Floppy Days 40 - The Atari 400/800, Part III

Welcome to part 3 of the now 3 part episode covering the Atari 400 & 800 computers.  This episode will cover Web sites, emulation, books, software, modern upgrades, connectivity to modern computers, and much more.  I’m very happy to have pretty much the entire Atari 8-bit podcasting group as special guest hosts helping me cover these topics.  This includes Wade from Inverse Atascii (http://inverseatascii.info/ ) , Rob of Player/Missile (http://playermissile.com/ ), Jack of RCR (http://rcrpodcast.com/ ), Kevin from Antic (http://ataripodcast.com/ ), and Brad from Antic (http://ataripodcast.com/ ).  Enjoy!!   Links Mentioned in the Show:   New Acquisitions “Atari Player-Missile Graphics in BASIC” by Philip C. Seyer - http://www.amazon.com/Atari-player-missile-graphics-BASIC-Philip/dp/0835901122 “All About the Commodore 64, Volume Two” by Craig Chamberlain - http://www.amazon.com/All-About-Commodore-Craig-Chamberlain/dp/0942386450 “Inside Atari DOS” Compiled by Bill Wilkinson, OSS - http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Atari-DOS-Bill-Wilkinson/dp/0942386027 “Presenting the Atari ST, Volume I” - http://www.amazon.com/Presenting-the-Atari-St/dp/091643933X “The VisiCalc Book, Atari Edition” by Donald H. Beil - http://www.amazon.com/Visicalc-Book-Donald-H-Beil/dp/0835983943 BASIC XL for the Atari - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Basic%20XL Action! for the Atari - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ACTION   News Commodore Vegas Expo - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex July 18-19, 2015, Plaza Hotel & Casino, 1 Main Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 27th Annual KansasFest - http://www.kansasfest.org/  July 14 –19 in Kansas City, Missouri. Amiga 30th Anniversary Event https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/890300835/amiga-30th-anniversary-in-california Saturday, July 25 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.  Kickstarter runs until April 18 VCF Midwest 10 - http://vcfmw.org/ August 29-30, 2015, Elk Grove Village, IL Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire October 31, 2015, Evanston, IL Interview transcript site (Kevin Savetz) - http://computingpioneers.com   Feedback “32 Basic Programs for the Apple Computer” by Tom Rugg - http://www.amazon.com/32-BASIC-programs-Apple-computer/dp/0918398347   Books PDFs of so many Atari 8-bit books - http://www.atarimania.com/documents-atari-atari-400-800-xl-xe--books_1_8.html Atari Inc. Business is Fun - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0985597402/   User Groups and Shows SPACE: St Paul Atari Computer Enthusiasts - http://www.spaceweb.us/wiki/Main_Page Circa 1994 list of user groups - http://www.atarimax.com/freenet/freenet_material/6.16and32-BitComputersSupportArea/3.ReferenceDesk/35UserGroupListing.php big list of newsletters from various clubs - http://mcurrent.name/magslist.html 400/800 debut announcement in Winter 1979 - http://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/wci_games.html Atari Bit Byter User Club (ABBUC) - http://www.abbuc.de/   Modern Upgrades Ultimate 1MB - http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=67 4MB Flash Megacart - http://herale.org/4MB_FLASH_MEGACART 8-bit stereo upgrade - http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=45 Dragon cart - http://www.atari8ethernet.com Randy’s review of all the storage alternative options on Antic Episode 17 - http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episode-17-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-holiday-special Side 2 - Compact Flash cartridge - http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=68 SIO2SD - SD interface - http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=49 MyIDEII - CF cartridge from AtariMax - http://www.atarimax.com/   Connectivity to Modern Computers SIO2PC (AtariMax) - http://www.atarimax.com/sio2pc/documentation/ SIO2PC (Lotharek) - http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=98 Contiki for Atari - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ataricc65lib/ Contiki configurator / image download - dsk format - http://contiki.cbm8bit.com Wades ASP Server source for Null modem connection - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/222959-xm301-modem-to-x86-pc-for-file-transfer/?p=2959967   Emulation Windows: Altirra - http://www.virtualdub.org/altirra.html or Atari800 - http://atari800.sourceforge.net/ Mac: Atari800MacX - http://www.atarimac.com/ Linux: Atari800 Android: Colleen iOS: see iOS Atari Emulation Guide at Antic site by Chris Olsen - http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/webpage/category/IOS%20Atari%20Emulation%20Guide In Browser - https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_atari   Web Sites Vendors BEST Electronics (Brad Koda) - http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/ B&C ComputerVisions (Bruce Carso) - http://www.myatari.com/ Video 61 & Atari Sales (Lance Ringquist) - http://members.tcq.net/video61/index.html Eight-Bit Fix (Paul Westphal) - http://www.eightbitfix.com/ Others AtariMania (books, magazines, software) - http://www.atarimania.com/ AtariAge (news, forums) - http://www.atariage.com Archive.org - https://archive.org/ AtariArchives (books, magazines) Kevin Savetz - http://www.atariarchives.org/ Atari FTP Archive (software) - http://ftp.pigwa.net/ Fandal (software) - http://a8.fandal.cz/ Atari Museum (Curt Vendel) - http://www.atarimuseum.com/ Bits of the Past - http://www.bitsofthepast.com/ RAM upgrades, 4-in-1 OS adapter boards Atari 8-bit FAQ (Michael Current) - http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/atari-8-bit/faq.html Atari 8-bit FTP Search Engine (Bill Kendrick) - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/xlsearch/ Atari 8-bit at Reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/atari8bit Atariteca (Spanish) - http://atariteca.blogspot.com/ Atari 8-bit Forever (Bostjan Gorisek from Slovenia) - http://gury.atari8.info Atari.org, the Definitive Atari Resource - http://www.atari.org/ 8-bit GUI project, The Last Word, and more (Jonathan Halliday) - http://atari8.co.uk/ WUDSN IDE for 8-bit development (Peter Dell) - http://www.wudsn.com/index.php/ide USB Joystick - http://www.syzygycompany.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=50 Atari 800 Best Game Pack - http://atari800.tistory.com/category/Download