Retrochallenge, a challenge for old computer users.

[macto]

Do you depend upon modern computers, or are you a creative spirit who can push the limits of your old hardware in order to fulfill your everyday needs?  The second annual retrochallenge is where you find out.

There are challenges for people who love to program, create visual art, music, or who simply love to use old computers.

If you would like more information about the Retrochallenge, please visit our website at http://desnoyers.org/retrochallenge

Note: the challenge is open to most users of 68k Amiga hardware and users of other legacy hardware.  Users of emulators and PPC based Amigas cannot participate in the challenges, though you are more than welcome to judge.

Byron Desnoyers Winmill

[Doppie1200]

This must be so retro I can't access their site. I may need an older browser. Or is it down? I was kind of curious what it is all about.

[Karlos]

Yeah, I couldn't access it either.

Why no PPC anyway? I isn't as if they are that new anymore, is it? I had mine since 1998 or something (Damn, I can't actually remember. Were they available then? :lol:)

[seer]

Remove the "." at the end of the link

http://desnoyers.org/retrochallenge/

[Doppie1200]

quick reply, I like that :-)

PPC is too powerfull I guess. Since processing power went up exponentially they will have to draw a line somewhere.
I wonder if 060 can participate. What are they up to anyway? Make all participants use their retro machine at work for a month? I'll be out of a job by then for sure.

[x56h34]

There's an error in the URL. Simply remove the dot at the end and it should work. :-)

p.s. Also make sure that your Spectrum 128k is set to 48k mode, otherwise the page will sense 128k and not load. ;-)

[Karlos]

Doppie1200 wrote:
quick reply, I like that :-)

PPC is too powerfull I guess. Since processing power went up exponentially they will have to draw a line somewhere.

:lol: A 603e 240MHz on a somewhat crippled memory bus (not to mention all the issues with context switches etc) with no L2 cache is too powerful?

[Doppie1200]

Sure it is a retro contest Maybe you are right. The fact is; I know nothing about PPC. But a PPC is considered an more powerfull upgrade to your amiga than 680x0 alone. That must count for something.

[macto]

When the contest was designed, the new generation of processors (PowerPC and Pentium) were deliberately excluded.  While the 68060 wasn't intended to be excluded, it probably is (the cut-off for systems and accelerator boards is March 1993).

And you most certainly don't have to keep up the old computer use at work.  I don't want to see an overeager Amiga user lose their job in the process. :lol:  Besides, if you are just doing some artwork or music production on your old beater, you only have to use the old machine while producing that work.

x56h34: Bruce Lee, that is so Commodore 64. :-D

[Vincent]

x56h34 wrote:
Also make sure that your Spectrum 128k is set to 48k mode, otherwise the page will sense 128k and not load. ;-)

:lol:

I know that feeling all too well.  It's just a pity you don't actually realise that you've made that mistake until after the game has been loading for 5 minutes and comes up with the Sinclair Research blurb :-(

[mr_a500]

I was going to join the challenge, but it looks a little too tedious. It's a pity, I would have gotten at least 950 points for "The Endurance". And I've also got art and music.

x56h34: Bruce Lee, that is so Commodore 64. :-D

I was also impressed with the Bruce Lee avatar. But, I saw the game on the Atari 800 first, so I would have said "... that is so Atari 800".

[TjLaZer]

Bruce Lee was so Commodore and Atari!  As it came on a flippy disk with the C64 version on one side and the Atari 800 on the other!

:banana:

[macto]

Tedious in what way?  Please let me know so that it can be changed in 2006.  :-D

[mr_a500]

@macto

Tedious as in joining a mailing list and so on. Maybe it's not tedious - who knows? It just LOOKS tedious, so I just gave up and went to bed. ;-)


@TjLaZer

Now that I think of it, that dancing banana kicks Bruce Lee's ass. :-D

[macto]

Okay then.  I tried to make it look less tedious, and hopefully succeeded in making it less tedious, so that more people will participate.  (Gone are a lot of the arcane rules, replaced with either simple to follow score sheets or nothing at all.)

And I think that Bruce Lee is far more skilled than a dancing banana, at least when it comes to ass kicking.  Heck, Bruce Lee could fight bloated sumo's.  A banana would run in terror when it saw a hungry sumo.