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Retrocomputing devroom


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Sunday Welcome to RetroComputing Devroom
Oldschool is beautiful
An emulator for my old system today and tomorrow ?
Thoughts and guidelines about digital preservation by/of emulators
Mouse integration for virtualized legacy operating systems Scan2Run - Reviving old listings in MAME emulator
Open source toolchain for digital preservation
ZX Adventure
Writing a new game, for a 40 year old machine
USB for a 1977 Keyboard Why your PC only has sixteen colors
And what is "Bright Black" anyway?
RaSCSI for 68k Macs
Current status and roadmap for the project
Gemini, a modern protocol that looks retro
Back to the 1990s with a protocol and format to distribute real content, without tracking and visual effects
Working on DOS in 2021
We're getting closer to FreeDOS 1.3
Ada Lovelace and The Very First Computer Program

Read the Call for Papers at https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2020q4/003184.html.

Retrocomputing is defined by Wikipedia as the use of older computer hardware and software in modern times.

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Event Speakers Start End

Sunday

  Welcome to RetroComputing Devroom
Oldschool is beautiful
Pau Garcia Quiles (pgquiles), François Revol (mmu_man) 10:00 10:05
  An emulator for my old system today and tomorrow ?
Thoughts and guidelines about digital preservation by/of emulators
Christophe Ponsard 10:05 10:30
  Mouse integration for virtualized legacy operating systems Dmitriy Kostiuk 10:30 11:00
  Scan2Run - Reviving old listings in MAME emulator
Open source toolchain for digital preservation
Christophe Ponsard 11:00 11:30
  ZX Adventure
Writing a new game, for a 40 year old machine
Steven Goodwin 11:30 12:00
  USB for a 1977 Keyboard Jeremy Ouellet (Angel) 13:00 13:30
  Why your PC only has sixteen colors
And what is "Bright Black" anyway?
Jim Hall 13:30 13:45
  RaSCSI for 68k Macs
Current status and roadmap for the project
Tony Kuker 14:00 15:00
  Gemini, a modern protocol that looks retro
Back to the 1990s with a protocol and format to distribute real content, without tracking and visual effects
Stéphane Bortzmeyer 15:00 15:45
  Working on DOS in 2021
We're getting closer to FreeDOS 1.3
Jim Hall 16:00 17:00
  Ada Lovelace and The Very First Computer Program Steven Goodwin 17:00 17:40