Month: July 2016

ANTIC
Atari

ANTIC Interview 208 – Duane Bolster, Midas Touch and Advanced Fingerspelling

July 29, 2016 ANTIC

Duane Bolster, Midas Touch and Advanced Fingerspelling

Duane Bolster published two programs with Atari Program Exchange: Midas Touch and Advanced Fingerspelling. Midas Touch, a word game, was first available in the summer 1982 APX catalog. Advanced Fingerspelling, a program for teaching letters in sign language, was first available in the

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Open Apple
Apple II

Open Apple #61 (July 2016) : KansasFest 2016, Chicken Missile Megapodcast

July 27, 2016 Open Apple

This month on Open Apple, as is tradition, we present the megapodcast recorded live at KansasFest. Most of your favorite retrocomputing podcasters attend KansasFest each year, and we all get together in a basement room to record a giant group podcast. This year’s recording includes, in no particular order:

Quinn Dunki of Open …

Apple II

While you wait for Lawless, play this!

July 27, 2016 Lawless Legends

While we work on Lawless Legends we thought you’d like a NEW mini adventure to play: Ancient Legends is a fantasy Role Playing game made for the Apple II series of home computer created by 8 Bit Weapon and friends! The game was created

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ANTIC
Atari

ANTIC Interview 207 – Tom Halfhill, Compute! Magazine

July 27, 2016 ANTIC

Tom Halfhill, Compute! Magazine

Tom R. Halfhill was features editor of Compute! Magazine, and was later launch editor of several other magazines from that publisher, including Compute!’s Gazette, Compute’s Atari ST, and Compute!’s PC Magazine. He co-wrote the book Advanced Amiga Basic and was later editor of Game Players magazine.

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