July, 2016 - Retro Roundup

Matchbox CoCo (Cosmic Ambush)

July 24, 2016 CoCoTower

Cosmic Ambush for the CoCo 3, being played on the Matchbox CoCo. https://www.facebook.com/groups/399411586924305/ …

RCR Episode 131: Vintage Computer Festival West

July 22, 2016 Retro Computing Roundtable

Panelists: Earl Evans and Randy Kindig (hosting), and Evan Koblentz (expert witness) Host’s Topic: Vintage Computer Festival West Randy and Earl wonder about VCF West, and Evan comes to the rescue, in this Very Special Episode of the Retrocomputing Roundtable (recorded jointly with Floppy Days). Also, the first of two …

RCR Episode 130: What good is source code?

July 10, 2016 Retro Computing Roundtable

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Jack Nutting, and Carrington Vanston Host’s Topic: What good is source code? As more original source code becomes available (we’ll talk about a couple [Apollo Guidance Computer and LucasArts’ Habitat] later this episode—but before that fairly high profile source code from Apple II DOS, …

ANTIC Interview 197 – Max Manowski, Wizard’s Revenge

July 7, 2016 ANTIC

Max Manowski, Wizard’s Revenge Max Manowski wrote Adventure, a text adventure game that he released into the public domain to Atari users groups. Later, he modified Adventure and called it Wizard’s Revenge, which was published by Atari Program Exchange. Wizard’s Revenge was available in the fall 1981 APX catalog, the …