ANTIC Episode 126 - All Atari All The Time

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We bring in special guest Paulo Garcia, author of the incredible FujiSan emulator, and bring you all the Atari news we can find.

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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

What we've been up to

FujiSan version 1.1.8 - https://github.com/pedgarcia/fujisan/releases/tag/v1.1.8
Conversational German - https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-conversational-german_1334.html

New & Updated Games

European Countries & Capitals Updated - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/296743-european-capitals-reverse-engineering/
Text Adventure Homo Sapiens - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/388766-homo-sapiens-text-adventure-released-for-atari-130xe/
FujiNet Maze War - Mozzwald:

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/388112-ai-is-getting-too-good/page/3/#comment-5804016
Source code available at https://github.com/mozzwald/fujinet-maze-war
Requires prerelease fujinet firmware from - https://github.com/mozzwald/fujinet-firmware/tree/v1.5.2-fixes-netstream

New & Updated Software

Charsetter – a new web tool for creating fonts and maps in ANTIC 2 and ANTIC 4 modes - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/388653-charsetter-%E2%80%93-a-new-web-tool-for-creating-fonts-and-maps-in-antic-2-and-antic-4-modes/
BOSS-X the Final Edition (pre-release):

Blog - https://abbuc.de/~atarixle/?article=bossxfinaleditionprerelease
can be downloaded from download > bossx > BOSS-X 10.39 Final Edition DE EN.zip .

Update to A8E emulator (browser-based):

Discussion - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/388191-a8e-atari-800-xl-emulator-v100/page/2/#comment-5803541
A new version is available - https://dev.jsa8e.anides.de/

Pokey Stream Player - ilmenit - https://github.com/ilmenit/pokey-stream-player

DitherLab - dithering on Atari XL/XE - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/388489-ditherlab-dithering-on-atari-xlxe/
New CubeSQL app Total Recall - Wade Ripkowski - Https://unfinishedbitness.info/total-recall/

TNFS Qt6 System Tray Edition - A cross-platform GUI server for FujiNet from 13Leader:

AtariAge announcement - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/388803-release-tnfs-qt6-system-tray-edition-a-cross-platform-gui-server-for-fujinet/
Download - https://github.com/pjones1063/tnfsd/releases/tag/V2K26.1.0.1

Publications

Atari Insights March, 2026 - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/388559-atari-insights-%E2%80%93-march-2026-issue-now-available/
AtariProjects:
- Explore the Golden Rules of Using an Atari 8-Bit Computer - https://atariprojects.org/2026/01/14/explore-the-golden-rules-of-using-an-atari-8-bit-computer-15-30-mins/
- Explore Gury's Atari 8-bit Forever Portal - https://atariprojects.org/2026/01/14/explore-gurys-atari-8-bit-forever-portal-15-30-mins/

Contests

FujiCup - https://fujicup.pl (from Philsan)

Atari 8-Bit/5200 Games in 8th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards - ZeroPage Homebrew:

Nominated Games - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPnT8iqp3B8
Winners - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wr6Y1D3DJ4
AtariAge Discussion - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387772-8th-annual-atari-homebrew-awards-voting-information-discussion/#findComment-5798910

15th Edition of BASIC 10 Liner Contest - https://bunsen.itch.io/basic-10liner-2026

Other

New release of Altirra Hardware Reference Manual - https://www.virtualdub.org/altirra.html
The Serious Computerist - http://seriouscomputerist.altervista.org/pages/home/home.htm