Ep. 31: Dec 1982: Magazines, Part 1 Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

Coverage of Antic, Compute!, Creative Computing, Dec 1982. Chris Crawford on Legionnaire, first rumors of the IBM PCjr, and two articles predicting the future: Compute! does OK while Creative Computing gets a bunch of whammies. Also: Bullwinkle’s restaurant, sexism and mansplaining about whether educational software should ask kids their gender, and Bahrain doctors, video games & epilepsy.


Magazines

Atari 8-bit magazines


Antic

Antic Vol 1, #5
Stratos by Neil Larimer
ANTIC Podcast interview with Linda Schreiber
Legionnaire by Chris Crawford




Compute!

Compute #31
IBM PCjr
HP 85 Computer
Xanadu, the Home of the Future
Monrobot desk computer




Creative Computing

Creative Computing Vol 8, #12
CIA World Factbook on Bahrain






Production Notes

Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page
Episode page: Episode 31
Twitter: @atari8bitgames