In the inaugural episode of Player/Missile, I introduce myself, talk about my background with the Atari 8-bit systems, what the podcast will be about and what it won't be about, and describe the format of the subsequent episodes.

Podcasts * ANTIC, The Atari 8-bit Podcast with Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz and Brad Arnold, all about Atari 8-bit computers * No Quarter with Carrington Vanston and Mike Maginnes, the classic arcade podcast * You Don't Know Flack with Rob O'Hara, a retro-technology themed podcast * Rob O'Hara's podcast about podcasting that inspired me to start this podcast * Sprite Castle, his C64 games review podcast * The Atari 2600 Game-by-Game Podcast with Ferg, the review of all 2600 carts in parts-number order * Retro Computing Roundtable with a rotating cast of several, talking about retro computing news and collecting * Floppy Days with Randy Kindig, a survey of vintage computer hardware * Drop /// Inches with Mike Maginnis and Paul Hagstrom, a fairly technical podcast about the Apple ///

References * Atari, Inc: Business is Fun * Full text of Atari 8-bit books * More Basic Computer Games * Kevin Savetz' Atari magazines * Archive.org's Computer Magazine Archives

Atari 8-bit Emulators * Atari800 emulator (multi-platform) * Altirra emulator (windows only) * MESS (multi-platform)

Links * FC 5025 5.25 floppy disk interface * The classic arcade emulator MAME * Toastmasters * Theme song: Odin's Atari

Production Notes * Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page * Episode page: Episode 0 * Twitter: @atari8bitgames