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BBC Computer Pages - Home edit / delete

"I am putting on these pages a few miscellaneous items that might interest those people who still like to play with BBC Computers. Most of what is here concerns the BBC Master 512"

to acorn bbc drdos gem master pc retrocomputing ... on 15 September 2016

Esolang, the esoteric programming languages wiki edit / delete

A fantastic waste of time. Very comprehensive.

to amusements bf esoteric false language-design oisc retrocomputing ... on 08 September 2016

Worst.Console.Ever edit / delete

The Unisonic Champion 2711. If you're using a video chipset that is *only* designed to play card games, then some extreme creativity is required to do anything else... (Related to the Intellivision -- and in fact someone's written a Unisonic emulator for the Intellivision!)

to console cp1610 games gi intellivision retrocomputing unisonic ... on 04 September 2016

Projects edit / delete

Huge collection of the author's electronics projects, mostly from the 60s-80s, including a series of small telephone switches.

to electronics ham homebrew radio retrocomputing tv-typewriter ... on 28 August 2016

Museum-of-Art-and-Digital-Entertainment/habitat edit / delete

"Habitat is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for the Commodore 64 on top of the QuantumLink online platform." Includes both client and server source.

to c64 commodore games habitat mmorpg network quantumlink retrocomputing source ... on 28 August 2016

Novas Are Forever edit / delete

Some good information here, hidden behind a frustrating site design.

to data-general dg nova retrocomputing ... on 27 August 2016

Microtech M1 Series: Understanding IRIS edit / delete

"Microtech DART-family & M1 Series Desktop Computer Systems, including the M1/10, M1/34, and M1/68."

to microtech retrocomputing ... on 27 August 2016

rcornwell/ctss: CTSS source and binaries edit / delete

Tidy copy of the CTSS code. I was struck by how modern this is in several ways -- the MAD language it's written in is remarkably nice for the timeframe.

to ctss ibm os retrocomputing source ... on 27 August 2016

Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer edit / delete

Interesting to compare with the Usborne book. This was clearly written by someone who'd actually seen the Dungeon source, since it uses a "travel table" approach.

to adventure etext games if programming retrocomputing ... on 27 August 2016

TASVideos / Front Page edit / delete

Tool-assisted speedruns. These are often technically very interesting, although it mostly focusses on games I don't like very much (what Americans were playing in the early 90s, i.e. games for Japanese consoles). The NetHack speedruns here are pretty impressive.

to amusements games retrocomputing reverse-engineering speedrun ... on 27 August 2016