[HN Gopher] The Retrocomputing Archive ___________________________________________________________________ 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. | | 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. 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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. | | I've done some more recent setup of major BBS to replay some muds | and this sure brings back some pleasant memories. | | 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. | | 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? | | By this, I mean something that would include: | | a) New software (either newly-written programs or new _versions_ | of programs), or at least news about new software | | b) In a somewhat organised fashion? | | 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. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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). | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-07-31 23:00 UTC)