Player/missile

Jack Nutting of the Retro Computing Roundtable, Victor Marland of Ten Pence Arcade, Wade Ripkowski of Inverse Atascii and Kevin Savetz of ANTIC join me for a 5 round draft of Atari 8-bit games. Participants Jack Nutting of Retro Computing Roundtable Victor Marland of Ten Pence Arcade Wade Ripkowski of Inverse Atascii Kevin Savetz of ANTIC Jack's Picks Star Raiders my Star Raiders speedup hack (in progress) M.U.L.E. Realm of Impossibility Wizard of Wor Dog Daze Deluxe Victor's Picks Alley Cat Mr. Dig Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Jr. Kangaroo Arkanoid Wade's Picks ... For 20 more links, see the show notes

Summary of Bill Kendrick's Atari Party 2015 and review of the excellent port of Missile Command. In magazine coverage, I've added MICRO: The 6502/6809 Journal, and new contributor Michael Glaser takes over SoftSide Magazine. Introduction Atari Party in Davis, CA, May 2, 2015 Atari Party photos! California Extreme Arcade/Pinball show July 18 & 19 2015 Feedback ANTIC Podcast Interview #40: Doug Carlston of Br0derdund Software BBC Micro magazine: Acorn User ANTIC Magazine preview of the ATR8000 Kevin Savetz's site with full text to 21 flight simulator books Intellivisionaries Podcast Pictures of some of the Atari 'silver box' kits UER Podcast CoCo Crew Podcast Listener Written Programs Bill Kendrick's Combat-like game & tutorial in Action HSC12r8 Ramp Rage by TRBB (Jason Kendall) MAME Cabinet MAME cabinet progress (AtariAge forum thread) ... For 37 more links, see the show notes

Flight simulator roundup where Chris Olson and I review 5 noteworthy civilian aircraft sims on the 8-bits (military sims will be the subject of part 2). Also added Byte to the magazine to the coverage due to the serializiaton of De Re Atari. Introduction Atari Party in Davis, CA, May 2, 2015 RetroPie Raspberry Pi game emulation distro Stella, the 2600 emulator Atari800 emulator Atari podcast interviews thread Interview with David Fox Floppy Days Episode 36 with all the Atari 8-bit podcasters Listener Written Programs Sudoku Solver in 6502 assembly MAME Cabinet MAME cabinet progress (AtariAge forum thread) More details on MAME cabinet Hacking Ms. Pac-Man Pac-Man Dossier Don Hodges: the Pac-Man kill screen Commented Ms. Pac-Man source Ms. Pac-Man annotated hex dump ... For 31 more links, see the show notes

Interview episode with game developer James Hague who was published in ANALOG and Antic magazines, is the author of Halcyon Days & maintainer of the Giant List of Classic Video Game Programmers. Atari Party 2015 is just around the corner! Introduction Atari Party in Davis, CA, May 2, 2015 No Quarter is back with new co-host Rob O'Hara! WICO Joystick review Feedback Inverse ATASCII Podcast Rescue on Fractalis writeup by Trevor Briscoe Listener Written Programs Paul Nurminen's BASIC games and demos The Intellivisionaries Podcast Tech Section My Star Raiders fork example 16 bit division routine 4am Algernon crack documentation Open Apple Podcast 6502.org 6502 reference ... For 27 more links, see the show notes

Interview episode with Chuck Bueche, tech section on Star Raiders and the Atari 8-bit executable format, guest magazine coverage of Softalk, and the Atari Party: Davis CA, May 2, 2015! Introduction The Atari 5200 Super Podcast Atari Party in Davis, CA, May 2, 2015 KansasFest July 14-19 2015 California Extreme classic arcade games expo July 18-19 2015 AtariAge 8-bit High Score Club Season 12 Feedback Computer Gaming World MAME Cabinet MAME cabinet progress (AtariAge forum thread) More details on MAME cabinet Let's Hack Arcade Games Tech Section my fork of the Star Raiders disassembly CC65 CC65 source AtariAge userdevwebcl's example CC65 files AtariAge forum thread: Star Raiders - was it ever fixed? ... For 28 more links, see the show notes

Interview episode with Michael Current, maintainer of the Atari 8-bit FAQ and the Atari History Timeline; also covering the magazines from June 1981. Tech section on building Star Raiders, MAME cabinet update, and the Atari Party: Davis CA, May 2, 2015! Introduction Atari Party in Davis, CA, May 2, 2015 RetroLink DB9 Joystick to USB cables My original linux driver Improved linux driver Raspberry Pi Model B KansasFest July 14-19 2015 California Extreme classic arcade games expo AtariAge 8-bit High Score Club Season 12 Feedback Experiment in Forced Nostalgia Inverse ATASCII episode guide MAME Cabinet MAME cabinet progress (AtariAge forum thread) More details on MAME cabinet Cabaret cabinets in Tipperary, Ireland Tech Section Reverse engineering the classic 1979 game Star Raiders ... For 24 more links, see the show notes

Magazines from May 1981 and a review of Eastern Front (1941) by Chris Crawford, and the triumphant reinstatement of the tech section of the podcast because I've found a manageable topic. Also, info about the Atari Party 2015 which I will attend and give away a Raspberry Pi. Introduction Ringtones and notifications from Atari 8-bit games Thread about building my MAME cabinet Comparing the RPi to the Cray X-MP Raspberry Pi 2 announcement Raspberry Pi 2 specs Atari Party in Davis, CA, May 2, 2015 RetroLink DB9 Joystick to USB cables My original linux driver Improved linux driver Raspberry Pi Model B AtariAge 8-bit High Score Club AtariAge forum thread: 2 worthy video game podcasts S1500's Classic Console Gamernews Tech Section Reverse engineering the classic 1979 game Star Raiders 6502 math operations Simple 8bit division routine Software - Math - Integer Division ANALOG ANALOG #3, May/Jun 1981 ... For 29 more links, see the show notes

Magazine coverage for April 1981 but jump ahead in time to cover our first homebrew game, Gem Drop by Bill Kendrick. Bill also invented one of the first software-driven graphics modes, called Super IRG, and we have an interview with him to talk about it. Introduction Ferg's review of BASIC Programming River Raid Linear Feedback Shift Registers Elite II: 100 billion solar systems on 2 floppy disks Ten Pence Arcade podcast, Episode 25: Space Invaders Feedback Cross-platform Apple ][ emulator You Don't Know Flack Ep. 155: Cassettes KansasFest Inverse ATASCII Vintage Computer Festival Compute #11, Apr 1981 Sholes (QWERTY) vs Dvorak keyboard Does the Dvorak keyboard increase typing speed? VIC-20: First Look The Mysterious and Unpredictable RND The Atari Gazette Unlease the Power of your Atari CPU Weird Al's Word Crimes ... For 22 more links, see the show notes

In addition to the usual magazine coverage for March 1981, we look at the Apple ][ game Sabotage, converted to run on the Atari. I talk with Paul Hagstrom to get background knowledge on the Apple hardware, and get the inside story on the Sabotage conversion by the guy who did it, AtariAge user Shamus. Introduction Sound explained in De Re Atari, Chapter 7 cc65 started on the Atari 8-bits! Feedback Christmas Vacation sled scene ANALOG 400/800 Magazine #2, Mar/Apr 1981 Atari News Atari word processor review at Inverse ATASCII New Products Using Note & Point Type-in: Balance your Checkbook Type-in: Player/Missile graphics DMA timings Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design, Chapter 6 ANTIC Techincal Video timing diagram Type-in: Cannon Duel Listen: Music Composer Column VCS update Graphics clipping routine in BASIC by Tom Hudson The Game Room by Tom Repstad ... For 32 more links, see the show notes

This episode reviews the game Jawbreaker by John Harris and covers the February 1981 magazines Compute #9, Creative Computing Vol 7 #2, and introduces coverage of SoftSide Magazine. Anacronisticly included is coverage of my trip to the Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2014. Feedback Sound Finder Special Section: Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2014 Walkthrough of the arcade Ms. Pac-Man FAQ Howard Scott Warshaw's panel David Crane, Gary Kitchen, Bob Smith from 2013 PRGE Intellivision Producitons Joe DeCuir from the 2013 PRGE DubiousGamingOnline PRGE Experiences, part 1 DubiousGamingOnline PRGE Experiences, part 2 Compute #9, Feb 1981 History of Personal Computing podcast MOS Technology KIM-1 single board computer OSI Superboard Editor's Review of the Atari 825 printer ad for daisywheen printer and typewriter combo More on the mysterious and unpredictable RND function Type-in: Ticker Tape Messages Type-in: colors and sounds with paddles ... For 34 more links, see the show notes

Welcome to January, 1981! Finally going month-by-month, Episode 4 includes the first ANALOG issue, Compute #8 and Creative Computing Vol 7 #1 and a review the game Caverns of Mars published first by APX then by Atari itself. And in my first interview, I talk with with Mike DesChenes, the co-founder of ANALOG Computing! Introduction Ten Pence Arcade McCoyCast episode on Real Genius Feedback Intellivisionaries Ep. #13 Atari Bit Byter User Club cc65 cross compiler Interview with Mike DesChenes Master Hobbies, Cherry Valley, MA Newspaper scans of interviews with Lee Pappas and Mike DesChenes OCR versions at The Digital ANALOG Project ANALOG scans at archive.org ANALOG scans at atarimania ANALOG scans at atarimagazines.com Magazines Atari 8-bit magazines ANALOG ANALOG 400/800 #1, Jan/Feb 1981 Compute Compute #8, Jan 1981 John von Neumann Creative Computing Creative Computing Vol 7 #1, Jan 1981 De Re Atari, Chapter 7: Sound Game Review: Caverns of Mars Caverns of Mars at AtariMania (

Finishing off 1980, Episode 3 includes coverage of the remaining 6 months of Creative Computing and Compute magazines, and a review of the game Space Invaders published by Atari. Introduction Martin Gardiner Corrections Digital Press Interview with Larry Kaplan 2600 Game by Game Podcast #3: Ferg's review of Air-Sea Battle Source code for all operating system revisions 2600 Game by Game Podcast #41: Ferg's review of Kaboom Feedback Manual for 400/800 version of the Super Breakout Intellivisionaries Podcast XKCD What if? FiveThirtyEight interview with Randall Munroe about "What if?" New 8-bit podcast! Inverse ATASCII, the Atari 8-bit Productivity Podcast Magazines Creative Computing v6, #6 Jun 1980 Compute #5, July/Aug 1980 Creative Computing v6, #7 Jul 1980 Creative Computing v6, #8 Aug 1980 Compute #6, Sep/Oct 1980 2600 Game-By-Game review of Video Life Conway's Game of Life Creative Computing v6, #9 Sep 1980 Creative Computing v6, #10 Oct 1980 Compute #7, Nov/Dec 1980 Creative Com

Welcome to 1980! Episode 2 includes coverage of the Creative Computing and Compute! magazines through the first half of 1980 and a review of the game Super Breakout by Atari. Introduction Racing the Beam Drawing kernels for the Atari 8-bits Check out Ferg's 2600 Game-by-Game podcast for the contest I'm sponsoring! Feedback Rick Keene's artwork Superplot by Michael Portuesi blubalu's Star Raiders unboxing! Magazines Compute #2, Jan/Feb 1980 Creative Computing v6, #1 Jan 1980 Creative Computing v6, #2 Feb 1980 Compute #3, Mar/Apr 1980 Creative Computing v6, #3 Mar 1980 Creative Computing v6, #4 Apr 1980 (the famous April Fool's issue) Compute #4, May/Jun 1980 C64 vs Apple 2 chess match Creative Computing v6, #5 May 1980 Creative Computing v6, #6 Jun 1980 Game Review: Super Breakout Atarimania Page Atari 8-bit Forever Page Author: Larry Kaplan Ferg's review of Breakout for the 2600 Super Breakout at the Arcade Museum Ferg's review of Super Breakout for the 2600 Steve Wozniak recalls designin

Welcome to 1979! Episode 1 includes a brief summary of the technical specifications of the Atari 400 & 800 that were first released at the end of the year, discussion of Creative Computing issues starting from April and the very first Compute! magazine, and a review of a game original to the Atari 8- bits and destined to become an all-time classic game: Star Raiders. Introduction Douglas Adams Collected Works Feedback Drop /// Inches with Mike Maginnis and Paul Hagstrom, a fairly technical podcast about the Apple /// Rick Keene's cover for STLog Issue 18 Technical details http://atariage.com/forums/topic/183619-total-number-of-a8-units-sold-worldwide/ Creative Computing Overview David H. Ahl and the History of Creative Computing Creative Computing Vol 5, #4, April 1979 Vector 1 Sexism in Computer Science No Quarter #94: Mike and Carrington talk about gender stereotypes and games Creative Computing Vol 5, #5, May 1979 More Basic Computer Games White & Nerdy Creative Computing Vol 5,

In the inaugural episode of Player/Missile, I introduce myself, talk about my background with the Atari 8-bit systems, what the podcast will be about and what it won't be about, and describe the format of the subsequent episodes. Podcasts ANTIC, The Atari 8-bit Podcast with Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz and Brad Arnold, all about Atari 8-bit computers No Quarter with Carrington Vanston and Mike Maginnes, the classic arcade podcast You Don't Know Flack with Rob O'Hara, a retro-technology themed podcast Rob O'Hara's podcast about podcasting that inspired me to start this podcast Sprite Castle, his C64 games review podcast The Atari 2600 Game-by-Game Podcast with Ferg, the review of all 2600 carts in parts-number order Retro Computing Roundtable with a rotating cast of several, talking about retro computing news and collecting Floppy Days with Randy Kindig, a survey of vintage computer hardware Drop /// Inches with Mike Maginnis and Paul Hagstrom, a fairly technical podcast about the Apple /// References A