Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 119

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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Host's Topic: Retrocomputing TMI

It seems like the retrocomputing hobby is gaining traction. Hooray! Except now it’s so easy to scan things, post things, take videos—information is coming in at a rate that’s too hard to manage. How do you keep up?

Retro Computing News:

  • BCS videos posted by CHM
  • Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict trailer
  • John Calhoun releases source code to his classic Macintosh shareware games
  • Continuum 1.04 download and source
  • Macross 6502, an assembler for people who hate assembly language
    • Macross on github
    • Marvin Minsky obituary
      • Minskytron at masswerk.at
      • Most useless machine at Web of Stories
      • Bill Fernandez: Apple employee #4, on Triangulation
      • The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack
      • VCF East Exhibitor Registration opens
        • VCF East XI, April 15-17, 2016
        • 25th annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFest (event April 23-24, 2016)
        • PoC||GTFO
        • FlippyBit for Atari VCS source
        • Quinn Dunki decelerates the IIc Plus on Blondihacks

          • Vintage Computer "Commercial" (sort of):

          • Um.

            • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

            • Amiga boing beachball
              • Perry Bible Fellowship, Beach Closing

                • Auction Picks:

                • Carrington: Back panel cover for Mac Color Classic "Mystic"
                  • John Dvorak (then contributing editor with PC magazine) demonstrates how easy the modular IBM PS/2 is to take apart, on Computer Chronicles
                  • Jack: True Vintage 80s ATARI Puffer Vest Nylon
                  • Paul: Tandy 6000
                    • VIC-Relay

                      • Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link

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