RC2018/09 -- Results!

All doubts aside -- we now have results to announce for the RC2018/09 event!

Thanks

Many thanks are due to Michai Ramakers for his assistance with the judging. Michai is primarily responsible for the comments on the projects for RC2018/09, leaving me to handle the clerical work and to render the final judgments. Without Michai's help, this round's results would likely be even more delayed -- no one would want that!

So, with no further ado...the winners that I have selected for RC2018/09 are (in no particular order):

Winners

• Cole Johnson
• Pim van Tend
• Mats Engstrom

I felt that these projects were the best in this round at demonstrating technical skill while also providing useful and entertaining presentation of each projects progress. Well done!

Prizes

I am offering lightly used copies the following three books from my own collection as tokens of appreciation to the Winners listed above:

• The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles by Noam Nissan and Shimon Schocken
• Commodork: Sordid Tales from a BBS Junkie by Rob O'Hara
• Let's Go Dizzy! The Story of the Oliver Twins by Chris Wilkins and Roger M. Kean

If you are a winner, please contact me (linville at tuxdriver dot com) with your delivery address and your book preferences in numbered order, ASAP. Hopefully that gets the books to those that will want to read them...

Honorable Mentions

• Tom Raidna
• Raphael Assenat
• Davy Mitchell

In addition to the prize winners, I felt it necessary to name a few in the "honorable mention" category. Honestly, there were a lot of great projects this time around. There were also remarkably few drop-outs (other than me) -- great effort all around!

Seeya!

If you haven't had a chance yet, then please go check-out the entrants list to see the comments from Michai (and a few from me). Really, this was a great round of RetroChallenge. Was it the best round ever? Maybe, or maybe not. The next round will be RC2019/03 in March -- I guess you'll just have to stay tuned...