RetroFest 2023 - Part 4 - Nascom, Acorn, and Tiki: More Vintage Computing Gems

00:20 Neal Crook (@nealcrook7883)
06:02 Chris Oddy (theoddys.com)
15:46 Tim Gilberts (@timbucus)
27:07 Stephen Mitchell (@gedgehead)
Many thanks to doughnut-in-chief Pete Golding for filming

[@K.F-R]

Thanks for taking us along. Some real old diamonds there. And the hardware's great too. ;)

[@massdrivermusic]

So great to see a working Tiki-100! Lots of nostalgia for me. I'm from Norway, and had 2 hours of computer classes a week for a school year with that, back in 1988-89. I owned an Amiga myself, and had 4 hours a week with Macintosh SE + Pagemaker in media class the same year. So I wasn't very impressed with the Tiki-100.. but it was fine back in 84-86, and most of the software was learning/educational that wasn't bad at all. Learned about how spreadsheets worked on that beast :) -MR

[@Xoferif]

12:33 Sandy White used the Softy's ROM emulator function to develop his classic ZX Spectrum game "Ant Attack". It was all done by writing the program in assembly language on sheets of A4 paper and hand-assembling it, then typing the hex codes into the Softy.

[@8-bitbitsa821]

Awesome ! Triton was way more capable than a lot of people know 😉

[@j1952d]

I had a NASCOM1 - taught me a lot. Drove over to Bone Lane to get it. Had it playing Bach 3-part inventions using a resistor ladder DAC and and a wave-table.

[@WX4CB]

I remember building a nascom1 with my dad. Then we had the nascom2 and i thought it was great when we could use a tape drive and a monitor. Theb of course we got the ram upgrade and dayum i thought we were the bomb lol

[@cthutu]

We had the majority of a chess with simple AI in 1K on the ZX81 :)

[@edgeeffect]

Fond memories of CP/M hacking on the Intertec Superbrain!!! :) :) :)

[@clangerbasher]

Hearing that about Heyerdahl was a bit upsetting. I wouldn't have expected such from a man like him.

[@FireballXL55]

I had one of those Super brains, unfortunately I went through a divorce and it ended up in the dump.