ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

Author: Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold

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ANTIC Episode 118 - Trigger Warning
Monday, 30 June, 2025

ANTIC Episode 118 - Trigger Warning In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…we have lots of user feedback and user projects to report on, we talk about a postage stamp-sized Atari computer, and (trigger warning!) there are a couple of Commodore references… 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 Photos from the Capital Children's Museum Communications Exhibit which opened November 1981 - https://archive.org/details/ccm-communications Narrascope 2025 - https://narrascope.org/ Learning about print shop font and border formats with Michael Sternberg - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/324752-print-shop-atari-related-graphics/#findComment-5667327 “Unofficial Atari: a Visual History” by Darren Doyle - https://www.greyfoxbooks.com/shop/books/the-atari-a-visual-history/ Interview with Darren Doyle on ANTIC - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episode-10-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-darren-doyle-michael-current Atari800 emulator and FujiNet on Mac - Andy Diller - https://www.atariorbit.org/2025/06/19/fujinet-and-atari800-emulation/ News The Retroist Podcast covers the Atari XEGS - https://www.retroist.com/p/retroist-atari-xegs-podcast Atari 800 red keyboard - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15fZrXoP24/ Atari 800 drum scanner project (Dave Porter) - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15rS9dcyzr/?mibextid=wwXIfr Atari home automation (Mike Hogan) - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16rNS2AZnv/?mibextid=wwXIfr Paper - https://www.academia.edu/13353149/Playing_and_copying_social_practices_of_home_computer_users_in_Poland_during_the_1980s Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/polish-engineer-creates-postage-stamp-sized-1980s-atari-computer/ Antonia2 interest post by Simius - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/382122-antonia2-interest/ Thomas Cherryhomes will be writing a monthly FujiNet column for the upcoming Compute!’s Gazette reboot - https://fujinews.substack.com/p/thomas-cherryhomes-named-monthly New game (news comes from Atariteca) - "Quadbination" for Atari 8-bit - https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/06/reflejos-estrategia-y-paddles.html The story of how Boulder Dash was created: https://spillhistorie.no/2025/06/06/how-boulder-dash-was-created/ Kay Interviewed Peter Liepa in 2015 - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-66-peter-liepa-boulder-dash June Atari Insights Newsletter - https://ataribasics.com Trigger Warning: Commodore news https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/commodore-acquired-for-a-low-seven-figure-price-new-acting-ceo-comes-from-the-retro-community https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/06/this-man-is-buying-commodore Upcoming Shows Silly Venture SE (Summer Edition) - July 31-Aug. 3 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2025-se VCF West - August 1-2 - Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA - https://vcfed.org/2025/03/05/vcf-west-2025-save-the-date/ Fujiama - August 11-17 - Lengenfeld, Germany - http://atarixle.ddns.net/fuji/2025/ VCF Midwest - September 13-14, 2025 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ Portland Retro Gaming Expo - October 17-19 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ YouTube Videos Fixing bad key switches all at once (Atari 800XL AWC Type 2) - Adrian’s Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsSiEtSomQI Fixing a dead and dirty Atari 800XL - Adrian’s Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljBofLMPIeA Repairing a smashed-up Atari 400 computer - Adrian’s Digital Basement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H4v-LVztk0 Atari 8-Bit Reborn Smaller Than a Quarter—It Actually Works! + More Retro News! - Bit By Bit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT3kTi-hX_o Connecting a 15KHz CRT monitor to a Sophia 2 Atari 8-bit via the DVI-I jack - FlashJazzCat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaFCzydsUTI New at Archive.org https://archive.org/details/clevatari-newsletter-issue-77-dec-1987 https://archive.org/details/clevatari-newsletter-oct-1987 https://archive.org/details/gtia-demonstration-diskette-apx https://archive.org/details/transdisk-iv-version-4-2-manual-page-6-software/ Dutch “Atari Users Foundation” - https://archive.org/details/escape2_202506/ New at Github CP/M on the Atari 8-bit - https://github.com/davidgiven/cpm65/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/nwah/fn-printer-examples https://github.com/itaych/Ice-T https://github.com/Cap-14/Atari-Cold-War https://github.com/seban-slt/antyajek Feedback (Kevin Lund) VCF-W exhibit page with Atari entry write up - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/vcf-west-exhibits/ Dropcheck’s 1450XL Replica PCB - https://www.bitsofthepast.com/1450XL_Replica.html B & C ComputerVisions - Atari Sales & Service - https://www.myatari.com/ Best Electronics - https://www.best-electronics-ca.com/ Video61 and Atari Sales - http://www.atarisales.com/main.html Eight Bit Fix (Paul Westphal) - https://www.eightbitfix.com/