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Saturday, August 14, 2021
Announcing RetroChallenge 2021/10!
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We are excited to announce the return of the RetroChallenge for the
month of October 2021! Brought to you by veteran host Mark Wickens and
rookie Eric Poch.
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 set their
own challenges, which can range from programming to multimedia work,
hardware restoration to exploring legacy networking, or just plain
fooling around. It really doesn't matter what you do, just so long as
you do it.
Take a look at the revised "rules" for the RetroChallenge for basic
guidelines.
RetroChallenge 2021/10 Theme Categories
We are introducing two theme categories for this event: The Millennials
and Publish It! These categories will be judged and awarded separately
from the standard entries. If your project qualifies, enter it into one
of the theme categories! Otherwise, enter in the General category and
just do your own retro thing. Check out this year's List of Entries for
some examples.
The Millennials:
Systems Released Circa 1998-2002
Finally some love for those millennials! Believe it or not, Mac OS X
10.0 and Windows 2000/XP are just over 20 years old and qualify for the
RetroChallenge. Rather than turning up our noses at these systems'
garish GUIs and baroque data bus widths, we are showcasing them! So,
pull that 1st Gen iPod out of your desk drawer, fire up your trusty
Zaurus SL-5500, drag that iMac G3 out of mothballs, or go find your old
ThinkPad 570, and get computing like it's 1999!
Publish It!:
Publish Your Old RetroComputing Project
Many of us have had some time during quarantine to play on our vintage
computers, but there is never enough time to properly document or share
our work. This is your opportunity! Start documenting a retro project
that you have been working on since the start of the pandemic, set-up
and share a git repository with the code for your old Apple IIe game,
publish a schematic of the s-100 bus card you designed, or even scan
and share that pile of rare vintage computer magazines and manuals
you've been collecting. As long your project was retro-computer related
and your focus is on sharing code or documentation for it for the first
time, you are in, even if you completed the project long before October
1st!
Prizes
We have some useful tech tools that we will be awarding as prizes (USB
Logic Analyzer, Arduino UNO, TL866II+ IC programmer) and will hopefully
have some RC 2021/10 mousepads and some more donated items for the
"winners".
How to Enter
We are trying out a New Entry Form for Contestants. Fill it out and
save the link at the end in case you want to update or change your
information. Let us know in the comments if you have any issues signing
up.
Entry Form Button
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