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Into The Vertical BlankAuthor: Jeff Fulton & Steve Fulton
A Podcast about growing with a twin brother up In the 70s and 80s, at the dawn of video games, navigating family strife, punk rock, Star Wars obsessions, and trying to understand the world while developing an inexplicable love for everything Atari. -- In this podcast we discuss Atari computers and systems, new and old, review new games we collect, talk about all the systems, and the significance they had in our lives and the lives of others, and even talk about them in an historical context with the backdrop the times they were released, and how they are being used now. We do all this in an effort to finally understand the answer to this existential question: what does it mean to have grown up in the generation of "the Vertical blank." Credits: Written, Engineered and Produced by Jeff Fulton @8bitrocket With help from Steve Fulton @fultonbot Branding by Daryl Litts @daryllitts Language: en-us Genres: Leisure, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Video Games Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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#150 : PC-Man And "The Spark" Of Childhood Wonder
Episode 150
Tuesday, 2 December, 2025
Teenager Greg Kuperberg wrote three fast-action arcade games for the IBM-PC in 1982 and 1983 (an almost impossible of feat at the time) and then took another path. In this rare examination of his work, we look at the legacy and inspiration of this "would-be" game programming auteur, who "moved-on" while at the top of his game. Links: -Tony Longworth: https://tonylongworth.bandcamp.com/music--Interview and Text Version: https://intotheverticalblank.com/2024/12/01/interview-greg-kuperberg/--Retro365: https://retro365.blog/--Retro365 - Orion Software: https://retro365.blog/2019/09/23/bits-from-my-personal-collection-the-original-ibm-pc-and-orion-software/?utm_source=chatgpt.com--Putnum Math Competition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathematical_Competition ---Time Out :https://www.macintoshrepository.org/66553-time-out--PC Assembly Language Step-By-Step: https://archive.org/details/pcassemblylangua0000hoff/page/286/mode/2up--8086 Code Examples: https://medium.com/@aleksej.gudkov/8086-assembly-code-examples-a-beginners-guide-3aeafd3fa808--Assembly For World Domination: https://www.chibialiens.com/8086/platform.php#LessonP1 -Jamie Lendino: https://www.jamielendino.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/atarinow/ Thanks for support from: Atari Legend,AtariBasement Atari Crypt BCB Coffee Boy, Daniel Beasley++,Barry BurkeyChris++Dave the VelociraptorED Possible,David L. Farquhar Jolt7800Tony LongworthDavid SchmidtDaniel StephensT1LTwesbrown18 VintNerd All music, audio / video production. writing and game play by @8bitrocket and or @fultonbot unless otherwise noted. (c)8bitrocket Studios #Atari #IntoTheVerticalBlank #GenerationAtari #IBM #8088 #1982 #1983 #gregkuperberg Website: https://intotheverticalblank.com/Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/atarinow/Itch.io: https://intotheverticalblank.itch.io/ Into The Vertical Theme by Brian TravisTitle: Into The Vertical Blank theme Words & music by Brian Travis (c)(p)2021 Taste This Moment Music ASCAP http://www.briantravisband.com/ Out of the Vertical Blank Theme By Tony Longworth Into The vertical Blank On Blue SKY @8bitrocket.bsky.social Into The Vertical Blank on Mastodon @intotheverticalblank@techhub.social facebook https://www.facebook.com/intotheverticalblank
