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

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

ANTIC Interview 435 - Cynthia Solomon and Brian Silverman - Logo
Hello, and welcome to this interview-only episode of ANTIC, The Atari 8-bit computer podcast.  I’m Randy Kindig, your host for this episode.
Cynthia Solomon is an American computer scientist known for her work in artificial intelligence and making popular computer science for students. She is a pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science, and educational computing.
Together with Seymour Papert and Wally Feurzeig, Cynthia designed the Logo computer programming language in 1967.
Dr. Solomon has attained many accomplishments in her life such as being the vice president of R&D for Logo Computer Systems, Inc., when Apple Logo was developed and was the Director of the Atari Cambridge Research Laboratory.
Brian Silverman is a Canadian computer scientist, the creator of many programming environments for children, and a researcher in cellular automata.
As a student at MIT, Brian had worked with Seymour Papert, one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and when Papert founded Logo Computer Systems, Inc. in 1980 to commercialize the Logo programming language, Brian became its director of research.  Brian was responsible for the development of Logo for the Atari 8-bit line of computers.
This interview took place on May 27, 2022.
Links
Logoworks: Challenging Programs in Logo by Cynthia Solomon, Margaret Minsky, Brian Harvey - https://www.amazon.com/Logoworks-Challenging-Programs-Logo-books/dp/007042425X 
Atari Cambridge Research 1982-84 -  https://logothings.github.io/logothings/AtariResearch.html 
Atari Logo at Atarimania - http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-atari-logo_15782.html 
Brian’s work at Playful Invention Company - https://www.playfulinvention.com/ 
ANTIC episode 29 (Turtle-y Goodness) with Atari Logo content - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episode-29-turtle-y-goodness 

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