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

ANTIC Episode 101 - “The Pronunciation Episode”
In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…We discuss the antics of the company that calls itself Atari and their purchase of AtariAge and bring you all the other Atari 8-bit news we could find, while mispronouncing names all over the place…
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
MULE Online with Thom, Wade, Robin - https://puzzud.itch.io/mule-online 
Muffinterm:
https://twitter.com/atari_bbs/status/1695216646338793591?s=20 
https://muffinterm.app 
VCFMW - http://www.vcfmw.org 
http://www.ataribbs.com/ 
https://www.southernamis.com/ 
SCAT - http://www.scatarians.org/ 
News
 Atari buys AtariAge:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/atari-acquires-atariage 
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354589-atariage-atari-qa/ 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattgardner1/2023/08/25/atari-revisits-weird-past-with-summer-camps-merch-range/?sh=33e01a086df3 
Interview with the new Atari CEO Wade Rosen on Mirror Gaming - https://youtu.be/l0Y2B9ljCv8?si=dV--bYuAFW7dqAyg 
Infocom's Z-Machine ATR generator - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354888-infocoms-z-machine-atr-generator/ 
FujiNet guide at SouthernAMIS - https://www.southernamis.com/_files/ugd/2800fc_3d4e4623a1f44862b46ccf643b9d65f0.pdf 
Preorder open of FujiNet Professional for Atari 8-Bit computers - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=374 
ATRFS: Mount ATR files as local directories under Linux or Mac - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354735-atrfs-mount-atr-files-as-local-directories-under-linux-or-mac/ 
RM 800XL update - https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html 
Silly Venture - https://sillyventure.eu 
Firefighter - https://tuxpaint.org/ftp/atari/games/firefighter/alpha/ and https://github.com/billkendrick/firefighter 
Popeye VBXE - https://www.indieretronews.com/2023/07/popeye-vbxe-another-arcade-port-but.html 
New 576NUC+ Daughter Board in the Works - https://ataribits.weebly.com/blog/new-576nuc-daughter-board-in-the-works 
Article on SillyVenture that just wrapped up - https://retrohclab.eu/the-silly-venture-2023-summer-edition-event-report-english/ 
ABBUC made a special English edition of its magazine to celebrate the Silly Venture 2023 Summer Edition - https://abbuc.de/2023/08/abbuc-magazine-special-edition-for-sillyventure-sommer-2023/ 
Pigwa collection - http://ftp.pigwa.net/ 
Damien Guard’s "ZX Origins" font collection over on Facebook - https://damieng.com/typography/zx-origins/ 
Atari 8-bit fonts - https://github.com/a8bit/EightBit-Atari-Fonts 
A Look Back at the Greatness of the Atari 800 and Its Games By Jamie Lendino - https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/celebrating-the-atari-800-and-its-games 
Backbit Pro Cartridge - https://store.backbit.io/product/backbit-pro/ 
New podcast “The 8 Bit Files” with Atari 8-bit content and hosts John and Dave - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-8-bit-files/episodes/007---Atari-8-bit-Computers-e26e53q
ATASCII Compo 3rd Edition 2023 - https://logiker.com/ATASCII 
Upcoming Shows
World of Retrocomputing - September 16-17 - Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - https://www.worldofretrocomputing.com/2023-worc-expo 
The Interim Computer Festival - Oct. 7-8 - Seattle, WA - https://sdf.org/icf/ 
Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 13-15, 2023 - 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 - https://ww

ANTIC Episode 100 (Or Episode 4 in Binary)
In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We celebrate our 100th (or is it the fourth, for you binary geeks out there?) episode by bringing you the latest news from across the Atari 8-bit computer landscape.
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 Atari newsletter at Internet Archive spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RkznDDlOL2O_K-RrbkajIuo6DvYof6Ajrn7j9NTcoDM/edit?usp=sharing 
All Current Notes at Internet Archive - https://archive.org/details/currentnotesnewsletter?tab=collection&sort=-addeddate 
MULE Online - http://muleonline.com 
Discord thread on the Atari BASIC AI model, led by Jason Moore - https://discord.gg/WnEcxSvtS 
News
AtariProjects, Jason Moore, back to publishing new material - https://atariprojects.org/ 
Ted Richards died (April) - https://archive.org/details/TedRichardsInterview 
Dealers Demo paper:
https://www.academia.edu/10744534/Computer_Dealer_Demos_Selling_Home_Computers_with_Bouncing_Balls_and_Animated_Logos?email_work_card=view-paper 
https://archive.org/details/computer-dealer-demos 
https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-434-michael-park-swan-and-fujiboink-demos-midi-maze 
Atari custom controllers - https://www.vikingvg.com/atari-controllers 
UgBASIC:
You can find the source by clicking here - https://github.com/.../main/examples/contrib_asm_mos6502.bas 
The IDE for Windows can be found here - https://spotlessmind1975.itch.io/ugbasic-ide 
Official site - https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/ 
Unijoysticle 2 800XL - gamepad for Atari 800XL: 
On sale at Tindie - https://www.tindie.com/products/riq/unijoysticle-2-800xl-gamepad-for-atari-800xl/ 
At VCF West - ​​https://twitter.com/ricardoquesada/status/1687706816044752896?s=20 
Game Cartridge Holder for Atari 400 & 800 - Tray Holds Up To 6 Games 400/800 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/175582283812 
WEAVE MASTER - The Textile Design Tool Atari 400/800/XL/XE Cartridge: 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/195892965783 
https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-315-sarah-haskell-computerized-weaving 
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/274921-atari-grad-school-thesis-weavemaster-and-designers-delight/?do=findComment&comment=5290125 
Atari FujiNet Updates:
High Score Enabled PAC-MAN - Thom Cherryhomes - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352884-high-score-enabled-pac-man-playthrough/ 
game-dos folder added to DOS folder on atari-apps - Thom Cherryhomes - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352878-game-dos-folder-added-to-dos-folder-on-atari-apps/ 
FujiNet Game Lobby - http://fujinet.online:8080/ 
A8PicoCart - electrotrains - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/351546-a8picocart-unocart-on-a-raspberry-pi-pico/ 
Sub(AVG)Cart - https://miscretro.com/product/subcart/ 
SVI-CAS (link is broken)
Poker Solitaire 2023 by Jerry White - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352920-poker-solitaire-2023-by-jerry-white/ 
Decent XE mechanical keyboard for Atari XE computers - ScreamingAtTheRadio - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352558-decent-xe-mechanical-keyboard-for-atari-xe-computers-how-to-order-one/ 
Upcoming Shows
Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 17-20 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2023-se 
Fujiama 2023 - Aug. 30 - Sep. 3 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2023/ 
VCF Midwest - September 9-10 - Waterford Banquets and Conference Center, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ 
The Interim Computer Festiva

ANTIC Episode 99 - 10-Year ANTICversary!
In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We bring in some of our Atari friends and talk about the last 10 years of Atari 8-bit happenings in this celebration of the ten-year anniversary of ANTIC!
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 
Interview index: here 
ANTIC Facebook Page 
AHCS 
Eaten By a Grue 
Next Without For 
Links for Items Mentioned in Show:
Scantastix project manual scanning - https://archive.org/search?query=identifier%3Astx_%2A&sort=-publicdate 
Editing VCFE videos - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_e5fSxflvrx86M2x_D5rQLIGjeffQuUM 
“How to Excel on Your Atari 600XL and 800XL” by Timothy Knight - https://archive.org/details/how-to-excel-on-your-atari 
“Let’s Learn BASIC” by Ben Shneiderman - https://archive.org/details/Let_s_Learn_BASIC 
Wade Ripkowski (Inverse ATASCII) text mode libraries for Action!, CC65, and MadPascal:
https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/A8ActionLibrary 
https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/A8CLibrary 
https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/A8MadPascalLibrary 
Inverse ATASCII web site: https://inverseatascii.info 
Atari Projects (Jason Moore) - https://atariprojects.org/ 
Bill Lange, Atari archivist - http://atari8bitads.blogspot.com/ 
Bill Kendrick, Atari game and utility programmer - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atari/ 
Atari Party events 
Robin McMullen, Player/Missile podcast https://playermissile.com/ 
Thom Cherryhomes, FujiNet - https://fujinet.online/ 
Atariteca: https://www.atariteca.net.pe/ 
VCF: https://vcfed.org 
Old School Gamer Magazine: https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/ 
Audacity Games (David Crane/Kitchen brothers, Circus Convoy): https://adgm.us/portal/index.html 
Jamie Lendino’s Books - https://www.amazon.com/s?k=jamie+lendino&crid=2BJGJAZOJ5A2P&sprefix=jamie+lendino%2Caps%2C98&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 
Jason Moore’s Book - https://www.amazon.com/Atari-Projects-Jason-Moore/dp/0578556421  
 

ANTIC Episode 98 - Don’t Toss Those Disks!
In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We talk about all the feedback we got concerning tossing or copying old non-commercial disks, we discuss the we-hope-it’s-not-vaporware RM800XL 800XL remake, we mention Thom Cherryhomes and FujiNet like 100 times, and all the other news we could find.
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 
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
“Apple II Age” by Laine Nooney - https://amzn.to/3BOxbPC 
Indy Classic Expo - http://indyclassic.org 
8-Bit Classics shop
Jakadapter Dual Atari joystick adapter v2 - http://kair.us/projects/jakadapter/index.html 
Happy 1050 from 8-Bit Classics 
ATR8000 -  https://www.atarimagazines.com/v3n4/ATR8000.html 
Brian Snyder (Reifsnyderb) and the 1090XL - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/318373-1090xl-remake/ 
Southern AMIS and Atari non-commercial disks - https://www.southernamis.com/ 
News
RM 800XL:
Home page - https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html 
Atariage - ​​https://forums.atariage.com/topic/350395-new-atari-800xl-revive-machine/#comment-5240788 
YouTube video by GenXGrownUp  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCv2v08Amnc 
Cease and desist tweet - https://twitter.com/atari_bbs/status/1654986930818531328 
 Bob Smith died:
ANTIC Interview 238 - Bob Smith: Video Pinball; Imagic co-founder; Sleazy Adventure
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/obituary-bob-smith-atari-2600-programmer-has-passed-away
https://twitter.com/SeamusBlackley/status/1657795929951571968 
FujiNet game server - https://twitter.com/tschak/status/1652819232067837952 
Computer Chronicles Revisited, Volume 5 (1987) by S.M. Oliva. - https://archive.org/details/computer-chronicles-revisited-vol-5 
8-bit Slicks - https://8bit-slicks.com/ 
FujiNet presentation from VCF East 2023 by Thom Cherryhomes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InQn_0nZ3Jo 
Leonard Tramiel recent interview - https://hanselminutes.com/892/computing-history-with-atari-and-commodores-leonard-tramiel 
Leonard Tramiel interview on Floppy Days - https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-104-interview-with-leonard-tramiel 
A8DS - An Atari 8-bit Emulator for the DS/DSi/XL/LL:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/a8ds-an-atari-8-bit-emulator-for-the-ds-dsi-xl-ll.632331/ 
https://github.com/wavemotion-dave/A8DS 
Using a #FujiNet, a SIDE 2 or 3 cart, and an Ultimate 1MB together (Thom Cherryhomes):
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/350148-using-a-fujinet-a-side-2-or-3-cart-and-an-ultimate1mb-together/ 
https://youtu.be/4mxJsTGNoGo 
PAS6502 - https://syntaxerrorsoftware.itch.io/pas6502 
ABBUC hardware and software contests 2023:
https://abbuc.de/aktivitaten/hardware-competition/ 
https://abbuc.de/aktivitaten/software-competition/ 
Atari XL/XE font maker for PC - https://github.com/matosimi/atari-fontmaker 
Inertia, new game for Atari 8-bit computers converted from 1990 original BBC Micro game - https://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=8440 
Fast BASIC starter project - Eric Carr - https://github.com/EricCarrGH/fastbasic-starterproject 
Upcoming Shows
The 64 bits or less Retro Gaming Festival - June 3-4 - Benton County Fairgrounds in Corvallis, Oregon (sponsored by the PortlandRetro Gaming Expo) - https://www.64bitsorless.com/ 
Boatfest Vintage Computer Exposition - June 23-25 - Hurricane, WV - http://boatfest.info 
VCF Southwest - June 23-25 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX - http://vcfsw.org 
KansasFest, the largest and longe

ANTIC Episode 97 - Don’t go to the Commodore Show!
In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Randy accidentally puts a link to an upcoming Commodore show in the show notes, we tell you how you too can emulate an Atari 1450XLD, and we give you the scoop on the Atari 8-bit entries in the BASIC 10-Liner Contest.
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 
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
Allan’s disks - http://a8preservation.com 
Ham sw:
https://archive.org/details/cw-5_atari 
https://archive.org/details/ham800 
https://archive.org/details/qsoham-master 
https://archive.org/details/stx_Datasoft_Alternate_Reality_The_City_manual_for_Macintosh 
Case for XEP80-II - https://thebrewingacademy.com/products/xep80-ii-by-mytek?variant=39627658690662 
576NUC+ - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer 
News
Atari Today - Andreas Bertelmann - http://www.ataritoday.net/ 
Retro Roundup - https://retroroundup.com 
a pair of 3D-printed hooks to hold your Atari 8-bit - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5336067 
All you need to display a Mastodon post in Atari BASIC, with FujiNet by Thom Cherryhomes - https://www.reddit.com/r/atari8bit/comments/11o9z40/all_you_need_to_display_a_mastodon_post_in_atari/ 
Retro Directory - https://retro.directory/ 
Reboots of Atari 8-bit games:
https://www.gamespress.com/Montezumas-Revenge-The-40-th-Anniversary-Edition-comes-to-modern-gamin 
https://atari.com/products/caverns-of-mars-recharged 
review of Caverns - https://cogconnected.com/review/caverns-of-mars-recharged-review/ 
Altirra now supports Atari 1400XL and 1450XLD:
https://mastodon.world/@Philsan/109982536080452626 
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/345943-altirra-410-released/page/6/#comment-5220269 
Atari XL - XE Sally to W65C02S adapter - Masteries - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/348982-atari-xl-xe-sally-to-w65c02s-adapter/ 
Updated version of the In-Store Demonstration Program - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/349203-in-store-demonstration-program/ 
ANALOG Computing Pocket Reference Card - SlagOMatic - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/349448-analog-computing-pocket-reference-card-redux/ 
BASIC 10-Liner Contest - https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium 
7 x Atari 8-Bit 10 Liner Contest Entries, Cracky (A8): ZeroPage Homebrew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTTfuTJ24r4 
ugBASIC - An isomorphic language for retrocomputers - https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/ 
AtariInside - https://www.atarinside.com/blog/ 
Upcoming Shows
VCF East 2023 - Apr 14-16, 2023 - InfoAge Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 
Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 29 & 30 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/ 
Boatfest Vintage Computer Exposition - June 23-25 - Hurricane, WV - http://boatfest.info 
VCF Southwest - June 23-25 - Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX - http://vcfsw.org 
Pacific Commodore Expo NW v4 - June 24-25 - “Interim” Computer Museum, Seattle, WA - https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=pacommex:start 
KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 18–23, 2023 (in-person), July 29–30, 2023 (virtual) - https://www.kansasfest.org/ 
Southern Fried Gaming Expo (VCF Southeast) - July 28-30 2023 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ 
Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 13-15, 2023 - Oregon Convention Center - https://retrogamingexpo.

ANTIC Episode 96 - Atari Dreams
In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we talk about development for the Atari 8-bit, discuss a couple of highly-modified 800’s, dream about sleeping on an Atari pillow, and bring you all the other Atari 8-bit news we could find!
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 
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
Converting Atari8BitBot to Mastodon with Papa Robot - @Atari8BitBot@oldbytes.space 
Scantastix - https://archive.org/search?query=identifier%3Astx_%2A&sort=-publicdate 
Dorm game - https://carringtonvanston.net/games/dorm/ 
ANTIC sign - https://m.aliexpress.us/item/3256804531104852.html 
BASIC 10-liner contest - https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium 
News
Action! Tutorial at YouTube by David Arlington - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ8ABW8rY40 
Browser-based Eastern Front 1941: 
https://www.reddit.com/r/computerwargames/comments/10qhqb2/playtesters_wanted_chris_crawfords_eastern_front/ 
https://github.com/patricksurry/eastern-front-1941 
How to Use Classic Atari, Commodore and Sinclair Software on Your Mac - https://appleinsider.com/inside/macos/tips/how-to-use-classic-atari-commodore-and-sinclair-software-on-your-mac 
Atari Software Pack - Dean Garraghty (Scotland) - DGS Software - http://www.dgs.clara.net/ 
APX Atlas program - https://community.a8preservation.com/t/dumps-dumps-dumps/205/579 
James Shackel passed away - https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/james-shackel-obituary?id=39585348 
SuperSIO Splitter by Sikor - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/314342-supersio-splitter/ 
Mr. Robot 3D printing models:
http://www.atari8bit.net 
https://www.printables.com/social/439944-mr-robot/models 
Readytari items at Red Bubble by Steve Boswell (Mr. Robot) - https://www.redbubble.com/people/choccyhobnob/works/52776330-readytari-ntsc?carousel_pos=21&ref=work_carousel_work_portfolio&ref_id=30853044 
Elite port - https://youtu.be/khhxWsZ7WC8 
Goto10 newsletter - https://www.goto10retro.com/ 
Mathy's new and improved homepage - https://mathyvannisselroy.nl/index.htm 
Compiling a new Atari OS By reifsnyderb - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/347696-compiling-a-new-atari-os/ 
hardware upgrades for all 8-bits by Brian Reifsnyder (reifsnyderb) - https://5cfab.com/ 
Weird Modded Atari 800 Computer - https://www.ebay.com/itm/255980663210 
Atari computer pillow - https://www.8bittees.com/product/atari-800-pillow/ 
Chip-8 emulation on Atari:
https://github.com/pkali/Chip-8 
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/82003-chip8-emulator-version-10/ 
5th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/347449-5th-annual-atari-homebrew-awards-voting-information-discussion/ 
Upcoming Shows
VCF East 2023 - Apr 14-16, 2023 - InfoAge Science and History Museums, Wall, NJ - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 
Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo - April 29 & 30 - Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Indianapolis, IN - https://indyclassic.org/ 
KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 18-23, 2023 - Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri - https://www.kansasfest.org/ 
Southern Fried Gaming Expo - July 28-30 2023 - Cobb Galleria Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ Keep an eye on the VCFSE section of the VCFED site for exhibit signups and more details.Use the discount code “INSERTCOIN” to save $5.
Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 13-15, 2023 - Oregon Convention Center - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ 
YouTube Videos
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