March, 2015 - Retro Roundup

No Quarter 124: Track and Field

March 1, 2015 Mike Maginnis

Mike and Carrington discuss the arcade game Track and Field …

Steve Wozniak dings Apple Watch price – Chicago Tribune

March 30, 2015 Steve Wozniak

http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/chi-steve-wozniak-apple-automate-promat-bsi-story.html

Got an idea for a product? Bring an engineer into the process early, advises Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. “A lot a of people start writing down ideas and start raising money based on that,” the tech legend said in his keynote Wednesday during the

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ANTIC Interview 27 – Peter Dell, WUDSN, The!Cart Studio

March 29, 2015 ANTIC

Peter Dell, WUDSN and THE!CART Studio

Hello, welcome to another interview-only episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit podcast. My name is Randy Kindig and today I’ll be talking with Peter Dell, also known as JAC! on AtariAge. Peter is the developer of the outstanding WUDSN product for developing Atari

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Texas Instruments TI-99

March 28, 2015 historyofpersonalcomputing

Texas Instruments has always been a leader in microprocessor technology. After a few years as a top manufacturer of electronic calculators using their custom microprocessor technology, and a foray into minicomputer systems using their 16-bit TI-990 processors, Texas Instruments decided to throw its hat into the ring of the home …

Open Apple #45 (March 2015): Mark Kriegsman, FastLED, Transwarp GS Clone, and Newsapalooza

March 28, 2015 Open Apple

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Mark Kriegsman, author of Star Blaster, and a modern Apple II hacker. He has ported the awesome FastLED driver library to the Apple II, so you can drive many hundreds of 32-bit RGB LEDs with your Apple II.

Meanwhile, we browbeat people

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ANTIC Interview 26 – W. Sean Hennessy, Atari, The Software Machine

March 26, 2015 ANTIC

W. Sean Hennessy

W. Sean Hennessy worked in the Consumer Electronics Division at Atari from April 1982 through March 1984 where he developed Realsports Tennis for the Atari 800 and 5200, and created the version of Centipede for the Atari 5200, and Pengo for the Atari 800 and 5200.

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Sprite Castle 008: Druid

March 25, 2015 Sprite Castle

Welcome, Druid who looks suspiciously like the Wizard from Gauntlet! On today’s episode of Sprite Castle I play Firebird’s 1986 classic Druid, which may or may not have been inspired by Atari’s Gauntlet. But totally was. If you would like […] …

Episode 95 – Cosmic Avenger, Smurf, & Carnival by Coleco

March 25, 2015 2600 Game by Game

Coleco had more than its fair share of vaporware for the Atari VCS, and this week I cover one of them (or at least what I can of it). Cosmic Avenger never came out and still has not been found, but Smurf and Carnival did! Also, congratulations to Jose Quezada,

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ANTIC Interview 25 – Scott Adams, Adventure International

March 24, 2015 ANTIC

Scott Adams – Adventure International

Scott Adams is probably best known for his line of text adventures for early personal computers — including AdventureLand, Pirate Adventure, Mystery Fun House, and many others. He was also the founder of Adventure International, the company that brought Atari users myraid programs, including

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Floppy Days Episode 33 – The Atari 400/800, Part I

March 24, 2015 FloppyDays

I’m particularly excited to be bringing you this 2-part episode because I will be covering the Atari 400 & 800 computers. This first episode will cover the history of these machines and next month I will cover Web sites, emulation, books, software, magazines, tech specs, and much more. Even more

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