Jaroslav Švelch, PhD, is head of the Prague Game Production Studies group at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He talked to us about his book, GAMING THE IRON CURTAIN: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games, which is available from most book stores. You can learn more about the book and games here: http://ironcurtain.svelch.com/
Stanislav Hrda, in Bratislava, Slovakia, was active in the computer scene Jaroslav describes in his book and even appears in it. Stanislav and his friends formed Ultrasoft, after the Velvet Revolution, and release numerous games for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. He has been sharing programs with us on the TS 2068 groups.io list from behind the former Iron Curtain that demonstrate the capabilities of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Timex Computer 2068.
The Slovak Design Museum has an excellent online exhibit that includes an interview with Stano and documents the software and magazines he was involved in producing.
Evie Salomon, maker of the BackBit and other retrocomputing hardware, joined us from California to tell us about the BackBit and other products. We talked about the possibility of the BackBit supporting the TS 2068; it already supports the TS 1000.
You can find more about the BackBit here: https://www.backbit.io/
Jeff Burrell gave an update on his project to make a modern mass storage device for the TS 2068.
Tim Horner updated us on a project to resurrect a video digitizer for the TS 2068 designed by Eric Michaud and the Sinclair Milwaukee Users Group (SMUG) group.
https://www.timexsinclair.com/usergroup/sinclair-milwaukee-users-group-smug/
And Ryan Gray showed us a 3D animation running in FUSE (http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/).