Month: June 2017

Retro Computing Roundtable
Computers

RCR Episode 154: News news news

June 25, 2017 Retro Computing Roundtable

Host’s Topic: News news news So much news since the previous episode, the topic is: more news. Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Michael Mulhern, and Earl Evans Feedback notes Modifying Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 to run on three immersive monitors 64bites: Commodore 64 BASIC/Assembly video tutorials Love Notes to Newton …

No Picture
Blogs

More CoAP musings…

June 30, 2017 Sub-Etha Software

Last week I implemented a simple version of CoAP protocol at work, going by the main specification:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7252

CoAP seems to be similar to how a web browser works with a web server: GET some content, POST something back.

A CoAP server could report back the status of various sensors, and

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Reddit
Apple II

I have 2 Memory Expansion cards i need to test.

June 30, 2017 Reddit

They’re both 128k. I can’t figure out how to test it without a disk drive. I have 3 Apple II plus’s a IIc, and a IIgs. I can’t figure out how to do it. I also have 2 FDC’s that are used to hook an IBM drive to

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2600 Game by Game
Atari consoles

Bonus Track – Batman

June 30, 2017 2600 Game by Game

Batman is my favorite super hero of all time, which oddly enough I did not mention in the episode (I’m assuming a podcast episode makes that obvious). I talk a little about my history with Batman in all its permutations, which is a lot. I hope you enjoy this episode,

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