Welcome to 1980! Episode 2 includes coverage of the Creative Computing and Compute! magazines through the first half of 1980 and a review of the game Super Breakout by Atari.
Introduction
- Racing the Beam
- Drawing kernels for the Atari 8-bits
- Check out Ferg's 2600 Game-by-Game podcast for the contest I'm sponsoring!
Feedback
- Rick Keene's artwork
- Superplot by Michael Portuesi
- blubalu's Star Raiders unboxing!
Magazines
- Compute #2, Jan/Feb 1980
- Creative Computing v6, #1 Jan 1980
- Creative Computing v6, #2 Feb 1980
- Compute #3, Mar/Apr 1980
- Creative Computing v6, #3 Mar 1980
- Creative Computing v6, #4 Apr 1980 (the famous April Fool's issue)
- Compute #4, May/Jun 1980
- C64 vs Apple 2 chess match
- Creative Computing v6, #5 May 1980
- Creative Computing v6, #6 Jun 1980
Game Review: Super Breakout
- Atarimania Page
- Atari 8-bit Forever Page
Author: Larry Kaplan
- Ferg's review of Breakout for the 2600
- Super Breakout at the Arcade Museum
- Ferg's review of Super Breakout for the 2600
- Steve Wozniak recalls designing Breakout
- Breakout at Arcade History
- Woz addresses Breakout payment from Woz.org
Technical Details
- Mapping the Atari: Display Lists
- De Re Atari: ANTIC and the Display List
- De Re Atari: Display List Interrupts
- Non-Maskable Interrupt
My High Score
- July 2013: HSC10, Round 12
SAP
- ASMA: Atari SAP Music Archive
- A Nice Morning Drive
- Neil Peart & Richard S. Foster's Road Trip
Production Notes
- Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page
- Episode page: Episode 2
- Twitter: @atari8bitgames