Panelists: Michael Mulhern (hosting), Ken Gagne (eventually), Paul Hagstrom, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston

Host’s Topic: Books!

Books! Do we need them for our retro addiction hobby? Are PDFs better, or do you prefer dead tree flesh? How do you store and use them? Can you have too many? (No! I need more books) Reprints, new editions, or are you after the 30+ year old originals? And what are the best places to get even more?

Retro Computing News:

• AmigaOS
• Commodore at the CES … thirty years ago
• Happy 40th Birthday 8080!
• MS-DOS games on archive.org
• Modern slim take on the original Mac design
  • Video of Curved Mac
• Dial-up Internet is Dead
  • Dial-up plans in the US
  • FoxValley plans
• Commodore Vegas Expo (CommVEX) v11, July 2015, Las Vegas
• You Are Now Earthbound convention in Tucson July 18–19
  • Buy Earthbound
• ANSI parallax scrolling
• Sinclair Spectrum Vega manufacturing site selected
  • Local news report on the selection
  • Spectrum Vega Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign
  • Tasword Two the movie
• Commodore 64, world record sales
• PAX East (featuring Ken’s “Reboot Your Roots” panel)
  • AGD Interactive versions of King’s Quest games
• Apple Graphics & Arcade Design book
• SIO2SD for Atari 8-bit

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Microbee

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Red Shirt Eau de Toilette

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: MAC: Mechanical Analog Computer for flight simulation
• Carrington: Sealed NES Stadium Events
  • NES Stadium Events found at a yard sale
• Paul: Электроника БК (Electronica) BK-0010-01, PDP-11 compatible Russian home computer
• Paul: TRS-80 I/III/CoCo Plug’n Power controller
  • More complete, pricier controller auction
• Michael: Commodore C16
  • Another C16 auction in US
• Jack: Boy Scouts of America Computer-Knowledge badge

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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Panelists: Carrington Vanston (hosting), Ken Gagne, Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, and Jack Nutting

Host’s Topic: Retro Resolutions: Looking Forward To Looking Backward

Each new year brings a fresh opportunity to fail at something you love. Do you have any retro computing goals for the coming year? Projects to start, programs to write, events to attend, bugs to de-bug? What do you hope to have accomplished retro-wise by this time next year?

Retro Computing News:

• 6502 emulator written in LISP
• Port of Quake to an oscilloscope
• article about VALDOCS and Rising Star
• HP-25C/-21/-33c hardware emulation (kit/assembled)
  • Demo of HP-25C assembled kit
• RCSRI Restores a Cray:
  • Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island
  • Cray restoration write-up
• RetroChallenge 2015/01
• C64 BASIC ROM dissassembled
• Luminaries we lost in 2014
• Atari Fit
• Photo Tour of Bletchly Park
• EEVBlog Lisa 2 teardown
• It Came from the Desert for Amiga
• Retro Shadowgate
• Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS (mini-documentary)
• HighRetroGamelord89

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• How to get your dad online … in 1994

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Floppy Disk Pillow

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Captain Goodnight for Apple II
• Michael: Rocky Horror Show game for C64
• Paul: THINK Pad
• Paul: Olivetti P602
• Ken: ThunderChopper!
• Jack: Axlon “Andy” Robot
• Paul: Axlon Datalink terminal

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