ANTIC Episode 123 - Steampunk Atari

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Lots of Holiday Buyer's Guide action, news of recovered software, FujiNet news galore, and Brad does steampunk Atari…

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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

Nexon Computer Museum (Maplestory) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexon_Computer_Museum
Air Navigation RNAV for Atari 8-bit manual and source code:

https://archive.org/details/tims_Air_Navigation_RNAV_for_Atari_8-bit
HP versions and detailed notes - https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Robert+A.+Tims%22

JACG Newsletters:

Amiga 40 Celebration in Atlanta - https://www.facebook.com/events/1961071527788068/
Invitation to Programming cassette - https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-invitation-to-programming-1-an_11651.html
Atlanta Historical Computing Society - https://www.atlhcs.org/
Smith-Corona Electric typewriter module and typewriter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTcWEU2UPgM

News

Battleship for Atari with FujiNet:

Atari 8-bit games part of the Namco Legendary Pack for Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration for Steam, XBox, Playstation - https://atari.com/products/atari-50th-the-anniversary-celebration
FujiNet-PC build for Mac - Andy Diller:

Blog post - https://www.atariorbit.org/2025/11/02/fujinet-pc-build-for-osx-download/
download it here - https://www.atariorbit.org/shared-files/1165/?fn-pc-atari-v151.zip

Running multiple Atari800/FujiNet - Andy Diller - https://www.atariorbit.org/2025/11/10/build-your-own-atari800/
Ivop ported BBC BASIC to the Atari XL/XE - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/385621-bbc-basic-for-the-atari-xlxe/
FiSh - Fujinet Interface Shell - bocianu - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/386043-fish-fujinet-interface-shell/
Apple II Holiday Collection & Special Edition transferred to Atari Print Shop disks by Michael Sternberg - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/324752-print-shop-atari-related-graphics/#findComment-5757049
Atari CAS Player by Krystone:

AtariAge thread - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381594-abbuc-hardware-contest-2025/#comment-5745407
You can try it directly here - https://krystone.pl/atari/casplay

updated FujiNet AI SAM chatbot by Mozzwald:

The disk is up at https://tnfs.fujinet.online/ATARI/FujiNet-Apps/ai-sam-v3.xex which uses fujinet.online for the server
Source code for the app and server is up at https://github.com/moz...