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1979: STAR RAIDERS

01:05:40   30.1 MB   Production date: 08/03/14

Welcome to 1979! Episode 1 includes a brief summary of the technical specifications of the Atari 400 & 800 that were first released at the end of the year, discussion of Creative Computing issues starting from April and the very first Compute! magazine, and a review of a game original to the Atari 8- bits and destined to become an all-time classic game: Star Raiders.

Show Notes:

Introduction

• http://www.archive.org

• Douglas Adams Collected Works

Feedback

• 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

• Drop /// Inches with Mike Maginnis and Paul Hagstrom, a fairly technical podcast about the Apple ///

• The Atari 2600 Game-by-Game Podcast with Ferg, the review of all 2600 carts in parts-number order

• Atari timeline

• Atari Party

• Arcade inspired artwork

• Rick Keene’s cover for STLog Issue 18

Technical details

• Atari 8-bit FAQ

Other computers

• http://atariage.com/forums/topic/183619-total-number-of-a8-units-sold-worldwide/

Creative Computing Overview

• David H. Ahl and the History of Creative Computing

Creative Computing Vol 5 # 4, April 1979

• Vector 1

• Atari at the Winter CES

• Elements of a Good Computer Game by Sol Friedman

• aesthetics and your computer

• ad for an Exidy Sorcerer

• For Women Only! Making friends with that computer by Lorraine Mecca

• Sexism in Computer Science

• No Quarter #94: Mike and Carrington talk about gender stereotypes and games

• Atari Inc. Enters Personal-Home Computer Industry

• Music composition on a Honeywell 1646

• Marin Computer Center

• Car Computers

• “I’d rather be playing spacewar” T-shirt ($5)

• Vertical graphs and bar

• back cover: Ohio Scientific

Creative Computing Vol 5 # 5, May 1979

• Touch Me by Atari

• ad for More Basic Computer

• FCC tests

• Personal Electronic Transactions

• TRS-80

Creative Computing Vol 5 # 6, June 1979

• Big Bird riding on a carousel

• Word-Star

• Editorial about 1989

• Sesame Place, the plans for a Sesame Street theme park at Busch Gardens

• Ad for MayDay! a game for PET

• Pi to 8182 places

• White & Nerdy

• Intertube II dumb terminal

• Software Copyright Forum

Creative Computing Vol 5 # 7, July 1979

• cover page: moles and trolls, moles and trolls, work, work, work, work, work.

• How creative are you?

• public key cryptography on a TRS-80

• The Code Book

• NICHE: A BASIC game of ecology

• Zone X, a BASIC game

Creative Computing Vol 5 # 8, August 1979

• Cover: swords and shield dude in a fantasy worldscape

• June Chicago CES

• The Intellivisionaries Podcast

• Atari news

• Brief review of the TI 99/4 (not /4A) computer

• Interview with Peter Rosenthal of Atari

• White Paper on the database used by Adventure by Scott Adams

• GET LAMP by Jason Scott (of archive.org)

• Structured programming in BASIC

• ad for IRIDIS, a cassette magazine for the Atari

Creative Computing Vol 5 # 9, September 1979

• Another CES article

• The Levy Wager

• human-computer chess matches

• FCC Plans for reducing testing requirements

• ad for book on Atari BASIC

Creative Computing Vol 5 # 10, October 1979

• Review of 10 VCS games

Creative Computing Vol 5 # 11, November 1979

• First Atari computer ad

• chart of single board computers

• comparison of personal computers

• build analog to digital joysticks

• a version of the microcomputer Adventure in BASIC

Creative Computing Vol 5 # 12, December 1979

• Another ad by Atari, this one only for the 800

• digitizing images

• Temple of Apshai

COMPUTE! #1, Fall 1979

• The Atari Gazette

• ad for Atari hardware

• http://atariage.com/forums/topic/123010-first-atari-8-bit-vaporware/

Game Review: STAR RAIDERS

• http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-star-raiders_4992.html

• NY Times article on 10 most important video games of all time

Author: Doug Neubauer

• Doug Neubauer

• Some stories string from his website

• http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/NEUBAUER.HTM

• Gamasutra interview

Play

• Star Raiders at the Strategy Wiki

Atari Age HSC

• Star Raiders HSC

Modern Updates

• New version with less slowdown

• More modern Star Raiders-like game XTAL

• XTAL at AtariMania

Next Episode

• Space Invaders

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