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JAN 1981: CAVERNS OF MARS

01:45:16   48.2 MB   Production date: 10/12/14

Welcome to January, 1981! Finally going month-by-month, Episode 4 includes the first ANALOG issue, Compute #8 and Creative Computing Vol 7 #1 and a review the game Caverns of Mars published first by APX then by Atari itself. And in my first interview, I talk with with Mike DesChenes, the co-founder of ANALOG Computing!

Show Notes:

Introduction

• Ten Pence Arcade

• McCoyCast episode on Real Genius

Feedback

• Intellivisionaries Ep. #13

• Atari Bit Byter User Club

• cc65 cross compiler

Interview with Mike DesChenes

• Master Hobbies, Cherry Valley, MA

• Newspaper scans of interviews with Lee Pappas and Mike DesChenes

• OCR versions at The Digital ANALOG Project

• ANALOG scans at archive.org

• ANALOG scans at atarimania

• ANALOG scans at atarimagazines.com

Magazines

• Atari 8-bit magazines

ANALOG

• ANALOG 400/800 #1, Jan/Feb 1981

Compute

• Compute #8, Jan 1981

• John von Neumann

Creative Computing

• Creative Computing Vol 7 #1, Jan 1981

• De Re Atari, Chapter 7: Sound

Game Review: Caverns of Mars

• Caverns of Mars at AtariMania (APX version)

• Caverns of Mars at AtariMania (Atari version)

• Caverns of Mars at Atari 8-bit Forever

• http://www.digitpress.com/eastereggs/a48cavernsofmars.htm

• http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-8-bit/caverns-of-mars/mobyrank

• How John Carter was Doomed by Its First Trailer

• The Martian (2015)

• The Martian by Andy Weir

• Andy Weir’s writings

• Planetary Defense 2012 built in to Colleen emulator for Android

• Instructions for Colleen

Author: Greg Christensen

• Chris Crawford’s Journal: The Atari years

• Dec 82 issue of Video Games magazine

Company

• http://www.atariarchives.org/APX/

• Dale Yocum interview in ANTIC podcast #14

• Fred Thorlin interview in ANTIC podcast #12

• Fernando Herrera interview in ANTIC podcast #13

Modern Updates

• Caverns of Mars II

• Mars Mission II

• Phobos

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