Ep. 2: 1980, Part 1: Super Breakout

Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

Welcome to 1980! Episode 2 includes coverage of the Creative Computing and Compute! magazines through the first half of 1980 and a review of the game Super Breakout by Atari.

Introduction

• Racing the Beam
• Drawing kernels for the Atari 8-bits
• Check out Ferg's 2600 Game-by-Game podcast for the contest I'm sponsoring!

Feedback

• Rick Keene's artwork
• Superplot by Michael Portuesi
• blubalu's Star Raiders unboxing!

Magazines

• Compute #2, Jan/Feb 1980
• Creative Computing v6, #1 Jan 1980
• Creative Computing v6, #2 Feb 1980
• Compute #3, Mar/Apr 1980
• Creative Computing v6, #3 Mar 1980
• Creative Computing v6, #4 Apr 1980 (the famous April Fool's issue)
• Compute #4, May/Jun 1980
  • C64 vs Apple 2 chess match
• Creative Computing v6, #5 May 1980
• Creative Computing v6, #6 Jun 1980

Game Review: Super Breakout

• Atarimania Page
• Atari 8-bit Forever Page

Author: Larry Kaplan

• Ferg's review of Breakout for the 2600
• Super Breakout at the Arcade Museum
• Ferg's review of Super Breakout for the 2600
• Steve Wozniak recalls designing Breakout
• Breakout at Arcade History
• Woz addresses Breakout payment from Woz.org

Manual

• 5200 Breakout Manual

Technical Details

• Mapping the Atari: Display Lists
• De Re Atari: ANTIC and the Display List
• De Re Atari: Display List Interrupts
• Non-Maskable Interrupt

My High Score

• July 2013: HSC10, Round 12

SAP

• ASMA: Atari SAP Music Archive
• A Nice Morning Drive
• Neil Peart & Richard S. Foster's Road Trip

Production Notes

• Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page
• Episode page: Episode 2
• Twitter: @atari8bitgames