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ANTIC Interview 435 - Cynthia Solomon and Brian Silverman - Logo Hello, and welcome to this interview-only episode of ANTIC, The Atari 8-bit computer podcast.  I’m Randy Kindig, your host for this episode. Cynthia Solomon is an American computer scientist known for her work in artificial intelligence and making popular computer science for students. She is a pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science, and educational computing. Together with Seymour Papert and Wally Feurzeig, Cynthia designed the Logo computer programming language in 1967. Dr. Solomon has attained many accomplishments in her life such as being the vice president of R&D for Logo Computer Systems, Inc., when Apple Logo was developed and was the Director of the Atari Cambridge Research Laboratory. Brian Silverman is a Canadian computer scientist, the creator of many programming environments for children, and a researcher in cellular automata. As a student at MIT, Brian had worked with Seymour Papert, one of the pionee

ANTIC Episode 101 - “The Pronunciation Episode” In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…We discuss the antics of the company that calls itself Atari and their purchase of AtariAge and bring you all the other Atari 8-bit news we could find, while mispronouncing names all over the place… 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 MULE Online with Thom, Wade, Robin - https://puzzud.itch.io/mule-online  Muffinterm: https://twitter.com/atari_bbs/status/1695216646338793591?s=20  https://muffinterm.app  VCFMW - http://www.vcfmw.org  http://www.ataribbs.com/  https://www.southernamis.com/  SCAT - http://www.scatarians.org/  News  Atari buys AtariAge: htt

ANTIC Episode 100 (Or Episode 4 in Binary) In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We celebrate our 100th (or is it the fourth, for you binary geeks out there?) episode by bringing you the latest news from across the Atari 8-bit computer landscape. 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 The Atari newsletter at Internet Archive spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RkznDDlOL2O_K-RrbkajIuo6DvYof6Ajrn7j9NTcoDM/edit?usp=sharing  All Current Notes at Internet Archive - https://archive.org/details/currentnotesnewsletter?tab=collection&sort=-addeddate  MULE Online - http://muleonline.com  Discord thread on the Atari BASIC AI model, led by Jaso

ANTIC Episode 99 - 10-Year ANTICversary! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We bring in some of our Atari friends and talk about the last 10 years of Atari 8-bit happenings in this celebration of the ten-year anniversary of ANTIC! READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kevin’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: Scantastix project manual scanning - https://archive.org/search?query=identifier%3Astx_%2A&sort=-publicdate  Editing VCFE videos - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_e5fSxflvrx86M2x_D5rQLIGjeffQuUM  “How to Excel on Your Atari 600XL and 800XL” by Timothy Knight - https://archive.org/details/how-to-excel-on-your-atari  “Let’s Learn BASIC” by Ben Shneiderman - https://archive.org/details/Let_s_Lear

ANTIC Episode 98 - Don’t Toss Those Disks! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We talk about all the feedback we got concerning tossing or copying old non-commercial disks, we discuss the we-hope-it’s-not-vaporware RM800XL 800XL remake, we mention Thom Cherryhomes and FujiNet like 100 times, and all the other news we could find. READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kevin’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 “Apple II Age” by Laine Nooney - https://amzn.to/3BOxbPC  Indy Classic Expo - http://indyclassic.org  8-Bit Classics shop Jakadapter Dual Atari joystick adapter v2 - http://kair.us/projects/jakadapter/index.html  Happy 1050 from 8-Bit Classics  ATR8000 -  https://www.atarimagazines.co

ANTIC Episode 97 - Don’t go to the Commodore Show! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Randy accidentally puts a link to an upcoming Commodore show in the show notes, we tell you how you too can emulate an Atari 1450XLD, and we give you the scoop on the Atari 8-bit entries in the BASIC 10-Liner Contest. READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kevin’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 Allan’s disks - http://a8preservation.com  Ham sw: https://archive.org/details/cw-5_atari  https://archive.org/details/ham800  https://archive.org/details/qsoham-master  https://archive.org/details/stx_Datasoft_Alternate_Reality_The_City_manual_for_Macintosh  Case for XEP80-II - https://thebrewingacademy.c

ANTIC Episode 96 - Atari Dreams In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we talk about development for the Atari 8-bit, discuss a couple of highly-modified 800’s, dream about sleeping on an Atari pillow, and bring you all the other Atari 8-bit news we could find! READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kevin’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 Converting Atari8BitBot to Mastodon with Papa Robot - @Atari8BitBot@oldbytes.space  Scantastix - https://archive.org/search?query=identifier%3Astx_%2A&sort=-publicdate  Dorm game - https://carringtonvanston.net/games/dorm/  ANTIC sign - https://m.aliexpress.us/item/3256804531104852.html  BASIC 10-liner contest - https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium 

ANTIC Episode 95 - Party at Brad’s House! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…we reluctantly add an “in memoriam” section, discuss other Atari news, and plan a party at Brad’s house during VCFSE. READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kevin’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 Kay’s 2022 Wrap-up - https://www.patreon.com/posts/kays-2022-wrap-76408972  DLARC Amateur Radio Software for Atari computers -  https://archive.org/details/dlarc-software-atari  TANK, an unreleased, unpublished game by Pat Kennedy for Atari 8-bit computers - https://archive.org/details/tank_atari  Retroid 2 - https://www.goretroid.com/products/retroid-pocket-2-plus-handheld-retro-gaming-system  FASTBASIC - https://github.com/dm

(be sure to listen to the special "word from our sponsor!" ANTIC Episode 94 - Are we just a chat bot? In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…we discuss the new book “Broken Computer Games” and other Atari news, and raise the question “are we just a chat bot”? READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kevin’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 Secret Guide to Computers & Tricky Living Library- https://archive.org/details/secretguidetocomputers  Eaten By A Grue - http://monsterfeet.com/grue/  Broken Computer Games - https://archive.org/details/broken-computer-games  ChatGPT chat bot - https://chat.openai.com/chat  Atari 50th Anniversary Collection - https://atari.com/products/atari-50th-the-anniversary-ce

ANTIC Episode 93 - All FujiNet, All the Time! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Andy Diller (atariorbit) joins us to talk all things FujiNet! READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kevin’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 FujiNet main site - https://fujinet.online/  Andy’s blog - https://www.atariorbit.org  Andy’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/atariorbit Atari XDM121 printer on Shop Goodwill - https://shopgoodwill.com/item/154471414  News Fast BASIC - https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic  Vintage Computer Center closing (Gavin Haubelt) - https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/  Ben Smith, owner of Bravo Sierra Computers has passed away: Bravo Sierra Computers website - http://atarisales.sdf.org/ Int

ANTIC Episode 92 - I Played 1,000 Hours! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Randy talks about his great barn find and VCFMW, Kay gets a new personality (board), and Brad tries to accumulate 1,000 hours on Miner 2049’er. READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kevin’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 Secret Guide to Computers and Tricky Living on IA - https://archive.org/details/secret-guide-33/page/684/mode/2up?q=Atari  Atari 800 Personality Board by santosp: https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/atari-800-personality-board-62686 https://atariage.com/forums/topic/337925-new-personality-board-for-the-a800/?tab=comments#comment-5090556    VCFMW - http://www.vcfmw.org  Suburban Chicago Ataria

ANTIC Episode 91 - HAM Atari In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast…Kay gets a new job, Randy officially retires, and we cover a ton of hardware upgrades READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kevin’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 Internet Archive job for Kay - https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1562130788602109952  Low-profile Atari 400 keyboard - https://mobeets.com/  Atari XE Remake - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319881-atari-xe-remake-pre-order-thread/  News 1979 Atari 800 Personal Computer Metal Sign - https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/638738386  Best Electronics XE Touch upgrade: AtariAge thread - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/338985-best-electronics-xe-touch-upgrade/  Best Ele

ANTIC Episode 90 - Lets All Retire! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Brad regales us with his motherload of new Atari stuff, Kay solves the mystery of “Have You Played Atari Today?”, and we discuss lots of other Atari news READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kevin’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 http://blog.archive.org/2022/07/13/have-you-played-atari-today-2/   https://github.com/savetz/Phoenix_AdventureInTime  https://github.com/savetz/Phoenix_BirthOfThePhoenix  https://github.com/savetz/Phoenix_QueenOfPhobos  Sharp Aquos 15” LCD -  https://www.crutchfield.com/S-KJSgUXWo9OQ/p_284LC15S1U/Sharp-LC-15S1U.html  512 ram expansion, Atari 800 XL on SellMyRetro - https://www.sellmyretro.com/off

ANTIC Episode 89 - Choke on it! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Brad regales us with his motherload of new Atari stuff, Kay solves the mystery of “Have You Played Atari Today?”, and we discuss lots of other Atari news READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kevin’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 Kay contributed a story to Taper: https://taper.badquar.to/8/  https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1537155185713160192  “Using Your Atari XL Computer” referenced at https://archive.org/details/Atari_Connection_Volume_3_Number_4_1983-09_Atari_US/page/n32/mode/1up  “Have You Played Atari Today?” - https://archive.org/details/graphisnewtalent0000unse_l9l8/page/7/mode/1up?q=atari  The ChalkBoard Pow

ANTIC Episode 88 - We need more Atari shows! In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… lots of Atari action and news, loading Atari software from VHS, and a call for more Atari-specific shows READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kevin’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 MT32-pi - https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi  https://archive.org/details/michigan-atari-magazine-complete-collection  https://archive.org/details/AtariFinalLegacyPoster  https://archive.org/details/ukraine-computer-poster-1989  https://rpilocator.com  576NUC+ cartridge upgrade - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer/products/myteks-576nuc-and-internal-fujinet  AVG Cart .ATR mod - https://atari8bit.net

Michael Park: Swan and Fujiboink Demos, MIDI Maze   Michael Park created two well-known demos that are familiar to many Atari enthusiasts: the Swan Demo and FujiBoink. In the Swan demo, a bird flies gracefully across the screen, in front of a spinning fuji logo. In FujiBoink, the Atari fuji spins and bounces over a red and white checkerboard, reminiscent of the Amiga Boing Ball demo.   Michael also helped create MIDI Maze, an early first-person shooter that used the Atari ST's MIDI ports to network up to 16 computers. He also worked on the 8-bit version of MIDI Maze, which was never officially released but became available nonetheless. Michael also created Shiny Bubbles, another demo for the Atari ST.   Michael was a friend of the owner of Xanth Computer Systems, an Atari dealer in Seattle, Washington. A 2013 article titled "Computer Dealer Demos: Selling Home Computers with Bouncing Balls and Animated Logos," published in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, stated:   "During the 1985 Winter CES, At

Scott Savage: Lefty, the Checkers Playing Robot "Lefty" was the name of the world's first checker-playing robot, which was located at the Omniplex science museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The robot arm would play games of checkers against museum visitors, picking up and moving pieces on a physical checkerboard. Lefty's game logic ran on an Atari 800 computer, which controlled the robot through the joystick port. Lefty was programmed by Scott Savage, the subject of today's interview. Before the interview, Scott digitized his Atari cassette tape with the code for Lefty. The tape had some problems, but Atari community member "atarigrub" successfully recovered the data. Scott also provided scans of several newspaper and magazine articles about Lefty. Both the Lefty program and those articles are available at Internet Archive. Also, be sure to watch the only known video of Lefty in action: Scott and Lefty appeared on the TV show "Dannysday" which aired on KOCO TV in spring 1984. This interview took place on

Anthony Ramos: Parrot, Creepy Caverns Anthony Dandrea is better known to Atari computer enthusiasts as Anthony Ramos. Anthony programmed Creepy Caverns, a type-in BASIC game that was published in Antic magazine's August 1984 issue. Anthony also created the software for Parrot, a $40 4-bit sound sampler and playback package that was marketed by Alpha Systems. In this interview, we discuss George Morrison of Alpha Systems, and Peter Langston of LucasArts, both of whom I have previously interviewed. This interview took place on April 8, 2022. Creepy Caverns in Antic magazine Discape Atari 8-bit Demo Discape disk image "Talk is Cheap" by Ed Stuart in Antic magazine Parrot manual Parrot review in Antic magazine Creepy Caverns with sampled audio Parrot Christmas demo Anthony's Conway's Game of Life Anthony on AtariAge ANTIC Interview 367 - George Morrison, Alpha Systems ANTIC Interview 126 - Peter Langston, LucasArts Ground Kontrol arcade 1984 article in Lorain Journal This interview on Yo

ANTIC Episode 87 - Good news, bad news In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we have tons of news, both good and bad, and lots of coverage of new hardware. READY! Recurring Links  Floppy Days Podcast  AtariArchives.org  AtariMagazines.com  Kevin’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 576NUC+ cartridge upgrade - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/myteks-576nuc-atari-computer/products/myteks-576nuc-and-internal-fujinet  News FujiNet multi-platform - https://www.facebook.com/groups/fujinetusers/permalink/3255652564716397/  Brewing Academy updates - https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/atari-800-xl-xe-xel-xld/products/xep80-ii-by-mytek  The SDRIVE Simple II from MyTek - https://ataribits.weebly.com/sdrive.html  ABBUC software competitio

Tom Zimmerman, AMY chip Tom Zimmerman worked at Atari from 1982-1984 where he was on the digital audio research team in Atari's Corporate Research Lab in Sunnyvale. There he worked on the AMY chip — a next-generation audio chip. Tom, one of four AMY team members, wrote the 8051 code to control the TTL prototype of the chip. The chip was never released. AMY, which stands for Additive Musical sYnthesis, was originally intended to be part of the Rainbow chipset, which was the core of Atari's next generation of 16-bit microcomputers. Those computers were never finished. Then, the AMY chip was announced to be the centerpiece of the Atari 65XEM, an Atari 8-bit computer with advanced sound capabilities. A prototype of the 65XEM was shown at the 1985 Consumer Electronics Show, but ultimately it was another computer that didn't make it to market. Also: in 1982 Tom filed a patent for a “Data Glove,” a glove with optical sensors to measure the bend of the wearer's fingers. He turned down a $10,000 offer from Atari to