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MAY 1981: EASTERN FRONT (1941)

01:00:14   27.6 MB   Production date: 02/14/15

Magazines from May 1981 and a review of Eastern Front (1941) by Chris Crawford, and the triumphant reinstatement of the tech section of the podcast because I've found a manageable topic. Also, info about the Atari Party 2015 which I will attend and give away a Raspberry Pi.

Show Notes:

Introduction

• Ringtones and notifications from Atari 8-bit games

• Thread about building my MAME cabinet

• Comparing the RPi to the Cray X-MP

• RetroLink DB9 Joystick to USB cables

• My original linux driver

• Improved linux driver

• AtariAge forum thread: 2 worthy video game podcasts

Tech Section

• Reverse engineering the classic 1979 game Star Raiders

• 6502 math operations

• Simple 8bit division routine

• Software - Math - Integer Division

ANALOG

• ANALOG #3, May/Jun 1981

• Super Missile Attack

• GCC article by The Golden Age Arcade Historian

• The Atari 7800 Game By Game Podcast

Compute

• Compute #12, May 1981

Creative Computing

• Creative Computing Vol 7, #5, May 1981

• Laine Nooney

• Laine Nooney’s lecture on women in computing

Softside

• Softside #32, May 1981

Game Review: Eastern Front (1941)

• Eastern Front (1941) @ Atarimania

• Eastern Front (1941) @ Atari 8-bit Forever

• Eastern Front Collection

History

• Churchill’s 6 volume The Second World War

• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

• Reddit thread on scholarly criticsm of the above

• Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

• 8 Things You Should Know About WWII’s Eastern

• Development of RDF/Radar

Object

• Charles Minard’s Carte Figurative: Napoleon’s Russian campaign

• pound-force vs pound-mass

• Australia goes Metric

• Gimli Glider

• Mars Climate Orbiter

Author: Chris Crawford

• Chris Crawford website

• ANTIC Podcast interview

• Kotaku interview

• James Hague interview

Technical Details

• source code from AtariArchives.org

• source code from Chris Crawford

Modern Updates

• TI 99/4a work-in-progress

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