October 2018 - vcf-midatlantic

Festivus 2018 - Movie room
by Jeffrey Brace 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

So the last two years we didn't really do movies, but I'm considering it again. The reason is that we don't use the big dorm room (called the women's bunk room), so we can setup our 100 inch projector screen, lights off and project movies or TV onto it in that room. This way if you want to go see a movie or TV show (i.e. Whiz Kids) you can do it. If you don't want to see movies, then you can stay in the main festivus area. Who's votes for movie setup? -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Source Code for Zork / Dungeon Game on the PDP-10
by Ethan Dicks 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 12:51 PM Christopher Blackmon via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > It wasn't supposed to be an attachment.... stupid yahoo mail. > https://blog.adafruit.com/2018/10/09/source-code-for-zork-dungeon-from-the-… It seems they noticed this repo after six months... (I'm on a mailing list that's part of the effort to resurrect MDL and other 36-bit applications - we were discussing this earlier this year) https://github.com/PDP-10/its/tree/master/src/zork Mostly, this is the same MDL code that's been bouncing around for 25 years but BUILD.CMD is interesting to me, as are the text files. Those are not part of the standard tarball. -ethan

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Fwd: Transfer 5.25 inch data to USB to use on Windows based Laptop
by Evan Koblentz 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Anybody in the DC area want to help this person? Reply to him directly, not to me. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Transfer 5.25 inch data to USB to use on Windows based Laptop Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 20:32:05 +0000 (UTC) From: ann hwang <sunnyfield88(a)yahoo.com> Reply-To: ann hwang <sunnyfield88(a)yahoo.com> To: evan(a)VCFED.org <evan(a)VCFED.org> Evan, I want to retrieve data from my 5.25 inch floppy disks.How can I do this? I would appreciate your help. Steve Hwang Fairfax, VA 202-330-9514

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Source Code for Zork / Dungeon Game on the PDP-10
by Jonathan Gevaryahu 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

On 10/9/2018 12:02 PM, Christopher Blackmon via vcf-midatlantic wrote: Whatever this message was, it got mangled pretty badly by the list. Remember, the vcf-midatlantic list strips off all attachments, whether they are images or files. Do you have a link to the source code? -- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu(a)gmail.com jgevaryahu(a)hotmail.com

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Source Code for Zork / Dungeon Game on the PDP-10
by Christopher Blackmon 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Saw this and thought someone might be interested... Source Code for Zork / Dungeon Game on the PDP-10 | | | | | | | | | | | Source Code for Zork / Dungeon Game on the PDP-10 If you’re into classic games, like from the DEC minicomputer days and into the early (vintage) computer days, yo... | | |

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Festivus craft time...
by jakari 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

A little Festivus instigation... Apparently, it used to be A Thing to make holiday wreaths from punchcards. My wife Jayme happened across his one for sale: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/709541509395750 And then we found: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102667304 And a bunch more on Google Image search, including: https://aadl.org/N021_0795_002 Well I might need one of these. ;) -- Jameel Akari

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spotted: Commodore hoard for sale
by jakari 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

In Clarkstown, NY: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2169023666693650 Just happened across the listing, I don't know the seller. Just passing it along. I'll feel pretty dumb if he's on the list and I never noticed. ;) "Includes two Commodore 128 computers complete in boxes (one like new and stock, one completely upgraded/modded in great condition), two Amiga 500 computers (one like new in box and complete, the second modded out for maximum usability), three 1571 floppy drives in great condition, complete in boxes." and a bunch of accessories. -- Jameel Akari

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Museum Report 2018-10-07
by Jeffrey Brace 07 Oct '18

07 Oct '18

A light number of moderate level visitors due to the nice weather today. Worked on some warehouse organization, testing out some C64 networking game and preparing the C64 game: "The Bear Essentials" for Festivus. Also filled up the tires on The Radio Flyer, there was very little tire pressure. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] OT - Whiz Kids
by Ken 07 Oct '18

07 Oct '18

I watched them when they appeared on youtube a couple of years ago. I'm bewildered I'd never even heard of it before then. A sometimes tediously acted show, but all the vintage tech is great! Like: https://youtu.be/gz2DVPxEIS4?t=1m59s - Ken At 10/7/2018 03:42 PM, Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic wrote: >That one is probably better than mine. My version is terrible, I got it at >comic con > >On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 12:24 PM Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic < >vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > >> This the item in question? I was considering buying a copy: >> >> https://www.retrotvmemories.com/products/kids-whiz-kids-dvd-series-complete… >> >> >> On 10/7/2018 12:06 PM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote: >> >> So I picked up a DVD collection of the TV show Whiz Kids. It's not a >> >> good >> >> copy. Actually it's a terrible copy. but if you guys want me to bring >> >> it to >> >> festivus let me know

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Rusty/weathered Commodore 64C restoration video
by Neil Cherry 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

On 10/05/2018 09:57 AM, Ken via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > The thing looks in awful shape, full of ants, corroded, and somehow it still works (plays a demo at the end) after minor cleaning: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVphFkaX1gg And he used 1500 grit sand paper to clean the chip pins (cringe). Otherwise not bas. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry(a)linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

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