Question for the #retrocomputing community
What do you prefer for your retrocomputing and why?

Please boost for reach. Thanks 🙂

#cpm #retrocomputing

Has anyone come across runnable binaries of SUPERCALC for CP/M? Very hard to find.

Looking for any usable spreadsheet program for CP/M, actually... MULTIPLAN, SUPERCALC, there was a VISICALC CP/M release but it's probably scarce.

(How sad it is, to see all of these short-sighted "disk imaging" systems to encapsulate obsolete software, but that require using legacy hardware, or weird handmade hardware designed 30 years ago that are as hard to come up with as the original hardware, only 20 years newer! Just preserve the files! Sheesh!)

My 1988 copy of *The AWK Programming Language* was in the mail today. It's a good book! If you're into UNIX in general, and the history of UNIX and retro computing in particular, this is a recommendation!

After the usual tutorial introduction it does not only go into every detail of awk, but it shows how to build a relational database, implement "little languages", such as a model assembler, offers various implementations of desktop calculators and even a version of *make* written in AWK. #unix

#AtariST and #Atari 8-bit users, here is a playlist of videos on PeerTube about these computers:

 https://fedi.video/w/p/u7E2A1QSFkQETNkVAhS6DH

- If you're on a phone, scroll first two video titles at the bottom to see rest of the playlist.

- If you're on a computer, choose a video from the playlist on the right.

- If you're watching embedded, click ⏭️ or ⏮️ to see next or previous videos in the playlist.

cc @atarist

#Atari #AtariST #Atari8Bit #Atari400 #Atari800 #8Bit #RetroComputing #PeerTube