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MAR 1981: SABOTAGE

01:35:11   43.6 MB   Production date: 11/23/14

In addition to the usual magazine coverage for March 1981, we look at the Apple ][ game Sabotage, converted to run on the Atari. I talk with Paul Hagstrom to get background knowledge on the Apple hardware, and get the inside story on the Sabotage conversion by the guy who did it, AtariAge user Shamus.

Show Notes:

Introduction

• Sound explained in De Re Atari, Chapter 7

• cc65 started on the Atari 8-bits!

Feedback

• Christmas Vacation sled scene

Magazines

• Atari 8-bit magazines

ANALOG

• ANALOG 400/800 Magazine #2, Mar/Apr 1981

• Atari word processor review at Inverse ATASCII

• Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design, Chapter 6

• ANTIC Techincal notes

• Video timing diagram

• Inverse ATASCII S1E3: Atari Calculator

• AtariAge thread on ANALOG Magazinedisks

• Archive of ANALOG disks

Atari Connection

• Atari Connection, Vol 1, #1, Spring 1981

• Vintage-Computer.com description

Compute

• Compute #10, Mar 1981

Creative Computing

• Creative Computing Vol 7, #3, Mar 1981

SoftSide

• SoftSide #30 (Vol 3, #6), Mar 1981

Game Review: Sabotage

• Sabotage at AtariMania

• Sabotage at Atari 8-bit Forever

Author: Mark Allen

• UCSD P-System Museum

• Apple ][ disk protection of Stellar Invaders

Company

• See Episode 5 for more about On-Line Systems

Interview with Paul Hagstrom

• Drop /// Inches, co-hosted by Paul Hagstrom

• Retro Computing Roundtable, co-hosted by Paul Hagstrom

Interview with Atari Age user Shamus

• The story behind Sabotage

• Partial conversion of C64 software to Atari

My High Score

• Sabotage as bonus game, HSC11 Round 20

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