Ep. 31: Dec 1982: Magazines, Part 1

Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

Coverage of Antic, Compute!, Creative Computing, Dec 1982. Chris Crawford on Legionnaire, first rumors of the IBM PCjr, and two articles predicting the future: Compute! does OK while Creative Computing gets a bunch of whammies. Also: Bullwinkle’s restaurant, sexism and mansplaining about whether educational software should ask kids their gender, and Bahrain doctors, video games & epilepsy.

Magazines

• Atari 8-bit magazines

Antic

• Antic Vol 1, #5
• Stratos by Neil Larimer
• ANTIC Podcast interview with Linda Schreiber
• Legionnaire by Chris Crawford

Compute!

• Compute #31
• IBM PCjr
• HP 85 Computer
• Xanadu, the Home of the Future
• Monrobot desk computer

Creative Computing

• Creative Computing Vol 8, #12
• CIA World Factbook on Bahrain

Production Notes

• Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page
• Episode page: Episode 31
• Twitter: @atari8bitgames