ANTIC Episode 23 - Dorsett, Veronica, BASIC XL

On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast: We discuss new atari archive sites. Randy tells us all about BASIC XL Kevin delves into the sordid history of DorsETT Educational Systems Bill Kendrick fills us in on  a panoply of stuff, including a brain transplant for your 8-bit.   Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevins Book “Terrible Nerd” New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge   What we’ve been up to Jewel-encrusted Atari XL Alan Watson’s Gold Mine game at AtariMania New Computing Pioneers Interview Transcript Site Bob Kahn digitized material at Archive.org Atari PILOT II "Inside Atari DOS" by Bill Wilkinson and Compute! Books "Atari Player/Missile Graphics in BASIC" by Philip C. Seyer “The VisiCalc Book, Atari Edition” by Donald H. Beil Podcast Episode of Inverse Atascii about VisiCalc for the Atari Floppy Days episode on the Atari 400/800, part 3 of 3 SIO2SD   Interview Discussion Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge   News How To Turn Your Whole Car Into A Video Game Simulator by Jason Torchinsky Pix from Atari Party 2015 Classic Gamefest July 25, 26 Austin, TX VCF Midwest 10 August 29-30, 2015, Elk Grove Village, IL Portland Retro Gaming expo October 17-18 in Portland OR Maury Markowitz Wikipedia article on the Atari Sierra New issue of Pro(c) magazine - issue #6 Ft. Apocalypse on GitHub Ft. Apocalypse Twitter Steve Hales Twitter AtariAge Thread on Modified Version of Silent Service Download: SILENT SERVICE mod Delta Space Arena on cartridge More on Delta Space Arena Project to Port Prince of Persia to Atari Atari 8-bit software preservation project Atari XL Basic Listings  - in german - collection of type-in listings from magazines and books New podcast on the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer - The CoCo Crew Podcast   New at Archive.org Newsletters Compuserve Computer Room Operations Training Manual a javascript based Apple //GS emulator Stuff Kevin has uploaded from Bob Kahn and other sources   Feature [K] Dorsett Educational Systems and Lloyd Dorsett Dorsett’s letter in Antic Dorsett’s letter in A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing Thomas Cherryhomes’ demonstration of his edutape creation tool   Bill’s Modern Segment "Project Veronica" thread at AtariAge Forums Post at "Vintage is the New Old" (based on a post at the Spanish "Atariteca" blog), including a side-by-side demo of "rotator" Altirra website Lotharek's Lair: SIO2PC Atari Party 2015 "World 1-1" documentary film Sal "kjmann" Esquivel (ANTIC interview ep. 17) Mike Albaugh (ANTIC ep. 6) Dan Trak-ball man Kramer (5200 Super Podcast ep. 3) Jerry Jessop (ANTIC interview ep. 30) "Transform the Gotek Floppy Emulator into an Amiga Floppy emulator" "ACA 500 Accelerator" for Amiga 500 (Sal Esquivel) "Tank" in Action! atr2unix by Preston Crow Internet Archive's Software Library: Atari Computer atr_txt_dump extractor for Kevin Savetz / Internet Archive Rob McMullen's "ATRCopy" on github "Space Wall" Work-in-Progress video The Atari 5200 Super Podcast ep. 1: "The Pac(k) Ins!" Atari 2600 Game by Game podcast, ep. 100: "AX-018 Pitfall!"   Hardware of the Month - IDE Plus 2, Rev.D HDD Interface for Atari XL/XE computers eBay listing Description at Atari8 ideplus manual   Software/Website of the Month - SpartaDOS X SpartaDOS X Upgrade Project AtariAge thread   Programming Languages - BASIC A+, BASIC XL & BASIC XE Wikipedia BASIC A+ at AtariMania BASIC XL at AtariMania BASIC XL Toolkit at AtariMania BASIC XE at AtariMania BASIC XE Extension Disk at AtariMania BASIC XE Article ANTIC VOL. 4, NO. 9 / JANUARY 1986   Feedback Ed Rotberg, wrote a magazine article YouTube video showing a demo program that Rotberg created