RCR Episode 185 - Virtual retrocomputing

Retro Computing Roundtable

English - January 14, 2019 09:00 - ★★★★★ - 76 ratings
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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Jack Nutting (not hosting)

Topic: Virtual retrocomputing

For things you can’t physically interact with, how would you like to see or experience retrocomputers? What’s important to you for, say, an internet-accessible museum? Photos, movies, emulation? In-browser? Documentation? “Everything, all the things” is a possible answer, but realistically, what would you use, and what might the use case be? What is frustrating about existing online repositories you’ve used? Is there anything that you’d find more useful than things you’ve seen already? There’s a lot of possible information, maybe too much to really digest in one place.

Topic and feedback notes:

Homebrew Club (augmented reality iOS app)
Hidden Powers of the Model 100 (Christopher L. Morgan)
Pete Foley reminiscing about a RISC-based implementation of the 6502 nearly created within Apple

Retro Computing News:

Atari800MacX 5.0 released (brings sound back in newer Mac OSes X)
ContrAlto emulator (LCM+L)
IRATA online
Robert Justice on cross-compiling Apple /// drivers, Apple /// copy-protection
Kevin Savetz’s 10-line basic tool for helping write 10-line basic games
Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable

Vintage Computer-related Commercials:

Amstrad PCW-8256
Xerox Alto

Retro Computing Gift Ideas:

John Aycock’s “6502: The Card Game”

Auction Picks:

Paul: Run a Raspberry Pi using your Apple II as... a... power supply?

Pi1541 kit
Amstrad e-mailer plus
Amstrad PCW-8256
Be a computer literate
NeXTstation TurboColor simplified
SOL-20
PDP 11/440