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ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

Written by: Randy Kindig Kay Savetz Brad Arnold
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  • ANTIC Episode 125 - Combining SQL with Fun (and Poo)

    ANTIC Episode 125 - Combining SQL with Fun (and Poo)
    Feb 17 2026
    ANTIC Episode 125 - "Combining SQL with Fun (and Poo)" In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Wade Ripkowski comes onto the show and gives us an update on his work to bring SQL to the Atari (and an extremely useful poo management tool!), we cover good news concerning the Curt Vendel Atari collection, we report on an exciting updated browser-based emulator, a huge update to AspeQT, and a whole lot more!! 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 What we've been up to cubeSQL project blog post - https://unfinishedbitness.info/2026/02/01/atari-8-bit-sql/ Unfinished Bitness - https://unfinishedbitness.info Wade's A8 C Library - https://unfinishedbitness.info/c-library/ cubeSQL - https://sqlabs.com/cubesql FujiNet - https://fujinet.online/ CubeDot - https://unfinishedbitness.info/cubedot/ Fuji Do - https://unfinishedbitness.info/fuji-do/ Fuji Poo - https://unfinishedbitness.info/fuji-poo/ Dr. Love - https://unfinishedbitness.info/dr-love/ video demo of CubeDot - https://vimeo.com/1165039670 video demo of Fuji Do - https://vimeo.com/1165038947 Mr. Paint - https://unfinishedbitness.info/mr-paint/ King PONG How Atari Bounced Across Markets to Make Millions - https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262051330/king-pong/ Atari newsletter time capsule 1987-08: https://archive.org/details/antc_Atari_newsletter_time_capsule_1987-08 The Strong museum - https://www.museumofplay.org/ FujiNet Application Ideas - https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-firmware/wiki/Application-Ideas Smith Corona Messenger Module and Smith Corona Ultrasonic 450 typewriter - https://typewriterdatabase.com/1983-smith-corona-ultrasonic.2181.typewriter prototype of Atari chapter for Quick Reference Book - https://floppydaysqr.my.canva.site/ New & Updated Games Inufuto Game Cartridge - posted by Philsan: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/331824-inufuto-does-atari-8-bit/page/5/#comment-5783007 https://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-400-800-xl-xe-inufuto_developer_3171_8_G.html FujiNet Midimaze mode now stable by Mozzwald - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387536-midimaze-mode-now-stable/ New & Updated non-Game Software A8E (Atari 800 XL Emulator) - By AnimaInCorpore: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/388191-a8e-atari-800-xl-emulator-v100/ Source - https://github.com/AnimaInCorpore/A8E Browser demo - https://jsa8e.anides.de/ Atari800-AI - Benj Edwards - https://github.com/benj-edwards/atari800-ai Update to mkatr (including lsatr) tools from dmsc - https://github.com/dmsc/mkatr/releases/tag/v1.4 AspeQt-2k26 - John Paul Jones: https://github.com/pjones1063/AspeQt-2k26 https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387630-wip-aspeqt-2k26-resurrecting-aspeqt-with-qt6-high-dpi-wi-fi-modems/ https://forums.atariage.com/topic/388105-%F0%9F%9A%80-aspeqt-2k26-dev-update-the-thin-client-concept-introducing-the-w-device-and-clipboard-y-device/ Publications BASIC Fun on Your A400 Mini: BASIC for real hardware and emulators too! By John McGinnis - https://www.amazon.com/BASIC-Fun-Your-A400-Mini/dp/B0G1YGJ2P7 Atari Insights February 2026: Newsletters - https://ataribasics.com/newsletter-hub/ YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@AtariBasics February, 2026 Issue of Compute's Gazette - https://www.computesgazette.com ABBUC Magazine 163 released - https://www.abbuc.de Pro(c) gone; last issue #15 - web site updated May 2025 - https://web.archive.org/web/20250404175246/https://proc-atari.de/ New & Updated Hardware 5200XEGS - Making your Classic Super Game Console into an 8-Bit Computer - mytek - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387340-5200xegs-making-your-classic-super-game-console-into-an-8-bit-computer/ Contests High Score Club active for 2026 (season 23) - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387353-hsc-season-23-jan-2026-welcome-and-game-list-thread/ ABBUC Creative Competition 2026 has been launched - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387746-abbuc-creative-competition-2026-has-been-launched/ ABBUC Application Software Competition 2026 has been launched - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387745-abbuc-application-software-competition-2026-has-been-launched/ ABBUC Game Software Competition 2026 has been launched - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387744-abbuc-software-competition-2026-has-been-launched/ ABBUC Hardware Competition 2026 has been launched - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387737-abbuc-hardware-competition-2026-has-been-launched/ Other Byte magazine cover illustrator has passed away. https://tinney.net/in-memoriam Strong museum announces the acquisition of the Curt Vendel Atari Collection - https://www.museumofplay.org/...
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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • ANTIC Episode 124 - Atari 8-bit - The Computer of Love

    ANTIC Episode 124 - Atari 8-bit - The Computer of Love
    Jan 12 2026
    ANTIC Episode 124 In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… We have lots of game news and emulator updates, Brad imitates a pirate, and Kay tells us that the Atari 8-bit is the "Computer of Love"! 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 What we've been up to Kay's 2025 Wrapped - https://www.patreon.com/posts/kays-2025-147182056 Support Kay's Patreon and support ANTIC! - https://www.patreon.com/savetz Annual posting of older articles: https://archive.org/details/savetz_articles?sort=-addeddate https://archive.org/details/savetzarticle_reverend-apple https://archive.org/details/savetzarticle_finding-randy https://archive.org/details/savetzarticle_the-making-of-antic Interim Computer Museum - https://icm.museum Events at https://icm.museum/?events Repairing The Atari 8 Bit Astra Big D Disk Drive! by Paul Westphal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIZPgYxfrAU Fujisan: https://github.com/pedgarcia/fujisan/releases/tag/v1.1.0 Fujinet Lobby games - http://fujinet.online:8080/ FastBASIC - https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic Video from Paul Garcia showing Fujinet-PC integration - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwd0wwFohso Indy Vintage Computer Club - XF551 drive - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_XF551 Commodore 64 Ultimate - https://www.commodore.net RM 800XL - https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html Stan Veit Podcast: David Greelish and Randy read Chapter 13 ("The Atari Story") - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLCoJ-oA_V0 Stan Veit @ wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Veit New and Updated Games Ultimate Atari Games Database by Philippe Lafortune: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JaKMQio82/?mibextid=wwXIfr Invite link - https://airtable.com/invite/r/rhutWb7a Atari Party Panic v1.2 by Andy Diller: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/386758-atari-party-panic-v12/ https://massiverobot.itch.io/panic New game: Carcer from h4plo: You can get it from here - https://h4plo.itch.io/carcer Discussion - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/386514-new-game-carcer/ Overflow Santa - New Christmas game from A/W/A: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/386809-overflow-santa-new-christmas-game-from-awa/ Overflow Santa 8bit.xex(Atari 8-bit binary file) Overflow Santa 8bit.rom(Atari 8-bit cartridge) KillZone: First Real-Time Multiplayer Gaming - https://www.atariorbit.org/2025/12/13/killzone-v-1-2/ Street Fighter II Released!: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381129-street-fighter-2-for-atari-xexl/page/25/#findComment-5759887 https://vega.atari.pl/ https://vega.atari.pl/main-page/street-fighter-ii/ Pole Position Now Saves Tracks Over FujiNet (Thom Cherryhomes): Discussion - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387116-sharing-pole-position-race-designer-tracks-over-fujinet/ Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI0sgh9DGaw Atari 8-Bit/5200 Homebrew Games Released/Completed/WIP in 2025 - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378311-atari-8-bit5200-homebrew-games-releasedcompletedwip-in-2025/ New and Updated Software News Years Disk 2026 - https://demozoo.org/productions/384184/ Altirra 4.40 released from Phaeron: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/387055-altirra-440-released/ https://www.virtualdub.org/altirra.html New version 7.0 of ASAP, Another Slight Atari Player, the most accurate Atari 8-bit computers tunes player for modern computers and mobile devices - https://asap.sourceforge.net Publications December, 2025 Compute's Gazette with ANTIC article written by Brian Cox - https://shop.computesgazette.com/product/computes-gazette-issue-6-digital-edition/ AtariProjects - https://atariprojects.org/ Atari Insights January 2026: Newsletters - https://ataribasics.com/newsletter-hub/ YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@AtariBasics New and Updated Hardware Atari SX212 WiFi Retromodem - https://tempestfpga.com/sx212/ XL-Expander, a prototype add-on for Atari 800XL machines - https://bsky.app/profile/philsan.bsky.social/post/3ma6ybpxd6s2j Custom Casing for the 130XE Pixel Perfect Motherboard - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/383379-new-11-1000dpi-replica-of-atari-xe-motherboard-%E2%80%93-interest-check/page/10/#comment-5772225 3D printed joystick Atari XL computers style - https://makerworld.com/en/models/2108894-atari-xl-style-joystick#profileId-2281361 Atari 400 mini at Atari.com - https://atari.com/products/atari-400-mini-1 Other The Magic Room film ebay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/116928122102 A 'Playable' Atari-Themed Hotel Is Coming - https://people.com/atari-hotel-planned-for-phoenix-interactive-esports-venue-photos-11871760 Stewart ...
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    1 hr and 46 mins
  • ANTIC Episode 123 - Steampunk Atari

    ANTIC Episode 123 - Steampunk Atari
    Dec 11 2025
    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… 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 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: https://archive.org/details/jerseyataricomputergroup scanned via Mark Knutsen here's what else we need in a spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RkznDDlOL2O_K-RrbkajIuo6DvYof6Ajrn7j9NTcoDM/edit?usp=sharing) https://archive.org/details/Jersey_Atari_Computer_Group_newsletter_1989-03 https://archive.org/details/Jersey_Atari_Computer_Group_newsletter_1985-01 https://archive.org/details/Jersey_Atari_Computer_Group_newsletter_1985-02 https://archive.org/details/Jersey_Atari_Computer_Group_newsletter_1984-10 https://archive.org/details/Jersey_Atari_Computer_Group_newsletter_1984-12 http://archive.org/details/Jersey_Atari_Computer_Group_newsletter_1984-09 http://archive.org/details/Jersey_Atari_Computer_Group_newsletter_1984-08 http://archive.org/details/Jersey_Atari_Computer_Group_newsletter_1984-07 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: https://www.atariorbit.org/2025/11/30/battleship-docks-for-atari/ https://forums.atariage.com/topic/386230-fujinet-battleship-for-atari-8-bit-now-in-fujinet-game-lobby/ 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/mozzwald/fujinet-ai-sam/ November and December issues of Atari Insights Newsletter - https://www.ataribasics.com http://www.atariprotos.com has 2 new 8-bit things Midi Maze custom maze thread on AtariAge - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/386262-hidden-loading-of-mazes-from-disk-in-midi-maze/ November issue of Compute's Gazette - https://www.computesgazette.com Type-in apps for modern computers - https://boingboing.net/2025/11/24/doctype-magazine-type-in-apps-for-modern-computers.html "It May Be The First Video Game About The Beatles" - Before Rock Band, There Was Beat the Beatles - https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/11/random-it-may-be-the-first-video-game-about-the-beatles-before-rock-band-there-was-beat-the-beatles tech keyboard for XL/XE - Shawn Johnson - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16U5Pbpr28/ RM800XL loading a game from tape - https://youtube.com/shorts/3t7LCWEjIY4?si=7dpulvMhsxSzPsII RM800XL running Pac-Man cartridge - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TAs9-kRL3L4 Amiga clone coming? - https://retrogames.biz/products/thea1200/ https://plaionreplai.com/collections/consoles https://amzn.to/...
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    1 hr and 32 mins
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