RCR Episode 189: Revoking end of life status

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Revoking end of life status

There have been a few modern updates to operating systems that were long done with development, e.g., ProDOS, GS/OS, DOS 4.1 in the Apple world. And new plugins and things made for old systems. Um. Thoughts?

Topic and feedback notes:

Sheep who love Car Talk
DOS 4.1 for the Apple II
DOS 4.1 announcement
ProDOS 8. Covers updates to ProDOS 8. for the Apple II
GS/OS System 6.0.4
SpartaDOS X
NitrOS-9
FreeDOS
Fixing the IIc Plus Beep
Apple IIc Plus accelerator control
Book: ZX Spectrum Games Code Club
Why 80’s BASIC still matters
Altair-duino
Commodore PET mini
A look at the short-lived 3” compact floppy disk.

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