Symbol Engine » Planet Retro http://www.symbolengine.com C64, Amiga, GP2x and Wordpress goodness... Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:32:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 New feeds as promised, willy-nilly captcha and incoming total rewrite http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/03/01/new-feeds-as-promised-willy-nilly-captcha-and-incoming-total-rewrite/ http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/03/01/new-feeds-as-promised-willy-nilly-captcha-and-incoming-total-rewrite/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:03:33 +0000 Jim Qode http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/03/01/new-feeds-as-promised-willy-nilly-captcha-and-incoming-total-rewrite/ 8-bit ladies and pixel gents, please welcome our new feed additions:

aMiGA rETRO Sounds from Germany is an amiga style modcast,
World of Spectrum is the largest Sinclair Spectrum resource on the net and is ever expanding,
C64Stream.com brings c64 demos and intros to your pod in mpeg format. 

I had to add a captcha to suggest a feed page, because some spambots discovered it and started filling my suggestion database with pharmaceutical ads. Sorry for the annoyance.

A total rewrite of the planetretro engine is in progress. New version will bring the power of wordpress to planetretro.org . That means comments and trackbacks and casino spams and some more!. But please don't hold your breath. It's bad for your health. 

]]> http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/03/01/new-feeds-as-promised-willy-nilly-captcha-and-incoming-total-rewrite/feed/ 0 3 more feeds drop dead http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/01/29/3-more-feeds-drop-dead/ http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/01/29/3-more-feeds-drop-dead/#comments Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:49:20 +0000 Jim Qode http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/01/29/3-more-feeds-drop-dead/ 3 more feeds have been dropped from planetretro feed list because they haven't been updated for a long time. I suppose they're dead. It's always sad to see retrocomputing sites closing down but I'll be adding some fresh feeds nowadays. I'm negotiating with feeds' owners and writing html parsers for some news sites that dont have an rss feed. 

Here is the dead list: (R.I.P)

Oliver's Personal Blog, no updates since 2006-03-02
theMODcast, no updates since 2006-05-02
The Darkcourt, no updates since 2005-10-04

By the way did you notice we have a "suggest a feed" link at planetretro.org? 

]]> http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/01/29/3-more-feeds-drop-dead/feed/ 0 Amigaworld.net dropped from feeds http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2006/10/02/amigaworldnet-dropped-from-feeds/ http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2006/10/02/amigaworldnet-dropped-from-feeds/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:57:52 +0000 Jim Qode http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2006/10/02/amigaworldnet-dropped-from-feeds/ Amigaworld.net hardly releases any news that is not in amiga.org newsfeed so I decided to drop it for the sake of simplicity.

]]> http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2006/10/02/amigaworldnet-dropped-from-feeds/feed/ 0 Planet Retro Updates http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2006/08/04/planet-retro-updates/ http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2006/08/04/planet-retro-updates/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:01:06 +0000 Jim Qode http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2006/08/04/planet-retro-updates/
  • New and faster RSS grabber. That means no more slow hits and a more often updated Planet Retro.
  • HTML parser support means we can bring you news from many sites that dont have rss feeds. (Like c64.sk and C= Homestead)
  • Search!
    • ]]>     http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2006/08/04/planet-retro-updates/feed/ 0     Planet Retro on Beta Test http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2006/07/27/planet-retro-on-beta-test/ http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2006/07/27/planet-retro-on-beta-test/#comments Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:45:58 +0000 Jim Qode http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2006/07/27/planet-retro-on-beta-test/ Planet Retro is now beta testing. Planet Retro aims to smash retrocomputing related weblogs, news and podcasts scattered through the net into a single, easily trackable feed and website.

    Contructive feedback is most welcome at this stage of development.

    If you also happen to run a web site about retro computing and you are not in the roll use  "suggest a feed" link on the sidebar. if you are on the roll but dont want to be please drop me an email.

    I can be contacted at < jim [at] planetretro [dot] org >.

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