S4:E7: A Joyous Noise: Adventures With The Pokey Audio Chip

Episode 7 July 18, 2021 01:12:30
S4:E7: A Joyous Noise: Adventures With The Pokey Audio Chip
Into The Vertical Blank
S4:E7: A Joyous Noise: Adventures With The Pokey Audio Chip

Jul 18 2021 | 01:12:30

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Show Notes

In the 80's we sold all of our Atari 800 discs and lost all of our youthful programs BASIC programs and creative output forever.  Or so we thought.
A few weeks ago we discovered a lost "treasure":   an audio tape from 1984 that we never remembered recording of us using one of our programs.  With the help of musician Tony Longworth, we embarked on quest to plumbs the depths of this computer audio ephemera, the Pokey audio chip and how it was the cornerstone of much of the Atari "Into The Vertical Blank" experience. Features a remix by Tony Longworth.

Written, edited, produced by Steve Fulton, Jeff Fulton 

Branding by Daryl Litts

Music "Pokey Remix" by Tony Longworth . Find Tony on Bandcamp Here:
Tony Longworth (bandcamp.com)

Theme by Brian Travis
Title: Into The Vertical Blank theme Words & music by Brian Travis (c)(p)2021 Taste This Moment Music ASCAP
http://www.briantravisband.com/

Links:

The Retro Hour UK Podcast

Unfinished Atari Jaguar FMV Game American Hero Coming to Console – Push Square

Ultima Forever 

Press Reset Book by Jason Schreier and Ray Chase

Music Video of New Theme by Brian Travis : Video by 8bitrock Studios

Wikipedia Article Pokey Chip

Our Pokey Sound Player Tool

PokeyONE – Atari POKEY Chip Replacement for Atari Arcade Games

Starting Line: A sound introduction (atarimagazines.com)

Atarimania.com Mule Page

Nothing Special – Pokey Tunes Video

Atari Books and References noted:
Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design-Chapter 8 (atariarchives.org)

Atari Program Exchange: Sound Editor (atariarchives.org)

Mapping The Atari Appendix 6 – Sound And Music (atariarchives.org)

Sound (atari archives.org)

De Re Atari – Chapter 7 (atari archives.org)

Atari Player-Missile Graphics in BASIC – Chapter 7 (atariarchives.org)

Compute!’s First Book of Atari (atariarchives.org)

Atari Basic – A Self-Teaching Guide: Chapter Ten – Color Graphics and Sound (atariarchives.org)

pokey.pdf (visual6502.org)

Find us here:
- http://intotheverticalblank.com

-Into the Vertical Blank: Generation Atari | Facebook

-Into The Vertical Blank Pod Cast

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