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APR 1981: GEM DROP (HOMEBREW)

01:24:56   38.9 MB   Production date: 01/08/15

Magazine coverage for April 1981 but jump ahead in time to cover our first homebrew game, Gem Drop by Bill Kendrick. Bill also invented one of the first software-driven graphics modes, called Super IRG, and we have an interview with him to talk about it.

Show Notes:

Introduction

• Ferg’s review of BASIC Programming

• River Raid

• Linear Feedback Shift Registers

• Elite II: 100 billion solar systems on 2 floppy disks

• Ten Pence Arcade podcast, Episode 25: Space Invaders

Feedback

• Cross-platform Apple ][ emulator

• You Don’t Know Flack Ep. 155: Cassettes

• KansasFest

• Inverse ATASCII

• Vintage Computer Festival

Compute #11, Apr 1981

• Sholes (QWERTY) vs Dvorak keyboard

• Does the Dvorak keyboard increase typing speed?

• VIC-20: First Look

• The Mysterious and Unpredictable RND

• The Atari Gazette

• Unlease the Power of your Atari CPU

• Weird Al’s Word Crimes

Creative Computing Vol 7, #4, Apr 1981

• Atari Music Composer

• Ad for Sinclair ZX80

• Telelink Cartridge connect to Compuserve

• Ad for On-line systems Hi-Res Adventures

• The Osborne-1

• A Cipthering Technique

• Dara O’Briain

• Outpost: Atari

Softside #31, Apr 1981

• Handel’s Messiah in basic

• Convoy game

• Strategy Strike game

• Intellivisionaries Intro/Outro music

Tech

• Programming tips for game writers

• List o’ 8-bit tools

• ATasm: Mac/65 compatible cross assembler

• Envision PC font & map editor

Game Review: Gem Drop

• Gem Drop

Company

• Bill Kendrick’s open source software

• TuxPaint

Technical Details

• Interlace Character Editor by Bobby Clark

• Super IRG modes and examples

• Pictures in ICO modes

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