missile Command Laird's Lair (Kieren Hawken)'s "XE-Lent Arcade Games Part 10" video Mario Bros. Published by Atari, 1988 Developed by Sculptured Software Information Sources: Mario Bros. (@Wikipedia) Mario Bros.: Classic Arcade Game Video, History & Game Play Overview (@ Arcade Classics) Mario Bros., XEGS version (@ Atarimania) Sculptured Software (@ Wikipedia) Other Reviews and Info: The Atari 7800 Game By Game Podcast, Episode 20 — Mario Bros. & Fight Night Videogame Critic (B+) Joust Developed and published by Atari, 1983 Where to buy: BEST Electronics: $21.50, $9.95 cart only B & C ComputerVisions: $29.95, $20 cart only Bravo Sierra: $20 Information Sources: Joust (video game) (@ Wikipedia) Joust (@ Atarimania) Other Reviews and Info: The Atari 7800 Game By Game Podcast, Epsidoe 5 — Galaga & Joust Laird's Lair XE-Lent Arcade Games, Part 5 Blue Max Original disk version (1983) Published by Synapse Software (aka SynSoft in the UK) & U.S. Gold Developed by Bob Polin XEGS cartridge port (1987) Published by Broderbund / Atari Developed by Sculptured Software Where to buy: BEST Electronics: $18 loose B & C ComputerVisions: $30 (in box), $20 cart only Information Sources: ANTIC VOL. 2, NO. 7 / OCTOBER 1983 COMPUTE! - Issue 44 Atari Mania - 7.8/10 "Blue Max - Atari XL/XE - With Runway Glitch and Commentary" (@ YouTube) ANTIC Interview w/ Bob Polin (Blue Max developer) ANTIC Interview w/ Ihor Wolosenko (co-founder of Synapse) Zaxxon Published by Sega, 1983 Developed by Ron J. Fortier, Datasoft (Disk and tape versions published by Datasoft and others) Information Sources: Zaxxon (@ Wikipedia) Zaxxon (@ Atarimania) Other Reviews and Info: Laird's Lair, XE-Lent Arcade Games - Part 7 Atari 5200 SuperPodcast, Ep. 2 2600 Game By Game Podcast, Ep. 10 Kieren Hawken on Budget Games Joe Blade Published by Players, 1988 Developed by Barry & Brian Southon Joe Blade (@ Atarimania) BMX Simulator Published by Code Masters, 1986 Developed by Adrian Sheppard (game), David Whittaker (sound/music) BMX Simulator (@ Atarimania)
Whilst Victor is arcading in 'Merica Shaun enlists the help of Paul and Phil from the Maximum Power Up podcast to talk about the famous brawler, Final Fight. We also share our secrets on how we got so ripped (in a little under 20 minutes using this one weird trick) for the show image. *cough* Photoshop *cough* Phil's Capcom vs fighter collection Some of Paul's SNES / SF collection TIMESTAMP: Intros and what we've been up to – 0m 0s Arcade News – 14m 3s Feedback – 22m 19s Featured Game Review – 39m 22s Art Of BOX Art – 1h 21m 16s Next Show's Game – 1h 25m 7s LINKS: Final Fight cabinet art kit Maximum Power Up Podcast Super Play top 100 SNES games Asteroids emulator (yes, emulator) on C64: Another great arcade conversion comes to the C64 (Frogger): (Bandai) Namco are releasing their classics on the new platforms of XB1, PS4, and Steam. Raspberry Pi2 multi-game Jamma board conversion: Nice little retrospective series from Kieren Hawken (1976 - 77): Nice little retrospective series from Kieren Hawken (1978): Detailed article on the history of arcades from The Verge: Deathsmiles coming to Steam in 2016 Carnival from Gremlin / Sega Silver Coin Arcade museum exhibit Final Fight games at HG101 ExMosquito Final Fight 1CC YouTube FINAL FIGHT SCOREBOARD: ExMosquito - 2,301,950 (on an Astro City with GroovyMame and CRT drivers) Madste - 506,840 Zipper - 489,900 PhillV85 - 307,380 Dan Smash - 297,850 Paul Maximum Power Up - 273,990 Stacey King - 251,450 Ian Cullen - 210,750 Shaun - 206,220 Stephen Baker - 189,000 Andrew Anderson - 173,940 Phil Maximum Power Up - 173,020 Andrew Driver - 146,750 Victor - NO! (90K. Not playing. Does not like.) Eddhorse - 86,990 (with hooves) THE ART OF SIDE BOX ART: Muscle Bomber, Super Famicom NEXT SHOW'S GAME: Vic's pick. Kung-Fu Master, Irem, 1984. Difficulty = easy, Energy loss = slow, Lives = 3, ‘World' rom.
On this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit codpast: interviews with atari author and enthusiast Kieren Hawken; and Dale Yocum, the guy who thought up Atari Program Exchange. And Bill kendrick complains and ends up with his own segment, reviewing Space harrier. . . And we don’t talk about the Atari Dump Dig. Links mentioned in this episode: Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevins Book “Terrible Nerd” New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge What We’ve Been Up To Maker Faire Atlanta Arduino KansasFest CC65 Briel Computers Ten Pence Arcade Defcon Pro(c) Magazine -Euro 5,00 / World incl. postage. Payment by PayPal to 8bit@proc-atari.de News Nolan Bushnell interview on Retro Obscura - Discussion on AtariAge Nolan Bushnell interview on Retro Obscura Dump Dig movie trailer. movie to be titled “Atari: Game Over” RetroChallenge 2014 RetroChallenge 2014 - Earl Evans’ entry Atari SAP Music Archive Classic Gaming Expo VCF Midwest Portland Retro Gaming Expo Player/Missile Atari Podcast Translating ATASCII text files to ASCII text files on AtariAge "Invenies Verba" for Atari 8-bit by Bill Kendrick on YouTube Archive.org Atari Emulator Screenshots Bill Kendrick’s Modern Segment Chris Hutt's website (Wayback Machine archive)Chris Hutt's YouTube channelRelease announcement on AtariAge forums (with video and download link)AtariMania entry Software of the Month Atari 800 Best Game Pack Hardware of the Month Atari-styled USB Joystick Website of the Month Once Upon Atari AtariMania Listener Feedback James Hague’s DaisyPop iPhone Game on iTunes Computer Art and Animation: A User's Guide to Atari LOGO Atari800MacX Interview - Kieren Hawken Retro Video Gamer Homebrew Heroes Revival Retro Event ROM Retro Event Retro Gamer Magazine Atari User Nolan Bushnell Interview by Kieren on YouTube Interview - Dale Yocum Unedited version of Interview at Archive.org Closing Atari Tape Music
The Intellivisionaries - Episode 6. We do our traditional "deep dive" game review; this time it's The Dreadnaught Factor from Activision. We interview the programmer / designer of the game, Tom Loughry. We also interview Kieren Hawken (aka "The Laird") from Retro Video Gamer in the UK. And this month we have a special guest host, Kevin Savetz - author of "Terrible Nerd", one of the hosts of Antic: The Atari 8-bit Podcast, and an Intellivision collector. And all the feedback, news and fun you've come to expect from our show is here too.