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Welcome. Welcome to all of you for joining the this week for Computing Devroom. Actually,

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I have no slides. This is just the introduction. So welcome to this to this, we took

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Computing Room. I gave it a fantasy name, but because it's more or less, you know, like

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crunching code, like it's 1982, that's more or less what the guys will follow me now

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on this on this stage will go through, you know, like all the constraints that you still

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have with working with V2 systems, V2 computing. So I will just start with a few minutes. First

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of all, giving thanks, of course, thanks to the first them organization to the speakers,

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to the candidates who have made proposals. For this, the room we had, I think, only 16

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proposals. We could, we have kept 11 of these. Unfortunately, one person could not travel

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and that's why we will end up a little bit earlier than expected today, because by coincidences

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the last person on the list, who is not present today. But for the others who have made

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a proposal and that was not, let's say, retain, there's good reason for that, right? So I can

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only encourage you all to make proposals, but sometimes we get proposals like, I will take

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one example, it was like the history of the Mao's device, right? It is, of course, interesting,

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but I can go on the internet, read about the history, I can read it in a book, I have read

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it actually in a book. So it's not something that we want to present here, right? Here is about

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open source of to a retro computing. So if you want to re-implement or re-built in a new way,

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the re-invent, the wheel and the most with the wheel, maybe, all right? Just came like that,

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but yeah, by coincidences, it's again, it's a good work play. So if you have something like that,

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that project like that, then of course you're very welcome to present it. So I see this huge

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room here, so I don't know how many people are actually working on actually hate or programming

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or working on hardware, to combine with all systems, just reason. So that's a lot of people, so

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don't hesitate for next year to just propose your project, that's, you should not be there,

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what you should be there, but you should also be here, right, presenting this systems.

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So again, many things for those who have proposed things, but we had also limited time, right?

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So that's another thing, of course, it's the speakers that we have are the usual suspects,

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I would say, right? The guys who are presenting here already last year, we have also Michel over there,

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so these are known faces and we are very grateful and very lucky, of course, to have like

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known faces from the wheat-recomputing world, known figures, but of course this is not limited to

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known people, so again, everybody can come here and present their nice project. So again, many

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thanks to them, we have thanks to them, we have a very diverse agenda for today. We implementing

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like pieces of legendary code, we will see evolution of the widgets, so that's something that

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that we can see from the last 40 years or even more, that's interesting to see how it has evolved

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by the way, by coincidence yesterday, came into a discussion with other people,

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the story of Magic Desk, come from the Commodore world, who knows Magic Desk, just crazy

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hand. Okay, so that's not so much in here, so Magic Desk was a kind of trail of a very one

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of the very first type of operating system, that was for the Commodore 64, that was released in

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1983, and it was presented like it was just a graphic, so it was like a desk table, a tight machine,

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a calculator, and these were actually the five or six apps that were applications that were

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available built in to that system, so that was the beginning of the operating system,

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but you could not add in store in the application, so later on you had of course finder, who has

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been using finder on the little bit more hands, then of course windows one, in 1985 you finder

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one, then there was gears on the Commodore 64, that I think is quite, quite known,

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okay, so that was a parenthesis then, today we will still have also programming for consoles,

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so we will have project on Neo Geo and on the NES, an internet entertainment systems,

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these are of course like computers as well, limited computers with limited functionalities,

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or targeted functionalities, I would say, these, these, well, console, right, game console,

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and then still, and I think it follows more or less the order of the agenda, we will have people

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presenting how to understand early computer, back in the 70s and the 80s, you had two different

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areas of development, right, you had still government putting a lot of money into trying to to

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build a very successful, very powerful computers and they were putting money for the, for the

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research area, and then of course you had the commercial aspect of it, right, and I think we have

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more or less tools that go into these two directions with someone explaining as well how to build

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your own a bit computer, which is quite, quite interesting, then of course the, again,

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thanks to the first them organization that we still get this room and I had two requests last year

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and the year before as well, by the way, one was to get a bigger room and one was to get

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a longer day, right, so a bigger room we did get it, so if you see it's more or less one third more

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than, then what we get previous years in terms of numbers of seats, but still you see that it's

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not enough because we still have many, many friends standing, so that is something that we,

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we noticed year after year is that the popularity of this room is just increasing, so we need more space

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or maybe next year we get the Johnson, I don't know, but the other thing is the length of the

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day, so we still get only a half day and we have to be honest actually, we've 16 proposals

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and keeping only 11, it would not have been possible to fill the full day, right, so again,

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all those who raise their hand about about, yeah, working on project, please,

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make your proposals, right, so we will not have the time to switch between one speaker to the

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other, so I can already ask the next one to come and to join and just connect your computer as

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it was, so at the last minutes of Steve's presentation, then I will ask also the next one to join as

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we're already, and of course to get back to the initial title of the, of the, of this

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introductionary talk, it's, yeah, it's all about the constraints, you know, like today,

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for people, I know, is there anyone working with microcontrollers or this type of,

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was very peak or something like that, I see a few, yeah, many hands actually, so there,

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what I like with this type of devices is that you, you find the same type of constraints that we had

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in the time, so the constraints in memory, well, that's more or less the only one,

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because we had much more constraints with memory allocation, you had to manually do it,

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constraints in the language, etc, so all the kind of things that maybe we will hear about right now,