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What is this all about anyway?

I've been hearing about the RetroChallenge for several years but this is the first time I am participating. My project for RetroChallenge is to encourage and solicit contributions from others to the Total Replay effort - a kind of recruitment drive. This is something I have already done in the past and will continue to do in future, but the RetroChallenge gives me a focus for putting in some effort into the endeavour now and is another way for others to see what is going on and hopefully be inspired to contribute. The Total Replay compendium of Apple II games is a marvel of retro-computing engineering that brings together the efforts of 4am and qkumba to showcase not only the games, but their box art, and graphics in an easy to use front end that has a fabulous attract mode, provides insight on how to play the game, and can enable cheats if desired. While 4am concentrates on cracking games and qkumba concentrates on porting the games to ProDOS, there are a few other pieces of the