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RCR Episode 19: November 2011
Panelists: Carrington Vanston (host), David Greelish, and Earl Evans.
Topics:
- The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix
- Intel Celebrates 40th Anniversary of World’s First Microprocessor (Intel 4004)
- Research Slideshow: Computer History Quiz: Ten Most Influential Contributors
- Vintage games iOS:
~ Elite Systems re-releases vintage games (including Paranoid)
~ Prince of Persia retro
~ Atari’s Greatest Hits
~ Miner 2049er
~ Glider Classic
~ Spectre 3D
~ Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing and Sonic Spinball
~ Chrono Trigger
~ Snake ’97
~ Marathon
~ The 7th Guest and The 7th Guest: Book of Secrets
~ The Secret of Monkey Island special edition
~ Another World – 20th Anniversary
~ Frotz - iOS games with a vintage feel:
~ Forget-Me-Not
~ The Incident
~ Canabalt
~ Geometry Wars
~ Hard Lines
~ Space Junk
~ AirFox HD
~ Hypership Out Of Control
~ GoatUp (and other games by Llamasoft)
~ Super Drill Panic (and other games by OrangePixel) - iCade
- Steve Jobs and NeXT (YouTube)
- RetroChallenge 2012 coming up on January 1st!
Additional Links:
- MITS 300/55 Business System (Altair in a desk)
- The Living Computer Museum
- Classic Computing, Steve Smith interview
- Buy the book! The Complete Historically Brewed
Retro Computing Auction Picks:
- Carrington: Transwarp TW2325 Accelerator for Mac Classic
- Earl: Commodore LED handheld calculator
- David: Cromeco Z-2 Vintage Video Capture Computer System
Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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