Ep. 23: Jun 1982: Quarxon

Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

Phase 2 begins with the usual magazine coverage and a review of Quarxon, a two-player shoot-each-other game with prominent use of Display List Interrupts. In the tech section, I use Omnivore to discover how these DLIs work.

Introduction

• Stef Animal's Bandcamp page
• Stef Animal's Pico-8 game: The Spooky House
• Pico-8 virtual machine (a "fantasy video game console")
• XLXE Podcast

Magazines

• Atari 8-bit magazines

ANTIC

• Antic Vol 1, #2

Atari Connection

• Atari Connection Vol 2, #2

Byte

• Byte Vol 7, #6
• Full text of De Re Atari

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