coverage in magazines from January through March . Plus a special bonus look at a NY Times article about Warner’s stunning December earnings shortfall caused by Atari’s massive financial loss. Q First Quarter P.O.P. Point Of Purchase Support Jan Video Games Vol,...

   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 bit magazines Softalk Softalk Vol, Assembly Lines book Total Replay harddisk image Axlon RAMDISK...

   Coverage of Atari Connection, APX, Byte, C VG, Micro, Softside, Page Atari I O for Dec . 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 bit magazines Atari Connection ...

   Coverage of Antic, Compute , Creative Computing, Dec . Chris Crawford on Legionnaire, first rumors of the IBM PCjr, and two articles predicting the future: Compute does OK while Creative Computing gets a bunch of whammies. Also: Bullwinkle’s restaurant, sexism and mansplaining about whether...

   In a special multi part series comparing the bit computers to the console, this first episode focuses on . Scanning the regular magazines for mentions of the , I also scour other magazines for both bit and coverage. Only in this special series will you hear article summaries...

   Coverage of the remaining magazines for Nov . Magazines Atari bit magazines Byte Byte Vol, Computer Video Games C VG Issue Computer Gaming World CGW Vol, AtariAge forum post on cheat codes Legionnaire gameplay video Micro Journal Micro ...

   Format experiment: splitting magazine coverage across two episodes and separating game reviews to their own episodes. Magazines Atari bit magazines ANALOG ANALOG Computing Inverse ATASCII S E : Money Manager Compute Compute Atari project info from Atari Museum Jeepers...

   A friend gets his first game published in Computers Video Games other magazines this episode, and I try to dissect my first kernel game, Worm War I. Or is it It’s a super important distinction. Magazines Atari bit magazines Antic Antic Vol, Compute Compute Paperclip by...

   Strap yourselves in for coverage of magazine issues including a tiny bit on the large magazine Byte there’s an article on Star Raiders strategies that I can’t pass up. Game review is of Deluxe Invaders, which is a high quality Space Invaders clone. Oh, and there’s a discussion of a game...

   Adding a new magazine to the coverage: Softline, a games focused magazine published by the people responsible for Softalk. Also a review of Rear Guard, a game that’s appeared in full page color ads for many months in magazines. Introduction AtariAge discussion on the term IRG Magazines Atari...

   Just a regular ol’ episode talking about magazines, learning typing during the pandemic, and if we’ve finally seen the end of creepy William Shatner ads for the VIC . Magazines Atari bit magazines iCompute Compute Fred D’Ignazio interview on the ANTIC Podcast Inverse ATASCII review of...

   Phase begins with the usual magazine coverage and a review of Quarxon, a two player shoot each other game with prominent use of Display List Interrupts. In the tech section, I use Omnivore to discover how these DLIs work. Introduction Stef Animal’s Bandcamp page Stef Animal’s Pico game: The...

   Introducing Phase of the Player Missile extended podcastimatic universe. The magazine coverage will stay the same, but instead of a typical game review, I will focus on reverse engineering to discover interesting game programming techniques used by the authors of these classic games. I intend it...

   The hiatus is over. With my new slimmed down post production, I now plan to get back to regular episodes. For this one, it’s the usual magazine coverage and some talk about the retro computing projects I’ve been doing in the last year. Introduction KansasFest Richard Broadhurst’s Programs ...

   The culmination of the first season of the Player Missile podcast is a review of my favorite game and the announcement of the project undertaken by Kevin Savetz and myself to reverse engineer the game. We’re sponsoring a level design contest, and there’s still time to enter Oh, and I’m taking a...

   Game review of Getaway and interview with the author Mark Reid. The program won the Atari Star Award and the , prize in . I also introduce Omnivore, the bit binary editor that I’ve been working on during the hiatus. Kevin Savetz has a guest review of the APX Spring Catalog, and we add...

   Part b of the flight simulator roundup with Chris Olson, reviewing helicopter sims and the all time classic F Strike Eagle. Plus: an update on speeding up Star Raiders. Introduction Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History Pictures from the AtariAge booth at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo XEGS Cart by...

   The universe of games really begins to expand in . From here on out we’ll have a huge selection of choices to talk about, and Shamus by Cathryn Mataga leads us off. Also, an interview with Michael Portuesi who is both a published author in Compute ’s books and a listener to the podcast. ...

   The first half of the military flight simulator roundup with Chris Olson. I’ve included a bonus tech section at the end discussing a clever display list technique used by the MicroProse sims. Guest reviews: Michael Glaser of the XEGS Cart by Cart podcast covers SoftSide and Kevin Savetz summarizes...

   Two new magazines for the coverage: Computer Gaming World and my first magazine from the UK: Computer Video Games, and two guest reviewers of magazines. An overview of KansasFest from the Atari point of view, and a review of the APX game Reversi II. Introduction California Extreme Arcade...

   Jack Nutting of the Retro Computing Roundtable, Victor Marland of Ten Pence Arcade, Wade Ripkowski of Inverse Atascii and Kevin Savetz of ANTIC join me for a round draft of Atari bit games. Participants Jack Nutting of Retro Computing Roundtable Victor Marland of Ten Pence Arcade Wade...

   Summary of Bill Kendrick’s Atari Party and review of the excellent port of Missile Command. In magazine coverage, I’ve added MICRO: The Journal, and new contributor Michael Glaser takes over SoftSide Magazine. Introduction Atari Party in Davis, CA, May, Atari Party photos ...

   Flight simulator roundup where Chris Olson and I review noteworthy civilian aircraft sims on the bits military sims will be the subject of part . Also added Byte to the magazine to the coverage due to the serializiaton of De Re Atari. Introduction Atari Party in Davis, CA, May, ...

   Interview episode with game developer James Hague who was published in ANALOG and Antic magazines, is the author of Halcyon Days maintainer of the Giant List of Classic Video Game Programmers. Atari Party is just around the corner Introduction Atari Party in Davis, CA, May, No...

   Interview episode with Chuck Bueche, tech section on Star Raiders and the Atari bit executable format, guest magazine coverage of Softalk, and the Atari Party: Davis CA, May, Introduction The Atari Super Podcast Atari Party in Davis, CA, May, KansasFest July ...

   Interview episode with Michael Current, maintainer of the Atari bit FAQ and the Atari History Timeline; also covering the magazines from June . Tech section on building Star Raiders, MAME cabinet update, and the Atari Party: Davis CA, May, Introduction Atari Party in Davis, CA, May...

   Magazines from May and a review of Eastern Front by Chris Crawford, and the triumphant reinstatement of the tech section of the podcast because I’ve found a manageable topic. Also, info about the Atari Party which I will attend and give away a Raspberry Pi. Introduction Ringtones...

   Magazine coverage for April but jump ahead in time to cover our first homebrew game, Gem Drop by Bill Kendrick. Bill also invented one of the first software driven graphics modes, called Super IRG, and we have an interview with him to talk about it. Introduction Ferg’s review of BASIC...

   In addition to the usual magazine coverage for March , we look at the Apple game Sabotage, converted to run on the Atari. I talk with Paul Hagstrom to get background knowledge on the Apple hardware, and get the inside story on the Sabotage conversion by the guy who did it, AtariAge user...

   This episode reviews the game Jawbreaker by John Harris and covers the February magazines Compute , Creative Computing Vol , and introduces coverage of SoftSide Magazine. Anacronisticly included is coverage of my trip to the Portland Retro Gaming Expo . Feedback Sound Finder ...

   Welcome to January, Finally going month by month, Episode includes the first ANALOG issue, Compute and Creative Computing Vol and a review the game Caverns of Mars published first by APX then by Atari itself. And in my first interview, I talk with with Mike DesChenes, the co founder...

   Finishing off , Episode includes coverage of the remaining months of Creative Computing and Compute magazines, and a review of the game Space Invaders published by Atari. Introduction Martin Gardiner Corrections Digital Press Interview with Larry Kaplan Game by Game Podcast ...

   Welcome to Episode includes coverage of the Creative Computing and Compute magazines through the first half of and a review of the game Super Breakout by Atari. Introduction Racing the Beam Drawing kernels for the Atari bits Check out Ferg’s Game by Game podcast for the...

   Welcome to Episode includes a brief summary of the technical specifications of the Atari that were first released at the end of the year, discussion of Creative Computing issues starting from April and the very first Compute magazine, and a review of a game original to the Atari...

   In the inaugural episode of Player Missile, I introduce myself, talk about my background with the Atari bit systems, what the podcast will be about and what it won’t be about, and describe the format of the subsequent episodes. Podcasts ANTIC, The Atari bit Podcast with Randy Kindig, Kevin...