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JUN 1982: QUARXON

01:47:50   49.4 MB   Production date: 12/08/19

Phase 2 begins with the usual magazine coverage and a review of Quarxon, a two-player shoot-each-other game with prominent use of Display List Interrupts. In the tech section, I use Omnivore to discover how these DLIs work.

Show Notes:

Introduction

• Stef Animal’s Pico-8 game: The Spooky House

• Pico-8 virtual machine (a “fantasy video game console”)

• XLXE Podcast

Magazines

• Atari 8-bit magazines

ANTIC

• Antic Vol 1, #2

Atari Connection

• Atari Connection Vol 2, #2

Byte

• Byte Vol 7, #6

• De Re Atari

Compute

• Compute #25

Computer & Video Games

• C&VG Issue #8

Creative Computing

• Creative Computing Vol 8, #6

• Eaten by a Grue

Micro 6502/6809 Journal

• Micro #49

SoftSide

• Softside #30

Game Review: Quarxon by Scott Ludwig

• Quarxon published in 1982 by APX

• APX manual

• Quarxon on Scott Ludwig’s website

• Interview with Scott Ludwig

• Gameplay video

Technical Discussion

• Omnivore, the Atari 8-bit Reverse Engineering Toolkit

• Altirra Hardware Reference Manual

• My new tutorial on advanced DLIs

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Production Notes

• Music: Stef Animal’s Bandcamp page

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