The Retrobits Podcast

Welcome to Show 018! This week's topic: Retro Books and Movies!

Topics and links discussed in the podcast...

Computer Collector Newsletter, a weekly newsletter for vintage computer collectors! Interesting in buying a ZX81 kit, a ready to build retro computer? Zebra Systems might just have what you need! Ah, the sounds of music from 8-bit chips... Check out Chiptunes on the flat four site! The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore...I'm picking up my copy this week.

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

Welcome to Show 017! This week is a Mix and Match - various topics covered, including a sound byte [sic] from Nerd TV!

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Some links from Computer Chronicles, the long-running technology show now available on archive.org, including... The Apple II The Commodore 64, and BBSing A VIC-20 music composition contest using VIC Tracker? Excellent, I've gotta try to do this... Here's a nice website for the KIM-1, the first 6502 cpu based computer. Want to know more about the first ever CPU? Check out the Intel 4004 page! Or, you could step forward a couple of years, and learn more about the Z80 from this webpage. Don't have an Altair? Join the club! But you can have an Altair Simulator, a virtual Altair, loaded to the gills, with great software too! Nerd TV is an Internet video program brought to you weekly by Robert Cringely and PBS. This episode of the Retrobits Podcast contained audio from Episode 6 of Nerd TV, featuring Dave Winer.

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

Welcome to Show 016! This week we cover Abandonware.

Topics and links discussed in the podcast...

The Retroputing site - preventing the fossilization of classic computers! Features the Particles BBS. Wikipedia to the rescue again, with a great article on Abandonware. Check out the text, and their links. Check out the official world archive for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the largest on-line gaming center on the Internet. Hats off to Amstrad for officially endorsing this!

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

Welcome to Show 015! This week's topic: The Bulletin Board System, Part II!

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I got my Atari Peripheral Emulator software and CD archive from Atarimax! Yee hah, Atari madness for me. I'm learning Atari Player/Missile Graphics in BASIC from the book archive on AtariArchives.org. Phillip was able to attend the Classic Gaming Expo UK recently - looks like fun! At that Classic Gaming Expo, a lucky person had a Commodore 65. Rare retro madness! Bo Zimmerman hosts one of my favorite Commodore sites. Chris C. referenced it in a recent e-mail, thanks Chris! Thurstan linked me over to a video of the Computer History Museum (Link 1) (Link 2), and some chats with various people from back in the day. I've seen the first few minutes, and can't wait to watch the rest! Chris O. has a podcast, UK and European gaming news brought to you weekly! You have GOT to check out the BBS Documentary site. The software list and history archive are amazing, and will keep you reading for hours.

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

Welcome to Show 014! This week we go "behind the scenes" at Retrobits!

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Syndicomm Online members get access to exclusive forums, which include bulletin boards, chat rooms, and file libraries. Membership also includes an email address, personal web site, and optional business features such as DNS service and full-service hosting. http://www.syndicomm.com

Not much by way of links this week! Stay tuned for more exciting retro-URLs in the next show!

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

Welcome to Show 013! This week's topic - QuantumLink Reloaded!

Topics and links discussed in the podcast...

Syndicomm Online members get access to exclusive forums, which include bulletin boards, chat rooms, and file libraries. Membership also includes an email address, personal web site, and optional business features such as DNS service and full-service hosting. http://www.syndicomm.com Also check out the A2Central website for great Apple II enthusiast information... www.a2central.com The QuantumLink Reloaded Site! www.quantum-link.org I love Wikipedia. I really, really do. www.wikipedia.org And on Wikipedia, read about QuantumLink... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Link ...and QuantumLink Reloaded! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Link_Reloaded

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

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Welcome to show #012! This week's topic: Emulators versus The Real Thing - The Ultimate Face-off!

Topics and links discussed in the podcast...

Program your 6502 machine in C with the CC65 Compiler! http://www.cc65.org/ The C64 Take Away Podcast just gets better and better, I loved Episode 013... http://www.slayradio.org/podcast/ Visit the Lemon website for Commodore 64 forums, game reviews, and fun! http://www.lemon64.com/ I continue to have great fun with the Atari Peripheral Emulator (APE) software. http://www.atarimax.com/ The Folklore site is dedicated to historical storytelling. Right now, it's focused on the development of the Macintosh. Great reading! http://www.folklore.org/ Nerd TV - a downloadable TV show on technology hosted by Robert Cringely. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/ The MESS emulation system - amazing multi-platform, multi-system emulator... http://www.mess.org/ Check out the Help section of the Emulation Zone to learn more about emulation and how to do it! http://www.emulator-zone.com/ Be sure to send any comments, questions or feedback to [email protected].

Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

Welcome to show #011, featuring the Atari 800 Home Computer!

Topics and links discussed in the podcast...

Demo Scene, including NTSC stuff for us North American folks...at the Driven site. The full text of all 88 issues of ANTIC is available at Atari Magazines site. The Analog project is in progress at Digital Analog archive. See the Obsolete Technology Website, and make sure to check out the Atari 400/800 page! As I've come to expect, Wikipedia has a great page on the Atari 8 bit systems. The Atari Historical Society has a fun site, very colorful...including an Atari 800 page. Loads of frequently asked goodness can be found at the Atari 8-bit FAQ page. Atari Times is a fun Atari site with game reviews. The Atari 8 bit USENET discussion group (can be found on Google Groups) is comp.sys.atari.8bit. The Atari Peripheral Emulator package, and other Atari 8-bit retail products can be found at AtariMax.

I know I left out some Atari sites! Sorry, I couldn't fit them all in! There are so many, and there are sooooo many good ones...

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

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- Earl

Welcome to show #010! Double digits! This show is a variety program, followed by a brief recollection of my career as a teenage computer salesperson.

Topics and links discussed in the podcast...

Here's the correct link to Jeff Ledger's Guide to TelBBS! Thanks Jeff! E-mails came in from Alan, Thurston, Brian, Mike and Jeff! Excellent, thanks! You made my day. This episode contains a promo for The C64 Take Away Podcast which features C64 remixes and classic SID tunes! Check out the excellent CP/M programs in the Walnut Creek CDROM contents, online at the retroarchive.org site. Have a look at Monochrome, a sophisticated, highly interactive, multi user messaging and conferencing system. The SWRAP's Fall Commodore Expo is coming up in a couple of weeks! The Atari800WinPlus version 4.0 final release is available. I had a good customer experience with a product I ordered from Atarimax.

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan

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- Earl

Welcome to show #009! Today we're focusing on computerized Bulletin Board Systems!

Topics and links discussed in the podcast...

Jeff Ledger's Guide to TelBBS will get you back in the BBS game in no time. Miss the old BBS days? They're back... Be sure to check out the various links from this web page. The BBS Documentary is one of the finest historical accounts of a computing phenomenon that I've ever seen. Hats off to Jason Scott, this is a masterpiece. Many thanks to Jason for licensing his work under Creative Commons, making it possible for us to provide excerpts of his work in today's podcast. If you see the BBS Documentary and are hungry for more, you're in luck! Additional footage can be found in the BBS Documentary section on the archive.org website.

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan

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- Earl