ANTIC Episode 24 - Book Club, Turbo BASIC XL, Competitions

On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast: We offer a library’s worth of geeky reading material, and - -  did we just start a book club? Randy delves into another programming language We talk about a couple of competitions that will give you something to do through these summer months 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 Ready Player One Southern Fried Gameroom Expo Dorsett digitizing Wayne Green FOIA Request Response Stuff Kevin has scanned   Interview Discussion Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge   News Ancient Atari classics to be reworked as 'graphic novels' ATARI GAMER Limited Printed Edition OUT NOW New book from Evan Koblentz - "Abacus to Smartphone, The evolution of mobile and portable computers" Pixels Movie AspeQt ported to Android - greblus on AtariAge AspeQt forked as "RespeQt" posted by electrotrains on AtariAge - In development - SD card based Multicart ABBUC Software Competition 2015 Video Series WUDSN IDE Peter Dell on ANTIC, Interview 27 Atari making money again! RetroChallenge 2015/07 New game Ramp Rage 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   New at Archive.org Official Hint Book for Scott Adams adventures 1-12 GDC 2015: Howard Scott Warshaw - "Classic Game Postmortem: Yars' Revenge" 3 Centro Atari newsletters in Portuguese from Chile Atari 822 Operators Manual Atari 400 Home Computer 48K RAM Expansion Kit Installation Instructions Atari 820 Printer Field Service Manual Atari CX 5200 Retail Demonstrator Field Service Manual   Feature - Turbo BASIC XL Wikipedia Atari 8-bit Pages with original Turbo BASIC articles (German) Page 6  - DS#20 - Turbo Basic Support Page 6 - DS#105 - Turbo BASIC Programmer’s Kit Page 6 - DS#6 - Turbo BASIC/Turbo Compiler AtariAge discussion of Turbo BASIC Turbo BASIC Expanded Documentation by Ron Fetzer How to Compile Turbo BASIC Programs Video (English/Polish) by Bronislav Tyf Haluza ATR image of Turbo-Basic 1.5 and 1.4 Extended TBXL (download)   Bill’s Modern Segment Wikipedia article on 1986 "The Great Escape" video game Atari 8-bit port of “The Great Escape” - thread at AtariAge forums cc65 homepage Poker Solitaire CC65 Original Action! “Gem Drop” game for Atari C port for Windows, Mac, Linux ("Gem Drop X") Floppy Days #41, Jason Scott, "Every Computer in Your Browser"   Hardware of the Month Edladdin controllers   Website of the Month Atari 8-bit Forever   End of Show Music Boulder Dash Theme