Ep. 6: Mar 1981: Sabotage

Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

In addition to the usual magazine coverage for March 1981, we look at the Apple ][ game Sabotage, converted to run on the Atari. I talk with Paul Hagstrom to get background knowledge on the Apple hardware, and get the inside story on the Sabotage conversion by the guy who did it, AtariAge user Shamus.

Introduction

• Sound explained in De Re Atari, Chapter 7
• cc65 started on the Atari 8-bits!

Feedback

• Christmas Vacation sled scene

ANALOG 400/800 Magazine #2, Mar/Apr 1981

• Atari News
• Atari word processor review at Inverse ATASCII
• New Products
• Using Note & Point
• Type-in: Balance your Checkbook
• Type-in: Player/Missile graphics
• DMA timings
• Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design, Chapter 6
• ANTIC Techincal
• Video timing diagram
• Type-in: Cannon Duel
• Listen: Music Composer Column
• VCS update
• Graphics clipping routine in BASIC by Tom Hudson
• The Game Room by Tom Repstad

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