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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Newsbytes archive now has the complete corpus!! 157,444 tech news articles, completely filling out the gaps in 1996-2002. www.savetz.com/newsbytes/

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Apple Computer announced the Apple IIGS 40 years ago today. www.savetz.com/newsbytes/st... "The new IIGS looks like an Apple IIC--it has the sleek lines of the smaller machine and its new 'platinum' color--but the similarity ends when you see it operate. "

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So much interesting computer history in this archive — Rock Group Jefferson Airplane Sues Berkeley Systems Firm Claims Brainwave-To-Computer Link Control Data Selling Cyber Mainframes To USSR Intel CEO Says Windows NT Could Bury Unix

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I created something I've wanted for a long time: a searchable archive of Newsbytes News Network articles: technology reporting from 1983 to 2002. www.savetz.com/newsbytes/ 73,000+ articles, and a fun image gallery.

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Newsbytes Archive

Search 73,350 technology news stories from the Newsbytes News Network archive.

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I did a new Atari interview for you: Walt Klappert, Atari Advanced Development Group/WCI Labs. At Atari, Walt worked on creating software for girls. He was director of Fisher Price Dance Fantasy, a dance choreography game for small children. He later worked authoring for CD+G. youtu.be/utW7-AIz8iU

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Walt Klappert, Atari Advanced Development Group/WCI Labs

YouTube video by Kay Savetz

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Once I have something public to show, I will have you look at it to see if it feels right

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wow. You actually used it?! Wow. Its total number of customer wasn’t that big. I wasn’t expecting to find anyone

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Shh archive.org/download/Ata...

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Absolutely. I’ve scanned thousands and thousands of pages of Atari documents in the past decade+. They’re all up on Internet Archive. These will be too.

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mail’s here - three boxes of Atari history sent to me to scan

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today's distraction: building FujiGrid, a screenful of simultaneous Atari computer emulators. Pressing the S key enables sound for all of them at once, which is quite a cacophony

Screenshot of 30 different Atari 8-bit computer games running at once

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A box of 8-inch CP/M disks sent to me in 2023 is finally preserved at @archive.org: source code for the MSC 8004 Z80 Monitor-Debugger, KA6M packet-radio and HDLC dev software, BDS C tools, Pascal/Z, Z80 FORTH, Workman utilities, Digital Research system disks.

A floppy disk labeled BD SOFTWARE C COMPILER
BY LEOR ZOLMAN
DISTRIBUTED BY
WORKMAN AND ASSOCIATES
COPYRIGHT 1982

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Games Computers Play reborn update: avatar movement, scrolling, multiple users, and inter-user communication, ability to change your avatar. navigating between rooms with local in-room communication.

Four atari800 emulator windows each showing a different Games Computers Play window, with cute little robots

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Reviving a long dead online service, like you do.

Two screenshots of an Atari 8-bit computer rendering of a city, with two robots

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ha ha, I tricked @archive.org into letting me write about Atari computers on their blog... again blog.archive.org/2026/08/27/a...

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A Computer History Time Capsule | Internet Archive Blogs

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wistful Clicking is my The Doubleclicks cover band

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Best of all, Bob sent me ~70 floppy disks of unreleased 3-D rendering demos, source code, light pen software, internal development tools, and more. I got the data and shared it all here: forums.atariage.com/topic/392145...

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Bob Fraser disk trove!

My ANTIC podcast interview with Bob Fraser is scheduled to be published this weekend. Bob worked on the CX70 light pen, experimented with 3-D graphics, and wrote the POKEY chapter of De Re Atari, prog...

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I interviewed another Atari Program Exchange programmer, and it's a goodie. Bob Fraser worked at Atari for four years: on the early CX70 light pen, on specs for an unreleased database manager, and on 3-D graphics. He wrote a chapter of De Re Atari and programmed two APX titles. youtu.be/bTeflSqYjsk

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Bob Fraser, APX Insomnia, Supersort, De Re Atari — interview

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sounds like you need the appearance of more tomfoolery now.

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Honestly, I was never *not* on my bs. I’m still on my bs

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm back on my bs, trying to find and interview every Atari Program Exchange programmer. Here's my interview with James W. Burley, the programmer of Data Base/Report System. He says Atari gave him a plaque but no money at all for his "award winning" software. ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interv...

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ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast: ANTIC Interview 461 - James W. Burley, APX Data Base/Report System

James W. Burley, APX Data Base/Report System James W. Burley is the programmer of Data Base/Report System, which was sold by Atari Program Exchange beginning with the Summer 1982 APX catalog. It was ...

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You could help a fellow retrocomputer lover out, and help find the guy who’s also in Australia, who has your name :)😁

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oh well, thanks for replying !

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

@syntaxerrorsoft.bsky.social are you the Paul Nicholls who programmed National Flags for Atari Program Exchange? If so I'd LOVE to interview you for ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast.

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A tiny victory: for decades, Allan Bushman and I have been trying to find and scan every Atari Program Exchange (APX) software manual. Today I added one to the done ✅ list: Diskmenu, by Al Harberg, 1982. archive.org/details/apx-... Now I just need to find Harberg for an interview :)

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APX Diskmenu Manual : Al Harberg : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Manual for Diskmenu published by Atari Program Exchange (APX) in 1982

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Then I got home and made an Atari 8-bit version of the tool. www.savetz.com/print-shop-c... My only regret is that I didn't think to call it "Print Slop" until now.

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The QR code graphic didn't win the contest — something about artistic merit, OK, fair. But someone asked "does the QR code work?" and someone else said "well, try it!" and everyone got out their phones and that's how I rickrolled everyone at the conference.

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Had time left, so decided to vibecode a thing to make Print Shop graphics from webcam images. Created Print Shop Camera www.savetz.com/print-shop-c... Made a greeting card with my pic for sick @4am.bsky.social that said "Sorry you barfed". Always keeping it classy.

A very pixelated black and white image of Kay

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

At the INIT HELLO Apple II conference last weekend, there was a "make a Print Shop graphic" contest. Rather than ... you know, draw something ... I decided to see if I could make a QR code into a Print Shop graphic image. It worked! This sign is certainly the first QR code in the 1984 software

A letter sized paper that says GREETINGS FROM INIT HELLO 2026 with a QR code in the middle

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

your first thing would be to check the wayback machine and see if they have a good copy of it. But that’s what the site displays and not the backend stuff The next step would be to find the owner, contact him and ask what’s up, if they need help or if you could take it over.

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I don’t know anything about the site or who might run it. Sorry.

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Atari 8-bit lovers, give it a try. Forum discussion is at forums.atariage.com/topic/252267...

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Jumpman hacking

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

You can design a level (from scratch or starting from any of Randy Glover's level layouts), and use custom colors, graphics, sounds, and assembly code. Then download an ATR file to play it in your emulator or on a real Atari. Watch me create a simple level at youtu.be/M_dkTRfgCRs

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Jumpman Level Editor demo

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

New Jumpman level editor! It 10 years since @playermissile.com and I began reverse engineering Jumpman. Life's gotten in the way but the project has never been forgotten. I've built a new Jumpman level editor (for the Atari 8-bit version) that works in your web browser. www.savetz.com/jumpman/

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Jumpman Level Editor

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I’m a guest on this week’s This Week in Retro. Fun time!

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