Retro Computing Roundtable

By Retro Computing Roundtable

Retro Computing Roundtable... more

4.8

7575 ratings

Download on the App Store

Download on the App Store

Get it on Google Play

FAQs about Retro Computing Roundtable:

How many episodes does Retro Computing Roundtable have?

The podcast currently has 190 episodes available.

Retro Computing Roundtable episodes:

May 29, 2021 RCR Episode 235: Playing in the MUD
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Playing in the MUD Multi User Dungeons brought a social aspect to computer RPGs, some with opportunities to do creative world building. We talk a bit about our experiences with these, and some about their background. Topic/Feedback Links: LambdaMOO at 50 Years of Text Games … Continue reading RCR Episode 235: Playing in the MUD →
...more
1h 38min
May 20, 2021 RCR Episode 234: This sandwich tastes suspiciously like a ZX Spectrum
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston Topic: This sandwich tastes suspiciously like a ZX Spectrum Another topic-free episode, this one discussing the smuggling of Spectrums, satirical adventure games, BBS simulations, IBM clocks, CoCo paint programs, and various other tangents. Retro Computing News: Full Motion, Double High-Res Video Playback on the Apple IIe … Continue reading RCR Episode 234: This sandwich tastes suspiciously like a ZX Spectrum →
...more
1h 35min
May 17, 2021 RCR Episode 233: Retro Development
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, and Carrington Vanston Topic: Retro Development Writing new software on old computers. How is it different now, would you go back to how it was done then? What did you use then? Topic/Feedback Links: Arcade Machine (Broderbund, Atari & Apple) Graphics Magician (Penguin, Apple, C64, Atari) Nox Archaist SKALD … Continue reading RCR Episode 233: Retro Development →
...more
1h 59min
May 15, 2021RCR Episode 232: Period Peripherals
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Period Peripherals
When you use retro computers, do you also use retro peripherals? That is, do you stick with appropriately vintage keyboards, monitors, and mice? Does mixing and matching vintage computers with new peripherals ruin the experience or aesthetic? Or do the (supposed) benefits of modern keyboards and displays outweigh the heresy?
Retro Computing News:
B-Roll footage from inside a 1982 Sears store
Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus
Vintage Computer commercial:
Mattel Electronics Baseball
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Throwboy shirts
Auction Picks:
Carrington: The Chip Shop Basicode tape
See also: Example broadcast of The Chip Shop’s "takeaway service"

Paul: Broken Baseball
Mac security brackets

Learn WordPerfect VHS tapes

New TRS-80 game

eMate-inspired RPi case

eMate 300

Closing notes:
TRS-8-Bit
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
Show audio files hosted by CyberEars
Listen/Download:
...more
0min
May 14, 2021RCR Episode 231: Something, Something, Retrocompute
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Blake Patterson
Topic: Something, Something, Retrocompute
No topic this time, really, just various news items and eBay auctions. Accelerators, printers, a new Atari 2600 game, Microsoft history, a strangely familiar host's gift idea.
Retro Computing News:
A2turbo Card
Mockingboard-T (Mockingboard clone with tube amp)
Audacity Games (Circus Convoy, for Atari 2600)
Circus Convoy trailer
Plex launches Arcade with Atari games
Yellowstone 3.5 Inch Drive Support!
Vintage Computer commercial:
IBM AS/400
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Atari 130XE spiral notebook
Auction Picks:
Blake: Practical Peripherals SwitchPort //c
iMac Timex alarm clock

Video: iMac Timex alarm clock

Paul: GTE XT300 (link now dead)
See also: Computerworld Ad for GTE XT300

See also: Retro scan of the week, Feb 25 2007

See also: The DAK Catalog

Forethought PowerPoint manual

See also: Version Museum

See also: GUIdebook Gallery

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
Show audio files hosted by CyberEars
Listen/Download:
...more
0min
May 12, 2021RCR Episode 230: Video Out, Volume One: A-Ap
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Blake Patterson
Topic: Video Out, Volume One: A-Ap
Techniques for getting video out of an old computer. Particularly, it turns out, if it is an Amiga. Part one of several, no doubt.
Topic/Feedback links:
Testing, cleaning and tuning up a small IBM VGA monitor
CoCoVGA
RetroTINK
ZX-HD
PLAdvanced+ PLA replacement
JCM III encoder
LEGO NES
Retro Rewind
99% Invisible episode on the last moments of The Sims Online
Atari monitor with a disk drive in it
The Amiga Show
Retro Computing News:
Amiga A1100
Build A Brand New ZX Spectrum From New Parts
Building a new C64 in 2020
Altair 8800 Built from New Equipment in 2018
BMC64 and family, VICE on bare metal RasPi
Vintage Computer commercial:
Commodore 128 1985 commercial
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Retrocomputing masks
Auction Picks:
Blake: Old Apple Macintosh Lot And IBM
TI Hexbus PCM Prototype Card

Earl: California Computer Systems (CCS) S-100 Computer

Paul: SuperPET
Apple II circuit board making kit

Brøderbund Arcade Machine

Homemade IIe Card cable

Flip N File

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
Show audio files hosted by CyberEars
Listen/Download:
...more
0min
April 20, 2021RCR Episode 229: Catching up
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Jack Nutting, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Catching Up
It's 2021! There are many of us this time, so we just talk about some stuff.
Topic/Feedback links:
Micro Phobia (Martin Honeysett)
Apricot F1
Thomas Cherryhomes and Kay Savetz bounce a ball across the internet using FujiNet
Reviewing the Omega Home Computer, homebrew MSX2
Sergey Kiselev's projects (including the Omega Home Computer)
Retro Computing News:
Amiga Parceiro
Blake's Parceiro
MISE
M3SE
Cricket!
Once Upon Atari (book by Howard Scott Warshaw)
Nibble-magazine dot com
Classic AmigaOS Programming: An Introduction (E. Th. van den Oosterkamp) (Amazon)
Action Amiga : Computer Graphics Animation and Video Production Manual (John Warren Oakes) (AbeBooks)
AmigaDOS (Mark Burgess) (AbeBooks)
Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual (AbeBooks)
Atari VCS (The Younger)
So the Atari VCS is Finally Here (Spawn Wave, YouTube)
You can sideload an OS, does that make the Atari VCS worth buying? (Spawn Wave, YouTube)
Activision, Atari, Absolute: How Video Game Companies Once Gamed the Alphabet for Publicity
NYTimes “Impractical rise” article
"Upcoming" shows
WozFest 18. Sat Mar 20. Noon, Sydney.
Vintage Computer commercial:
Atari 1200XL "The Convincer""
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Hyperkin Ranger gamepad for Atari 2600 etc.
Auction Picks:
Blake: Macintosh II RISC 88000 Processor board
Exatron Stringy Floppy Disk Drive Wafer - Lot of 40

DIMENSION 68000 disks

Carrington: Keycap remover
MJI Hobbi-Stick Joystick

Paul: Apple II keyboard repeaterrr
Apple //c with C-Vue and LaserWriter

Seiko UC-2200

See also: Seiko UC-2000 The Dawn of Wearable Computers

Apple II reference manual (red book)

IBM 5161 Expansion Unit

Quinn: Commodore Amiga Book for Beginners
Compute!'s Beginner Guide to the Amiga

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
Show audio files hosted by CyberEars
Listen/Download:
...more
0min
January 03, 2021RCR Episode 228: Preserving the Fleeting Now
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Preserving the Fleeting Now
Things people post, preserving the past, themselves vanish. eBay images, images in blogs that eventually go offline. Respositories like Pinterest morph into something less useful for preservation and searching. Are the things we find and post now going to be there in the future? (And, since no, they're not, what should we be doing?)
Topic/Feedback links:
Pinry, locally hosted Pinterest-alike
Retro Computing News:
The Digital Antiquarian: Lode Runner
Working From Home At 25MHz
DeRamp.com vintage computing
Altair 8800 clone
WorldWideWeb web app
Love Notes To Newton
Nox Archaist
Sprite Castle plays Karateka
MacFolklore Radio
Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2020 Edition)
ZX Spectrum NEXT demo
IEEE article on computer dealer demos
Apple 1984 Christmas Demo
Vintage Computer-related commercials:
Macintosh Quadra

HesWare
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Intel Outside sticker
Auction Picks:
Blake: Atari 1200XL set
HxC Floppy Emulator in enclosure

Carrington: Mimio Digital Whiteboard
See also: Hands on: Mimio for the Macintosh

Earl: HesWare Microsoft Multiplan For Commodore 64

Paul: Apple beige touch-up paint
Excalibur Savvy The Robot Programmer

See also: Savvy ad in Byte

See also: Investigative thread (Nate Cull, Mastodon, Jan 2018)

Quicktake 150, cheap?

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
Show audio files hosted by CyberEars
Listen/Download:
...more
0min
December 14, 2020RCR Episode 227: Not cassettes, not floppies
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Not cassettes, not floppies
Software distributed in some way other than on cassette or floppy.
Topic/Feedback links:
Database 1984 (BBC Micro broadcast software)
4 Computer Buffs 1985 (Soldering an optical sensor)
An example of the annoying blob (4 Computer Buffs)
Author of the decoding software for optical TV transmitter
Epson PX-8 Geneva’s software-on-a-chip, carrier
The Lucksmiths “The Cassingle Revival”
Techmoan on vinyl video
The History of BASICODE
Secret C64 program hidden on Christian rock album
Pete Shelly "ZX Spectrum Code"
The Thompson Twins Adventure Game
Information Society "300bps N, 8, 1"
Retro Computing News:
Booting a 5150 from a vinyl record
ReStuff
Alkemstone
VidHD and “Total Replay”: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together!
Upcoming shows
World of Commodore. Sat Dec 5. Virtual.
Vintage Computer-related commercials:
TIMEX DataLink watch

Amiga 500 commercial
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Susan Kare prints
Auction Picks:
Blake: Workstation cards
See also: ivanx.com

Mac/Lisa Wizardry

Carrington: Hellcats Over The Pacific
Star Fighter by 3DO

Sinistaar for Color Computer III

Paul: Lisa 2
Sankyo computer music

Interface Age 1978

Timex Data Link 150. Fixer-upper

See also: Download software from Timex

A different Timex Data Link 150, working

Metal Univac ad sign

Univac ad poster

Cauzin Apple sampler library

See also: ANTIC 115 (Jan 11, 2016), Bob Brass and Peter D’Amato (Cauzin Softstrip)

See also: Reverse Engineering the Cauzin Softstrip

See also: Cauzin Softstrip media kit

Quinn: Amiga 500 in box, it go boom?
Amiga 500, tastefully upgraded

Amiga 1200 complete, but so spendy

Amiga 1200 US, aggressively retrobrited

See also: The Future Was Here (Jimmy Maher)

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
Show audio files hosted by CyberEars
Listen/Download:
...more
0min
November 28, 2020RCR Episode 226: RCR Episode 2
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: RCR Episode 2
Episode 2 of the Retro[ ]computing Roundtable is a decade old.
Topic/Feedback links:
Episode 2
Windows 1 Turns 25
Target Haunted Computer (eBay)
Target Haunted Computer (YouTube)
Retro Computing News:
Atari announces list of games included with upcoming Atari VCS
Official site not working, naturally
List can also be found here
The C64
Procedurally generated retrocomputer emulators (Hackaday)
Procedurally generated emulators, list
CocoTalk 185 discussion of the procedurally generated emulators
8-bit Unity new release
8-bit Hub
Joeylib
Upcoming shows
World of Commodore. Sat Dec 5. Virtual.
Vintage Computer-related commercials:
Commodore MAX machine (Japanese)

Pioneer PL-518 turntable commercial 1979
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Floppy shaped battery
Auction Picks:
Carrington: Vintage Atari 410 Cassette Program Recorder
Heart of China for Mac by Dynamix

Serpentine for Apple II, sealed

Michael: PDP 11/45 front panel

Paul: Apple II+ jigsaw puzzle (missing a piece)
Apple IIe set (A cautionary tale about buying things for collectors)

Apple II Workstation card

Apple II Sprite Logo card

See also: LCSI Sprite Card (Peter Neubauer's blog)

Bunker-Ramo Telequote III terminal

See also: Discussion of a Telequote on VCFed forum

See also: Bunker-Ramo ad

DEC H-500 logic trainer

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
Show audio files hosted by CyberEars
Listen/Download:
...more
0min

FAQs about Retro Computing Roundtable:

How many episodes does Retro Computing Roundtable have?

The podcast currently has 190 episodes available.