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LOOKING FOR THE SUMMER 2012 RETROCHALLENGE COMPETITION?

And the wait is over! Let me first say that it was extremely, extremely difficult to choose two winners for this competition.

The official winners of the competition are:

Linville for hist fantastic efforts in both CoCo development and a good mix of text, picture and video blogging. Congratulations John, you win the Juiced.GS subscription.

AndrewHazelden for his Soccer game developed on a nice vintage SGI Box. Andrew, you win the Psion series 5. I'm jealous that you've got to use that granite keyboard for a whole month in a productive setting!

Special mention goes to:

astrochicken for battling the elements, and maintaining a sense of humour through it all
lizardb0y - our resident 2012WW 'toggler'
brouhaha for proving he's human with his read() fail early on (I've been there) and then proving he's a coding genius with his simulator.
gcolville for porting the excellent EhBASIC to another host.
mmphosis. Really wasn't sure about the website to start with, but now I see it's inspired! Haharrr...
aliennerd for his beautiful photos (and providing a BBS for me to test modems against)
Paleoferrosaurus for entertaining me early on with his lovely looping videos
datajerk for making me want an Apple II
arfink for reminding me of those seductive plotter sounds

... and everyone else who made this a great Winter Warmup. Everyone's input was highly valued!

Thanks to wgoodf for his entertaining tweets, as always he's the glue that keep us all stuck together (virtually, of course).

See you in the summer!

Official Contestant List

urbancamo - "Dial-up Game Server"
lizardb0y

- "Briel Altair 8800micro kit. Assemble a Briel 8800micro kit and write a program on it"
linuxlove

- "Music! And visuals! For MS-DOS!"
Luddite

- "I plan to make some music with one or more Apple II computers..."
arfink - "obtaining a vintage plotter, hosting a BBS from vintage hardware (re-writing my Tandy 102 micro-BBS or just setting up an existing Apple II BBS package on my Apple IIgs)
Brouhaha

- "More Apple I or HP-41 stuff, or maybe something else"
~~mmphosis~~

- "going rogue" eek