Nick Kennedy, SIO2PC and the ATR File Format   Nick Kennedy is the creator of SIO2PC, the hardware and software combination that allowed Atari 8-bit computer users to use a PC as a peripheral. In 1989, this was unprecedented, a new way to connect the little Atari to the bigger world, to the (relatively) massive storage and speed of a computer running PC-DOS. For the first time, Ataris could use a PC as storage, RAM disk, and printer. Nick also created the .ATR file format, which quickly became the standard for using virtual floppy disks on Atari emulators.   Nick also created 10502PC, a cable that let you connect an Atari floppy drive directly to a PC; and AtariCOM, a less well-known utility that allowed two Atari 8-Bit computers to communicate using the SIO and joystick ports. And, he created Atari-based amateur radio tools: a terminal program for packet radio, and Morse code keyer software, which he and I talked about in detail in our previous interview.   This interview took place on November 1, 2024.   Video version of this interview on YouTube   Nick's web site   Nick's SIO2PC page   Previous interview with Nick about ham radio: ANTIC Interview 441 - Nick Kennedy, Atari Morse Code Keyer   ANTIC Interview 144 - Stephen Lawrow, Mac/65 assembler   Bob Woolley's Review of SIO2PC in Atari Interface Magazine 1991-01   1993 Atari Classics article: SIO2PC: Slave An IBM To Your 8-Bit   The .ATR File Format   ANTIC Interview 441 - Nick Kennedy, Atari Morse Code Keyer   AtariCom software   DAK catalogs   Best Electronics   Mapping the Atari by Ian Chadwick   AtariMax APE and ProSystem   Old Hackers Atari User Group newsletter disks   Nick Kennedy on AtariAge   Support Kay's interviews on Patreon

Rick Reaser, Current Notes Magazine's 8-bit Editor   Rick Reaser was the 8-bit Editor of Current Notes Magazine, a popular magazine dedicated to the Atari computers. He began in 1992, and wrote a column called 8-Bit Tidbits. Rick used his Atari 8-bit computer exclusively through his college years and for programming for grad school. He was also president of P3ACE - Pikes Peak Poke Atari Computer Enthusiasts - a user group serving the Colorado Springs area.   This interview took place on February 11, 2023.   Video version of this interview at YouTube   P3ACE newsletters   Rick's "Atari Revolution" quote   Current Notes at Internet Archive   The Current Notes issue Kay received from Rick   Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth   Rick's letter to Antic Magazine Volume 7 Number 11 "My kids love Talking Toddle"   Support Kay's interviews on Patreon

Bob Stein, Atari’s Encyclopedia Project   Bob Stein worked at Atari Research for 18 months beginning in 1981. He was hired by Alan Kay. He worked almost exclusively on an encyclopedia project, a potential collaboration between Atari and Encyclopaedia Britannica that never went anywhere.   I learned about Bob after he uploaded an item called The Atari Drawings to Internet Archive. It's a collection of nine colorful pencil drawings, drawn in 1982 by Disney animator Glen Keane. The drawings depict futuristic scenarios where people use a computerized encyclopedia to get information: for instance, "An earthquake wakes a couple in the middle of the night. The Intelligent Encyclopedia, connected to an online service, informs them of the severity of the earthquake and makes safety tips readily available." and "A mother and her children looking into a tidepool in Laguna ask the Intelligent Encyclopedia about the plants and animals that they see."   Bob described the collection of art in his introduction to the document:   "In 1982 executives from Warner, Inc., Atari's parent company, were scheduled to visit the Research Lab where the Encyclopedia Project was located. Brenda Laurel and I came up with these scenarios to give the execs a sense of what we were working toward. The drawings were made by Disney animator, Glen Keane.   When you look at these, remember they were made 16 years before Google and 12 years before Yahoo, even 8 years before the earliest web-based search engines.   That said, one of the most interesting things about these scenarios as seen today, is that with the exception of the image of the architect and the teacher none of them indicated any inkling that the most important element of the web to come was that it would bring people into contact with each other. What we see here is almost entirely people accessing content from a central server, no sense that we would be communicating with each other or uploading our own contributions to the collective culture. My own explanation for this lapse focuses on the print-era mentality that saw readers purely as consumers of content."   Bob saved and scanned a large number of materials from his time at Atari, and uploaded them to Internet Archive. In addition to the scans of Keane's Atari Drawings, the documents include memos about the encyclopedia project and a transcript of a 1982 seminar for Atari Research featuring Charles Van Doren. Check the show notes for those links.   After Atari, Bob was co-founder of The Criterion Collection, which restores and distributes important classic films; and co-founder of The Voyager Company, the first commercial multimedia CD-ROM publisher. In 2004, he co-founded The Institute for the Future of the Book, a think tank "investigating the evolution of discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens."   This interview took place December 16, 2023.   Video version of this interview at YouTube   The Atari Drawings   ANTIC Interview 420 - Brenda Laurel, Atari Research   Whither The Encyclopedia Project - Atari Encyclopedia Project memos   Back to the Future -- In honor of Encyclopedia Britannica giving up its print edition (Wayback machine)   Stein Kay Atari Memos Pt 1   Stein Kay Atari Memos Pt 2   Exchange With Steve Weyer And J. David Bolter 1983   Hadley Letter 1980-12-01   Atari...Ifugao Question Journal, Michael Naimark   CVD Atari Seminar 20 December 1982   Encyclopedia And The Intellectual Tools Of The Future . . . November 1981   Bob Stein Archives at Stanford   The Digital Antiquarian — Bob Stein and Voyager   Charles Van Doren in Wikipedia   Bob Stein wants to change how people think about the book (2010)

ANTIC Episode 111 - “Is Kay Really Funny, or is it Just a Courtesy Snicker?”

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We go over the ABBUC Software Contest winners, we cover PRGE, Kay accelerates his interview publishing schedule, and we ask the question: Is Kay really funny, or are Randy’s snickers simply courtesy?  You decide …

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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 

What we’ve been up to

• PRGE - https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ 

• Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution by David and Theresa Welsh - https://amzn.to/40l4vv1 (sponsored link) 

Recent Interviews

• ANTIC Interview 439 - Making Modern Atari Hardware 

• ANTIC Interview 440 - Ed Sabo, UltraBASIC 

• ANTIC Interview 441 - Nick Kennedy, Atari Morse Code Keyer 

News

• ABBUC 2024 Software Contest:

  • https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2024/10/ruff-in-trouble-ganador-del-abbuc-2024.html 

  • https://abbuc.de/2024/10/ergebnis-abbuc-softwarewettbewerb-2024-result-abbuc-software-competition-2024/ 

• ABBUC Magazines -  https://abbuc.de 

• 4th ATASCII Compo 2024 - Presentation

• Pre-Launch for Clear Case for 800XL has begun:

  • https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seethruit/injection-molded-clear-case-for-atari-800xl-computer/

  • https://forums.atariage.com/topic/373926-pre-launch-for-clear-case-for-800xl-has-begun/ 

• Bouncy World Server Available - https://www.atariorbit.org/2024/09/27/bouncy-world-server-available/ 

• Replacement cartridge slot - Screaming at the Radio - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/373896-replacement-cartridge-slot/ 

• Mastertronic Collectors Archive - Atari (8-Bit) Mastertronic Checklist - https://mastertronic.co.uk/atari-mastertronic-checklist/ 

Upcoming Shows

• Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/ 

• Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we 

• Event page on Floppy Days Website - https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSeLsg4hf5KZKtpxwUQgacCIsqeIdQeZniq3yE881wOCCYskpLVs5OO1PZLqRRF2t5fUUiaKByqQrgA/pub 

YouTube Videos

• Atari XL/XE -=Go! Tony Go!=- - Saberman RetroNews - Atari XL/XE -=Go! Tony Go!=- 

• LIVE from PRGE 2024 Day 1: AtariAge New Releases & WIP - ZeroPage Homebrew - LIVE from PRGE 2024 Day 1: AtariAge New Releases & WIP (FIXED!) 

• Videos of the ABBUC winners, such as:

  • Atari XL/XE -=Eat Me!=- ABBUC Software Contest 2024 - Saberman RetroNews - Atari XL/XE -=Eat Me!=- ABBUC Software Contest 2024 

  • 1K Rainbox - Saberman RetroNews - Atari XL/XE -=1K RainBox=- ABBUC Software Contest 2024 

• My Atari 800 prints out the news and weather every morning! - Sascha Segan - My Atari 800 prints out the news and weather every morning!

New at Archive.org 

• https://archive.org/details/horten-computer-welt-11-85-preise/

• https://archive.org/details/brace-bits-vol-3-no-1/BraceBits%20vol1%20no4/

• https://archive.org/details/@allan52?query=portland

Github

• https://github.com/marktmiller/atari-8-bit-forth-projects/tree/main/fig-forth1.1/FP%20library

• https://github.com/ivop/saprtools

Nick Kennedy, Atari Morse Code Keyer   I was adding a batch of ham radio newsletters to the Internet Archive's Digital Library of Amateur Radio And Communications, and I noticed the word "Atari" on one of the pages.   In the September 2019 issue of Solid Copy, the newsletter of The CW Operators Club, Nick Kennedy had written: "Few hams who are both CW [morse code] enthusiasts and programmers of microcontrollers have been able to resist trying their hand at a keyer or two. I’ve done several in the past 30+ years, starting with one for the 6502 in an Atari 800 and on through PICs, AVRs and now...the Arduino."   So I contacted Nick, amateur radio call sign WA5BDU, to find out what his Atari project was all about.   First, a tiny bit of ham radio background: Morse code, that language of dots and dashes, can be sent over the radio waves using a Morse code key. Even if you know nothing about ham radio, I bet you picture a basic Morse code key: when tap the little lever, it makes an electrical connection that makes a sound. That's called a straight key. Avid Morse code enthusiasts may prefer a fancier "paddle" key: with two levers, one for short beeps and one for longer ones. A keyer is a device that is connected between the paddle key and the radio: it allows the sender to control timing of the transmitted signals, and other factors.   Nick's software, WA5BDU Computer Keyer, turned his Atari computer into a keyer. He wired his Morse code paddle and his ham radio to joystick port 2. As he sent a message using his paddle, the Atari interpreted the signal, adjusted it as necessary, displayed the outgoing message on the screen, and sent the signal to the radio. Or, Nick could simply type on the Atari's keyboard to send Morse code messages, skipping the paddle key altogether.   Nick sent me the keyer program and source code — as well as a packet radio terminal program that he wrote, and a tank game written by his brother. Check the show notes for links to all of those.   Our interview took place on January 21, 2023.   Video version of this interview   Keyer software and source code at Internet Archive   Ham Terminal software (with source code) at Internet Archive   Various amateur radio software for for Atari 8-bit   Nick interviewed by the QSO Today podcast in 2015   Nick's keyer article in Solid Copy   Nick's web site   Ad Astra magazine   Pat Kennedy's tank game   Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications   Support Kay's interviews on Patreon

Ed Sabo, UltraBASIC   Ed Sabo, with the help of his dad, founded UltraBASIC, a company that produced software for Atari 8-bit computers. UltraBASIC's software for the Atari 8-bits, which was all programmed by Ed, were:    Tank Math: "a tutored math exercise plus a bonus roman numeral quiz" FunSpeller: "use your own words or the fifteen word-sets included" SuperFrogs: "the 7 game arcade with over 10,000 variations” … and  Track Stack: a program launcher, "stack up to 15 machine language programs on the track stack disk"   Ed also created some unpublished software, including a bulletin board system and RC Total, a program to track results of radio controlled car races. The company also operated a commercial coin op route, with video games, pinball machines, jukeboxes, and so on.   Ed's UltraBASIC company still exists. Today, the company specializes in transmission rebuilds, custom headers, and other repairs for classic and custom cars.   This interview took place on August 8, 2023.   Video version of this interview (youtube): https://youtu.be/OXcW1Pm4DQ8   Tank Math: https://archive.org/details/tank-math-ultra-basic/   Super Frogs: https://archive.org/details/super-frogs-ultra-basic/   Funspeller: https://archive.org/details/superfrogs-funspeller-ultra-basic/   Track Stack: https://archive.org/details/TrackStackUltraBasic/   List of Ultrabasic games at Atarimania   Ultrabasic, Inc.: http://ultrabasic.net   M.U.L.E. Online: https://puzzud.itch.io/mule-online   FujiNet: https://fujinet.online   Support Kay's interviews on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/savetz

Two Interviews about Making Modern Atari Hardware   In this interview episode, there are interviews with two people creating today's Atari hardware: the Atari 400 Mini and other modern reboots of retro consoles such as the Atari 7800+.    First, an interview with Matthew Burnett, Vice President of Strategic Operations at Atari — the guy in charge of Atari's new hardware. We discuss how the Atari 400 Mini came to market.   Then, I interview Ben Jones, Commercial Director for Plaion, a manufacturing and distribution company that was involved with the creation of the 400 Mini and 7800 Plus as well as other retro computing hardware like the C64 Mini and the A500 (Amiga) Mini.   These interviews took place on September 27 2024 at Portland Retro Gaming Expo.   Atari 400 Mini: https://atari.com/products/atari-400-mini-1 Atari 7800+: https://atari.com/products/atari-7800

ANTIC Episode 110 - Are the Grandkids Listening!?

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Kay makes TI users unhappy, VCFMW recap, we drool over an Atari Home Computer Demonstration Center display, we bid farewell to an Atari podcast, and Randy uses a word he wouldn’t want his grandkids to hear…

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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

• TI Fest West 2017 - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/260465-fest-west-2017/page/15/ 

• Kay as Radio Survivor podcast guest about Famous Computer Cafe - Podcast #342 – The Famous Computer Cafe 

• ComputerLand radio commercials:

  • https://archive.org/details/ComputerLand_Radio_Commercials 

  • https://archive.org/details/ComputerLand_Micro_Minutes_commercials 

• VCFMW - https://vcfmw.org 

• Indus GT drive

  • https://atariprojects.org/2021/06/20/purchase-and-install-a-64k-ram-upgrade-for-an-indus-gt-floppy-drive-30-60-mins/ 

  • https://atariprojects.org/2021/06/20/run-the-cp-m-operating-system-on-your-atari-8-bit-computer-using-an-upgraded-indus-gt-floppy-drive-30-60-mins/ 

• 10502PC cable - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=157 

• 6502 Software Gourmet Guide & Cookbook by Robert Findley - https://archive.org/details/6502sggac 

• FujiNet-PC and Fujitzee - https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-pc/releases 

Recent Interviews

• ANTIC Interview 438 - John Carlsen, Atari Summer Employee - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-438-john-carlsen-atari-summer-intern 

News

• FujiNet update (RAPID 11)

  • https://www.atariorbit.org/2024/08/10/fujitzee-fujinet-game-system-gets-new-game/

  • https://www.atariorbit.org/2024/08/13/bouncy-fun/

• Atari Calculator/Colleen Calculator information

  • https://fosstodon.org/@app4soft/113119855733880407 

  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Calculator 

• NotebookLM https://notebooklm.google.com/ 

• Inverse ATASCII update and final episode

  • SE8EB1 - Best of/Worst of - https://inverseatascii.info/2024/08/31/s8eb1-best-of-worst-of/ 

  • SE8EB2 - https://inverseatascii.info/2024/09/15/s8eb2-summary-announcement/

• Into the Vertical Blank https://intotheverticalblank.com/ 

• (from Philsan) RM 800XL project by @rm_800xl continues. Trademark is now registered and Revive Machines is working on injection molds:

  • Revive Machines - https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html 

  • Trademark - https://t.co/XccGGybXQ1 

• Atari Basics newsletter - https://ataribasics.com/newsletter-hub/ 

• XCF12 - https://thingiverse.com/thing:6710517 

• “F-16 Falcon Strike” - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2024/08/primer-teaser-de-f-16-falcon-strike.html 

• Mention of Atari computer in “It's no longer as simple as hitting the print button” (Bluefield, WV) - https://www.bdtonline.com/opinion/its-no-longer-as-simple-as-hitting-the-print-button/article_a533a3a8-5c1a-11ef-ba19-831e933a50bd.html 

• NUC plus4 - https://ataribits.weebly.com/nucplus4.html 

Upcoming Shows

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ 

• Tandy Assembly - September 27-29 - Courtyard by Marriott Springfield - Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ 

• Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/ 

• Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we 

• Event page on Floppy Days Website - https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSeLsg4hf5KZKtpxwUQgacCIsqeIdQeZniq3yE881wOCCYskpLVs5OO1PZLqRRF2t5fUUiaKByqQrgA/pub 

YouTube Videos

• Carol Shaw's Road To River Raid - Revealing Gaming's History - Game Informer - https://archive.org/details/youtube-1OcT5zJzVV0 

• 90 Minutes With Atari CEO Wade Rosen | All Things Nintendo - https://archive.org/details/youtube-yn8GTA4HMCU 

• Decent USB Host: USB, Wifi and Bluetooth on Atari 8-bit computers - Screaming at the Radio! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgaEhkeXd_A 

• Santosp Atari XE Remake Motherboard Build Part 1 - flashjazzcat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUMweiI8sOU 

• Atari 8-Bit Series: Part 7: 410 Program Recorder - 8 Bit Milli - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvqy997uL84 

• 1090XL Video With New Cards - reifsnyderb - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDsrE2A81y4 

• Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9iqF5uTFk 

New at Archive.org 

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-february-1989-vol-9-num-2-atari-articles 

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-july-1984-vol-4-num-7-atari-articles 

• https://archive.org/details/alog-pagewriter 

• https://archive.org/details/portland-atari-club-computer-news-january-1988 

• https://archive.org/details/portland-atari-club-computer-news-august-1988 

• https://archive.org/details/portland-atari-club-computer-news-april-1988 

• https://archive.org/details/atari-roots-rev-2-r-1

• Computer studio catalog at SDH Feniks - Warsaw - https://archive.org/details/fhkd_katalog_feniks_warszawa_zelazna_32_

Github

• https://github.com/snorklerjoe/atari8-ham-terminal

• https://github.com/BartGo/forth-atari

• https://github.com/stefanschramm/retroload

• https://github.com/mwenge/attackofthemutantcamels

• https://github.com/ivop/8x8-fonts

 

ANTIC Interview 438 - John Carlsen - Atari Summer Employee

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.

John Carlsen worked at Atari only briefly, as a summer job for 6 weeks in 1987, between his final years of high school. Later, in 1988-1989, he worked for its founding president, Nolan Bushnell when he signed on to Nolan’s latest startup, called Bots, Inc.  They made pizza delivery robots (and a related customer-facing order entry system) for Little Caesars Pizza. John then worked for Axlon, which was created by former Atari employees to manufacture add-on products for the Atari computer, followed by Aapps Corp., which spun out of Nolan's offices.  In 1990-1991, John also worked for Mediagenic (Activision, Infocom, etc.) until a week after its hostile takeover.

This interview took place on March 6, 2024.

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell 

 

ANTIC Episode 109 - Host Wars

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Brad and Randy cover VCFSE, Kay finishes archiving the Famous Computer Cafe and gets some great material from Dan Kramer and Larry Summers, and the hosts trade barbs…

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Links for Items Mentioned in Show:

What we’ve been up to

• Larry Summers: 

  • Excalibur - https://archive.org/details/excalibur-2nd-manual-type-apx 

  • https://archive.org/details/Functional_Specification_for_The_Arabian_Adventures_Packet_Technologies 

  • https://archive.org/details/Out_of_Ataris_Game_San_Jose_Mercury_News_1982-06 

  • https://archive.org/details/Chris_Crawford_recommendation_letter_for_Larry_Summers 

  • https://archive.org/details/Atari_81_v1n4_1981-05 

• Superboots business plan - https://archive.org/details/superboots-business-plan 

• Dan Kramer: 

  • https://archive.org/details/atari-management-recognition-award 

  • https://archive.org/details/atari-controller-design-focus-groups-report-1981 

  • https://archive.org/details/a-qualitative-investigation-of-programmable-videogame-controllers 

  • https://archive.org/details/atari_silvia 

  • https://archive.org/details/cx2800 

  • https://archive.org/details/cx2800-notes 

  • https://archive.org/details/atari-direct-video-pcb 

  • https://archive.org/details/atari-5200-controller-schematics-kramer-dan 

• Famous Computer Cafe - https://archive.org/details/famous-computer-cafe?sort=-addeddate 

• Book “Best of SoftSide - Atari Edition” - https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-best-of-softside-atari-edition 

• https://gameatl.com/vintage-computing-festival-southeast/ 

News

• Atari Insights newsletter V1#1 - John Zielke - http://www.ataribasics.com 

• Atari Opens Enrollment for its 2024 Summer Camp Program:

  • https://finance.yahoo.com/news/atari-opens-enrollment-2024-summer-171700449.html 

  • https://atari.com/collections/summer-camp 

• New drop-in replacement mechanical keyboard for the Atari 800 - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368661-new-drop-in-replacement-mechanical-keyboard-for-the-atari-800/ 

• Article on how to repair the split collars on an Atari 800 - https://atari.timhinds.com/atari-800-keyboard-restoration/ 

• AtariProjects - http://atariprojects.org - Jason Moore 

• Inverse ATASCII Podcast - https://inverseatascii.info/ - Wade Ripkowski 

• The content presented at the Atari Last Party 2024 (the oldest demo party in Poland) has been added to the atarionline.eu Fujinet server 

• ABBUC #157 magazine - German edition - http://abbuc.de 

• A8Pico to win from ABBUC:

  • Send the answer to the question: "What is the chorus in the Atari song?"

  • You can find the answer on Wolfgang's YouTube channel: (https://www.youtube.com/@RetroWK )

  • Send answer by e-mail to [email protected] 

• Enhanced 600XL PCB by kveldulfur - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/367934-enhanced-600xl-pcb-by-kveldulfur/ 

• Atari FastBASIC - https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic 

Upcoming Shows

• Atari Expo 2024 in Santiago Chile— Aug 3rd&4th.—http://www.expoatari.cl 

• Vintage Computer Festival West - August 2-3 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/  

• Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 15-18 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-se  

• VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ 

• VCF Europe - September 7-8 - Munich, Germany - https://vcfe.org/E/ 

• World of Retrocomputing 2024 Expo - September 14-15 - Kitchener, ON, Canada - https://www.facebook.com/events/s/world-of-retro-computing-2024-/1493036588265072/ 

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ 

• Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/ 

• Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we 

YouTube Videos

• FlashJazzCat SIDE3 Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoXGLvUAs84 

• Lotharek SIDE3 Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVFxVjqLbQk 

• MAC/65 Assembler Editor and Atari 8-bit Machine Language Programming - Part 1 - David Arlington - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WdSPvqSIME 

• MAC/65 Assembler Editor and Atari 8-bit Machine Language Programming - Part 2 - David Arlington - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQPw1myNLb4 

• The Atari 2024 Expo Preview - CmosGames (in Spanish) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx-3S8UzdDs 

• Rewind 2 - a demo for Atari XL/XE by New Generation, Zelax & Radiance - VoyAtari - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuWEEms1IX4 

• Now there's a Decent keyboard for each Atari 8-bit computer - Screaming at the Radio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiBLV-qH9To 

New at Archive.org 

• Bluegrass Region Atari Computer Enthusiasts newsletters https://archive.org/details/brace-bits-vol-3-no-1/

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-march-1987-vol-7-num-3-atari-articles

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-december-1986-vol-6-num-12-atari-articles

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-october-1988-vol-8-num-10-atari-articles

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-august-1986-vol-6-num-8-atari-articles

• https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-february-1989-vol-9-num-2-atari-articles

• https://archive.org/details/alog-displaymaker-alog-computing

• https://archive.org/details/alog-maillist-alog-computing

 

ANTIC Episode 108 - Randy’s Eyes Are Bleeding! 

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Kay visits VCFSW and the National Videogame Museum, tapes from the famous Computer Cafe are found, Atari acquires Intellivision, and Randy’s eyes start bleeding from watching YouTube videos 24x7… 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

• VCF SW, National Videogame Museum - https://nvmusa.org 

• Titan - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/234684-atari-8-bit-software-preservation-initiative/?do=findComment&comment=5472194 

• Development disk for Tom Hudson's "Adventure at Vendenberg A.F.B." - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/234684-atari-8-bit-software-preservation-initiative/?do=findComment&comment=5472339 

• Sunday Driver - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/234684-atari-8-bit-software-preservation-initiative/page/110/#comment-5473357 

• Famous Computer Cafe - https://archive.org/details/famous-computer-cafe https://www.gofundme.com/f/digitizing-the-famous-computer-cafe 

• Steve Roberts - https://microship.com/ 

• A8PICO by Electrotrains - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/351546-a8picocart-unocart-on-a-raspberry-pi-pico/ 

• USB-C power supply adapter from Mozzwald - https://mozzwald.com/product/atari-8-bit-usb-c-power-adapter/ 

• Atari photo shoot at IVCC - https://www.facebook.com/groups/IndyVCC 

Recent Interviews

• ANTIC Interview 437 - Dr. Kristina Hooper Woolsey, Atari Research Labs and Apple Multimedia Lab - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-437-kristina-hooper-woolsey-atari-research-labs-and-apple-multimedia-labs 

News

• FujiNet RAPID 7& 8 - Andy Diller - https://www.atariorbit.org/rapid/ 

• video on using CONFIG-NG the alternative CONFIG for Atari - video by Andy Diller - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2is_kDYQHpA 

• How Google's Rampant Sunnyvale Expansion Is Erasing Atari's History - https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/04/how-googles-rampant-sunnyvale-expansion-is-erasing-ataris-history 

• https://www.facer.io/u/atari - Atari watch faces for smart watches 

• AtariAge thread on the RetroScaler from AliExpress - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/366479-aliexpress-retrotink-equivalent-2x-scaler-with-hdmi-output 

• Revive RM 800XL box design!

  • X - @rm_800xl https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html 

  • Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rm800xl/posts/pfbid0qBHXgugtivW3bxNdi7Xgem47UJ4qvHZ21R1KVoE2CBih8kQ6CWffYza2VeHSvF2al 

  • Mastodon - https://mastodon.world/@Philsan/112496346203027800 

• Atari acquires Intellivision! - https://x.com/atari/status/1793616648890470410 

• Living Computer Museum is dead:

  • https://hackaday.com/2024/06/25/paul-allens-living-computers-museum-and-labs-to-be-auctioned/ 

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20240601173624/https://livingcomputers.org/ 

• New game “Shift” - https://h4plo.itch.io/shift 

• Atari 50 Update - https://www.engadget.com/ataris-50th-anniversary-collection-is-getting-a-hefty-update-with-nearly-40-additional-games-150827022.html 

• Wireless tape player interface from Piotr Bugaj:

  • https://www.facebook.com/100001704984361/videos/1625370131610834/

  • https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2024/06/nuevo-dongle-inalambrico-para-atari-8.html 

• Thanks to @TheTime, Tandy Trower's Character Set Editor published by APX is finally available after all these years:

  • https://forums.atariage.com/topic/236768-the-atari-interview-discussion-thread/?do=findComment&comment=5460894

  • https://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-character-set-editor_30042.html 

  • Kay’s 2015 interview- http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-77-tandy-trower-atari-product-manager 

• 1050 mini. Brand new floppy drive for Atari XL by Piotr Bugaj:

  • https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/64347 

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCd96Mcosqo 

• New 576NUC+ 4-in-1 Expansion Module - The NUCplus4 - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/355107-new-576nuc-4-in-1-expansion-module-the-nucplus4/ 

Upcoming Shows

• KansasFest, the largest and longest running annual Apple II conference - July 16-21 (in-person), July 27-28 (virtual) - University of Illinois in Springfield, IL - https://www.kansasfest.org/ 

• Southern Fried Gaming Expo and VCF Southeast - July 19-21,  2024 - Atlanta, GA - https://gameatl.com/ 

• Nottingham Video Game Expo - July 20-21 - The Belgrave Rooms, Nottingham, U.K. - https://www.nottsvge.com/ 

• Fujiama - July 23-28 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2024/  

• Vintage Computer Festival West - August 2-3 - Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/  

• Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - Aug. 15-18 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-se  

• VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ 

• VCF Europe - September 7-8 - Munich, Germany - https://vcfe.org/E/ 

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ 

• Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/ 

• Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we 

YouTube Videos

• Atari 800XL with GTIAdigitizer and RGB2HDMI - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG3qhwUELaY 

• Atari 810 drives with issues - Adrian’s Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfU0w883jGE 

• A8PicoCart for the Atari 8-bit machines - Building and testing - Arctic Retro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTWXNF7n6Xw 

• Soldering-Up an A8PicoCart for your Atari - The VintNerd - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8cQarAvKoU 

• Atari 400 Mini cartridges and disk drive - GameRoomOfThrones - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7A_aiusVY94 

• Atari 8-Bit: Mikie (Final), Missile Command Arcade w/ Trak-Ball (Final), Shift (Exclusive Final) - ZeroPage HomeBrew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaPlb47Fbk0 

New at Archive.org 

• Atari Technische Informatie NR 12 Printer-Problemen - https://archive.org/details/atari-technische-informatie-nr-12-printer-problemen 

• James Copland on the Computer Cafe - https://archive.org/details/the-famous-computer-cafe-1985-02-08_James_Copland 

• Jersey Atari Computer Group Newsletter, July, 1985 - https://archive.org/details/jacg-newsletter-1985-july-vol-4-no-11 

• JACG newsletters scanned spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RkznDDlOL2O_K-RrbkajIuo6DvYof6Ajrn7j9NTcoDM/edit?usp=sharing 

• Scene World podcast Ep. #189 - THE400 Mini with Darren Melbourne - https://archive.org/details/scene_world_podcast_episode189_april_2024 

• AtariUser Magazine Summer (July) 1992 - https://archive.org/details/atari-user-1992-07 

Feedback

• 8 Bit Workshop website - https://8bitworkshop.com/dithertron/#sys=atari8.d'image=seurat.jpg