Ep. 0: Introduction

In the inaugural episode of Player/Missile, I introduce myself, talk about my background with the Atari 8-bit systems, what the podcast will be about and what it won't be about, and describe the format of the subsequent episodes.

Podcasts

• ANTIC, The Atari 8-bit Podcast with Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz and Brad Arnold, all about Atari 8-bit computers
• No Quarter with Carrington Vanston and Mike Maginnes, the classic arcade podcast
• You Don't Know Flack with Rob O'Hara, a retro-technology themed podcast
• Rob O'Hara's podcast about podcasting that inspired me to start this podcast
• Sprite Castle, his C64 games review podcast
• The Atari 2600 Game-by-Game Podcast with Ferg, the review of all 2600 carts in parts-number order
• Retro Computing Roundtable with a rotating cast of several, talking about retro computing news and collecting
• Floppy Days with Randy Kindig, a survey of vintage computer hardware
• Drop /// Inches with Mike Maginnis and Paul Hagstrom, a fairly technical podcast about the Apple ///

References

• Atari, Inc: Business is Fun
• Full text of Atari 8-bit books
• More Basic Computer Games
• Kevin Savetz' Atari magazines
• Archive.org's Computer Magazine Archives

Atari 8-bit Emulators

• Atari800 emulator (multi-platform)
• Altirra emulator (windows only)
• MESS (multi-platform)

Links

• FC 5025 5.25 floppy disk interface
• The classic arcade emulator MAME
• Toastmasters
• Theme song: Odin's Atari

Production Notes

• Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page
• Episode page: Episode 0
• Twitter: @atari8bitgames