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SUMMER 2010

68kMLA Hardware 26 posts Jun 4, 2010 to Aug 3, 2010

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#1 Fri, 4 Jun 2010 - 21:09 68kMLA

the website is open!

see you all there. :-*

#2 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 - 14:22 68kMLA

When does RetroChallenge start?

#3 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 - 14:26 68kMLA

1st july

www.retrochallenge.net

#4 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 - 21:38 68kMLA

Heh, some of us would start early if we could!

Of course, I'd probably be burnt out by the time July rolled around...

#5 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 - 21:54 68kMLA

You burn out by the 2nd week.

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#6 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 - 00:54 68kMLA

And sometimes before the first week is out!

Not this time, though. I've got something in the works (a couple of somethings, really) that I've been meaning to do that'll set the stage for other projects down the road!

#7 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 - 03:44 68kMLA

From my limited experience I have to conclude that burn-out time is in some kind of ratio to the difficulty of the project or the inherent frustration involved. Slow progress is less painful than continual backtracking.

#8 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 - 04:14 68kMLA

I have never finished one, but its great fun trying

this year I have at disposal, my palm VII, my DEC386 laptop, my mac SE, and my Apple //c

hmm wonder what I will not finish this time lol

#9 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 - 08:53 68kMLA

I have a couple of strategies that seem to work:

1) Set your goals so low that success is guaranteed.

2) Set your goals so high that success is impossible and then adjust your definition of success to include whatever small steps you did accomplish.

;-)

#10 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 - 09:17 68kMLA

I have a couple of strategies that seem to work:
1) Set your goals so low that success is guaranteed.

;-)

I plan to drink some rum and perhaps eat some chilli gummy bears. Yes! Chilli!

I think that's low enough for us all.

#11 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 - 21:51 68kMLA

Chilli Gummis! Wow!

I wonder if they'll market Guinness Gummis in the future..? One can only hope.

#12 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 - 22:35 68kMLA

http://www.carrollsirishgifts.com/product/FoodConfectionary/BarsandBaggedSweets/G2455_2350

Toffee?

#13 Mon, 5 Jul 2010 - 05:08 68kMLA

entering late :beige: doing a showcase of quick projects with a retro theme

http://www.cheesefactory.us/RC/

#14 Mon, 5 Jul 2010 - 08:55 68kMLA

My first diary entry is up, but it just dawned on me that going to the "root" URL shows a placeholder page, while going to index.html works.

http://retro-net.org/~anonymousfreak/index.html is the proper link.

Anyone know how to make the RetroNET web server properly link to the base URL?

#15 Mon, 5 Jul 2010 - 09:17 68kMLA

entering late :beige: doing a showcase of quick projects with a retro theme
http://www.cheesefactory.us/RC/

welcome back, hail retro randomness!

#16 Mon, 5 Jul 2010 - 19:23 68kMLA

My first diary entry is up, but it just dawned on me that going to the "root" URL shows a placeholder page, while going to index.html works.http://retro-net.org/~anonymousfreak/index.html is the proper link.

Anyone know how to make the RetroNET web server properly link to the base URL?

I have no idea why you're getting that, it's working as expected from here...

Anyway, I've changed the link on the RC page just to be safe.

#17 Fri, 9 Jul 2010 - 22:42 68kMLA

I'll be writing my first official diary entry this weekend, but I do want to say that so far it has been a success, yellow stripe on the 150 screen and all! New Math Blaster Plus and MacWrite Pro have been used so far with more oldies on the way--I'm looking at OutNumbered, Midnight Rescue, and possibly Carmen USA next!

#18 Fri, 9 Jul 2010 - 23:02 68kMLA

Post the link, I can never find your RC stuff on your site.

#19 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 - 05:23 68kMLA

www.scottbaret.com

I put it on the main page; scroll down a bit when it loads and you'll find it under the boldface header "Retrochallenge Update".

I didn't want to put it under one of the tabs, so I figured the main page would work best, especially since the project will be over in August. (I will be writing a full blog entry about it though, probably under "High Wattage Noggin").

#20 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 - 18:49 68kMLA

please remove the link to my blog as its now infected with spyware

#21 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 - 22:48 68kMLA

Consider it done!

#22 Sun, 1 Aug 2010 - 05:48 68kMLA

Whew, just posted my final update, with 20 minutes to spare! That's what I get for spending time with my family...

http://www.conceitedjerk.com/rc10-5.html

#23 Sun, 1 Aug 2010 - 08:15 68kMLA

Well, with 25 minutes left, my sad attempt ends with just two of 30 games reviewed.

I thought I was going to get another 5.25" drive from someone local via another vintage computing forum; but it took two weeks to finally meet up with him, and he gave me a box of old hardware; none of it the 5.25" drive that was the one and only thing he actually offered me.

And most of the old hardware is crap. A couple broken mid-range (for their time,) video cards; a bunch of old low-end sound cards, some middling motherboards (the most interesting of which are baby AT, and I don't have any AT chassis,) etc.

In the whole box o' crap, the only things I'm even considering keeping are a box of PC-100/133 RAM, a PCI ATA-133 card (Mac compatible is the only reason I'm thinking of keeping it,) a passively cooled Radeon 9600, a PCI Matrox Millennium, and a 3dFX Voodoo 5 5500. I *MIGHT* keep one of the ATX motherboards, if only because it's a Socket 7 (Pentium) with AGP and ISA. So it would be a good one to play vintage games on.

#24 Sun, 1 Aug 2010 - 09:56 68kMLA

You needed a 5.25" PC floppy drive?

#25 Tue, 3 Aug 2010 - 06:01 68kMLA

Yeah. A guy from another forum who lives close to me offered one up; but we had our meeting delayed by two weeks, and when we finally did, he gave me a big box of hardware, with nary a 5.25" drive to be seen...

#26 Tue, 3 Aug 2010 - 17:21 68kMLA

Ebay has them, if not I can sell you a 1.2MB 5.25" drive (or 360K).