I am pleased to announce that Retrochallenge 2016/10 – the ‘October’ edition of the Retrochallenge – will run and is now open to entrants! Roll-up Roll-up! Get those thinking caps on and come up with an excellent retro-computing project. Why not?
The Retrochallenge 2016/10 competition will run...
Regarding Scott & NATHAN's comments
I had a go at this back in 2009 with a VAXstation: http://wickensonline.co.uk/retro/index.html what I found was that using the internet is like an addiction. To start with you get serious withdrawals, then after a while you relax and get used to the lack...
Greetings
I'm the organiser of Retrochallenge, so hopefully will be able to add some info to this thread.
You must have hit the website whilst I was moving it between hosts. The website is back up at http://retrochallenge.org/
Dale, the Twitter Monkey ran the competition with myself for ten...
Announcing the Retrochallenge 2012 Summer Challenge
As usual the competition is open to all, so come and join us for a legitimized month of playing, hacking and blogging with/about your retrogear.
For those of you new to retrochallenge the philosophy is:
Register using the ENTER link on the...
The good thing about retrochallenge is that it tends to gently encourage you to go from 'I must do x/y' to 'I'm doing x/y'.
I spent years saying 'I must write some VAX/Macro code' to 'I've written some VAX/Macro code' which I'm sure wouldn't have happened had it not been for retrochallenge...
We are a couple of weeks from the Summer Challenge!
About Retrochallenge
In a nutshell, the RetroChallenge is a loosely disorganised gathering of RetroComputing enthusiasts who collectively do stuff with old computers for a month.
The event is very much open to interpretation... individuals...
I've created a preliminary website at http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/retrochallenge-website/index.html - luddite - if you can link this in to the retrochallenge.net website that would be great.
Regards, Mark.
Sorry guys,
I was wondering why there wasn't any BBS activity, and then 'duh' it finally clicked.
The static IP address has changed, so we need to get the domain name updated. I'll talk to Simon about that. In the meantime, I've reset appsoftint.co.uk to the new IP address which is...
Following the protracted switch between service providers the RetroBBS is now back online, hopefully without any significant interruption from now on.
Mark
Now hosting the retrochallenge bbs for the foreseeable future on my humble Dell 7500 Inspiron laptop - average power consumption is 15 watts, not bad for an old box running NetBSD 4.0.1. Now all I have to do is get the VAX version going!
telnet://bbs.retrochallenge.net
Regards, Mark.