[HN Gopher] The Retrocomputing Archive
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The Retrocomputing Archive
Author : elvis70
Score : 75 points
Date : 2021-07-31 16:46 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.retroarchive.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.retroarchive.org)
| stevekemp wrote:
| Nice to see these kind of collections, I've been spending a lot
| of time recently running old CP/M software and there is a wealth
| of the stuff available.
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| Fun to go through text-based games written 20+ years ago, and
| even if I completed one a day I suspect I'd be dead before I'd
| played them all.
| RGamma wrote:
| Archive and/or reshare if you can. The thread might be thinner
| than you think.
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| Use 50/100 GB (m-disc) BD-Rs if in doubt.
| venzlombardo wrote:
| This does not meet the Ministry of Truth's propaganda level.
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| eddieh wrote:
| I love retrocomputing, but for whatever reason that font and
| color combo on my display is fuzzy and strains my eyes. I get the
| design aesthetic, but maybe a little modernization or deviation
| for readability might be in order.
| zozbot234 wrote:
| The color palette was probably chosen to optimize power use and
| minimize burn-in on OLED displays. I found it quite readable,
| and quite considerate of the user as well.
| pkaye wrote:
| What is a good CP/M emulator?
| reaperducer wrote:
| I use CP/M For OSX by Thomas Harte. It's smooth and simple and
| a good place to get your feet wet. Good for those quick games
| of ADVENT or HUNT or whathaveyou.
| nzrf wrote:
| Saw BBS toolkit near the top and had to wonder if Maximus BBS was
| on the list and It was! So many memories setting that up back in
| the day and using other local BBS based on Maximus.
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| I've done some more recent setup of major BBS to replay some muds
| and this sure brings back some pleasant memories.
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| Thanks for the post down nostalgia lane!
| alxlaz wrote:
| This is somewhat tangential but I was hoping the hive mind here
| might have some good ideas.
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| Does anyone know of a modern equivalent -- of course, as
| equivalent as it can be in a world where shareware isn't quite
| what it was -- to these infamous shareware CD-ROMs (e.g.
| http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/640_studio_v/index.html )?
| Or, to make it somewhat easier for younger (!?) audiences, of a
| modern-ish equivalent to Freshmeat.net?
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| By this, I mean something that would include:
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| a) New software (either newly-written programs or new _versions_
| of programs), or at least news about new software
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| b) In a somewhat organised fashion?
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| A humongous part of what I know today originated in tinkering
| with programs like these, from various fields, or from digging
| around things like the NightOwl archive (
| http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/nightowl-007/index.html ),
| reading source code, wondering how various demos are made and so
| on. And, of course, later, from browsing Freshmeat.
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| The best I can do right now is bookmark a bunch of search pages
| on Github and Gitlab, visit a bunch of subreddits like /r/linux
| which will probably give me eye cancer sooner or later, and -- as
| much as I hate it -- subscribing to the AppKed RSS feed, not
| because I want to touch any of their downloads but because it's
| pretty much the only way I get to learn about new programs for
| macOS.
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| This is sub-optimal to say the least. Except for AppKed, these
| meet neither a) nor b), and I really don't want to rely on
| something like fsckin AppKed for something that I _suspect_ can
| be done from legitimate sources.
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| I know about app stores and the like but they're not exactly
| useful for discovering new software even on mobile, where they're
| actually a thing.
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| tl;dr does anyone know of a modern equivalent to either Freshmeat
| or 640 MB of Shareware?
| rzzzt wrote:
| GitHub's Explore page occasionally unearths neat utilities I
| didn't know of, although it is based on the user's past
| activity (when logged in) and tends to show projects of similar
| nature that one's been looking at or working on:
| https://github.com/explore
| johnjones4 wrote:
| I'm curious if there's a site tracking new software for vintage
| platforms such as ssheven which is a modern SSH client for Mac OS
| 7/8/9. For the occasional retrocomputing enthusiast, it'd be
| great to have a dedicated resource tracking all the great new
| work the community is producing. (And a way to also
| collaborate/give back via open source.)
| incanus77 wrote:
| That's a great idea! And thanks for the tip on ssheven, I have
| an OS 9 machine I've gotten networked but having a devil of a
| time getting any network client software onto it without a lot
| of floppy hoop-jumping, and scp would be real handy.
| neilv wrote:
| I'll have to dig up some obscure old software, and see whether
| this site has a place for any of it. Just curiosities and
| personal nostalgia at this point.
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| I released a bunch of MS-DOS shareware as a kid, but only to
| local free BBSes (no money for paid online services nor long-
| distance phone calls). I also made a couple shrinkwrap software
| packages that I started to sell in computer stores around age
| 15-16, before I got a real software engineering job (and sold my
| PC, bought a used Sun workstation, and switched to open source).
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| One day, I was talking with someone from Finland, and he thought
| he remembered seeing a D&D character generator of mine there. But
| otherwise, I've never seen or heard of it.
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