Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

Ep. 8: May 1981: Eastern Front (1941)

Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

Show Notes

Magazines from May 1981 and a review of Eastern Front (1941) by Chris Crawford, and the triumphant reinstatement of the tech section of the podcast because I've found a manageable topic. Also, info about the Atari Party 2015 which I will attend and give away a Raspberry Pi.

Introduction

Ringtones and notifications from Atari 8-bit games

Thread about building my MAME cabinet

Comparing the RPi to the Cray X-MP

Raspberry Pi 2 announcement

Raspberry Pi 2 specs

Atari Party in Davis, CA, May 2, 2015

RetroLink DB9 Joystick to USB cables

My original linux driver

Improved linux driver

Raspberry Pi Model B

AtariAge 8-bit High Score Club

AtariAge forum thread: 2 worthy video game podcasts

S1500's Classic Console Gamernews

Tech Section

Reverse engineering the classic 1979 game Star Raiders

6502 math operations

Simple 8bit division routine

Software - Math - Integer Division

ANALOG

ANALOG #3, May/Jun 1981

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