Retrochallenge 2015/01 is alive

Retro_ChallengeStarting with a healthy 21 competitors the 2015 competition is now LIVE!

In a nutshell, the RetroChallenge is a loosely disorganised gathering of RetroComputing enthusiasts who collectively do stuff with old computers for a month. Retrochallenge 2015/01 competition will run from New Years Day, January 1st to the end of the month, Saturday 31st January 2015. Typically the organizers will allow a final blog post at the end of the weekend, so you should be complete midnight 1st February GMT!

Here are some of the entries proposals:

The task I have assigned myself is to revive a 1981 vintage revision 7 Apple II motherboard which I discovered in a box of parts while visiting my family last week. I have a vague memory that I got this board and some other spare parts in the mid 90’s, but beyond that its origin is a mystery.

My project this year for the January Challenge will be to put the finishing touches on and write blog entries for two classic programs I am porting to the TRS-80 MC-10. The first is the Basic program “Rail: Switch the Railroad” by Chris Torkildson for the Commodore PET . The second is the Fortran program “Colossal Cave Adventure”, the original version by Will Crowther for the DEC mainframe. And if time permits I might be able to get a few more programming projects completed that I have on the back burner.

My project will be to create a text adventure for the Apple // using Eamon, a text adventure system written in Applesoft.

I have another C64-based idea for Retrochallenge. This time around, I’m trying to interface wirelessly with a toy robot. It should be good fun.

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Author: Paulo Garcia

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