there’s still a lot to be ported

Oldschool Linux has bunches of notes.

Things that are no longer at the fore-front of public consciousness.

See also:

• /tag/oldschool-topics
• Emulation

• The Japanese would call this concept Ko-ryū (古流)

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Introduction ∞

A term applied to a things that are no longer at the fore-front of public consciousness by being obsolete or abandoned. People who have experienced these things are themselves considered “oldschool”, or part of the old school of a community.

The term came into popular usage with the hip hop (Old-school hip hop) and rave (Jungle music and Breakbeat hardcore) music subcultures during the 1980s and 1990s. As audio production quality for these genres increased, oldschool sounds began to sound more like beatboxing or games than music. For example, the Beverly Hills Cop – (1984 show) theme music by Harold Faltermeyer was innovative and unique in the 1984 but, if produced today, would seem almost comedic. However, they still hold a place in contemporary mixes.

This term can describe both a lost or closed “art”, and certain types of revived or retro subjects. Because of the “coolness” of associating with a the strong history of an art, some either misuse the term “oldschool” or use it with uncomfortable frequency.

Conversely, one could also use the term “newschool” to describe the newness or publicness of a current topic. “Newschool” can also imply the derivative nature of the item in question, as in “Newschool Punk”, which is usually used in a derogatory fashion.

Examples ∞

“Oldschool” non-computer examples ∞

See /tag/oldschool-topics.

• (tag) Movies
• (tag) Music
• Spray painting Spray paint art – gang taglines as art and not graffiti.

• The punk rock “punk/77” (1977) age.

One could call “Old Country” “Oldschool Country”, or 70s reggae “Oldschool Reggae”. The term “oldschool” is quite flexible.

“Oldschool” computer examples ∞

See /tag/oldschool-topics.

• (tag) Games (Retrogaming)
• (tag) Software
• (tag) Computers
• (tag) Hardware
• (tag) Electronics
• (tag) Game consoles

• (tag) Operating Systems

.. more

• 16-bit and 8-bit demos and intros, and their competitions.
• cbmscii art – the Commodore 64‘s text art
• ANSI art.

• BBSes – before full-screen editing. Before hotkeys, before ANSI colour, before zterm. Think “text” and “kermit” as file transfer types.

  • http://demonic.net/ is a BBS modding site.
• Packet radio BBSes
• Hercules video cards, using a software driver (simcga) for CGA emulation.
• Amber monochrome text monitors.
• Crystal-overclocking an 8086 like with the HP 200LX

• IRC is sometimes called oldschool

TODO – Movies ∞

• Movies > /tag/oldschool+movies

possibly to make individual pages for:

• Assembly ’02

  • Has demo programs, tracked music, mp3/ogg music, videos and a surfable website.

• Assembly ’03 (PAL)

  • Has demo programs, tracked music, mp3/ogg music, videos and a surfable website.
  • Frank Michlick of scenestuff.com also gave me an NTSC conversion of the disk2 DVD. Cool!

• Assembly ’04

  • (source) – Assembly 2004 was released on DVD but apparently wasn’t available until 2006 and then only at the party itself. =(
  • shop archive
    — www.maz-sound.com/index.php?show=product&id=18

• Digital Memories C64 – The Best of Commodore 64

  • www.maz-sound.com/index.php?show=product&id=30 (not properly archived)
  • other store archive
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000G1TEU0/

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• Dark Domain

  • Though not a DVD, where else should this go? It’s artpacks galore.

Links ∞

• https://www.cdaccess.com/ sells a lot of old CDs.
• https://obscuritory.com/

• http://www.jogi.com/schrege-voegel/software/default.htm

  • German

• https://web.archive.org/web/20061013070644/http://www.dans20thcenturyabandonware.com/

  • (Dan Rose)
  • It was mostly a for-pay website, but there was a free downloads (archive) section.
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20101027083334/http://www.d2ca.org/
  • https://www.danielsays.com/dlcc.html