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I wonder if at some point we will have people see developing the "old school" way as a form of art/hobby or challenge people actively take part in.

by 0dayz 3y ago

trzy 3y ago
Folk programming.
raincole 3y ago
I don't think so. Collecting CD would never be as fancy as collecting vinyl, and collecting USB sticks would never be as fancy as collecting CD (unless in some Fallout scenario). The tech world is so... transient.
- 0dayz 3y ago
  Perhaps, I think that a good middle ground could be for is to emulate old envirments and see what modern tools can come up with.
whtrbt 3y ago
Does the demoscene count?
- 0dayz 3y ago
  I was thinking of this but I think the demoscene is more of a tradition in competition rather than tradition in tooling.
xtagon 3y ago
Why not? I learned programming with QBasic, which included its own little IDE and docs in the form of a help menu system. Years and years later, for the nostalgia of it all I stood up a DOS emulator with QBasic on modern hardware and it was a good time.
Tijdreiziger 3y ago
NCommander on YouTube does a lot of this kind of 'software archeology' https://youtube.com/@NCommander https://youtube.com/@NCommander
- IntelMiner 3y ago
  There's a few youtubers out there like that now NCommander is an incredibly smart programmer that dove headfirst into the Windows XP for Itanium source code just to get Space Cadet Pinball's 64-bit port fixed 8-Bit Guy has stepped away from putting paperclips into rare machines to build his own homebrew 80's style computer, as well as writing several games for Commodore 64, early DOS and others Action Retro has slowly branched out into putting strange Linux distros and even BeOS on his PowerPC Mac collection Cursed Silicon put himself on the map by building the "world's fastest Win98 PC" to prove another youtuber incorrect and has been doing a lot of Linux archeology with Gentoo Phintage Collector recently showed off Windows NT's "OS/2 personality" to run OS/2 apps on NT (as opposed to windows apps on OS/2) The Serial Port resurrected one of the venerable Cobalt Networks "RaQ" appliances and is planning to set up a 90's style web host for his patrons YouTube channels for those interested ___ https://youtube.com/@NCommander https://youtube.com/@NCommander https://youtube.com/@The8BitGuy https://youtube.com/@The8BitGuy https://youtube.com/@ActionRetro https://youtube.com/@ActionRetro https://youtube.com/@badatcomputers https://youtube.com/@badatcomputers https://youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR https://youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR https://youtube.com/@theserialport https://youtube.com/@theserialport
  - Tijdreiziger 3y ago
    Hey thanks, I'll have to check the rest of these guys out

I wonder if at some point we will have people see developing the "old school" way as a form of art/hobby or challenge people actively take part in.

by 0dayz 3y ago

I wonder if at some point we will have people see developing the "old school" way as a form of art/hobby or challenge people actively take part in.

trzy 3y ago

Folk programming.

raincole 3y ago

I don't think so. Collecting CD would never be as fancy as collecting vinyl, and collecting USB sticks would never be as fancy as collecting CD (unless in some Fallout scenario). The tech world is so... transient.

0dayz 3y ago
Perhaps, I think that a good middle ground could be for is to emulate old envirments and see what modern tools can come up with.

whtrbt 3y ago

Does the demoscene count?

0dayz 3y ago
I was thinking of this but I think the demoscene is more of a tradition in competition rather than tradition in tooling.

xtagon 3y ago

Why not? I learned programming with QBasic, which included its own little IDE and docs in the form of a help menu system. Years and years later, for the nostalgia of it all I stood up a DOS emulator with QBasic on modern hardware and it was a good time.

Tijdreiziger 3y ago

NCommander on YouTube does a lot of this kind of 'software archeology' https://youtube.com/@NCommander https://youtube.com/@NCommander

IntelMiner 3y ago
There's a few youtubers out there like that now NCommander is an incredibly smart programmer that dove headfirst into the Windows XP for Itanium source code just to get Space Cadet Pinball's 64-bit port fixed 8-Bit Guy has stepped away from putting paperclips into rare machines to build his own homebrew 80's style computer, as well as writing several games for Commodore 64, early DOS and others Action Retro has slowly branched out into putting strange Linux distros and even BeOS on his PowerPC Mac collection Cursed Silicon put himself on the map by building the "world's fastest Win98 PC" to prove another youtuber incorrect and has been doing a lot of Linux archeology with Gentoo Phintage Collector recently showed off Windows NT's "OS/2 personality" to run OS/2 apps on NT (as opposed to windows apps on OS/2) The Serial Port resurrected one of the venerable Cobalt Networks "RaQ" appliances and is planning to set up a 90's style web host for his patrons YouTube channels for those interested ___ https://youtube.com/@NCommander https://youtube.com/@NCommander https://youtube.com/@The8BitGuy https://youtube.com/@The8BitGuy https://youtube.com/@ActionRetro https://youtube.com/@ActionRetro https://youtube.com/@badatcomputers https://youtube.com/@badatcomputers https://youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR https://youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR https://youtube.com/@theserialport https://youtube.com/@theserialport
- Tijdreiziger 3y ago
  Hey thanks, I'll have to check the rest of these guys out