tsom Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Hi, I've been a fan of the Atari 8-bits since high school, and recently was finally able to get myself an Atari 800 - actually two! (pic below) Back then, I was a huge fan of Analog Magazine. I had almost every issue up to a point (until my mom tossed them...). I lived not far from their offices, and visited several times. (Once, I watch as Charles Bachand was writing and play testing Race in Space - so jealous!) I've included a recent pic of the building that used to house the magazine - Mike DeChenes (sp?) still owns and runs the hobby store, last I heard. Recently, I thought I'd try to see if I could find text versions of the source code to the games they published in their magazines. I have already found text versions of Bacterion and Livewire. I would love to gather as many text versions of the games as I can. I've set up a Github repo with the files I've found so far - https://github.com/jtsom/AnalogSourceCode If anyone has any files, please open a pull request and I'll get it added in. Hopefully we can get a nice archive of their amazing code! 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 I have had a look through this archive, but not for the purpose source code gathering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Ace Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 I've collected most of them (and more) at https://ksquiggle.neocities.org/, converted to HTML for easier reading. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsom Posted July 25, 2019 Author Share Posted July 25, 2019 Thanks for the heads up about that ftp site - I just found a bunch at: http://ftp.pigwa.net/stuff/collections/holmes cd/Holmes 2/Sources/Games/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsom Posted July 25, 2019 Author Share Posted July 25, 2019 @atari_ace Thanks! I just recently found your site and I didn't even realize those were there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrest Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Tsom, Thanks for posting - especially the pictures. FYI, found this column from Lee Pappas on the early days of Analog magazine http://www.gearrant.com/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMontezuma Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 7 hours ago, tsom said: I've been a fan of the Atari 8-bits since high school, and recently was finally able to get myself an Atari 800 - actually two! (pic below) Back then, I was a huge fan of Analog Magazine. I had almost every issue up to a point (until my mom tossed them...). I lived not far from their offices, and visited several times. (Once, I watch as Charles Bachand was writing and play testing Race in Space - so jealous!) I've included a recent pic of the building that used to house the magazine - Mike DeChenes (sp?) still owns and runs the hobby store, last I heard. Perhaps you will like these interviews: https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-18-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-lee-pappas-analog https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-48-tom-hudson-analog and all other interviews from https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsom Posted July 25, 2019 Author Share Posted July 25, 2019 Thanks for those interviews! I heard one with Mike on the Antic podcast, but didn't know they talked to Lee and Tom too. Off to download the episodes! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 How is ATASCII being handled in html and txt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playermissile Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 10 hours ago, tsom said: Thanks for those interviews! I heard one with Mike on the Antic podcast, but didn't know they talked to Lee and Tom too. Off to download the episodes! And here's an interview with Mike DesChenes: http://playermissile.com/podcast/ep004.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 What a great resource (the GitHub repo) - thanks! I was searching for Buried Bucks, only to learn that it wasn't a magazine game -- it was published commercially via ANALOG Software. Great history on it here -- https://leepappas.com/analog-software/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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