Shows
Next Without ForShow 015 - Atari 8-Bit ProgrammingRandy and Earl discuss the various options for modern programming on Atari 8-bit systems, including the Atari 400/800 and their successors! News/Personal Projects RP2040 Geek - https://www.waveshare.com/rp2040-geek.htm z80pack on Waveshare RP2040-GEEK/RP2350-GEEK - https://github.com/udo-munk/RP2xxx-GEEK-80 Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition - https://csscgc2025.blogspot.com/ Article about the Crap Games competition on The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/jul/06/people-competing-to-make-the-worst-computer-games-possible Show Topic Action! programming language - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Action FastBASIC programming language - https://atariwiki.org/wiki...2025-05-231h 28Next Without ForShow 014 - The History of BASICRandy and Earl cover the history of the BASIC programming language, including its origins, and the wide adoption of BASIC on 8-bit systems in the 1970s and 1980s! News BASIC 10-Liner Contest - https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium Show Topic https://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxo9LVIgOiI “Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer” by Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger (associate link) - https://amzn.to/3EzdPCp Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC “Sophistication & Simplicity: The Life and Times of the Apple II Computer” by Stephen Weyrich - https...2025-02-241h 10Next Without ForShow 013 - ugBASICRandy and Earl talk about ugBASIC, and Randy interviews the author/creator! News BASIC 60th birthday!: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/03/basic_60th_birthday_releases/ AMSCII-Compo: https://logiker.com/AMSCII-Compo (Amstrad CPC AMSCII) Show Topic ugBASIC main site: https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/ ugBASIC IDE: https://spotlessmind1975.itch.io/ugbasic-ide ugBASIC keywords: https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/#collapseKeywords ugBASIC examples: https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/target/to8#examples ugBASIC forum: https://forum.ugbasic.iwashere.eu/viewforum.php?f=8 Soko64 - fun puzzle game written in ugBASIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwuryS6pvKU Other Links 101 BASIC PROGRAMS FOR MICROCOMPUTERS: https://www.at...2024-06-191h 54Next Without ForShow 012 - CHIP-8Randy and Earl explore programming of the CHIP-8 family of interpreters! News! No news this episode! Z88DK, C compiler and assembler for 8080, Z80, 8085 https://z88dk.org/site/ CHIP-8 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8 Joseph Weisbecker: http://www.cosmacelf.com/history/joseph-weisbecker.html Joseph Weisbecker’s introduction of CHIP-8 in Byte Magazine, Dec. 1978 https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-12/page/n109/mode/1up CHIP-8 Technical Reference: https://github.com/mattmikolay/chip-8/wiki/CHIP%E2%80%908-Technical-Reference IDE for creating CHIP-8 programs: https://johnearnest.github.io/Octo/ Writing programs for CHIP-8 using Octo IDE: https://www.youtube.com...2024-03-181h 01Next Without ForShow 011 - Using BASIC on Modern Hardware News! Atari BASIC AI training - https://discord.gg/WnEcxSvtS Nabu computer - https://nabu.ca/ More Contests! Amiga Jam - https://itch.io/jam/amigatooljam VisionBASIC Game Contest - http://visionbasic.fun/ AMSTRAD ASCII Compo - http://logiker.com/AMSCII-Compo BASIC implementations for iOS (iphone/iPad): BBC BASIC by Richard Russell - free - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/bbcbasic/id6444498023 Commodore BASIC - Hand BASIC - CBM flavor by Ahmad Hawwash - free - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hand-basic-cbm-flavor/id394924289 Hotpaw BASIC (iPad) - $4.99 - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hotpaw-basic/id295464266 See: http://www.hotpa...2023-08-181h 17Next Without ForShow 010 - Assembly Language, Part IIRandy and Earl continue the discussion of Assembly Language in this second episode of a two-parter. If you missed it, check out Show 009 for Part I!2023-03-1745 min
Next Without ForShow 009 Assembly Language Part IIn part I of this discussion on assembly language, Randy and Earl discuss what assembly language is, who invented it, how it works (generally), and why one might have chosen to use it back in the classic days of computing. 2023-01-1742 minNext Without ForShow 008 - 64 BitesRandy interviews Michal Taszycki, owner of 64 Bites! And, we talk about some more contests.2022-06-251h 37Next Without ForShow 007 - Programming ContestsEarl and Randy talk about various retro computer programming contests, where participants can show off their creations for platforms from back in the day!2022-03-0647 minNext Without ForShow 006 - SNOBOLRandy and Earl talk about the SNOBOL programming language - history, specifics of the language, and how to play with it today!2021-10-111h 31Next Without ForShow 005 - Programming the TI 58 and 59Randy and Earl discuss programming for the TI 58 and 59 programmable calculators!2021-01-181h 05Next Without ForShow 004 - Turbo RascalRandy and Earl talk about Turbo Rascal Syntax Error, and Randy has a chat with its creator.2020-10-041h 12Next Without ForShow 003 - FortranRandy and I cover Fortran, the granddaddy of computer languages.2020-07-221h 19Next Without ForShow 002 - Randy and EarlRandy Kindig joins Next Without For as a co-host, and the podcast reboots!2020-06-2150 min
Floppy Days Vintage Computing PodcastFloppy Days 94 - The Epson HX-20 Part 1, with Earl EvansThe Epson HX-20 Part 1 Hello everyone, and welcome to episode 94 of the Floppy Days Podcast for October, 2019, where this month we will be talking about one of the world’s first portable computers: The Epson HX-20. Thank you, Terry Stewart, for your thoughts about the HX-20 to lead off the show. For those that want more information from Terry, check out his Website and Youtube channel where he has a terrific video on the HX-20, as well as lots of information on other vintage computers. I’m extremely happy to announce that my good friend, and o...2019-10-312h 03Floppy Days Vintage Computing PodcastFloppy Days Episode 32 - VCF East 10.0, Evan KoblentzEvan Koblentz comes on and talks all about the upcoming Vintage Computer Festival East 10.0.
Special co-hosts Earl Evans (Retrobits & RCR) and Michael Mulhern (RCR).
Links and stuff:
VCF East at vintage.org - vintage.org/2015/east/
VCF East Facebook - facebook.com/vcfeast
VCF East Twitter - twitter.com/vcfeast
2015-03-0650 minNext Without ForShow 001 - Turbo Pascal 3A look at Turbo Pascal 3 for CP/M - the last version of Turbo Pascal to be released on that classic operating system.2013-10-1335 minNext Without ForShow 000 - dBase III Plus 1.1Show zero of Next Without For covers the dBase III Plus 1.1 database programming environment.2013-05-2631 min