ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

ANTIC Episode 92 - I Played 1,000 Hours!

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Randy talks about his great barn find and VCFMW, Kay gets a new personality (board), and Brad tries to accumulate 1,000 hours on Miner 2049’er.

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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

• Secret Guide to Computers and Tricky Living on IA - https://archive.org/details/secret-guide-33/page/684/mode/2up?q=Atari 
• Atari 800 Personality Board by santosp:
• • https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/atari-800-personality-board-62686
  • https://atariage.com/forums/topic/337925-new-personality-board-for-the-a800/?tab=comments#comment-5090556   
• VCFMW - http://www.vcfmw.org 
• Suburban Chicago Atarians - http://www.scatarians.org/ 
• Atari FujiNet NOS - https://www.atariorbit.org/ 
• The Taylor and Amy Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI8b_XAuYXU 
• 800XL cover from Paulo Garcia (Vintage is the New Old - https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/ ) 

News

• Retrochallenge 2022/10 - https://www.retrochallenge.org/2022/09/rc-202210-is-go.html 
• ASMA - Atari SAP Music Archive - http://asma.atari.org/ 
• “Computer Ads from the Past” substack entry on Alan Alda and Atariwriter- https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/alan-alda-and-atariwriter 
• Atari XL/XE fan scarf. Power Without the price since 1982 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/325252579215 
• Thom Cherryhomes call for game conversion for FujiNet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeImwNKp-yY 
• Andrew Diller (@atariorbit) put together a video showing the evolution of the FujiNet codebase, since its inception as "Atariwifi." - https://youtube.com/watch?v=pfeUelE9cYc… #RetroComputing 
• Atari 50th Anniversary Collection - https://park.london/products/atari-50-star-raiders-print-wall-art 
• Star Raiders will be included in Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration - https://twitter.com/DigitalEclipse/status/1577690194156785665 
• “Save Atari History” by playing minigames - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QErw-mKwLg 
• 3D printed Atari cases and keycaps - https://gp61.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR0jISsGhUARscNVb0ojRw8PQIuR8WZ2Z9BdLvHSefCmfuLzeLvELUl_MQU 
• 2nd ATASCII Compo - http://logiker.com/ATASCII 
• Atari EPROM Programmer - https://www.ebay.com/itm/374261668413  
• Atari sticker - https://www.ebay.com/itm/325374564098 
• ABBUC Magazine #150 - https://abbuc.de 

Upcoming Shows

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo = October 14-16 https://www.retrogamingexpo.com 

YouTube Videos

• Hibernated 1, Directors Cut on the Atari 8-bit (adventure game), with talk about FujiNet, XEP-80, CPM and the game - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPViSZD_O90 - Andrew Diller (@atariorbit) 
• Heavily modified NTSC Atari 600XL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8YdqUTKvSw - FlashJazzCat (Jonathan Halliday) 
• A bunch of things still in development from Lotharek and Candle like the Atari 400 Incognito Lite! - https://youtu.be/UN-8P3iK1IM - FlashJazzCat (Jonathan Halliday) 
• Evolution of Atari computers and consoles 1972 - 2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFtTWKdXaGQ - World in Statistics 

New at Archive.org 

• (Josh Malone->Allan for scanning) 
• • https://archive.org/details/word-search-generator-apx-manual-ver-2 
  • https://archive.org/details/word-search-french-pdi  
  • https://archive.org/details/spellakazam-designware 
• Art Of Computer Game Design PDF 
• • https://archive.org/details/ebook-pdf-programming-art-of-computer-game-design 
  • Vs book scan: https://archive.org/details/artofcomputergam00chri 
• https://archive.org/details/the-gospel-of-st.-pong-revisited-vol-4-april-1977 
• Scanned by https://archive.org/details/@decode_document_digitize 

Listener Feedback

• Piotr Bugaj’s ECI + Cartridge port expander - https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/atari-xe--port-expander.-eci-%2B-cart-x2-62320