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Saturday, August 14, 2021
Announcing RetroChallenge 2021/10!
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   We are excited to announce the return of the RetroChallenge for the
   month of October 2021! Brought to you by veteran host Mark Wickens and
   rookie Eric Poch.

About RetroChallenge

   In a nutshell, the RetroChallenge is a loosely disorganised gathering
   of RetroComputing enthusiasts who collectively do stuff with old
   computers for a month.

   The event is very much open to interpretation... individuals set their
   own challenges, which can range from programming to multimedia work,
   hardware restoration to exploring legacy networking, or just plain
   fooling around. It really doesn't matter what you do, just so long as
   you do it.

   Take a look at the revised "rules" for the RetroChallenge for basic
   guidelines.

RetroChallenge 2021/10 Theme Categories

   We are introducing two theme categories for this event: The Millennials
   and Publish It! These categories will be judged and awarded separately
   from the standard entries. If your project qualifies, enter it into one
   of the theme categories! Otherwise, enter in the General category and
   just do your own retro thing. Check out this year's List of Entries for
   some examples.

The Millennials:

   Systems Released Circa 1998-2002

   Finally some love for those millennials! Believe it or not, Mac OS X
   10.0 and Windows 2000/XP are just over 20 years old and qualify for the
   RetroChallenge. Rather than turning up our noses at these systems'
   garish GUIs and baroque data bus widths, we are showcasing them! So,
   pull that 1st Gen iPod out of your desk drawer, fire up your trusty
   Zaurus SL-5500, drag that iMac G3 out of mothballs, or go find your old
   ThinkPad 570, and get computing like it's 1999!

Publish It!:

   Publish Your Old RetroComputing Project

   Many of us have had some time during quarantine to play on our vintage
   computers, but there is never enough time to properly document or share
   our work. This is your opportunity! Start documenting a retro project
   that you have been working on since the start of the pandemic, set-up
   and share a git repository with the code for your old Apple IIe game,
   publish a schematic of the s-100 bus card you designed, or even scan
   and share that pile of rare vintage computer magazines and manuals
   you've been collecting. As long your project was retro-computer related
   and your focus is on sharing code or documentation for it for the first
   time, you are in, even if you completed the project long before October
   1st!

Prizes

   We have some useful tech tools that we will be awarding as prizes (USB
   Logic Analyzer, Arduino UNO, TL866II+ IC programmer) and will hopefully
   have some RC 2021/10 mousepads and some more donated items for the
   "winners".

How to Enter

   We are trying out a New Entry Form for Contestants. Fill it out and
   save the link at the end in case you want to update or change your
   information. Let us know in the comments if you have any issues signing
   up.
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   epooch at 5:03PM