This is a reminder to everyone in the greater #retrocomputing and #retrogaming communities:
If nobody steps up to learn how to program these systems, all of our communities will atrophy and die.
This is why I offer my time and services to teach people how to code.
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@tschak Duly noted. As somebody, new-ish to this scene I feel I should mention that I got interested due to fantasy consoles like #pico8 and more specifically #TIC80. Fantasy consoles are basically the gateway drug to retrocomputing.
At some point in development on a fantasy console you have a thought like, "but wouldn't it be cool to run this on actual hardware...". That's when people make the jump. I also think that things like the #cx16, #agon, and #f256k will help a lot.
@tschak In a lot of ways the retrocomputing scene reminds me of the classic car/hot rod scene. Admittedly, the size of those communities has shrunk over the years, however as long as people who are passionate about them show them off to new people to raise awareness, I think they'll continue to exist.
Also, at some point the supply of classic cars dried up. So the existence of kit cars was necessary for the scene to persist. IMHO the #cx16 and others are analogous to kit cars.