Well, the RetroBaud has now officially been retired. I had a lot of fun (after the frustration) getting it going - but even more fun BBS'ing once it was up. I also enjoyed getting me Apple IIe card going in my LC475 despite not being able to get the BBS running on it.

I was a bit MIA for the last week of the RC, I had hoped to write a high scores module for the door games on the RetroBaud, but just wasnt able to do it.

I have to say that I'd highly recommend the RC to anyone. Its a laugh and by entering myself, I found that I felt a little more connected to the other contestants and their challenges (there were some really good ones complimented by great blogs).

The final stats for the RetroBaud were:

Users Registered (including me) : 9
Number of Calls taken during the RC : 77
Number of messages posted : 31

Games:

Microbandit. WGOODF takes it out with a late run, which I'd have to say was a bit of an upset as LUDDITE was clearly the most consistent player during the RC and led right until the end.

WGOODF $432.50
LUDDITE $303
GAVO $248.50
URBANCAMO $55
ARFINK $46
MACMAN $28.50
COXY $7.50

One note tho WGOODF, dont be spending that cash too quick - its in NZ dollars, not pounds! ;-)

Rock Paper Scissors. A hard game to score, but I decided that rankings would be based on the percentage of games won (perhaps somewhat controversially) with a minimum of 30 games needed for a player to become eligible - on that theory, LUDDITE sneaks past WGOODF by the smallest of margins to take the victory.

LUDDITE 51 games won, 52 lost (49.5%) and 57 tied.
WGOODF 45 games won, 46 lost (49.4%) and 39 tied.
GAVO 51 games won, 68 lost (42.8%) and 51 tied.
MACMAN 4 games won, 2 lost (66.6%) and 4 tied.
URBANCAMO 3 games won, 5 lost (37.5%) and 2 tied.

Leeches. Turned out not to be the most popular game of the series (although I like it) - at the end of the RC no one was higher than Level 1. I did in fact make it to quite a high level, but was cuzed by the game near the end and so ended up with nothing. The winner here is clearly the RetroBaud - repelling all pretenders.

Anyway, this marks the absolute end of my 2009 winter warm up RC - well done to all - and see you next time.

Cheers,

-Gavo.