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Great talk. Good questions too! I hope someday you recover the graphics tools as well - that would be an interesting part of this story.

I’ve been a huge fan of the 8 bit governor since 2017. I recognize that the channel is changing and the uploads are less frequent. But, I do like all the solar and diy projects that David is undertaking. I’m glad that he is still passionate about tech including the Commander X16 and his new arcade business, even if it’s not always content that I watch.

No mention of the Honeywell 316 Kitchen Computer?

*Dude, nobody wants new 8-bit computers!!*

you wanna ask me about md. not some american

Great talk! One important detail is that the Linc from Lincoln Labs and the Linc-8 from DEC are two different releases of the same computer. The first one was built by people receiving grants from NIH who participated in workshops to learn about the machine and then took the resulting product back to their laboratories. The idea was that someone who built a machine could then keep it running. These machines were built using DEC Modules, which was what the company started out with before getting into computers. The second machine was a commercial product from DEC and came out a few years later. Even later DEC did the PDP-12 which could run in either Linc or in PDP-8 mode (both designs had some things in common, which made this possible).

Where does HP timeshare basic fit in here? Many in my generation use this in schools. Our sysadmin had a multiuser version that ran on a single cpu and supported 4 terminals. I don't think it was based on 2000/Access.

It will be interesting to see if any of these chips get replaced with Raspberry Pi Pico drop-ins of some kind

Check out a Danish programming language called COMAL from 1975 and onwards. It was BASIC extended with features for structured programming.

#12:30 - Another BASIC: Locomotive BASIC for the Amstrad CPC. Also, BBC BASIC was preceded by Acorn BASIC.

This is an interested topic. I saw these in the catalogs, but I never saw one in reality.

Nice job. Atually, I didn't know about the dailys builds, just pulled one for my Apple IIGS fujinet.

cool talk!

Super!! I need to get one of these.

You forgot Atari Basic (8-bit computers) was not Microsoft Basic.

VCF was the Virus Computer Festival. The guys got sick after returning.

At 25:09, he said "They didn't use the word first in here," but the plaque he pointed to does use the word first. The first sentence on it calls the Datapoint 2200 "the first desktop personal computer."

Always nice to see the people from Tandy and Radio Shack. My 2nd professional dev job (4th IT job) was in west Fort Worth and several of my mentors were former Tandy/RS people. Great memories!

Great work!

Great job guys!

Interesting - thanks 🤩 37:40 "Welcome IBM. Seriously." hehe good stuff 😂

40:37 The Dicksmith Wizard, that's what my wife calls me!

Fun note: it wasn't really a Tandy Big System BBS, but The Babel BBS in Seattle was running on one of these into the early 90s at least, and I got exposure to them from one or two of the users there.

He's a madman!

The best of the best techretro youtuber 👌

KryoFlux has restored many 1980s dead floppies for me... I would seriously look into that for disk reocvery.... its hardware software combo for a $100-$200.

*True BASIC* *BASICA* ??

I do wonder if Twitch is mostly IRL stuff nowadays. Gaming is still huge, but it's got a TON of people just chatting, playing musical instruments, singing, dancing, painting miniatures (personal favorite as a 40k enthusiast), digital art and analog, live role-playing sessions, crafting etc etc. Plus you can now multi-stream to Twitch and TH-cam at the same time, and Facebook and Tiktok etc as well.

10 PRINT "Excellent Presentation dude!" 20 GOTO 10

wow!

A big YES to LGR birds. I feed wild Aussie cockatoos

Has anyone heard of S-Basic? It was a compiled, not interpreted basic, that was available in the early 1980's. One reviewer criticized it as being Pascale with the syntax of Basic. I ddid not see that as a problem. And what about Python or Rust with the syntax of Basic, for that matter? Wasn't PowerBasic supposed to make a version for Linux?

I LOVE that file server! 😀

This group convo was really nice. (and super funny!) Host did a great job. I had fun hearing this.

I make use of GPT daily, for my professional work, but I'd still say that taking its outputs at face value without fact-checking is a very silly idea. The prevalence of hallucinations may seem acceptable when the topic is widely documented, but as the topic becomes more obscure, the prevalence of hallucinations approaches 100%.

This is really fascinating, I started learning how to program in the early 80s. But his is next level. The amount of hardware and skill you needed to develop a game at that time is something else.

History of computing in eastern block is a very interesting topic by itself. You can check a little bit of it @chernobylfamily

Many of those TH-cam scammers need to be banned and taken permanently offline from the retro world!

A bit more about the memory leak, one of the problem functions? A hex debugging output function that was allocating temporary buffers and not freeing them. :)

Paper tape sneaker net is truly retro. Excellent presentation!

Great talk.... thanks/

Adrian and Lovet should team up to save the System 34/36. This would be the ultimate troubleshooting episode.

I'm streaming LGR Birds now.

Better is the enemy of good enough. Feature creep has strangles this project.

Sweet 🤩

Who said nerds don't have a sense of humor 😂😂

Awesome "project", keep going and what an amazing community you have built, you should all be very proud. Hoping to own a Commander X16 v2 one day, there's just something about running stuff on 'real hardware'.

Heard a distinctive laugh before he showed up on screen and knew it was Adrian.

Without a doubt, this is my favorite presentation from the vcfsw. Truly fascinating and well presented. I've seen pictures of the development workstations from Atari, and I've always wondered how they operated.

Cory, have you ever explored the world of Multi-Valued aka Pick BASIC? I don't see any links on your gotBASIC page to this whole other world of BASIC. Let me know if you have at least heard of it.