Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

About Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

A retrospective of the Atari 8-bit home computer systems, the magazines that covered them, and a somewhat chronological review of games as they arrived on the platform.

Publisher

Player/Missile

Category

history · leisure

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

15 Jul 2014

Latest episode

29 Apr 2022

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Apr 2022

   Ep. 34: 8-bit vs 5200 Part 2: Q1 1983

   5200 coverage in magazines from January through March 1983. Plus a special bonus look at a NY Times article about Warner's stunning December 1982 earnings shortfall caused by Atari's massive financial loss. 1983 Q1 1983 First Quarter P.O.P. (Point Of Purchase) Support (http://www.atarimania.com/documents/atari-5200-1st-quarter-1983-pop.pdf) Jan 1983 Video Games Vol 1, #4 (https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Volume_1_Number_04_1983-01_Pumpkin_Press_US/mode/2up?q=5200) Jan 1983 ANALOG Computing #9 (https://archive.org/details/analog-computing-magazine-09/page/n77/mode/2up?q=5200) Jan 1983 Joystik Magazine (https://archive.org/details/joystik_magazine-1983-01) Jan 1983 Electronic Games Vol 1, #11 (https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Games_Volume_01_Number_11_1983-01_Reese_Communications_US/page/n67/mode/2up?q=5200) Jan/Feb 1983 Atari Age Magazine Vol 1, #5 (https://archive.org/details/AtariAgeIssues1-7/Atari%20Age%20Issue%205%20%28January-February%201983%29/page/n3/mode/2up) Feb 1983 Video Games Vol 1, #5 (https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Volume_1_Number_05_1983-02_Pumpkin_Press_US/page/n89/mode/2up?q=5200) Feb 1983 Creative Computing Vol 9, #2 (https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1983-02/page/n283/mode/2up?q=5200) Feb 1983 Electronic Games (https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Games_Volume_01_Number_12_1983-02_Reese_Communications_US/page/n85/mode/2up?q=5200) Mar 1983 ANALOG Computing #10 (https://archive.org/details/analog-computing-magazine-10/page/n9/mode/2up?q=5200) 12/19/82 NY Times article “The Game Turns Serious at Atari” (https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/19/business/the-game-turns-serious-at-atari.html) Mar 1983 Video Games (https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Volume_1_Number_06_1983-03_Pumpkin_Press_US/page/n49/mode/2up?q=5200) Worm War 1 TV commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCfJhs5XymU) Mar/Apr 1983 Atari Age Magazine Vol 1, #6 (https://archive.org/details/AtariAgeIssues1-7/Atari%20Age%20Issue%206%20%28March-April%201983%29/mode/2up) Production Notes Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page (https://stef-animal.bandcamp.com/) Episode page: Episode 34 (http://playermissile.com/podcast/ep034.html) Twitter: @atari8bitgames (https://twitter.com/atari8bitgames)

2. 

   31 Mar 2022

   Ep. 33: Dec 1982: Magazines, Part 3

   Coverage of a few magazines I missed last time. Live plays of two games, tips to speed up disk drive I/O, and articles on how automation has changed TV and film production. Magazines Atari 8-bit magazines (http://playermissile.com/magazines.html) Softalk Softalk Vol 3, #4 (https://archive.org/details/softalkv3n04dec1982) Assembly Lines book (https://ct6502.org/product/assembly-lines-the-complete-book/) Total Replay harddisk image (https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay) Axlon RAMDISK 320k (http://yesterbits.com/2017/01/22/axlon-ramdisk-320/) Passport auto-cracking tool (https://github.com/a2-4am/passport) Nibble Nibble Vol 3, #8 (https://archive.org/details/sim_nibble_1982_3_8/page/1/mode/1up) Nibble disk (https://archive.org/details/nibbledisks_nib11) Production Notes Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page (https://stef-animal.bandcamp.com/) Episode page: Episode 33 (http://playermissile.com/podcast/ep033.html) Twitter: @atari8bitgames (https://twitter.com/atari8bitgames)

3. 

   10 Dec 2021

   Ep. 32: Dec 1982: Magazines, Part 2

   Coverage of Atari Connection, APX, Byte, C&VG, Micro, Softside, Page 6 & Atari I/O for Dec 1982. Another Chris Crawford article on game design, a review of Steve Wozniak’s US Festival, and will Forth become the official language of the podcast? Magazines Atari 8-bit magazines (http://playermissile.com/magazines.html) Atari Connection Atari Connection Vol 2, #4 (https://archive.org/details/Atari_Connection_Volume_2_Number_4_1982-09_Atari_US) Mastering Rubik's Cube by Don Taylor (https://archive.org/details/masteringrubiksc00tayl) Josh Malone’s USB CX-85 numeric keypad mod (https://twitter.com/48kRAM/status/1462136144477499395) APX Catalog APX Catalog Winter 1982 (https://archive.org/details/APXCatalogWinter19821983) Byte Byte Vol 7, #12 (https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-12) Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock (http://www.samkass.com/theories/RPSSL.html) Byte Magazine Atari articles only by Kay Savetz (https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-atari-articles) TRON soundtrack composer Wendy Carlos (http://www.wendycarlos.com/) Women in Electronic Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIq_WR8cl1E) Sisters with Transistors documentary film (https://sisterswithtransistors.com/) Computer & Video Games C&VG Issue #14 (https://archive.org/details/Computer_Video_Games_Issue_014_1982-12_EMAP_Publishing_GB) Micro 6502/6809 Journal Micro #55 (https://archive.org/details/micro-6502-journal-55) SoftSide Softside #36 (https://archive.org/details/softside-magazine-51) Starting Forth online edition (https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/) Edsger W Dijkstra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra) Dijkstra’s rant on languages (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF) History of Forth language (https://www.forth.com/resources/forth-programming-language/) Forth cross compiler (https://github.com/piotr-wiszowaty/foco65) History of Computing Podcast episode on Pascal (https://thehistoryofcomputing.net/the-pascal-programming-language) Page 6 Page #1 (https://archive.org/details/Page_6_Issue_01_1981-12_ABACUS_GB) History of Page 6 magazine (https://www.page6.org/about/about.htm) Atari Input/Output Atari Input/Output #1 (https://archive.org/details/Input_Output_Issue_01_1982-12_Atari_GB) Production Notes Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page (https://stef-animal.bandcamp.com/) Episode page: Episode 32 (http://playermissile.com/podcast/ep032.html) Twitter: @atari8bitgames (https://twitter.com/atari8bitgames)

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