Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

5200 coverage in magazines from January through March 1983. Plus a special bonus look at a NY Times article about Warner's stunning December 1982 earnings shortfall caused by Atari's massive financial loss. 1983 * Q1 1983 First Quarter P.O.P. (Point Of Purchase) Support [http://www.atarimania.com/documents/atari-5200-1st-quarter-1983-pop.pdf] * Jan 1983 Video Games Vol 1, #4 [https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Volume_1_Number_04_1983-01_Pumpkin_Press_US/mode/2up?q=5200] * Jan 1983 ANALOG Computing #9 [https://archive.org/details/analog-computing-magazine-09/page/n77/mode/2up?q=5200] * Jan 1983 Joystik Magazine [https://archive.org/details/joystik_magazine-1983-01] * Jan 1983 Electronic Games Vol 1, #11 [https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Games_Volume_01_Number_11_1983-01_Reese_Communications_US/page/n67/mode/2up?q=5200] * Jan/Feb 1983 Atari Age Magazine Vol 1, #5 [https://archive.org/details/AtariAgeIssues1-7/Atari%20Age%20Issue%205%20%28January-February%201983%29/page/n3/mode/2up] * Feb 1983 Video Games Vol 1, #5 [https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Volume_1_Number_05_1983-02_Pumpkin_Press_US/page/n89/mode/2up?q=5200] * Feb 1983 Creative Computing Vol 9, #2 [https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1983-02/page/n283/mode/2up?q=5200] * Feb 1983 Electronic Games [https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Games_Volume_01_Number_12_1983-02_Reese_Communications_US/page/n85/mode/2up?q=5200] * Mar 1983 ANALOG Computing #10 [https://archive.org/details/analog-computing-magazine-10/page/n9/mode/2up?q=5200] * 12/19/82 NY Times article “The Game Turns Serious at Atari” [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/19/business/the-game-turns-serious-at-atari.html] * Mar 1983 Video Games [https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Volume_1_Number_06_1983-03_Pumpkin_Press_US/page/n49/mode/2up?q=5200] * Worm War 1 TV commercial [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCfJhs5XymU] * Mar/Apr 1983 Atari Age Magazine Vol 1, #6 [https://archive.org/details/AtariAgeIssues1-7/Atari%20Age%20Issue%206%20%28March-April%201983%29/mode/2up] PRODUCTION NOTES * Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page [https://stef-animal.bandcamp.com/] * Episode page: Episode 34 [http://playermissile.com/podcast/ep034.html] * Twitter: @atari8bitgames [https://twitter.com/atari8bitgames]

Coverage of a few magazines I missed last time. Live plays of two games, tips to speed up disk drive I/O, and articles on how automation has changed TV and film production. MAGAZINES * Atari 8-bit magazines [http://playermissile.com/magazines.html] SOFTALK * Softalk Vol 3, #4 [https://archive.org/details/softalkv3n04dec1982] * Assembly Lines book [https://ct6502.org/product/assembly-lines-the-complete-book/] * Total Replay harddisk image [https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay] * Axlon RAMDISK 320k [http://yesterbits.com/2017/01/22/axlon-ramdisk-320/] * Passport auto-cracking tool [https://github.com/a2-4am/passport] NIBBLE * Nibble Vol 3, #8 [https://archive.org/details/sim_nibble_1982_3_8/page/1/mode/1up] * Nibble disk [https://archive.org/details/nibbledisks_nib11] PRODUCTION NOTES * Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page [https://stef-animal.bandcamp.com/] * Episode page: Episode 33 [http://playermissile.com/podcast/ep033.html] * Twitter: @atari8bitgames [https://twitter.com/atari8bitgames]

Coverage of Atari Connection, APX, Byte, C&VG, Micro, Softside, Page 6 & Atari I/O for Dec 1982. Another Chris Crawford article on game design, a review of Steve Wozniak’s US Festival, and will Forth become the official language of the podcast? MAGAZINES * Atari 8-bit magazines [http://playermissile.com/magazines.html] ATARI CONNECTION * Atari Connection Vol 2, #4 [https://archive.org/details/Atari_Connection_Volume_2_Number_4_1982-09_Atari_US] * Mastering Rubik's Cube by Don Taylor [https://archive.org/details/masteringrubiksc00tayl] * Josh Malone’s USB CX-85 numeric keypad mod [https://twitter.com/48kRAM/status/1462136144477499395] APX CATALOG * APX Catalog Winter 1982 [https://archive.org/details/APXCatalogWinter19821983] BYTE * Byte Vol 7, #12 [https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-12] * Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock [http://www.samkass.com/theories/RPSSL.html] * Byte Magazine Atari articles only by Kay Savetz [https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-atari-articles] * TRON soundtrack composer Wendy Carlos [http://www.wendycarlos.com/] * Women in Electronic Music [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIq_WR8cl1E] * Sisters with Transistors documentary film [https://sisterswithtransistors.com/] COMPUTER & VIDEO GAMES * C&VG Issue #14 [https://archive.org/details/Computer_Video_Games_Issue_014_1982-12_EMAP_Publishing_GB] MICRO 6502/6809 JOURNAL * Micro #55 [https://archive.org/details/micro-6502-journal-55] SOFTSIDE * Softside #36 [https://archive.org/details/softside-magazine-51] * Starting Forth online edition [https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/] * Edsger W Dijkstra [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra] * Dijkstra’s rant on languages [https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF] * History of Forth language [https://www.forth.com/resources/forth-programming-language/] * Forth cross compiler [https://github.com/piotr-wiszowaty/foco65] * History of Computing Podcast episode on Pascal [https://thehistoryofcomputing.net/the-pascal-programming-language] PAGE 6 * Page #1 [https://archive.org/details/Page_6_Issue_01_1981-12_ABACUS_GB] * History of Page 6 magazine [https://www.page6.org/about/about.htm] ATARI INPUT/OUTPUT * Atari Input/Output #1 [https://archive.org/details/Input_Output_Issue_01_1982-12_Atari_GB] PRODUCTION NOTES * Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page [https://stef-animal.bandcamp.com/] * Episode page: Episode 32 [http://playermissile.com/podcast/ep032.html] * Twitter: @atari8bitgames [https://twitter.com/atari8bitgames]

Coverage of Antic, Compute!, Creative Computing, Dec 1982. Chris Crawford on Legionnaire, first rumors of the IBM PCjr, and two articles predicting the future: Compute! does OK while Creative Computing gets a bunch of whammies. Also: Bullwinkle’s restaurant, sexism and mansplaining about whether educational software should ask kids their gender, and Bahrain doctors, video games & epilepsy. MAGAZINES * Atari 8-bit magazines [http://playermissile.com/magazines.html] ANTIC * Antic Vol 1, #5 [https://archive.org/details/1982-12-anticmagazine] * Stratos by Neil Larimer [http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-stratos_5096.html] * ANTIC Podcast interview with Linda Schreiber [https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/webpage/antic-interview-138-linda-schreiber-thesis-software-and-author] * Legionnaire by Chris Crawford [http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-legionnaire_2959.html] COMPUTE! * Compute #31 [https://archive.org/details/1982-12-compute-magazine] * IBM PCjr [http://www.oldcomputers.net/ibm-pcjr.html] * HP 85 Computer [http://www.oldcomputers.net/hp85.html] * Xanadu, the Home of the Future [https://www.abandonedfl.com/xanadu-home-of-the-future/] * Monrobot desk computer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monrobot_XI] CREATIVE COMPUTING * Creative Computing Vol 8, #12 [https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1982-12] * CIA World Factbook on Bahrain [https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/bahrain/] PRODUCTION NOTES * Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page [https://stef-animal.bandcamp.com/] * Episode page: Episode 31 [http://playermissile.com/podcast/ep031.html] * Twitter: @atari8bitgames [https://twitter.com/atari8bitgames]

In a special multi-part series comparing the 8-bit computers to the 5200 console, this first episode focuses on 1982. Scanning the regular magazines for mentions of the 5200, I also scour other magazines for both 8-bit and 5200 coverage. Only in this special series will you hear article summaries from these periodicals: Electronic Games, JoyStik, Video Games, Video Games Player and Atari Age Magazine. INTRODUCTION * Atari 5200 Super Community Podcast [http://theatari5200supercommunity.blogspot.com/] * The Atari 5200 Podcast [http://5200.gamebygamepodcast.com/] * Atari 3200 prototype [http://web.archive.org/web/20200831194932/https://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/sylvia/sylvia.html] * Gremlins: last official release for the 5200 [http://www.atariprotos.com/5200/software/gremlins/gremlins.htm] TECHNICAL REFERENCES * Business is Fun by Marty Goldberg and Curt Vendel [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/atari-inc-business-is-fun-martin-goldberg/1115183207] * Jan 1984 ANALOG Computing #15 article Transporting programs to the 5200 [https://archive.org/details/analog-computing-magazine-15/page/n59/mode/2up] * Feb 1984 ANALOG Computing #16 update for 2-port 5200 [https://archive.org/details/analog-computing-magazine-16/page/n11/mode/2up?q=5200] MAGAZINE CHRONOLOGY * Jan 8, 1982: Atari Press Release Announcing the 5200 [https://archive.org/details/atari5200productreleaseannouncement/mode/2up] * Winter 1981/1982 Electronic Games [http://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/magazines/electronic_games/electronic_games_winter81.pdf] * Mar 1982 Electronic Games [http://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/magazines/electronic_games/electronic_games_may82.pdf] * Command Line Heroes podcast about Jerry Lawson [https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-6/jerry-lawson] * May 1982 Electronic Games [http://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/magazines/electronic_games/electronic_games_may82.pdf] * May/Jun 1982: Atari Age Magazine Vol 1, #1 [https://archive.org/details/AtariAgeIssues1-7/Atari%20Age%20Issue%201%20%28May-June%201982%29/page/n3/mode/2up] * Jun 1982 Electronic Games [http://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/magazines/electronic_games/electronic_games_jun82.pdf] * Jul/Aug 1982: Atari Age Magazine Vol 1, #2 [https://archive.org/details/AtariAgeIssues1-7/Atari%20Age%20Issue%202%20%28July-August%201982%29/mode/2up] * Aug 1982 Video Games Vol 1, #1 [https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Volume_1_Number_01_1982-08_Pumpkin_Press_US_a/page/n13/mode/2up?q=5200] * Billy Mitchell & Perfect Pac-Man [https://web.archive.org/web/20080229043301/http://www.oxfordamericanmag.com/content.cfm?ArticleID=58&Entry=Home] * Historical overview of fake Pac-Man high scores & Billy Mitchell’s Fraud [https://perfectpacman.com/2021/09/06/dot-two/] * Background research for the above [https://perfectpacman.com/dot-two-supplemental/] * Sep 1982: Video Games Player [https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Player_Vol_1_No_1_1982-09_Carnegie_Publications_US/page/n57/mode/2up?q=5200] * Sept 1982: Joystik Magazine [https://archive.org/details/joystik_magazine-1982-09/page/n5/mode/2up?q=5200] * Sep/Oct 1982: Atari Age Magazine Vol 1, #3 [https://archive.org/details/AtariAgeIssues1-7/Atari%20Age%20Issue%203%20%28September-October%201982%29/page/n7/mode/2up] * Nov 1982 The Video Game Update Vol 1, #8 [http://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/newsletters/video_game_update/video_game_update_nov82.pdf] * Nov 1982 Joystik Magazine [https://archive.org/details/joystik_magazine-1982-11/page/n57/mode/2up?q=5200] * Nov 1982 Electronic Games [https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Games_Volume_01_Number_09_1982-11_Reese_Communications_US/page/n7/mode/2up?q=5200] * Nov/Dec 1982: Atari Age Magazine Vol 1, #4 [https://archive.org/details/AtariAgeIssues1-7/Atari%20Age%20Issue%204%20%28November-December%201982%29/page/n3/mode/2up] * Creative Computing Vol 8, #12 [https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1982-12/page/n51/mode/2up?q=5200] * Dec 1982 Joystik Magazine [https://archive.org/details/joystik_magazine-1982-12/page/n5/mode/2up?q=5200] * Dec 1982 Video Games Vol 1, #3 [https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Volume_1_Number_03_1982-12_Pumpkin_Press_US/page/n35/mode/2up] * Dec 1982 Electronic Games [http://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/magazines/electronic_games/electronic_games_dec82.pdf] * Arcadia 2001 overview [https://www.ign.com/wikis/history-of-video-game-consoles/Arcadia_2001] * Late 1982 Atari P.O.P. (Point Of Purchase) and Advertising Support [http://www.atarimania.com/documents/atari-5200-a-new-area-in-graphics-and-game-play.pdf] PRODUCTION NOTES * Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page [https://stef-animal.bandcamp.com/] * Episode page: Episode 30 [http://playermissile.com/podcast/ep030.html] * Twitter: @atari8bitgames [https://twitter.com/atari8bitgames]