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

Host’s Topic: Are we cheating cheaters?

Flash storage devices, Internet modems, multi-cartridges with entire software libraries, super RAM add-ons, LCD flat panels – what’s so retro about all that?

Retro Computing News:

• Alan Turing’s hidden manuscripts to be auctioned
• New CD by Tony Longworth “Have You Played Atari Today?”
• Loading BASIC onto an Altair from paper tape
• 6502 Home Computer – A homebuilt MOS 6502 based microcomputer system
• Bob Bishop’s computer — saved!
• Google’s “DeepMind” AI dominates old Atari games
• The untold story of the invention of the game cartridge
• Retrochallenge 2015/01
  • Michael Sternberg’s Structris port
  • MMPHOSIS and Apple II VBL
  • Bob Bishop, “Have an Apple Split” Softalk, Oct 1982
• TUAW closing
• OzKfest 2015
• Statisfaction, Apple II and football stats
• CoCoFest

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• John Cleese, comparing Compaq Portable II to a 22-pound fish

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Captain Jules’s Useless Box

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Sealed Might & Magic II (B&W version) for Mac
• Carrington: Sealed Macwars for 128K Mac
• Paul: Macintosh Portable
• Michael: John Madden (American) Football for the Amiga
• Earl: Machine Language Monitor Cartridge for Commodore VIC-20
• Earl: Hasbro Think-a-Tron
• Ken: Virtual Boy
• Jack: Indus GT disk drive

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