ncommander

VCF and The Unseen World of PowerPC

Added 2023-03-06 14:00:26 +0000 UTC

So, if you hang around in Discord, you might know that I was accepted for VCF East this year. While I've been there prior, where I had my Compaq Portable 1 on display, this year I'm going to be a bit more ambitious. I'm going to bring quite a few systems that have been on the channel, specifically:

- IBM RS/6000 Model 150 running AIX
- IBM RS/6000 Model 140 running Windows NT for PowerPC
- Motorola PowerStack E1 running Solaris for PowerPC (assuming it works)

I'm also hoping to cut a short video cut from my livestreams, unused footage from the first RS/6000 video,

While plans might change, I'm currently thinking of doing ports of DOOM to each; it should be straight forward enough to get SDL ported over, and long time videos know that I've so far done DOOM on Solaris 7/sparc, and AIX. I'm feeling pretty confident that all this should be relatively straight forward. I might even see about having the kernel debugger and looking into that OSS problem I ran into with Chocolate DOOM.

I've been using Trello to help track all the things we've been doing on Discord and for Restless Systems LLC, so I made a new board for this so you can see what's coming. I may also start scheduling my streams more in advance, but the health/sleep issues make that a bit hard. Follow along here: https://trello.com/b/lRnLc8Ba/vcf-exhibit

Also, I will get back to the OS/2 research. It happens that VCF is where I get a lot of stuff I show for you on camera (both RS/6000s came from VCF events), so this is the biggest event for me of the year. I am hoping to do VCF Midwest as well, but that won't be until this summer at the earliest. For those who don't know, VCF, or Vintage Computer Federation (https://vcfed.org/) is a US 501(c)3 not-for-profit dedicated to the preservation of vintage computing.

And no, this isn't a paid sponsorship, its just me just wanting to give a shoutout and hoping more people get involved and/or become members. I'll get a pinned post out with all the public Trello boards, and some sponsor only ones, just so folks can keep track what I'm working on.