Niels Haedecke discusses BBS software, Forth, and the RC2014 System
Release Date: 11/14/2024
Nick Andrew Discusses the System-80 Including His Zeta BBS
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Telecommunications and BBS pioneer Nick Andrew talks about the TRS-80 Model I workalike known as the System-80. With many hardware modifications, Nick wrote and operated his own BBS on the System-80 in the 1980's. As time went on, Nick continued as a telecom pioneer. #z80 #trs80 #fidonet #bbsing
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Leor Zolman, Creator of the First Commercial C Compiler for Microcomputers Joins the Show
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Leor Zolman, creator of the BDS (Brain Damage Software) C compiler for CP/M ... the first commercial C compiler for microcomputers ... joins the show. We discuss his compiler, tech writing, the genesis of The C Users Journal, his book Illustrated C, his path to teaching, and his journey in dealing with autism and trauma. Leor's presentation at VCF East (2025) Leor's Website
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International Tech Speaker Christine Seeman Joins the Show
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June 25, 2025 ( recorded on February 13th, 2024) This episode is a reissue of an earlier audio-only episode with added video. Christine Seeman joins the show to discuss a variety of programming languages including Java, Ruby, and Go. We also discuss her live international speaking events. Website Mastodon: @[email protected] NDC London 2020 - 2FA Talk .Net Rocks Podcast (taped at NDC London) One Does Not Simply Add MFA - YOW! 2022
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Text Adventure Author and Paleontologist Mike Taylor Joins the Show
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May 16, 2025 Mike Taylor, author of the VIC-20 text adventures Magic Mirror and Nosferatu as well as the Commodore 64 game The Causes of Chaos joins the show. We talk about those early adventure games, his evolution as a software developer, Perl, paleontology, and his book about the 11th incarnation of Doctor Who. Mike's contact information on Mastodon: @[email protected] Mike's website: Mile's text adventure games: Mike's paleontology blo Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week: Mike's Reinvigorated Programmer blog in which he discusses...
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Atari BBSing with Rob Sherman
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Rob Sherman joins the show to discuss his early years of BBSing in the 1980's and his current telnet bulletin-board systems running on Atari 8-bit gear. Rob's telnet BBS's are as follows: Southernamis.ddns.net:23 This BBS runs in the AWS cloud 24/7 on Atari 130XE, 850 interfaces at a lightning speed of 9600 baud. Amis86.ddns.net:9000 This BBS is a complete rebuild of MACE 1986 AMIS BBS. Enhanced and highly modified Nitelite.ddns.net:9000 This BBS is the restoration of the Atari Corporate 8Bit BBS Nitelite ... an amazing part of Atari History. Here's the terminal,...
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Gunnar Gustafson Discusses Audio Synthesizers
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Gunnar Gustafson rejoins the show to discuss audio synthesis in musical gear. He discusses family ties to some very early audio gear and he draws parallels to the evolution of musical synthesizers and the evolution of software development.
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Interview with Synchronet BBS Creator Rob Swindell
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This is a video-added re-release of my interview with Rob Swindell. Rob is the author and sysop of the MS-DOS and telnet versions of the Synchronet BBS. He joined the show to discuss the genesis of the BBS, running his own BBS company, and the journey to an open source Internet version of Synchronet. Rob's main site with links to source code repo's and his YouTube channel: The Synchronet wiki: The home page for SyncTerm, the preferred client for telnet BBS's: The Synchronet IRC server: irc.synchro.net Rob's uncut interview with Jason Scott for the BBS Documentary:...
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Interview with Jeff Duntemann
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This is a re-release (with video!) of my interview with software engineer, writer, and publishing entrepreneur Jeff Duntemann. Jeff was the first editor of Borland's In-House Magazine "Turbo Technix" which was supplied to purchasers of early editions of Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and similar Borland products. He was the Structured Programming columnist for Dr. Dobbs Journal for a number of years. Jeff's Free FreePascal and Lazarus e-book Jeff's Blog The Latest Edition of X64 Assembly Language Step by Step
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6502, Z-80, and Forth in the 1970's
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Bruce Hoyt and his son Ben Hoyt discuss 70's-era home computing including the MOS KIM-1, The Ohio Scientific Superboard II, and the Ferguson Big Board CP/M machine, BASIC, assembly language, and Forth. Bruce's Pentominos solution has been used to test and benchmark Forth systems. The GForth version is available at the link below: Podcast Email: Podcast Website:
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Rick Lundeen discusses his comic books "The Bombardier" and "The Daleks' Master Plan"
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Writer/illustrator Rick Lundeen rejoins the show to discuss his comic book series "The Bombardier" and his graphic novel adaptation of the classic Doctor Who story "The Daleks' Master Plan" Rick's Ko-Fi page is here: The Bombardier four-issue series can be ordered here:
info_outlineRetrocomputing enthusiast Niels Haedecke joins the show. We talk about his telnet/SSH access Wintermute BBS, FidoNet, the RC2014 Z-80 CP/M computer and the telnet BBS he's running on it, the Forth programming language, and the My4th Computer.
Niels' GitLab Repo:
https://gitlab.com/users/ufud-org/projects
Niels' drivers for My4th are published here:
http://mynor.org/my4th_software.htm#uart
The Wintermute BBS entry in the Telnet BBS Guide:
https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/wintermute-bbs/
The RC2014 BBS entry in the Telnet BBS Guide:
https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/rc-box/
You can follow Niels on Mastodon as @[email protected]