Retro Computing Roundtable

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Jack Nutting, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: Catching Up

It's 2021! There are many of us this time, so we just talk about some stuff.

Topic/Feedback links:

• Micro Phobia (Martin Honeysett)
• Apricot F1
• Thomas Cherryhomes and Kay Savetz bounce a ball across the internet using FujiNet
• Reviewing the Omega Home Computer, homebrew MSX2
• Sergey Kiselev's projects (including the Omega Home Computer)

Retro Computing News:

• Amiga Parceiro
• Blake's Parceiro
• MISE
• M3SE
• Cricket!
• Once Upon Atari (book by Howard Scott Warshaw)
• Nibble-magazine dot com
• Classic AmigaOS Programming: An Introduction (E. Th. van den Oosterkamp) (Amazon)
• Action Amiga : Computer Graphics Animation and Video Production Manual (John Warren Oakes) (AbeBooks)
• AmigaDOS (Mark Burgess) (AbeBooks)
• Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual (AbeBooks)
• Atari VCS (The Younger)
• So the Atari VCS is Finally Here (Spawn Wave, YouTube)
• You can sideload an OS, does that make the Atari VCS worth buying? (Spawn Wave, YouTube)
• Activision, Atari, Absolute: How Video Game Companies Once Gamed the Alphabet for Publicity
• NYTimes “Impractical rise” article

"Upcoming" shows

• WozFest 18. Sat Mar 20. Noon, Sydney.

Vintage Computer commercial:

• Atari 1200XL "The Convincer""

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Hyperkin Ranger gamepad for Atari 2600 etc.

Auction Picks:

• Blake: Macintosh II RISC 88000 Processor board
  • Exatron Stringy Floppy Disk Drive Wafer - Lot of 40
  • DIMENSION 68000 disks
• Carrington: Keycap remover
  • MJI Hobbi-Stick Joystick
• Paul: Apple II keyboard repeaterrr
  • Apple //c with C-Vue and LaserWriter
  • Seiko UC-2200
  • See also: Seiko UC-2000 The Dawn of Wearable Computers
  • Apple II reference manual (red book)
  • IBM 5161 Expansion Unit
• Quinn: Commodore Amiga Book for Beginners
  • Compute!'s Beginner Guide to the Amiga

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
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