@syntaxerrorsoft.bsky.social are you the Paul Nicholls who programmed National Flags for Atari Program Exchange? If so I'd LOVE to interview you for ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast.
Kay Savetz
@savetz.bsky.social
Atari 8-bit historian, Internet Archive ham radio archivist, interactive fiction podcaster. Portland Oregon.
A tiny victory: for decades, Allan Bushman and I have been trying to find and scan every Atari Program Exchange (APX) software manual. Today I added one to the done ✅ list: Diskmenu, by Al Harberg, 1982. archive.org/details/apx-... Now I just need to find Harberg for an interview :)
APX Diskmenu Manual : Al Harberg : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Manual for Diskmenu published by Atari Program Exchange (APX) in 1982
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At the INIT HELLO Apple II conference last weekend, there was a "make a Print Shop graphic" contest. Rather than ... you know, draw something ... I decided to see if I could make a QR code into a Print Shop graphic image. It worked! This sign is certainly the first QR code in the 1984 software
Online level editor by @savetz.bsky.social for Jumpman, 1983 game for #Atari8bit computers youtu.be/M_dkTRfgCRs #atari #retrogames
Jumpman Level Editor demo
Demonstration of web-based Jumpman level editor for Atari 8-bit computers. Try it at https://www.savetz.com/jumpman/ Discussion is at…
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New Jumpman level editor! It 10 years since @playermissile.com and I began reverse engineering Jumpman. Life's gotten in the way but the project has never been forgotten. I've built a new Jumpman level editor (for the Atari 8-bit version) that works in your web browser. www.savetz.com/jumpman/
Jumpman Level Editor
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I’m a guest on this week’s This Week in Retro. Fun time!
This Week in Retro@thisweekinretro.bsky.social · 4mo agoPodcaster-archivist @savetz.bsky.social (ANTIC, Eaten By a Grue) joins for 90s nostalgia, the loss of cover art giant Philip Castle, and the rise-and-fall of Iomega's Zip drives. All this, your picks for a gaming industry legend you'd like to spend an hour with, and more!! youtu.be/4Q_ODmzynsM
I forgot to mention that ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast episode 126 is published. Title: "All Atari All The Time" ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episod... Also we've started doing a video version on YouTube, though I'm not sure how I feel about those. #facesforradio www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HmQ...
(video) ANTIC Episode 126 - All Atari All the Time - special guest Paul Garcia (Fujisan author)
YouTube video by ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast
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This is the best possible news. www.museumofplay.org/press-releas...
The Strong National Museum of Play Acquires Atari Home Computer and Console Division Collection - The Strong National Museum of Play
The Curt Vendel Atari Collection includes hundreds of pieces of computer media on a variety of formats, along with original schematics and engineering drawings.
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FaxZero, my internet fax service, delivered 1.11 million faxes in 2025! The top elected officials reached via my free Fax Your Reps service were: Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Ron Wyden, Dick Durbin, and Tammy Duckworth, all Democrats. faxzero.com/fax_congress...
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Here's my annual letter taking stock of the computer history archiving work I've done over the past year. Kay's 2025 Wrapped: three interviews, thousands of artifacts, and a surprising amount of computer history rescued one disk, page, and binder at a time. www.patreon.com/posts/kays-2...
Kay’s 2025 Wrapped | Kay Savetz
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In 2016 I wrote an article for Pro(c) magazine (RIP) about the process I went through to find Randy Glover, creator of the best game for the best computer (Jumpman on the Atari 8-bit). I'm not sure they ever published it. Here is Finding Randy, online for the first time. archive.org/details/save...
Finding Randy Glover : Kay Savetz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Kay Savetz describes the process of finding Randy Glover, creator of the classic computer game Jumpman, for an interview.
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Getting my recent-ish articles online, continued: my review of John Romero's DOOM Guy: Life in First Person archive.org/details/save...
DOOM Guy: Life in First Person Review : Kay Savetz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Kay Savetz's review of the book DOOM Guy: Life in First Person by John Romero.
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Getting my recent-ish articles online, continued: my review of The Trail To Oregon by Jeff Blim, performed at Oregon's Chapel Theater in 2024. archive.org/details/save...
The Trail To Oregon Review : Kay Savetz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Kay Savetz's review of The Trail To Oregon by Jeff Blim, performed at Oregon's Chapel Theater in 2024.
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Continuing my effort to get my recent written work online for the first time, here's a fun piece I wrote last year: "Chasing the Dragon — In Search of the Tic Tac Dough Dragon". Featuring a popular game show, nine Apple IIs, Bob Bishop, and a scary animated dragon. archive.org/details/save...
Chasing the Dragon — In Search of the Tic Tac Dough Dragon : Kay Savetz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
History of the animated dragon, controlled by Apple II computers, on the New Tic Tac Dough TV game show.
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I've been working to get some articles that I've written in the last few years online for the first time. Here's the first, which I'm proud of—an interview with Ron Jaenisch, a Universal Life minister who used an Apple II computer called "Reverend Apple" to marry people. archive.org/details/save...
"Reverend Apple" performed nuptials on an Apple II : Kay Savetz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
An interview with Ron Jaenisch, who used an Apple II computer called Reverend Apple to marry people.
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Zork I, II, and III are now open source. Microsoft has released the classic Infocom text adventures under the MIT license! opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
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Chris lent me the APX Dragon Quest disk and I was able to flux image it. Is it now preserved!
ANTIC — The Atari 8-bit podcast episode 122 is available ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episod... and also on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-L6... I talk about my latest computer history archiving efforts.
ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast: ANTIC Episode 122 - Atypical Kay
ANTIC Episode 122 - Atypical Kay In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we introduce a new format for the news, there’s lots of archiving going on, new software and hardware for ou...
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There’s a retrocomputing newsletter that I want to like. On the most recent issue cover, there is an AI generated Atari computer that’s just so terrible. If you have a hobby, do the hobby. Don’t let an LLM create it for you. I’d rather see a 3 year-old’s crayon drawing over this monstrosity.
When someone is trying to hack my Facebook account I'm secretly rooting for them. Please take away the misery
This issue is notable for an Atari BASIC program, written by Tom Hudson, that displays 3D graphics. Two years later, Hudson would release Cyber Studio CAD-3D for Atari ST, and a few years after that, it was reborn as 3D Studio for DOS, and finally, the ubiquitous 3DS MAX.
Gaming Alexandria@gamingalexandria.bsky.social · 11mo agoA.N.A.L.O.G. Computing/Analog Computing – No. 16 – February 1984 has been scanned in 600DPI by @thestacks.ca. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/09/a...
New episode of ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast just dropped! Find out the latest news in the world of 8-bit Atari computers! Hear me say "dongle" in a way that makes my co-hosts uncomfortable! ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episod...
ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast: ANTIC Episode 121 - Dongle Disaster
ANTIC Episode 121 - Dongle Disaster In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Special guest Brent Carroll joins as we bring you the Atari news and narrowly avoid disaster with our don...
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Harry Stewart (ex-Atari employee who programmed PILOT, WSFN, and other stuff) has died. His daughter sent me his Atari documents. Some of these I scanned years ago when he lent them to me. Others seem to be unpreserved.
In 1984 someone had their Atari 800 repoed 😭 (Also, what's a Vector 2600?)
