Savetz Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 Good hello! After I interviewed Bard Ermentrout, creator of RAMBrandt (http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-224-bard-ermentrout-rambrandt), he sent me a big pile of floppy disks. The disks were terribly dirty and unreadable, but I removed the media from each disks and cleaned them with water and alcohol, and managed to save the vast majority of the data. Here's what I got: Bard's disks.zip I have sorted the disks into five rough categories — please keep in mind that I had to make some guesses based on Bard's terrible disk labeling and organization. (If you're reading this, Bard: It's amazing that you saved this material and were willing to share it. Although disk labeling is not your song suit, you have many other wonderful qualities Anyway — the categories are: Bard's Source code — seems to include source for some version of RAMBrandt, the 3-D Graphics Module, and maybe Bard's homemade digitizer) Commercial Tools — a bunch of Forth disks and C compilers and things. RAMBrandt 3-D Object Module — a couple versions of the 3-D add-on for RAMBrandt, plus maybe some more modules. I have no idea how to test this. Someone give it a try! RAMBrandt application — a few versions of RAMBrandt itself RAMBrandt pictures, slideshows — this is the stuff that Bard was excited to get — picture disks. He created some of the images himself using his homemade digitizer. Some of these are slideshow disks. But most of them are read by starting RAMBrandt, pressing L for Load, then typing 0 - 9 to load one of 10 pictures on each disk. I have not dug into most of this! I don't know anything about Forth, I don't understand the 3-D module. So dig around and let us know what you find. —Kevin 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 Oh! I forgot to mention! The RAMBrandt application folder contains PAINT 10, the previously unreleased predecessor to RAMBrandt! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 For the lazy and/or curious, here are a sampling of images from these disks: 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Brooke Shields - just wow (oh, the picture is pretty good too). Damn man - where can I meet you and buy you some beers? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted November 5, 2016 Author Share Posted November 5, 2016 Brooke Shields - just wow (oh, the picture is pretty good too). Damn man - where can I meet you and buy you some beers? I accept beers in the Portland, Oregon area. Kevin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted September 21, 2021 Author Share Posted September 21, 2021 Hello from 5 years in the future. I converted the Forth source code disks to text files for easier reading and uploaded here: https://github.com/savetz/RAMbrandt 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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