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Friday, September 15, 2023
Announcing RetroChallenge 2023/10!
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We are happy to announce RetroChallenge for the month of October 2023!
Brought to you again by hosts urbancamo, ep00ch, and now members of the
Australian Computer Museum Society board! Thanks to Adrian Franulovich
from ACMS for offering to assist with keeping things rolling along
smoothly.
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 "rules" for the RetroChallenge for basic guidelines.
RetroChallenge 2023/10 Theme Categories
We have two theme categories for this event: Endurance Challenge and
October Offline. These category 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 last year's List of Entries for
some examples.
October Offline
Take a break from online social media!
Enhance your mental health by taking a break from online social media.
Use the opportunity to check out a local makerspace, computer museum,
or computer user-group meeting and share your project with real people.
Maybe get your old computers fixed up and lead a scout meeting about
vintage computers, or, you could base your project around some need of
your local computer museum. Whatever it is, give up social media and be
truly social!
Endurance Challenge
Really use your retro-computer for a month!
Getting back to the ideals of the orginal RetroChallenge, we are
challenging you to use your vintage computer for a month doing normal
stuff like word processing, budgeting, sending emails, surfing the web,
gaming, dot matrix printing, etc. Document what you did, what works,
what doesn't, and what solutions you found. We will want to see lots of
update posts, but we don't expect much engineering. The Captain's
Quarters II BBS has kindly provided a forum as an option for your
low-bandwith progress logs. As a final nod to the original
RetroChallenge, the best blogger for this category will be based on
popular vote!
Prizes
ACMS will be digging up some prizes and we may have some RC 2023/10
mousepads for the "winners".
How to Enter
Fill out the Entry Form for Contestants 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.
Sign Up Now!
epooch at 1:38AM
