#retrochallenge — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #retrochallenge, aggregated by home.social.
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We're kicking off our first Long Play with the intense GBC homebrew, Mount Crymore by Pigeonaut! Join us as we try to conquer the world's deadliest summits.Watch us climb, risk, and maybe fall trying to conquer the world's deadliest summits.⛰️
https://youtu.be/z4B2sge2dtw?si=5-Miwq_Se4Fa87qR#BrewOtaku #LongPlay #MountCrymore #GBC #Homebrew #ClimbingGame #RetroChallenge
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What helped me deliver my RetroChallgence 2024 project on time? Prior experience with the Interlisp API of NoteCards and the nature of Lisp and Lisp systems.
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/how-lisp-helped-my-retrochallenge-2024-project
#RC2024 #RetroChallenge #retrocomputing #interlisp #NoteCards
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RetroChallenge announced the results of RC2024/10 and I'm honored to be among the winners. I entered with the WebCard project written in Interlisp, a NoteCards extension for visiting websites.
Thanks to the organizers, voters, and judges and congrats to all the entrants, especially @psychotimmy who won the Grand Prize.
https://www.retrochallenge.org/2025/10/rc202410-resultsless-than-year-late.html
https://github.com/pamoroso/webcard
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/tag:WebCard
#RC2024 #RetroChallenge #retrocomputing #interlisp #NoteCards
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Totally stunned that the Pico MZ-80K won the "general" category in last year's #RetroChallenge! Thank you to everyone who voted for me, followed the project, etc. etc. etc.
https://www.retrochallenge.org/2025/10/rc202410-resultsless-than-year-late.html
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I'm not able to take part in #RetroChallenge this year, but I've just spent a few minutes enjoying last year's writeup of my #Sharp #MZ80K emulator for the #RaspberryPiPico . In the weeks after the challenge it went on to emulate the #MZ80A as well. The plan for this winter is to have a bash at #MZ700 emulation. The architecture isn't hugely different from the earlier MZs, but I'll need to implement colour output as a minimum.
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Eight worlds. Countless retries.
Mine carts, rocket barrels, and one very persistent dad.And now I stand before the Golden Temple… thinking about doing it all over again. 🍌
#Nintendo #Switch #GamingDad #DonkeyKong #GoldenTemple #RetroChallenge #Banana
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Are the RetroChallenge 2024 entries still supposed to get the final comments? I know they may come in August or September of the following year but the 2025 edition starts in slighly over a month and there are no final 2024 comments yet.
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The RetroChallenge announced the winners of the 2024 edition. Great choices, congrats all!
https://www.retrochallenge.org/2025/02/judging-updates-and-vcf-socal.html
I had a lot of fun entering the challenge, my first one, with a Medley Interlisp project that extended NoteCards to visit websites:
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Code Protection Showdown: 1980s Edition! Transform Your BASIC Code Into an Impenetrable Fortress (or a Maze of Utter Despair) #retrochallenge. Full details here: https://hacking.museum/index.php/2024/11/07/code-protection-battle-1980s-style-how-to-turn-basic-into-a-fortress-or-a-maze-of-despair/.
We’re gearing up for a wild weekend as Hacking.museum sets up shop at the UnlockYourBrain hacking conference! Expect a ton of retro-style hacking madness, complete with our animated retro ISP modem setup and a series of nostalgic CTFs featuring the ZX81, ATARI ST, and more. See you there! #retrocomputer #retrohacking
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Final wrap-up for #RetroChallenge from me this year. Did the #ZX81 module for the #RC2014 live up to the #RC2024 expectations? Find out here https://rc2014.co.uk/3331/retro-challenge-2024-10-schrodingers-pcb/
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I put together a demo hypertext for WebCard with various Web cards and links to play with.
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/a-demo-notefile-for-webcard
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I'm working on a WebCard demo notefile with examples of web links filed into various types of cards.
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WebCard is not a large system but I documented it anyway, explaining the few things it adds to or differs from NoteCards.
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I needed to find or design an icon for WebCard. How hard could it be?
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/designing-a-webcard-bitmap-the-hard-way
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A sneak peek at the bitmap I designed for WebCard cards of type Web, here open in the Medley Interlisp bitmap editor. The bitmap at the actual size is near the top left corner whereas the magnified view takes up most of the window.
The bitmap represents a card at the center of which is a globe with meridians and parallels.
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I did a bit of review and charted the next steps for wrapping up WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project.
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/planning-the-next-steps-for-webcard
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I'm considering the next steps to conclude the work on WebCard project for the RetroChallenge 2024.
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Since I need to import a bitmap in Medley for WebCard I'm researching some image conversion tools.
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And we're halfway through the month! Folks doing creative challenges, how's it going? Have you been able to keep up? What are some of your favorite submissions so far?
And what are you all looking forward to next month?
#challenge #CreativeChallenge #crawltober #hacktober #hacktoberfest #inktober #LOLtober #looptober #mathober #RetroChallenge #WeirdWebOctober
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WebCard now does some basic housekeeping of visited URLs. This reduces web browser tab clutter and keeps unintentional link traversals under control.
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/keeping-track-of-visited-urls-in-webcard
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A simple tweak to the shape of WebCard cards makes them more visually distinct in NoteCards hypertexts.
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/revising-card-shape-and-initialization-in-webcard
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So, you want more #RetroChallenge #RC2024 updates? Ok, the RC2014 blog has some updates on the #ZX81 module schematics, and the #Portfolio and #Z88 serial connections to the #RC2014
And for those of you that use RSS, you can subscribe so you always have the latest updates
https://rc2014.co.uk/3259/retro-challenge-2024-10-talking-the-talk-at-9600/ -
I finally fixed a URL validation bug of WebCard, which turned out to be just a typo in a clause of an Interlisp iterative statement.
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/fixing-url-validation-in-webcard
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WebCard cards of type Web are stand ins for WWW websites. So I changed the code to make the text of such cards read only and refactored the text updating code.
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/managing-card-text-in-webcard
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I added two items to the title bar menu of WebCard cards, one for visiting and the other for editing the URL associated with a card.
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/adding-title-bar-menu-items-to-webcard-cards
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Really good progress with WebCard today. I learned how to add items to the left-click menu of NoteCards cards, and added the URL visit and edit commands for cards of type Web.
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I'll just leave this here.
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Over the past couple of days I worked on some refinements of WebCard related to card initialization and visiting URLs.
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/working-on-webcard-card-initialization-and-url-visiting
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Today I reviewed the WebCard code, researched NoteCards, and planned what to do next.
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Today's #RetroChallenge updates - keyboard layout rationalisation plus overclocking a #RaspberryPico to 175MHz to get a 2.1ishMHz #SharpMZ80K
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I'm struggling with a WebCard bug in an Interlisp's iterative statement, an issue with the syntax of the BIND clause I can't pinpoint. This is part of the work for validating URLs entered by the user when creating Web cards.
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/stumped-with-url-validation-in-webcard
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Sound is now working on the #SharpMZ80K emulator as demonstrated by the standard, but dull, "Spring Fashion in 1980" demo program. #RetroChallenge #RetroComputing #RaspberryPico