My friend Mike helped me bring my exhibit to the show in the afternoon, and hung out playing video games on my Atari much of the time.
I brought a random assortment of old books and catalogs, as well as a few recent magazines that mention (or cater to) retro gaming.
My Fuji layout of Atari XL cartridges didn't last long.
Here's my Atari 800XL, with the MyIDE+MaxFlash cartridge, hooked up to a 1.6GB hard drive.
I brought my classic, woodgrain Atari VCS (2600) to the show this year.
And all of my games. (And yes, I bought a few more at the show!)
I also brought both of my Atari Lynx handhelds, and all of their games.
I wonder how many people at the show expected to learn that Solaris runs on the Atari 2600!?
;^)
Stephen Jones' "AT&T 3B2/500+XM w/ TTY5620" exhibit. It's the past incanration of the SDF (yes, as in Robotech) Public Access Unix system.
The exhibit next to me on the other side. (Didn't catch what it was!)
More of the same.
A cool looking, pre-Apple-Newton handheld touchscreen system.
Close-up of the "Magic Cap" user interface.
Commodore stuff!
I didn't see what it was, but it was shooting things in ASCII...
A Commodore Educator 64 (dunno!) running the Contiki graphical interface.
Some kind of Newton-based educational system, I think.
An Apple Lisa.
A difference engine. A working model of Charles Babbage's second difference engine, based on his original drawings from 1848!
Elektronika BK-0010/11m (the Soviet PC).
Cool Russian keyboard on the BK.
Another cool Russian keyboard on another BK.
I dropped YAWL (Yet Another Word List), a 2.7MB dictionary of over 265,000 English words onto my Atari 800XL's hard drive...
... and wrote a little BASIC program to go through all 265,000 words, a screenful at a time.
Some kids hung out most of the day, playing video games.
The view from my booth.
More view.
"CompuColor II: The First Color Home PC"
Mike playing Yar's Revenge on the 2600, and the kids playing Castle Crisis (a spot on clone of arcade Warlords) on the 800XL.
Seth Nagao, a friend of mine from the Sacramento area (right) showed up for the festival, along with one of his friends (left).
A Commodore 64, doing... I quote: "Quantumlink Reloaded is a recreation of the original Quantumlink server. It works with the original client software, which will be running on C64/C128 machines at the Festival connecting to a remotely located server over the Internet." Cool!
Robert Bernardo (who I see everywhere, especially when Commodores or Star Trek are involved) chatting with folks on the Internet over the Quantumlink system... on a Commodore 64.
There was an Atari ST there. (Here, shown running Super Cycle.)
Here's a Commodore Amiga running Impossible Mission 2. (Stay a while! STAY FOREVER!!!)
A Google search server. Yes, seriously. One of the original ones, here for historical reasons.
They had dozens of these, apparently.
Some details posted next to the Google "corkboard" rack. (Yes, it has real corkboard in it!)
Day 2:
Contiki running on a Commodore "Educator 64" (a C=64 inside a Pet(?) case, with a horrible green screen).
Loading Slashdot in the browser under Contiki.
The ethernet adapter attached to the Commodore Educator 64.
Ubuntu news at Slashdot, apparently.
Inside the Educator 64.
Star Master on the Atari 2600. (Bought it yesterday)
... which is a ripoff of Star Raiders on the Atari 8-bit computer.
Kiss Pandas, a JPEG decoded on my Atari 800XL using A8JDPEG.
Marc Merlin (right), who I know from SVLUG, with an Atari t-shirt-sporting friend (left).
Awards are given out!
Sellam, who runs the show.
Wayne Smith, who I was next to during the last two years, won an award!
The SDF Public Access Unix system won an award. (See blurry guy)
Interesting shiny outfit that guy's wearing!
The Magic-1 homebrew TTL-based computer!
Some info about the Magic-1.
Looks cool inside!
A Commodore 128 connected to the Quantumlink Reloaded system.
A Commodore 128D (for "D"etached keyboard?
;^)), also chatting
on Quantum link.
A printout I had of Kevin Savetz's list of books available online at his AtariArchives.org website. Kevin was at the show this year, too!
My copy of De Re Atari. On the left you'll see some BASIC "USR" machine language tricks I gathered out of books and magazines, back in the day.
For those who care, here's what my Atari 800XL looks like when you boot it up with the MyIDE cartridge. Here's the MyIDE FLASH-LOAD interface. Press a key (0-3) to boot into the D1: (drive 1) partition, or hold START and press a key to choose a disk to boot from the "Images" partition.
Here's "a8jdpeg," by Rafael Espino. It's based on a JPEG viewer for the Commodore 64, "juddpeg". Robert Bernardo was impressed by the user-friendly interface.
"a8jdpeg" provides 14 greyscale modes to choose from, including some interlaced software-driven modes, like HIP. (30 greys at 160x192 resolution)
A little too zoomed-in at 80x192 mode, but here's a Zebra JPEG. (See below for a better version.)
Here's the Zebra image at 160x192, 4 greys.
Another game I bought at the show... one of the most impressive (technically) Atari 2600 games I think I've seen: "California Games" by Epyx.
Check out the land terrain in the BMX game in "California Games"!
It doesn't scroll, but each part of the hill is different. Some have nice looking trees. I would have totally confused this for an Atari 800 or 5200 or 7800 game! Maybe even Nintendo NES!