Ep. 7: Apr 1981: Gem Drop (Homebrew)
Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective
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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.
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
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