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

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

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 ...