Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Mark Lemmert, Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston

Host’s Topic: Retro Gaming Evolution

What changes are there in game development with old hardware in a new context? Use modern hardware enhancements? Modern advancements in computer science, user interface, programming environments? To what extent is there still something left to squeeze out of these machines?

Retro Computing News:

• Nox Archaist Kickstarter
• Nox Archaist main page, 6502workshop
• Open Apple 74 (featuring Mark Lemmert, Nox Archaist)
• Open Apple 70 (featuring Mark Lemmert, Nox Archaist)
• Assembly Lines 54 (featuring Mark Lemmert, Nox Archaist)
• Unknown Realm
• TRS-80 Video Player
• Retro Roundup
• Ken’s blog entry describing Retro Roundup launch
• Transporter Lock Star Trek: Discovery podcast (Ken Gagne and Sabriel Mastin)
• Vintage is the New Old
• 44 years of Computer Weekly donated to TNMOC
• Computer Weekly (modern site)
• Ken Shirriff dives into fake RAM
• Play SG-1000 and Colecovision games on Apple IIe
• CP/M Turbo 7 card for Apple II
• PC-RETRO reproduction IBM 5150 motherboard
• Easy6502 interactive tutorial site
• Using 6502 Assembly Language (Randy Hyde) (pdf)

Vintage Computer Commercial

• Colecovision. Sorry, Atari

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Altair-duino kit

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: Infocom Witness for DEC Rainbow
• Michael: Apple IIc Mouse
  • See also: Kevin Costner uses a Lisa mouse
  • Compton’s CD ROM
  • Leonardo – The Inventor CD ROM
  • Tandy RC Van
• Paul: Northstar Horizon, box
  • Sony Series 35 Model 10
  • Dancing Demon
  • “The Information Revolution” 16mm 1982 documentary
  • Quadram Quadlink

Closing notes:

• RetroChallenge RC2017/10

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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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Ken Gagne, Jack Nutting, and Steven Weyhrich

Host’s Topic: The Retropocalypse

What might drive computing to go back “off-line”—massive infrastructure or privacy/secturity disaster? What kind of advantages are there to the limited/isolated machines of the olden-days? Is there a difference between obsolete and just retro? Might data/privacy disasters (even if not structural) lead to new uses of older tech?

Feedback notes

• AmigaOne A1222 preview
• Captain’s Quarters BBS
• WiFi232
• Syncterm

Retro Computing News:

• Atari is releasing Tempest 4000, made by Jeff Minter




• Tempest 4000 preview




• Alan Turing’s lost papers discovered




• Zork deep dive and carrying too many things
• The enduring legacy of Zork
• Zork on the Computer History wiki
• Saving Every Apple Video
• Unofficial Apple Archive
• Tezza’s Adventures with an 8″ disk drive

Vintage Computer Commercial

• DEC takes us from past to future

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• 1958 PAPAC-00 paper computer
• A built (not really working) PAPAC-00
• Digi-Comp II
• CHM PDP-1 restoration team (includes Peter Samson, creator of SADSAC II mentioned on pages prior to description of PAPAC-00)

Auction Picks:

• Earl: SIDEWAYS for IBM PC
• Ken: Atari 2600 games
• Steve: Unitron Apple II clone
  • See also: Unitron page on applelogic.org
  • Low serial number Apple II
• Paul: Kaypro 2000
  • IMSAI 8080 in a desk
  • Handheld paper tape punch
  • Two Epson PF-10 disk drives
  • Apple-1 (Schoolsky Apple-1) auction
  • See also: David Larsen’s Apple-1 (Schoolsky Apple-1)

Closing notes:

• Minecraft Apple IIe (to download)

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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