R N R Does Stuff

Episode 53: Rich and Ryan went to VCF East 2026! We saw Planes, Trains and Automobiles on this adventure. Links: B and O Railroad - https://www.borail.org/ Bell Works - https://bell.works/new-jersey/explore/ VCF East - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/

Episode 52: Rich and Ryan are in love with Tech! Come see what is getting big hugs from us this time. Links: MyHouse.wad - https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/134292-myhousewad/ Rich YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@highshelfrich Retro Hour Podcast - https://theretrohour.com/

Episode 51: We are back for 2026! Rich talks about his trip to Germany and Ryan has played with some hardware. Links: Berlin Museum - https://www.computerspielemuseum.de/en/Museum/46-Special-Exhibition.htm AMail - https://bluewizardnet.itch.io/amail

Episode 50: Ryan and Rich go hunting at some swap meets. What did we find? Wait Ryan found a Tandy? Rich picks up another C64? Are there Amigas? Links: Info Age - https://vcfed.org/swap-meet/ System Source - https://museum.syssrc.com/ AmiWest - https://amiwest.net/

Episode 49: Ryan drags Rich to an Amiga convention! What did we find?? Links: AmiWest - https://amiwest.net/ Sacramento RailRoad Museum - https://www.californiarailroad.museum/ Old Sacramento - https://www.oldsacramento.com/ Gino Beyond the Boing - https://www.youtube.com/@GhettofingerGaming

Episode 48: Ryan, Amy and Larry go to visit Rich and Rob in Texas for some good time partying. Links: Escape Room - https://worldofescapes.com/mckinney/quests/escapology-mckinney-the-code Cowboys Tour - https://attstadium.com/tours/ NVM - https://nvmusa.org/ Traintopia - https://www.historictrains.org/traintopia Bu - es - https://buc-ees.com/locations/ Time Rift - https://timeriftarcade.com/ AMail Update Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHhrLeDNxQM Amiga Tool Jam Voting - https://itch.io/jam/amiga-tools-jam-2025/entries

Episode 47: Rich and Ryan head off the VCF Midwest 2025! Links: VCFMW - https://vcfmw.org/ C64OS - https://c64os.com/ Galloping Ghost - https://www.gallopingghostarcade.com/ Packet radio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4YSBxFHyzs BFG9060 - https://gitlab.com/tkurbad/amiga-hardware-info/-/blob/master/BFG9060/README.md

Episode 46: Rich and Ryan talk about what all comes in the Mail. What did we do and create? Links: Ryan’s Craigslist find - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZvznlPhLcg AMail - https://bluewizardnet.itch.io/amail

Episode 45: Rich can print! Ryan makes progress on an A4000. Talk a little about the new A1200 as what we know and the Commodore 64 Ultimate. Rich gets logical. Links: A1200 - https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/full-sized-a1200-amiga-remake-spotted-on-display-a1200-mini-will-come-with-a-port-of-the-settlers-2-which-took-30-years-and-a-working-keyboard Commodore - https://www.commodore.net/ Settlers II - https://lookbehindyou.de/en/product/thesettlers2amiga/ Retro Directory - https://retro.directory/

Episode 44: * We talk about future shows * AMail updates * Rich continues his Micro Adventures Links: VCFMW - https://vcfmw.org/ AmiWest - https://amiwest.net/ Ultimate - https://ultimate64.com/ DMVVCM - https://www.bluewizard.net/dmvvcm/vintagecomputermeetup/ AMail July 2025 Update - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIH_mG8azJA

Episode 43: * Ryan heads to GenCon 2025 * We both talk about used games Links: Gencon - https://www.gencon.com/ True Dungeon - https://truedungeon.com/ Shuffle Dungeons - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/421831/shuffle-dungeons GamingEtc - https://www.gamingetc.com/ Horrified DnD - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/437705/horrified-dungeons-and-dragons Freeblades - https://warpfireminis.com/freeblades/ HeroQuerst - https://www.hasbropulse.com/collections/avalon-hill-heroquest Math Trades Info - https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Math_Trades Magician - https://calebwiles.com/

Episode 42: * Rich and Ryan talk about Amiga, C64, Programming and some places we have been. Links: Maritime Museum - https://www.littlerock.com/directory/arkansas-inland-maritime-museum/ Amiga Lincoln Center - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDXlZfbE-6U Mac email client - https://jcs.org/2024/02/20/carl

Episode 41: * Rich takes another adventure to some neat Retro adventures. * Ryan works on some hardware and software. Links: Retro Rick - https://www.youtube.com/@retroricksgamepoint Micro Adventure - https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/Micro%20Adventure%20No.%201%20-%20Space%20Attack%20(Eileen%20Buckholtz%20and%20Ruth%20Glick).pdf Be Quiet 600w power supply - https://www.bequiet.com/en/powersupply/1554 Amiga 4000 to ATX adapter - https://amigastore.eu/en/420-atx-to-a4000-power-converter.html

Episode 40: * Rich talks about some Vintage Computers while Ryan is off on an adventure to Origins! Links: Origins - https://www.originsgamefair.com/ VCFSW - https://www.vcfsw.org/ VCFSW YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@VCFSW True Dungeon - https://www.truedungeon.com/

Episode 39: * Rich and Ryan have some Adventuring with RPGs. * Ryan has updates on AMail * Rich is going to build a Cyberdeck Links: Cyberdecks - https://hackaday.io/project/183892-cyberdeck1 AI Dungeon Master - https://www.hyperwriteai.com/aitools/ai-dungeon-master AI Realm - https://airealm.com/ DnD 4th Wiki - https://dungeonsdragons.fandom.com/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_4th_edition

Episode 38: * Rich and Ryan use the mail to its fullest. * See what we mail around? * What is being mailed? Links: A600 Blog - https://www.bluewizard.net/blog/amiga-600/ Amiga Tool Jam 40 - https://itch.io/jam/amiga-tools-jam-2025 Claude - https://chat.chatbotapp.ai/claude RnRDoes stuff You tube - https://www.youtube.com/@R-n-RDoesStuff Ryan Meetup - https://www.bluewizard.net/dmvvcm/ Ryan YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@bluewizardnet

Episode 37: * Ryan hosts another meetup in Chantilly and there be some good battling. * Rich has some great updates on his SX-64! * We both buy some new toys. Links: DMVVCM - https://www.bluewizard.net/dmvvcm/vintagecomputermeetup/ A30000UX - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_3000UX Pig Quest - https://www.indieretronews.com/2023/02/a-pig-quest-incredible-commodore-64128.html MiSTER Pi - https://retroremake.co/pages/store

Episode 36: * Rich goes for an adventure in the DMV. * Museums, Computers and BBQ Oh My! Links: System Source Museum - https://museum.syssrc.com IBM Mainframe Original Blog - https://www.ibm360.co.uk/ USMC Museum - https://www.usmcmuseum.com/ NRA Museum - https://www.nramuseum.org/ Willards BBQ - https://dcbbq.com/ Hammerdown BBQ - https://hammerdownbbq.com/ Mission BBQ - https://mission-bbq.com/locations-and-menu/chantilly-va/

Episode 35: * Ryan talks about his Amiga 600. * Rich share SX-64 challenges. * Ryan gets ready for his meetup. * Rich does some programing but does he do it in his VW? Links: DMVVCM - https://www.bluewizard.net/dmvvcm/vintagecomputermeetup/ C64 Games Book - https://archive.org/details/commodore-64-games-book Whdload - https://whdload.de/ System Source - https://museum.syssrc.com/

Episode 34: * How is Rich’s SX64 going? * Ryan digs into the A4000 from TX what did he find? * Can Rich balance his budget on his C64? * Is Ryan a Mad scientist find out here. Links: City of Atlantis REAL Version - https://www.lemon64.com/game/city-of-atlantis MegaBall v4.0 (AGA) - https://archive.org/details/megaball-v4

Episode 33: Ryan finally posts more info about his A1000. Rich started digging into his SX64. Ryan is having another meetup in Northern VA! Ryan is off for a fund raising walk. Rich is sad about an ending convention. Links: A1000 Part 2 - https://www.bluewizard.net/blog/amiga-1000-part2/ DMVVCM - https://www.bluewizard.net/dmvvcm/vintagecomputermeetup/ Crohn’s Walk (Wizard of IBD) - https://takesteps.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=64539 Galley - https://www.gallifreyone.com/ SX64 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SANxdUeXVqQ

Episode 32: Rich and Ryan both pick up some new projects and wow are they dirty! Lets see what they found? Links: Atari Trackball - https://atariage.com/2600/controllers/con_AtariTrakball.jpg

Episode 31: Does Rich finally make a DFW Retro Meetup? Ryan talks about his programming challenge? Uh oh Rich had a sad day with his VW. Ryan and Rich talk about some upcoming projects. VCF East folks are doing a hack a thon! Links: Commodore SX 64 Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SANxdUeXVqQ Hack A Thon - https://vcfed.org/2025/02/13/march-hack-a-thon/

Episode 30: What have the mad scientists been up to over the holiday break? There are activities going on in the lab what are they? Links: Freeze64 - https://freeze64.com/ Amiga 500+ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R73OmF1LHXE VoyagerLaunch Text Adventure - https://github.com/HighShelfRich/VoyagerLaunch

Episode 29: Ryan’s Amiga 2000 needed some attention. Why was it unhappy? What did Rich and Ryan buy? Links: TinkerCAD - https://www.tinkercad.com RogueCraft - https://thalamusdigital.itch.io/roguecraft Amiga Future - https://www.amigashop.org/index.php Amiga Addict - https://www.amiga-addict.com/ Ryan Meetup - http://www.bluewizard.net/pages/vintagecomputermeetup/ Rich Github - https://github.com/HighShelfRich C64 Maxi - https://retrogames.biz/products/thec64/

Episode 28: Rich and Ryan talk about some new games Christmas games for both the Amiga and C64 along with some purchase ideas! Happy Holidays all and thank you for an awesome year! Links: Hackerboxes - https://hackerboxes.com/ C64 Maxi and Many More - https://retrogames.biz/products/ C64 Magazine - https://freeze64.com/ Santa’s Workshop 4 - https://vector5games.itch.io/santas-workout-4-jingle-all-the-way Mister Pi - https://retroremake.co/products/mister-pi-retro-gaming-fpga-board-turbo-pack-batch-3-preorder-1 Amiga Advent Calendar - https://amigachristmastree.ultimateamiga.com/AmigaAdvent.html

Episode 27: We continue our talk about Ryan’s Texas trip. What things did we break? We got a game in and ate a lot of BBQ. Check this out as these and other things will be answered here! Links: Amiga Duel - https://lookbehindyou.de/en/product/amiga-duel/ Rich Git Hub for Game - https://github.com/HighShelfRich/NeilsonPapers

Episode 26: Ryans trip to Texas again!! What adventures did we get into over this long weekend? Did we see animals? Did we laugh? Wait was that an arcade or 2? Check this out as these and other things will be answered here! Links: TimeRift Arcade - https://timeriftarcade.com/ FW Zoo - https://timeriftarcade.com/ NVGM - https://timeriftarcade.com/ Traintopia - https://www.historictrains.org/traintopia Comedy Arena - https://www.thecomedyarena.com/shows

Episode 25: How is Ryan’s progress of his A1000 going? Rich is going on an adventure does he get lost? What did Ryan Pickup lately? Oh what special thing did Ryan get in the mail? Will there be BBQ in our future? Check out this episode to answers of all these questions and more! Links: Pi Storm - https://github.com/captain-amygdala/pistorm A314 - https://github.com/niklasekstrom/a314 A1000 Backplane - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5377289 Atari - https://dfarq.homeip.net/original-atari-2600-heavy-sixer/ Book - https://lookbehindyou.de/en/product/amigaos32-manual/ Amiga Game - https://lookbehindyou.de/en/product/amiga-duel/

Episode 24: Rich goes to Germany on an adventure. Does he find any retro items? Does he come back alive? Ryan starts working on his Amiga 1000. Links: Zeppelin Museum - https://www.zeppelin-museum.de/en Phono Museum - https://deutsches-phonomuseum.de/ Record Shop - https://www.facebook.com/SchallplattenAugsburg/reviews/ Amiberry - https://amiberry.com/

Episode 23: What did Rich buy now? What did Ryan make? What neat find did Ryan find locally? Rich saves what? All of these will be answered and more in this episode. Links: SX64 Keyboard - http://www.geocities.ws/ntb4real/c64/sxkhack.htm Internet Archive - https://archive.org/details/@rich_wisneski Jclpcb - https://jlcpcb.com/ Pistorm - https://github.com/captain-amygdala/pistorm

Episode 22: Ryan is back to upgrading his Amiga 2000 what does he do now? Ryan picks up a new Pi where is that going to go? Rich expands his soldering skills. What does he make? Can Rich have a part of history? All of these and more in our adventures to the past once again. Links: Frog Find - http://www.frogfind.com/ SMD - https://hackerboxes.com/products/hackerbox-0098-escape Paul Allen - https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/firsts-history-computing-paul-g-allen-collection/lots/3726 703S OScope - https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806804656247.html

Episode 21: Rich goes on a cruise. Does he get attacked by Pirates? Does he have to walk the plank? Who knows? When Rich makes it back from his cruise we find out how his VW is going? What challenges does he face? Rich also works on his c64c to make a game? How does that go? Links: Rich's Dark Forest - https://github.com/HighShelfRich/DarkForest Vice C64 Emulator - https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/

Episode 20: Ryan and Amy goto Origins and who do the find there? What did they do? How was it? Rich and Ryan are off to Gencon! What kind of adventures do we get into at GenCon? What was GenCon 2024 like? The gang sees some Magic do we disappear? Someone makes a guest appearance who could that be? Links: Origins - https://www.originsgamefair.com/ Donuts - https://www.destinationdonuts.com/ GenCon - https://www.gencon.com/ Escape Room - https://escaperoomusa.com/in/indianapolis Magician - https://calebwiles.com/

Episode 19: Ryan catches up with Rich after a long 18 day trip on the road in his electric car! All the places he saw and the fun he had with other peeps in the friend group. Hold on this will be an all over the place episode. Links: Air Force Museum - https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/ Columbus Zoo - https://www.columbuszoo.org/ Cinci Zoo - https://cincinnatizoo.org/ Indy Zoo - https://www.indianapoliszoo.com/ Elephant Experience - https://www.wilstem.com/

Episode 18: Rich and Ryan talk about some projects they are working on and talk about some of their mistakes. We follow up with a little bit of a rabbit hole discussion. What happens to the C64? Can Ryan fix an Amiga Tank Mouse? What has Rich bought now? Can Ryan fix an Amiga 4000 Desktop? Listen to see! Links: Salvation Army 64 - https://youtu.be/Pq8mU97PLh8 Chris Edwards - https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisEdwardsRestoration 703S OScope - https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806804656247.html

Episode 17: Ryan and Rich talk about some updates on some previous projects. How did they turn out? Where are they now? Links: Castle Assault game - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/154674/castle-assault Finger Nail Polish - https://www.cvs.com/shop/sally-hansen-hard-as-nails-xtreme-wear-nail-color-prodid-7200157?skuId=379351 Manassas VA Hamfest - https://w4ovh.net/welcome-to-manassas-hamfest/

We talk about what motivates us to share on social media? Some of our projects and where we can be found. Links: Minipro - https://davidgriffith.gitlab.io/minipro/ Ryan Homepage - www.bluewizard.net AmigaOS 3.2 - https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/news/1-latest-news/290-amigaos-42-for-all-classic-amigas-released-and-available Rich YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HighShelfRich

Rich and Ryan return to talk about VCF East 2024. What did we bring back? Did it all fit? Links: Ryan’s Blogs - https://www.bluewizard.net/blog/ WHDload - http://www.whdload.de/ Rich Video Haul Review - https://youtu.be/6paLP0LvZQQ Amiga PCB Explorer - http://amigapcb.org/

How do we connect our vintage machines to modern displays? We have pixels and how do we show them? Rich and Ryan talk about some of the devices they use to bring their pixels to life. These range from DIY to Plug and Play. Rich and Ryan also talk about our favorite monthly get together. Links: GBS in general link - https://ramapcsx2.github.io/gbs-control/Wiki/ GBS control github - https://github.com/ramapcsx2/gbs-control Ossc link - https://junkerhq.net/xrgb/index.php/OSSC Vtd links - https://truedungeon.com/ RetroTink - https://www.retrotink.com/

Ryan and Rich jump on making a podcast on the way back from VCF East. Listen to our adventures on Day 2. Links: VCF East - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ Industrious Rabbit - https://theindustriousrabbit.com/ Silverball Museum - https://www.silverballmuseum.com/asbury-park/ Amiga Bill - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-47s6C6w5NOvQzJLWpJf3w

Ryan and Rich jump on making a podcast on the way back from VCF East. Listen to our adventures on Day 1 and 3. Day 2 will be .. to be con Links: VCF East - https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ Industrious Rabbit - https://theindustriousrabbit.com/ The Coal House - https://www.thecoalhouseseagirt.com/ Rice Asian Cuisine - https://www.riceasiancuisinenj.com/

How do you retro? Ryan and Rich review their individual preferences for restoring retro equipment .. and guess what they do not agree. Keyboards and those magical input devices are so amazon but such a pain when they do not work but repair is half the fun. CrimeCon @ AwesomeCon experience. Links: Thingverse gotek 3d print - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2745095 Pcb way and the mitsumi membrane - https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/KEYBOARD_MEMBRANE_REPLACEMENT_PCB_FOR_AMIGA_500_8b2bb6a4.html Diag Kit Scource- https://github.com/svenpetersen1965/C64-Diagnostic-Rev.-586220-Harness Retro Rewind - https://retrorewind.ca/homeighshelfcollective

Join Ryan and Rich as they talk about upcoming conventions Magfest, VCF get togethers and dumb stuff Rich buys a new fun segment. Links: Magfest - https://www.magfest.org/ System Source - https://museum.syssrc.com/ DFW Retro Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/350060128451803 HighShelfCollective - https://www.twitch.tv/highshelfcollective Amiga Bill - https://www.twitch.tv/highshelfcollective

Rich and Ryan talk about the holidays. The projects we have been working on and Rich has an adventure. Links: C16 Unboxing - https://youtu.be/chhW1-4E2MQ Ryan’s BLOG - http://www.bluewizard.net/blog/ Chris Edwards - https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Oscilloscope build - https://hackerboxes.com/products/hackerbox-0064-scope Germany Computer Museum - https://www.hnf.de/en/home.html

Rich and Ryan train their warriors to battle. How do their warriors do??? Talk a little bit how things work and then let the battles begin! Links: Video of the PodCast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6FOgCfhiwU Core War Strategies - https://corewar-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/corewar/strategies/ Core War Guide - http://corewars.org/docs/guide.html

Ryan heads to Texas to see what trouble he can get into with Rich. We have plenty to talk about with BGGCon, BBQ and Vintage Computers! We also have a stop to see some Elephants, hear more about the VW and some great rolls at Cinnaholics. Links: BGGcon - https://tabletop.events/conventions/bgg.con-2023 National VideoGame Museum - https://nvmusa.org/ Dallas Zoo - https://www.dallaszoo.com/ Escaply - https://escapely.com/

Rich and Ryan are discussing their respective Commodore adventures along with the info on their upcoming Corewar challenge, Crimecon and a special Retro topic... a VW Bus has joined one of our families! Links: CoreWars - https://corewars.org/ Dwarf Warrior - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Core_War/Dwarf Techmoan - https://www.youtube.com/@Techmoan Hackerboxes - https://hackerboxes.com/ CrimeCon - https://www.crimecon.com/CC24 1978 VW Westfalia - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%2778_Volkswagen_Westfalia_(Auto_classique_VAQ_St-Lambert_%2712).jpg

Ryan and Rich are back to the lab with retro computer updates. Ryan is busy in the guts of his projects soldering and replacing old parts with new items. Rich is testing and testing away and loving his little Plus 4. We explore AI in the world of retro computing and its impact in general. Links: Mouser Electronics - https://www.mouser.com/ Gencon Thieves - https://www.polygon.com/23860343/gen-con-magic-the-gathering-felony-theft-charges Rich’s Plus 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q97cof0T2Vw C64 Programming Book - https://archive.org/details/creating-adventures-on-your-commodore-64/mode/2up Tilt 5 - https://www.tiltfive.com/ Corewar challenge (pMARS!) - http://www.koth.org/pmars/

Links: Gencon cards - https://gizmodo.com/gencon-2023-convention-card-theft-lorcana-ravensburger-1850710603 Super Robo Rally - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AActnkYyaV4 Escape Room - https://escaperoomusa.com/in/indianapolis/adventures/dark-wyvern-mining Ryans World - http://www.bluewizard.net/