Tag: Contest
Author: Anthony Albert Date: June 30th, 2023 Category: Non-technical When My Father Took Me to Night Class In the summer of 1982, my father signed up for a night course at the local high school. He wanted to learn about computers and maybe use one to help the family business out – specifically, with accounting software. This is because my…
John W. Linville has announced that the RetroChallenge 2017/10 is now accepting signups. For those unfamiliar, RetroChallenge is best summed up as “do something interesting with an old computer, and blog about it for month.” It gives us yet another reason to finish – or start – that project we’ve been working on or want to be working on. Usually…
The final judging results are up for Retrochallenge 2016/10. John Linville and Michael Mulhern judged all of the entrants on: Demonstration of skill and/or technical merit Reasonable documentation of the project throughout the course of the month Enthusiasm both for doing the project and for sharing it with the public A certain amount of whimsy or utter pointlessness about the…
A new classic gaming contest has been announced over at highscore.com. This time, the goal is to crack previous high score trophies on Atari (2600, 5200, 7800, 400/800/XL/XE, Lynx, Jaguar, ST) Colecovision PC Engine / TG-16 Nintendo (NES/Famicom, Super NES, N64, Gameboy, GBC, Virtual Boy) Arcade / MAME This contest has some truly awesome prizes, including an X-Arcade Dual Stick,…
