ANTIC Episode 122 - Atypical Kay

In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we introduce a new format for the news, there's lots of archiving going on, new software and hardware for our favorite 8-bits, and we find out Kay is atypical…

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Recurring Links 

Floppy Days Podcast 

AtariArchives.org 

AtariMagazines.com 

Kay's Book "Terrible Nerd" 

New Atari books scans at archive.org 

ANTIC feedback at AtariAge 

Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge 

Interview index: here 

ANTIC Facebook Page 

AHCS 

Eaten By a Grue 

Next Without For 

What we've been up to

• Via Mark Knudsen: 2" binder of "August 1987":

• Atari newsletter time capsule 1987-08 - https://archive.org/details/antc_Atari_newsletter_time_capsule_1987-08/ 

• And individual newsletters - https://archive.org/details/@savetz?query=identifier%3Aantc_*1987-08 

• scanning Harry Stewart material:

• Here's his obit - https://www.mercurynews.com/obituaries/harry-stewart-san-jose-ca/

• https://archive.org/details/stx_MicroTec_6500_Relocatable_Macro_Assembler_Manual 

• https://archive.org/details/Bruce_Sherwood_Articles_about_Speech_Synthesis 

• https://archive.org/details/Atari_Speech_Handler_Preliminary_Specification_1983-03-31 

• https://archive.org/details/Steve_Bristow_memo_on_Atari_810_drive_manual_1981-02-22 

• https://archive.org/details/atari-810-model-810-rear-board-schematic 

• https://archive.org/details/Atari_810_disk_controller_firmware_memo_1980-12-22 

• https://archive.org/details/Atari_810_Disk_Drive_Peripheral_Device_Description_preliminary_release 

• https://archive.org/details/Atari_810_Disk_Drive_Controller_Program_Report_1980-11-18 

• Atari Usenet groups on IA (so far, more to come):

• https://archive.org/details/net_micro_atari 

• https://archive.org/details/net_micro_atari8 

• https://archive.org/details/net_micro_atari16 

• https://archive.org/details/comp_sys_atari 

• https://archive.org/details/comp_sys_atari_announce 

• https://archive.org/details/comp_sources_atari_st 

• Allan and Kay continuing work to archive all APX programs. Still need:

• Missing (any version) manuals:

• Algicalc

• Basic Arithmetic

• Basic Renumber Utility (Renum)

• Character Set Editor

• Database/Report System

• Deep Blue C

• Disk Menu

• Dragons Quest or a twist in the tail

• Geography

• Gossip. (?)

• Home Loan Analysis

• Market Place

• Reversi

• Missing programs (some have other versions other than APX):

• Basic Utility for Renumbering Programs BURP

• Calculator

• Earth Science

• Geography (both lists)

• Home Loan Analysis (both lists)

• Instructional Computing Demonstration

• Market Place (both lists)

• Variable Changer

• Spreadsheet of APX archiving progress 

• Atari poster - https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/BASIC-Programmers-Guide-from-1981-by-ChoccyHobNob/39504539.LVTDI?asc=u&c=1128814-wall-art&ref=work_collections_grid 

• Tricky Tutorial #7 from Kevin Lund - https://www.atarimania.com/documents/Tricky-Tutorial-7-Disk-Utilities.pdf 

News

• New and Updated Games:

• FujiLlama:

• https://www.atariorbit.org/2025/09/26/fujilama-is-a-new-multiplayer-game/ 

• https://forums.atariage.com/topic/384764-a-new-fuji-net-game-fuji-llama-coming-soon/ 

• https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/266083/llama 

• New Italian text adventures for the Atari 8-bit:

• https://www.atariteca.net.pe/2025/10/nuevas-aventuras-de-texto-italianas.html 

• Wild West - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/385434-wild-west-text-adventure-released/ 

• Tin Star - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/385435-tin-star-text-adventure-released/ 

• Desperados - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/385436-desperados-text-adventure-released/ 

• New & Updated Software:

• https://forums.atariage.com/topic/234684-atari-8-bit-software-preservation-initiative/page/113/#findComment-5735315 

• Atari OS ROM collection - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/201133-os-source-code-all-revisions/page/6/#findComment-5730231 

• Mark "atarimac" Grebe updated Atari800MacX to 6.1.0 - <a href="https://forums.at