Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 185 - Virtual retrocomputing


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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Jack Nutting (not hosting)

Topic: Virtual retrocomputing

For things you can’t physically interact with, how would you like to see or experience retrocomputers? What’s important to you for, say, an internet-accessible museum? Photos, movies, emulation? In-browser? Documentation? “Everything, all the things” is a possible answer, but realistically, what would you use, and what might the use case be? What is frustrating about existing online repositories you’ve used? Is there anything that you’d find more useful than things you’ve seen already? There’s a lot of possible information, maybe too much to really digest in one place.

Topic and feedback notes:

  • Homebrew Club (augmented reality iOS app)
  • Hidden Powers of the Model 100 (Christopher L. Morgan)
  • Pete Foley reminiscing about a RISC-based implementation of the 6502 nearly created within Apple
  • Retro Computing News:

    • Atari800MacX 5.0 released (brings sound back in newer Mac OSes X)
    • ContrAlto emulator (LCM+L)
    • IRATA online
    • Robert Justice on cross-compiling Apple /// drivers, Apple /// copy-protection
    • Kevin Savetz’s 10-line basic tool for helping write 10-line basic games
    • Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable
    • Vintage Computer-related Commercials:

      • Amstrad PCW-8256
      • Xerox Alto
      • Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

        • John Aycock’s “6502: The Card Game”
        • Auction Picks:

          • Paul: Run a Raspberry Pi using your Apple II as... a... power supply?
            • Pi1541 kit
            • Amstrad e-mailer plus
            • Amstrad PCW-8256
            • Be a computer literate
            • NeXTstation TurboColor simplified
            • SOL-20
            • PDP 11/440
            • Closing discussion notes:

              • Busting legends of the QWERTY keyboard
              • TextWare's FITALY stamp
              • Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Goodish s01e01 (poor copyright-robot-dodging version)
              • Feedback/Discussion:

                • @rcrpodcast on Twitter
                • Vintage Computer Forum
                • RCR Podcast on Facebook
                • Throwback Network
                • Throwback Network on Facebook
                • Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link

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