{"id":1034,"date":"2014-03-25T13:06:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T18:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2014-03-26T12:39:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T17:39:29","slug":"newsbits-3-25-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1034\/newsbits-3-25-2014","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"blue_color\">[ Newsbits ]<\/span> March 26, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/newsbits_logo_2.png\" alt=\"VC&#038;G Newsbits Logo\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi, Benj here.  People send me stuff all the time hoping I&#8217;ll post something about it on <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>, but each item alone rarely warrants its own post.  There is a solution: a regular compressed news and links column.  It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been meaning to do for, well, almost 9 years now.<\/p>\n<p>So I finally got around to it.  (Just in time for blogs to become thoroughly obsolete, natch.)  Newsbits could become a weekly thing, or I&#8217;ll just post them as news collects.  I&#8217;ll feel it out as I go along.<\/p>\n<h3>News &#038; Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintage.org\/2014\/east\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vintage Computer Festival East 9.1<\/a><\/strong><br \/>April 4-6, 2014, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, New Jersey\n<p><em>&#8220;Vintage Computer Festival East is a hands-on, family-friendly celebration of computer history. Activities include a book sale, classes, consignment sale, exhibit hall, food, lectures, museum tours, prizes, vendors, workshops, and more. (Why &#8220;9.1&#8221;? We skipped 9.0 in 2013 due to damage from Hurricane Sandy.)<\/em><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Second Edition of &#8220;Atari, Inc.&#8221; Possible<\/strong><br \/>Marty Goldberg and Curt Vendel are working on a second, revised edition of the epic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/915\/epic-atari-history-book-released\" target=\"_blank\">Atari history book<\/a> they released in 2012.  More info as it comes along.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com\/?p=3866\" target=\"_blank\">Surfing Modern Web With Ancient Browsers<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Awesome technique renders pages as image-mapped GIFs.\n<p><em>&#8220;Webrender.py came to life. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a cgi-bin application that resides on a machine in the middle. It renders a gif image and spits it out to the browser together with a simple web page, containing a URL and search input boxes plus the gif and image map.<\/em><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.templeos.org\/Wb\/Accts\/TS\/Wb2\/ScreenShots.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Temple Operating System<\/a><\/strong><br \/>The demo video for this Judeo-Christian-inspired homemade operating system will blow your mind.  (via Antoni Sawicki)\n<p><em>&#8220;TempleOS is an x86_64, multi-tasking, multi-cored, public domain, open source,  ring-0-only, single-address-map (identity mapped), non-networked, PC operating system for recreational programming.  I capped the lines of code at 100,000, so it will never be an ugly monstrosity.  Currently, it is 81,489.  Since God&#8217;s temple must be perfect and we have 1,000 years in mind, I do not promise that anything is future-proof.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Echo Box<\/h3>\n<p>Here are some products, creative works, and upcoming projects seeking support.  No endorsement from <em>VC&#038;G<\/em> is implied.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comixology.com\/Nova-Phase\/comics-series\/14632\" target=\"_blank\">Nova Phase<\/a><\/strong><br \/>A downloadable comic book with NES-style pixel art graphics.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/id818386865\" target=\"_blank\">donkulous DONKEYS (iTunes Link)<\/a><\/strong><br \/><em>&#8220;We&#8217;ve just released a new free iOS game, donkulous DONKEYS. It&#8217;s an unapologetically hard but insanely addictive retro arcade game, inspired by Bill Gates&#8217; first one-and-only DOS game.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/armiga-project\" target=\"_blank\">Armiga Project on Indiegogo<\/a><\/strong><br \/><em>&#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t it be great to be able to use all those aging Amiga disks again?  Maybe the original Amiga is a bit big and video quality not so good&#8230; A smaller version, with modern connections would be awesome, isn&#8217;t it?  That&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve done: take modern technology and make it work with good old floppies.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Submit News<\/h3>\n<p>If you want me to include something on a future Newsbits column, <a href=\"mailto:editor@REMOVE-STUFF-IN-CAPS-BEFORE-SENDINGvintagecomputing.com?subject=[Newsbits]\" target=\"_blank\">send me an email<\/a> with &#8220;[Newsbits]&#8221; in the subject line.  My email filter will route it directly into my brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, Benj here. People send me stuff all the time hoping I&#8217;ll post something about it on VC&#038;G, but each item alone rarely warrants its own post. There is a solution: a regular compressed news and links column. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been meaning to do for, well, almost 9 years now. 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