On this episode of ANTIC the atari 8-bit podcast: our annual holiday buying guide for Atari 8-bit lovers, we announce the winner of the interview transcription contest, I test all of the BBUC game contest entries, and we outright start bribing people to donate to archive.org.
Recurring Links
Floppy Days Podcast
AtariArchives.org
AtariMagazines.com
Kevin’s Book “Terrible Nerd”
New Atari books scans at archive.org
ANTIC feedback at AtariAge
Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge
ANTIC Facebook Page
What we’ve been up to

Kevin KansasFest 2015 Session - https://archive.org/details/Kansasfest2015SessionsHowToGetInterviews part of https://archive.org/details/kansasfest
Gideon Marcus digitized many disks fromJacksonville Atari Computer Enthusiasts and Lotsabyes, put them online at  http://sdfo.org/jace/
Tricky Tutorial #11 Memory Map
Tricky Tutorial #6 Sound and Music

News

Bill Wilkinson has died
Kevin’s 2014 interview with Bill - ANTIC Interview 7 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Bill Wilkinson, OSS
Retro Gamer Magazine - http://www.retrogamer.net/
Project Atari 13130 Teaser (2600, 5200, 7800, 130XE and Lynx in one case) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHLxpdGhao&feature=youtu.be
also another teaser video where 10p6 shows the universal cart adapter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF9vDI1Fny8
Atariteca Mr. Atari to release new game called Lost In Space on Christmas day - http://atariteca.blogspot.com/2015/12/video-publicaran-lost-in-space-en.html
new game Bobby Bearing - conversion from C64 by mariuszw on AtariAge - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/241972-new-game-port-bobby-bearing/
Star Raiders on GitHub - https://github.com/XioNYC/StarRaiders
Star Raiders II - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb03mSdMaYc
1400XL went for sale on ebay by bob1200xl on AtariAge
1400XL discussion - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/244786-1400xl-on-ebay/
A neat infographic on some Atari Floppy drives. And it’s in both Spanish and English - http://atariteca.blogspot.com/2015/11/el-mejor-disk-drive-para-atari.html
PRO-PROMPT Cart +OG Disk +OG 9pin Plug + COMPU= ATARI 800XL
ABBUC Software Contest Results - http://www.abbuc.de/atari/software-ressort/81-software/softwarewettbewerbe/1764-software-wettbewerb-2015
ABBUC winners at atarionline.pl - http://atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?ct=nowinki&ucat=1&subaction=showfull&id=1445715619
ABBUC software competition 2015 thread at AtariAge - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/235115-abbuc-software-competition-2015/
Vintage is the New Old  - Paulo Garcia - www.vintageisthenewold.com
PC World: “This Old Tech: There’s nothing like M.U.L.E. on an Atari 800 to bring a family together” by Benj Edwards - http://www.pcworld.com/article/3008912/software-games/this-old-tech-theres-nothing-like-mule-on-an-atari-800-to-bring-a-family-together.html
First episode of The Atari XEGS Cart by Cart Podcast - Episode 0 - https://www.facebook.com/AtariXEGS.and.8Bit.Game.Podcast/ , http://xegs8bit.com/


Upcoming Shows:

VCF Southeast 4.0 - April 2 & 3 2016, Roswell, GA
VCF East - April 15-17, 2016 - InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, NJ, 07719 - http://www.vintagecomputerfederation.org/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/


New at Archive.org

Computer Magazine Archives - https://archive.org/details/computermagazines?sort=-publicdate&and[]=bang
Computer Manuals - https://archive.org/details/computermanuals?sort=-publicdate
Atari 800 XL User's Handbook By Weber Systems Inc - https://archive.org/details/Atari800XLUsersHandbookByWeberSystemsIncSearchable  
Atari Explorer Magazine - https://archive.org/details/AtariExplorerOnline
A collection of digitized scans from a large cache of documents related to the game publisher Infocom - https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet

Holiday Recommendations

Rainbow sticker $5.25 on eBay
800XL iPhone case, $22.91 - http://www.redbubble.com/people/binman/works/13604428-atari-800xl?p=iphone-case
Glasses from MotoGlass. 10% for the next two weeks if you mention ANTIC podcast - ht