Amiga Retro Brisbane
Retro Corner => General Retro Computing Chatter => NABU PC => Topic started by: intangybles on April 30, 2023, 06:38:14 pm
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What Is NABU? (Natural Access to Bi-directional Utilities)
A personal home computer was released to consumers in 1982 to connect families and businesses on a worldwide network.
Founded in Ottawa, Canada, in 1982, families and schools used cable TV modems to connect NABU PCs to a country-wide network. In addition to standard PC capabilities, the NABU computer could download software and information content through the cable feed. Applications included games, programming languages, and news.
Taken from the new site: NABU PC Retro Net (https://nabu.ca)
May I suggest this is a good place to start - don't be put off by many of the negative and flippant youtube articles you may have seen!
The home of The NABU Network (https://thenabunetwork.com) is here.
Good Video (youtube) starting point:
The Retro Hack Shack (https://youtu.be/_yhbQJ145mQ)
Best youtube for the story so far and ongoing: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNT_tjSHIQ3lGJR_zOqh9gGeHzykR0spq (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNT_tjSHIQ3lGJR_zOqh9gGeHzykR0spq)
More to come! The MAME emulator (https://gtamp.com/nabu/) is working a treat!
We welcome all NABU users (and interested retro users) in Australia to join in the fun!
Links:
The NABU Forum (https://forums.nabu.ca)
NABU MAME (https://gtamp.com/nabu/)
Essential Tools "An Adaptor" (https://thenabunetwork.com/our-adaptor) to get you connected!
NABUNetSim (https://github.com/GryBsh/NabuNetSim) works a treat for a headless option
The NABU Network (https://discord.gg/eBQuhPXGAQ) on discord!
* Updated 18/3/2024 to reflect recent developments in the community.
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Running MAME NABU Emulator and Retro Net Server
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Adding links to top level as I go!
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The NABU Forum (https://forums.nabu.ca)
NABU MAME (https://gtamp.com/nabu/)
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NABU employee reunion with DJ Sures, Leo Binkowski and more!
Super new video!
Leo Binkowski – NABU Developer
DJ Sures – Executive and son of the founder of NABU
John Shortt – Director of Content Development, formerly Games Development Manager, author of Flashcards and one of the major developers for Dig Dug, as well as Manager’s Baseball)
Donna Shortt – Education software Developer, responsible for Seasonal Gardening and NABU Basic
Tim Ranger, author of Laser Attack and Leo and he also made Q*Bert
Eric Mesdag, Engineering Developer, author of MACBETH and one of the main NABU Cable IOS developers
MK Marsden – NABU marketing
Ed Myers – NABU Educational Marketing
Bob McNally – former NABU sales and later Director of Operations of NABU
Warren Belkin, developer of the original NABU Main Menu, and my inspiration for buying a motorcycle
Bill Bourne – NABU Engineering. Was involved in so many details about the hardware
Mike Slinn – one of the two people that designed and built the NABU prototype boards that were used inside the NABU 1100 before they had a NABU PC
And more!
https://www.youtube.com/live/QoZTBNz47co?si=NtMXOUj6PqRunCyM (https://www.youtube.com/live/QoZTBNz47co?si=NtMXOUj6PqRunCyM)
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Posts Updated 18/3/2024 to reflect recent developments in the community.
Links:
The NABU Forum (https://forums.nabu.ca)
NABU MAME (https://gtamp.com/nabu/)
Essential Tools "An Adaptor" (https://thenabunetwork.com/our-adaptor) to get you connected!
NABUNetSim (https://github.com/GryBsh/NabuNetSim) works a treat for a headless option
The NABU Network (https://discord.gg/eBQuhPXGAQ) on discord!