EPISODE · Jul 15, 2014 · 29 MIN
Ep. 0: Introduction
from Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective
In the inaugural episode of Player/Missile, I introduce myself, talk about my background with the Atari 8-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 8-bit Podcast with Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz and Brad Arnold, all about Atari 8-bit computers No Quarter with Carrington Vanston and Mike Maginnes, the classic arcade podcast You Don't Know Flack with Rob O'Hara, a retro-technology themed podcast Rob O'Hara's podcast about podcasting that inspired me to start this podcast Sprite Castle, his C64 games review podcast The Atari 2600 Game-by-Game Podcast with Ferg, the review of all 2600 carts in parts-number order Retro Computing Roundtable with a rotating cast of several, talking about retro computing news and collecting Floppy Days with Randy Kindig, a survey of vintage computer hardware Drop /// Inches with Mike Maginnis and Paul Hagstrom, a fairly technical podcast about the Apple /// References Atari, Inc: Business is Fun Full text of Atari 8-bit books More Basic Computer Games Kevin Savetz' Atari magazines Archive.org's Computer Magazine Archives Atari 8-bit Emulators Atari800 emulator (multi-platform) Altirra emulator (windows only) MESS (multi-platform) Links FC 5025 5.25 floppy disk interface The classic arcade emulator MAME Toastmasters Theme song: Odin's Atari Production Notes Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page Episode page: Episode 0 Twitter: @atari8bitgames
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