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FEB 1982: FLIGHT SIMULATORS, PART 2B

02:12:19   60.6 MB   Production date: 12/09/15

Part 2b of the flight simulator roundup with Chris Olson, reviewing helicopter sims and the all-time classic F-15 Strike Eagle. Plus: an update on speeding up Star Raiders.

Show Notes:

Introduction

• Pictures from the AtariAge booth at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo

Feedback

• Interview with Dona Bailey, Centipede co-creator

• Hidden Maze from Compute!’s First Book of Atari Games

• Wikipedia article on maze generation

• Bill Kendrick’s maze generator web game

• Bill Kendrick’s printable mazes

• Bill Kendrick’s 10-line BASIC maze generator

MAME Cabinet

• Perfect Pac-Man patterns

• MAME 0.164 on RPi2 (spoiler: slow!)

Tech Section

• Star Raiders speedup thread on AtariAge

• phaeron’s latest version

Magazines

• Atari 8-bit magazines

Byte

• Byte Vol 7, #2

• De Re Atari

Compute

• Compute #21

Computer & Video Games

• C&VG Issue #4

• Jodorowsky’s Dune

• Chris Foss

• Terran Trade Authority

• ANTIC Podcast Interview #102: Anthony Jones

Creative Computing

• Creative Computing Vol 8, #2

• ANTIC Podcast Interview #94: Bill Hogue

Micro 6502/6809 Journal

• Micro #45

Softside

• Softside #41

Game Review: Flight Simulator Roundup, Part 2b

• Chris Olson

• Chris Olson’s iOS apps

• Chris on Square Waves FM Podcast #27

• Chris on DOS Nostalgia podcast #9

Helicopter/VTOL Sims

• Super Huey

• Tomahawk

• Jump Jet

F-15 Strike Eagle

• F-15 Strike Eagle

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Production Notes

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