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1980, PART 1: SUPER BREAKOUT

00:45:19   20.7 MB   Production date: 08/27/14

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.

Show Notes:

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

Manual

• 5200 Breakout Manual

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

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