gavo
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Righto, so I've entered the Winter Warm Up 09 and dont have one of those new flanged blog things. As such, here is my Pseudo blog - I will post my progress (or lack thereof) in this thread for your reading pleasure (haha). I know its not Jan 09 yet, but here is the description of my challenge as scrawled on the wall of the luddites cave... (note I have edited out some of the bits that might offend some folk - in case you have seen this before and dont think it looks quite the same).
I have decided to step up and take on the RC winter warm up.
My challenge will be to provide a retro challenge for those who aren't specifically entering the challenge themselves
To this end I will attempt to get my retro Apple IIe card (which has only ever been out of its box once for me to look at and has never actually been used) to work in my retro lC475, onto which I will attempt to install a retro warp6 BBS which I will then attempt to install some retro warp6 BBS games into, which I will then attempt to get onto the internet via my PC and tcpser - which will then provide the basis of the challenge for everyone else - that being, who will get the highest score on the BBS games - I will perform these amazing tasks whilst drinking large amounts of alcohol which is sure to bring me great success!
Now that all seemed very well at the time, but I've had some time to think and am now wondering if I have bitten off more than I can chew - heres some of the things I think will be a challenge for me...
1. Getting my Apple IIe card working, if this doesnt work - big trouble for my challenge - hopefully tho, it will work just fine - it is all in original packaging and looks nice and clean - so fingers crossed this will be all good.
2. Getting the software onto my LCe. I have an emulator image of the Warp6 BBS that I got working (local only) on my PC a couple of years ago - I'm hoping I can transfer this over to my LCe somehow to save me some time (and effort) configuring up the BBS with the games. I have a backup plan however, I still have the original .SHK archives of both Warp6 and the doors on a 800k Prodos disk - I should be able to read that in my LCe - but it will mean setting up the BBS from scratch.
3. Getting a working cable between the LCe and PC that Warp6 will work with - It shouldnt be hard, but I know it took me ages to get a working cable back with my real IIe back in the day, and I've never got it to work with an emulator.
4. Getting just the right balance of alcohol to retro challengeness - too little and my skills wont be up to it, too much and it will be certain disaster.
All going well I hope to have a Warp6 BBS up complete with some BBS games for us to play at least for the last week of the challenge (hopefully earlier).
9 days to go....
I have decided to step up and take on the RC winter warm up.
My challenge will be to provide a retro challenge for those who aren't specifically entering the challenge themselves
To this end I will attempt to get my retro Apple IIe card (which has only ever been out of its box once for me to look at and has never actually been used) to work in my retro lC475, onto which I will attempt to install a retro warp6 BBS which I will then attempt to install some retro warp6 BBS games into, which I will then attempt to get onto the internet via my PC and tcpser - which will then provide the basis of the challenge for everyone else - that being, who will get the highest score on the BBS games - I will perform these amazing tasks whilst drinking large amounts of alcohol which is sure to bring me great success!
Now that all seemed very well at the time, but I've had some time to think and am now wondering if I have bitten off more than I can chew - heres some of the things I think will be a challenge for me...
1. Getting my Apple IIe card working, if this doesnt work - big trouble for my challenge - hopefully tho, it will work just fine - it is all in original packaging and looks nice and clean - so fingers crossed this will be all good.
2. Getting the software onto my LCe. I have an emulator image of the Warp6 BBS that I got working (local only) on my PC a couple of years ago - I'm hoping I can transfer this over to my LCe somehow to save me some time (and effort) configuring up the BBS with the games. I have a backup plan however, I still have the original .SHK archives of both Warp6 and the doors on a 800k Prodos disk - I should be able to read that in my LCe - but it will mean setting up the BBS from scratch.
3. Getting a working cable between the LCe and PC that Warp6 will work with - It shouldnt be hard, but I know it took me ages to get a working cable back with my real IIe back in the day, and I've never got it to work with an emulator.
4. Getting just the right balance of alcohol to retro challengeness - too little and my skills wont be up to it, too much and it will be certain disaster.
All going well I hope to have a Warp6 BBS up complete with some BBS games for us to play at least for the last week of the challenge (hopefully earlier).
9 days to go....