ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold

ANTIC Episode 106 - Thom, do you ever sleep!?
In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we cover all the recent contests involving new Atari software development, bring you all the other Atari news we could find, and marvel at the stamina of Thom Cherryhomes…
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
Atari’s 1986 prospectus and form S-1 - https://archive.org/details/atari-corp 
Titan game - https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-titan_6337.html 
https://archive.org/details/tbace-thunder-bay-atari-computer-enthusiasts/TBACE-1985-01%20Minutes/ 
2.4A power supply for XL/XE from 8bitclassics.com - https://www.8bitclassics.com/product/atari-xl-xe-2-4a-amp-power-adapter/ (affiliate link) 
80-column card for 1090XL - Brian Reifsnyder - https://www.tindie.com/products/5cfab/80-column-rpp-board-for-the-atari-1090xl1091xl/ 
News
Custom floppy disk envelopes - https://ataricovers.com/ 
Atari 400 mini started shipping! (3/28) - https://atari.com/products/atari-400-mini-1 
BASIC 10-Liner Contest - https://www.homeputerium.de/ 
Vitoco has bundled Atari 8 Bit computer games competing in the BASIC 10 Liners Contest 2024 into a single disk - https://www.vitoco.cl/atari/10liner/NOMAM2024.atr 
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/21/video-poker-takes-your-money-in-10-lines-of-basic/ 
6th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/356719-6th-annual-atari-homebrew-awards-voting-information-discussion/ 
Atari in a suitcase - https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2142412709436907&set=gm.7187337001303744&idorvanity=181644898539691 
Anode chat - you can use Anode chat and talk on the Fujinet discord to the anode channel - TNFS://fujinet.pl/anode/anode.xex  and search in it for "chat" - you'll need to register with the anode server first
Including ACTION! code from GitHub - Thom Cherryhomes:
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/363311-including-action-code-from-github-yes/ 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W49Uxf-UDk 
FujiNet Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/fujinet/ 
ABBUC Software Competition 2024 opened:
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/363297-abbuc-software-competition-2024-opened/
You can find all the rules here - https://abbuc.de/aktivitaten/software-competition/ 
ABBUC hardware contest 2024 starts now:
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/363122-abbuc-hardware-contest-2024-starts-now/ 
You can find the rules here - Rules AHC 2024
YAIL (Yet Another Image Loader) - YouTube video by Thom Cherryhomes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o54Ds-DwGJI&t=6s 
https://www.southernamis.com/baudday 
Best Old School Tech Super Bowl Commercials, Ranked (Gizmodo) - https://gizmodo.com/best-vintage-tech-super-bowl-commercials-ranked-1851235860 
Atari computer commercial (Atari: Get Started, 1984, with Alan Alda) #7 on the list - https://gizmodo.com/best-vintage-tech-super-bowl-commercials-ranked-1851235860/slides/5 
Upcoming Shows
Midwest Gaming Classic - April 5-7 - Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee, WI - https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ 
VCF East - April 12-14, 2024 - Wall, NJ - http://www.vcfed.org 
Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 13-14 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/ 
VCF Europa - April 27-28, 2024 - Munich, Germany - https://vcfe.org/E/ 
VCF Southwest - June 14-16, 2024 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - https://www.vcfsw.org/ 
Boatfest Retro Computer Expo - June 14-16 - Hurricane, WV - http://boatfest.info 
Southern Fried Gaming Exp

ANTIC Episode 105 - Secret Club Meeting with Andy Diller
In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we pull together our secret club of Atari hackers, including special guest Andy Diller, and talk FujiNet, archiving disks, VCF SoCal, VCF East, listener feedback and more in an extra-long episode.
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
FujiNet Updates
FujiNet has a cheatsheet- on the wiki - a wealth of info
Wiki: https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-firmware/wiki 
FujiNet GPT: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-QRB9PLLB4-fujinet 
Virtual FujiNet in a File - virtual machine created for virtual box or vmware
https://fujinet-vm.readthedocs.io/ 
FujiNet board for 1090XL
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/350518-fujinet-on-the-1090xl-expansion-system/?do=findComment&comment=5368425
Atari Classroom at VCF East 2024 in April 
https://vcfed.org/vcf-east-computer-classroom/ 
SWAG: FujiNet, Signed BREAKOUT, VCF bag, Classroom T Shirt
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/celebrating-the-atari-800-and-its-games 
Classes: FujiNet, ACTION!, BASIC, Assembly - info on http://www.vcfed.org 
NOS updates- help and binary saves, read from SD card, XEP80 support
https://github.com/michaelsternberg/fujinet-nhandler/releases 
FujiNet on 2600 - JeffP is actively working on this
Al_Nafuur on discord playing with a 2600 version of 5 Card Stud? - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359421-fujinet-for-atari-2600/?do=fi 
1090XL expansion unit and 320K RAM board - reifsnyderb 
Discussion - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/333084-swutils-simcheck-simtest-osdump/ 
Purchase - https://www.tindie.com/products/5cfab/1090xl-modernized-reproduction-main-board/ 
Jersey Atari Computer Group newsletter and PD library archiving:
JACG newsletter and PD disks discussion - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/313036-jersey-atari-computer-group-jacg-disk-archive/ 
Some archived PD disks - https://archive.org/details/jacg-disks1 
VCF SoCal - http://www.vcfsocal.com 
Jason Moore - https://atariprojects.org/ 
Rob Sherman - AtariBBS - ​​https://www.southernamis.com/ 
The VintNerd - https://thevintnerd.com/index.html 
Thom Cherryhomes - FujiNet - https://fujinet.online/ 
Steve & Jeff Fulton - https://intotheverticalblank.com/ 
Atari Demo Compilation tape 
ANTIC Interview 413 - Valerie (Atkinson) Manfull, Atari Game Research Group (2021 interview) 
Computer History Museum 
Lee Pappas Interview - ANTIC Interview 19 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Lee Pappas, ANALOG (2015) 
News
Atari 400 Mini!!! - https://atari.com/products/atari-400-mini-1 
Other “Company that calls itself Atari” shenanigans —
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/tourism/plans-for-atari-themed-hotel-in-las-vegas-not-dead-yet-2983080 
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/atari-spins-limited-series-documentary-191500837.html 
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/01/atari-goes-celestial-in-new-lunar-lander-beyond-narrative-trailer 
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/19/atari-files-for-trademark-on-rogue-a-44-year-old-game-it-did-not-make-and-does-not-appear-to-own.html 
https://www.anbmedia.com/news/2024/02/atari-sets-celebrity-game-show-in-motion/ 
https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/atari-celebrity-game-show/ 
AtariAge High Score Club - therealbountybob - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/360206-hsc21-round-1-super-pacman-new-season-jan-2024-join-in/ 
CHIP-8 interpreter updates:
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/82003-chip8-emulator-version-

ANTIC Episode 104 - You’re Gonna Label Me a Failure
In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Kay plays with Pokey the AI chatbot some more, Kay’s cat tries to smack Randy in the head, we discuss what happens if we don’t meet our interview goals (hint: Randy will be labeled a failure), and we bring you all the Atari 8-bit news from the last month of 2023
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
The genealogy program Max Derhak mentioned when he was interviewed in 2014 was just found - http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-adam-trace_42271.html 
Antic Magazine v1n3, v1n4 and v1n5 (Aug, Oct and Nov 1982) software - https://www.atarimagazines.com/software/software.html 
Space War source - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/358800-apx-space-war-source-code-for-you/ 
Wade’s podcast link - https://inverseatascii.info/ 
Kay’s 2023 Wrapped - https://www.patreon.com/posts/kays-2023-95465097
Kay’s Juiced.GS articles - https://archive.org/search?query=identifier%3Asavetzarticle_* 
Recent Interviews
ANTIC Interview 436 - Rodrigo Castro, Atari in Chile 
News
Digital Eclipse announces Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story - https://www.gamesasylum.com/2023/12/06/digital-eclipse-announces-llamasoft-the-jeff-minter-story/
VCF East 2024: Dean Notarnicola - http://www.vcfed.org 
It’s Alive! - RM800XL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_5IXmZHu_Y 
Archer Maclean A8 Defender and Stargate: 
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2023/12/defender/ 
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2023/12/stargate-2/ 
Altirra 4.20 released - https://www.virtualdub.org/altirra.html 
Homemade 300 baud modem - JohnPolka AKA Mark - https://www.southernamis.com/forum/general-discussions/homemade-300-baud-modem-from-the-80s 
2023 Advanced PCB Remake For the 800XL -- Revision 1.1 - reifsynderb - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357302-2023-advanced-pcb-remake-for-the-800xl-revision-11/ 
Forgotten Gems: Lucasfilm's Rescue on Fractalus! At IGN: 
https://www.ign.com/articles/forgotten-gems-lucasfilms-rescue-on-fractalus 
ANTIC Interview 37 - David Fox, Lucas Arts/Rescue on Fractalus 
New FujiNet HighScoreEnabled Games! - Tom Cherryhomes - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/358628-new-highscoreenabled-games/ 
Pokey - https://chat.openai.com/g/g-t3fdHnbbK-pokey-the-atari-guru 
Tenebra 2 ported to Atari 8-bit (tip of the hat to Philsan):
Video: https://youtu.be/Owg8E8ZyGNU  
Download: https://h4plo.itch.io/tenebra-2 
Enjoy 2024 New Years Disk - https://ppsberlin.de/ppsberlin/downloads/new-years-disc/58-nyd2024 
Jerry White's Poker Solitaire 2024:
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359008-jerry-whites-poker-solitaire-2024/ 
http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-poker-solitaire-2024_42465.html 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeGwMqngN08 
Upcoming Shows
Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 17-18, 2024 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - vcfsocal.com 
Interim Computer Festival SPRING - March 23rd and 24th, 2024 - Intraspace, Seattle, WA - https://sdf.org/icf/ 
Midwest Gaming Classic - April 5-7 - Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee, WI - https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ 
VCF East - April 12-14, 2024 - Wall, NJ - http://www.vcfed.org 
Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 13-14 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/ 
VCF Europa - April 27-28, 2024 - Munich, Germany - https://vcfe.org/E/ 
VCF Southwest - June 14-16, 2024 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Ce

Rodrigo Castro, Atari in Chile
 
Rodrigo Castro was one of the organizers of an Atari Expo that took place July 22, 2023 in Santiago, Chile. He told me it was probably the largest Atari show in that country to date, with an estimated 300 attendees. Panelists included Robert Jaeger, creator of Montezuma's Revenge, who attended via videoconference.
 
Rod and I talked about that event, as well as Atari's popularity in Chile, in this interview that took place on December 15, 2023.
 
Video from Expo Atari Chile 2023
 
Chilean Atari magazine and newsletter scans
 
ANTIC Interview 320 - Robert Jaeger, Montezuma's Revenge
 
Kay's XC-11 Program Recorder

ANTIC Episode 103 - POKEY The Atari Guru
In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…results of the ABBUC 2023 Software Contest, upcoming 2024 shows (and an Atari Party yet in 2023), and Kay has a great time testing out POKEY The Atari Guru…
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
QSO Today Episode 475 Kay Savetz - https://archive.org/details/qso-today-475 
The 1056 Board -- Atari 400 1056k Memory Upgrade - https://www.ebay.com/itm/275939475102 
News
Version 6.4.0 of the RECOIL (Retro Computer Image Library) graphics browser - http://recoil.sourceforge.net 
POKEY The Atari Guru by Andy Diller - https://chat.openai.com/g/g-t3fdHnbbK-pokey-the-atari-guru 
 Atari 8-bit clubs - https://www.virtualatari.org/user-groups.html 
ABACUS - Atari Bay Area Computer User Society --  https://www.abacusonline.org/
ABBUC - Atari Bit Byter User Club --  https://www.abbuc.de/
ABBUC HAR - Hanover ABBUC Regional Group --  https://www.bertelmann.org/har/
ABBUC RAF - Frankfurt ABBUC Regional Group --  https://www.abbuc-raf.de/
ABBUC RENO - ABBUC Regional Group North --  https://andymanone.dyndns.org/reno/
ACEC - Atari Computer Enthusiasts of Columbus -- https://acec.atari.org/
AKPV - Atariklub Prostejov --  https://atariklub.prostejov.cz/
CCC - Chestnut Computer Club (UK) -- https://homepage.ntlworld.com/derryck123/
HA - HispAtari - El porto hispano de Usarios de Atari -- https://hispatari.mforos.com/
Rose City Atari Club http://www.rosecityatariclub.com/ 
SAK - The Swedish Atari Club (Svenska Atariklubben) -- https://www.sak.nu/
SCAT - Suburban Chicago ATarians --  https://www.scatarians.org/
SPACE - Saint Paul Atari Computer Enthusiasts --  https://space.atari.org/ 
Terry Stewart new video on Atari 800 - https://x.com/classiccomputNZ/status/1723091786619658314 
ABBUC software contest 2023 - All entries in ABBUC Special Magazine 53 and on associate disk: 
ABBUC official results - https://abbuc.de/2023/10/ergebnis-abbuc-software-wettbewerb-2023-result-abbuc-software-contest-2023/ 
Thread at AtariAge - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/350228-abbuc-software-contest-2023/ 
Zero Page Homebrew, Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9UAk2Zsfc 
Zero Page Homebrew, Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKL0rPzVvLY 
Videos of the top 5 ABBUC winners:
Time Wizard by Krzysztof "Amarok" Piotrowski - video by Saberman RetroNews 
Night Knight by Lars Langhans - video by Saberman RetroNews 
Zauberball by Olivier Cyranka - video by Saberman RetroNews 
Double by PopMilo - video by Saberman RetroNews 
Der Schranker 3 by Janko Grewe - video by Saberman RetroNews 
Atari WozMon by freetz - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352757-atari-wozmon-for-abbuc-software-contest-2023/ 
Zylon Defenders, iOS game tribute to 1979 Atari 8 Bit computers killer app Star Raiders 
Apple Store - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zylon-defenders/id1191618583
Github - https://github.com/jglasse/ZylonDefenders 
New Atari podcast from Wade (Inverse ATASCII) called The ANTIC Files - https://inverseatascii.info/ 
Atari 8-Bit/5200 Homebrew Games Released/Completed/WIP in 2023 - Zero Page Homebrew - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/345916-atari-8-bit5200-homebrew-games-releasedcompletedwip-in-2023/ 
Celebrating the Iconic Atari Logo - AUSRETROGAMER - https://ausretrogamer.com/celebrating-the-iconic-atari-logo/ 
Upcoming Shows
Atari Party 2023! - Saturday, December 2, 2023, 1pm to 4pm - Quakertown Train Station, Quakertown, PA - https://quakerto

ANTIC Episode 102 - Randy, You Used to be a Nice Guy!
In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… All the Atari 8-bit news for this month, Kay breaks his Atari mug, Brad impersonates Kay, Kay decides to start up a cable company, and Randy changes in retirement …
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
ICD Atari 8-Bit Info - https://archive.org/details/icd-atari-8-bit-info-flyer 
ICD Multi I/O Board Manual - https://archive.org/details/icd-multi-io-board-manual 
EPG Jr. thread on AtariAge - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/171349-prevue-guide-epg-jr-reverse-engineering/ 
The Atari 8-Bit FujiNet N: device, in Perspective by Thom Cherryhomes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqz_AZgxaVY 
Atari 130XE Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner (Retro Reproductions) (sponsored link) - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1789824338?tag=ataripodcast-20 
A8PicoCart - https://github.com/robinhedwards/A8PicoCart 
ABBUC Annual General Meeting 10/22 - http://abbuc.de 
Fastbasic install for Mac! - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EricCarr.fastbasic-debugger 
Interviews
Cynthia Solomon and Brian Silverman (video to come) -  https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-435-cynthia-solomon-and-brian-silverman-logo 
News
GTIAdigitizer HDMI output, by c0pperdragon:
https://www.tindie.com/products/c0pperdragon/gtiadigitizer/
https://www.tindie.com/products/c0pperdragon/rgbtohdmi-mono-lumacode/
New Fujinet resource (ABBUC) - tnfs://fujinet.atari.social 
FujiNet release 1.2 - https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-platformio/releases/tag/v1.2.0 
FujiNet RAPID by massiverobot - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/355710-rapid/ 
130XE keyboard replacement:
https://x.com/mindthreat/status/1705197317551239289?s=20 
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352558-decent-xe-mechanical-keyboard-for-atari-xe-computers-how-to-order-one/ 
ultra-small DOS called uDOS - https://abbuc.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1130 
Super SpartaDOS X cartridges now available from COREi64:
Announcement at AtariAge - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/355946-super-spartados-x-cartridges-now-available/ 
Buy here - https://corei64.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=444 
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/how-to-make-almost-any-computer-a-modern-day-plato-terminal/ 
Pro(c) Atari Issue 16 - https://proc-atari.de 
Pitfall II's Secret Sequel - https://www.ign.com/articles/pitfall-iis-secret-sequel 
SDrive mini at Lotharek - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=375 
Starring the Computer - https://www.starringthecomputer.com/ 
Revive 800XL Update (requires Twitter account) - https://twitter.com/rm_800xl?fbclid=IwAR2VhqAhUSnp3HwbcIOcTY7M7UvfKsDhC8PWKG9czYigmmXNVaE53z7CVC0 
Upcoming Shows (Remaining in 2023 and first half of 2024)
Atari Party 2023! - Saturday, December 2, 2023, 1pm to 4pm - Quakertown Train Station, Quakertown, PA - https://quakertowntrainstation.org 
Vintage Computer Festival SoCal - February 17-18, 2024 - Hotel Fera Events Center, Orange, CA - vcfsocal.com 
Midwest Gaming Classic - April 5-7 - Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee, WI - https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ 
VCF East - April 5-7, 2024 - Wall, NJ - http://www.vcfed.org 
Indy Classic Computer & Video Game Expo - April 13-14 - Indianapolis, IN - http://www.indyclassic.org 
VCF Southwest - June 14-16, 2024 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas - https://www.vcfsw.org/ 
not a show, but an Atari user group meeting - There’s one at the Nati