Retrochallenge 2013 Winter Warmup Entry
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POSTS
31-Jan-2013
Towel!
I can't believe we've reached the end so soon! This is a tale of
meager progress but hopefully glances towards the future.
25-Jan-2013
No Progress!
No progress this week although I did manage to swap the motherboard
in my itanium workstation.
20-Jan-2013
Meta Assembler
Next steps - port my final year University project, a Meta Assember
written in Modula-2 to the VAX/VMS implementation
19-Jan-2013
Modula 2 for VAX/VMS
I was a big fan of Modula 2 'back in the day' and have only just
come across this implementation for VAX/VMS within the last month.
19-Jan-2013
Airline Manager - Finished
Airline Manager is now in a good enough shape to release to the big
wide world.
13-Jan-2013
Airline Manager - Part 3
I've jumped ship from BBC Basic to X11 Basic. Having completed that
process the program is looking a lot healthier (and more readable).
Now it just needs to work!
06-Jan-2013
The Retrochallenger
As everyone is doing fancy diagrams I thought I'd add my own to
chart the typically characteristics of a retrochallenger!
05-Jan-2013
Airline Manager - Part 2
I've been slowly correcting GOTO line numbers and filling in some of
the missing pieces - I now have the basic program flow working!
04-Jan-2013
Airline Manager
Completely distracted right from the start with a 28 year old BBC
BASIC program!
This page contain information about my entry to the Retrochallenge 2013 Winter
Warmup competition. The retrochallenge competition is held bi-annually and
requires entrants to spend a month on a project involving retro hardware and/or
retro software.
The term retro describes software or hardware that are more than ten years old.
The competition main page can be found here[1].
My entry this year is split into three (possibly four tasks):
1. Cataloging my DEC media (CDROMs, tapes, floppies etc.) to make them more
accessible to the community and to help me remember what I actually have.
2. Reading a load of donated TK50 tapes which have some old and interesting
stuff on (this is a careful process to avoid breakages etc.)
3. Getting the DECUS archive online in an easy to search form with VMS/RSX
etc. specific search criteria.
4. If I get time I'd like to write an entry for a competition where the task
is to write a specific algorithm in a programming language. I'm going to
split the task into a number of steps and program each step in a
different language by using the calling standard of OpenVMS[2].
ENDNOTES
1.
Retrochallenge Home Page
2.
OpenVMS Calling Standard Manual