Floppy Days Episode 36 - The Atari 400/800, Part II

Apr 30, 2015

Welcome to part 2 of the now 3 part episode covering the Atari 400 & 800 computers.  This episode will cover Web sites, emulation, books, software, magazines, tech specs, and much more.  I’m very happy to have pretty much the entire Atari 8-bit podcasting group as special guest hosts helping me cover these topics.  This includes Wade from Inverse Atascii, Rob of Player/Missile, Jack of RCR, Kevin from Antic, and Brad from Antic.  We also have memories from Bill of Antic.  Enjoy!!

 

Links Mentioned in the Show:

 

New Acquisitions

• MCX-128 for MC-10 (YouTube, FozzTexx) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5d5C2F-88

• CoCo List - [e-mail]

• “Z80 Microcomputer Handbook” by William Barden, Jr. - http://www.amazon.com/Z-80-Microcomputer-Handbook-William-Barden/dp/0672215004

• Juiced.GS (Quarterly Apple II Journal) - https://juiced.gs/

• “Fundamentals of TI-99/4A Assembly Language” by M.S. Morley - http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-TI-99-4A-assembly-language/dp/0830617221

News

• Fahrfall - new cartridge game developed for the CoCo by John Linville - http://fahrfall.blogspot.com/ , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k5do3j7eb4

• VCF SE 3.0 - http://www.vintage.org/2015/southeast/ - Saturday, May 2 & Sunday, May 3, 2015 Kings Market Shopping Center, Roswell, Georgia

• Commodore Vegas Expo - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex July 18-19, 2015, Plaza Hotel & Casino, 1 Main Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

• 27th Annual KansasFest - http://www.kansasfest.org/  July 14 –19 in Kansas City, Missouri.

• Amiga 30th Anniversary Event https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/890300835/amiga-30th-anniversary-in-california Saturday, July 25 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.  Kickstarter runs until April 18

• VCF Midwest 10 - http://vcfmw.org/ August 29-30, 2015, Elk Grove Village, IL

• Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire October 31, 2015, Evanston, IL

Feedback

• Rama operating his computer (YouTube) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPR76sWm8U8

• Andy Collins blog - www.randomorbit.co.uk

Peripherals

• Cassette Specs/Usage - http://www.atariarchives.org/dere/chaptC.php

• SIO Specs - http://www.atarimax.com/jindroush.atari.org/asio.html

• Disk Specs - http://www.atarimax.com/ape/docs/DiskImageFAQ/

Magazines

• Atari User - http://atariuser.com/portal/

• AtariMagazines.com - http://atarimagazines.com

• for more, see http://playermissile.com/magazines.html