November 2019 - vcf-midatlantic

Festivus Games
by Jeffrey Brace 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

If you want to bring any computer of video game, then let me know and I will make space for you. *Ian will have 5 tables and be bringing: * *VINTAGE VIDEO GAMES* N64 NES Sega Genesis TurboGrafix 16 Atari Jaguar Colecovision Atari 7800 Fairchild Channel F Nintendo Famicom Odyssey2 Pong Super Nintendo *CARD GAME* Crabs Adjust Humidity (Cards Against Humanity clone) *Jeff will be bringing:* *C64 *: Vegetables Deluxe *(NEW GAME!)* The Bear Essentials, Games on SD cards Cartridge games (Zaxxon, Pac-Man, Centipede, etc.) *4 Player C64 games!* *C64 Mini*: With updated games @Amiga Bill <bill(a)thegurumeditation.org> can you bring an Amiga 500 with Lemmings? Does anyone else want to bring games? Space is limited, but I have a few more tables that I can setup -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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I tube, you tube, we all tube, for u tube
by Jeffrey Jonas 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

floppy disks, hard drives & scanners make music: the floppotron! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGfkPCZYfFw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_CZpFqvDQo 35 Year-Old C64 Easter Egg Hidden On Vinyl by 8-Bit Show And Tel In 1984, the Christian rock band Prodigal hid a Commodore 64 program on their album "Electric Eye". See my attempts to retrieve and run this 35-year-old easter egg. for more, see: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3gRBswFkuteshdwMZAQafQ/videos 8-Bit Show And Tell https://www.youtube.com/user/adric22/videos The 8-Bit Guy https://www.youtube.com/user/RetroManCave/videos RetroManCave https://www.youtube.com/user/phreakindee/videos LGR: vintage computers -- jeff jonas

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

I'm still on hiatus-ish until Festivus, but I was in the area and didn't have much to do today, so I took museum duty. It was busy. Cub Scout group (20-something people), RPI alumni group (10ish people), and regular visitors (10ish people). Kept me busy all day. It was the first time I used the upper rows of microcomputers which now have monitors. I was unable to get four things to work: - Apple II (crazy display) - Apple III (no display) - OSI Challenger (no display) - Atari 1040 (no display) Also did anyone work on the Heathkit H19? If not then someone should ... looking at you Alex Bodnar. :) I was told the new screens auto-sense the input type but I had to set some of them manually. Why is the original TCF poster taken down? I put a sign ("new exhibit coming here soon") in the large empty spot where the Timberwolf tape library was. Someone had left a random Novell poster there. Totally out of place and context. I removed it. Note to everyone, you can't just put random stuff in the middle of exhibits. Somehow the info kiosk got borked. I rebooted it and now it works fine again. Someone had put a sign on it saying "under construction". I don't know why. It will soon be improved for version 2.0, but the current version 1.0 works fine. It is simplistic but not broken. I removed that sign.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Festivus Games
by Jeffrey Brace 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

Yes, Bill. You can bring your eMac, but if nobody takes it, then you must take it home with you. Just put a label on it "FREE" or something like that and your name so that anyone can ask you questions about it. On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:47 AM Amiga Bill <bill(a)thegurumeditation.org> wrote: > Hey guys it is looking like I can make it, but I won’t be able to confirm > 100% until I know my work schedule which usually happens the week before. > But if I can make it I will bring an Amiga 1200 with 1084s CRT monitor and > a bunch of games loaded on it including Christmas Lemmings. Fingers > crossed, I want to come really badly! > > On another note, I have some things to get rid of like an older eMac. > Could I bing it to give away? > > — “Amiga Bill" Winters > > *"Amiga Bill" Winters* | bill(a)thegurumeditation.org | > TheGuruMeditation.org | BillWinters.net > > On Nov 20, 2019, at 11:37 AM, Ethan O'Toole <telmnstr(a)757.org> wrote: > > If you want to bring any computer of video game, then let me know and I > will make space for you. > > > I could bring a Pentium 200MMX luggable with external MT-32. I have Gravis > Ultrasound, AWE32, Sound Blaster 1.0 and 1.5 for it as well. I have some > Sierra games on it and can double check the LucasArts stuff. One issue is I > have to patch the games to pass MT-32 midi out of the Sound Blaster > usually, I don't have the MPU401 board. > > - Ethan O'Toole > > > > > *Ian will have 5 tables and be bringing: * > *VINTAGE VIDEO GAMES* > N64 > NES > Sega Genesis > TurboGrafix 16 > Atari Jaguar > Colecovision > Atari 7800 > Fairchild Channel F > Nintendo Famicom > Odyssey2 > Pong > Super Nintendo > *CARD GAME* > Crabs Adjust Humidity (Cards Against Humanity clone) > > *Jeff will be bringing:* > *C64 *: > Vegetables Deluxe *(NEW GAME!)* > The Bear Essentials, Games on SD cards > Cartridge games (Zaxxon, Pac-Man, Centipede, etc.) > *4 Player C64 games!* > > *C64 Mini*: With updated games > > @Amiga Bill <bill(a)thegurumeditation.org> can you bring an Amiga 500 with > Lemmings? > > Does anyone else want to bring games? > > Space is limited, but I have a few more tables that I can setup > > -- > ========================================= > Jeff Brace > Vice President > Vintage Computer Federation > > > -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Compact Macs FS at Festivus
by systems_glitch 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

All, I've got two compact Macs I'd like to sell for delivery at Festivus. Both are make offer: * Project SE/30, power supply and analog board are fine, bipolar cap replaced with film cap, monitor is fine, case is OKish (cracked corners). Motherboard has issues. When I got it, it'd sat for a long time with very leaky caps. A recap doesn't have it functioning 100%. Sometimes it boots off SCSI, sometimes not. No floppy drive. * Macintosh 512K with upgrade board, this one is fully working, has a Mac Rescue upgrade board that attaches to the 68K using a Killi clip, which adds 4MB RAM and SCSI. Has Mac Plus ROMs installed so it will boot off SCSI. Comes with carrying case, keyboard, mouse, and external 3.5" disk drive. New PRAM battery. Somewhat yellowed, but not terrible. DB25 for SCSI mounts where the PRAM battery door goes, the original battery door is included (came to me this way). Thanks, Jonathan

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Atari 810 Case / Drive
by John Heritage 19 Nov '19

19 Nov '19

Thanks Pete! I'd be interested in that! This is the type I'm hoping to find: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/64/37/product-8643… On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 9:19 AM Peter Fletcher via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > I have a couple of currently non-functioning 810’s in the basement. I > don’t recall which versions they are, but I will check for you and if I > have the proper case style you need we can work something out. > > -Pete > > > > On Nov 13, 2019, at 9:09 AM, John Heritage via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > > Good Morning everyone - i'm still looking for an Atari 810 drive with the > > center 1/3rd flap style (rather than the 'full size door / barn door' > style > > front lip) to go with my (recently restored) Atari 800 setup. > > > > I bought one off of Ebay a few years ago but the seller packed it > terribly, > > and the case was damaged in two places (front side, and a whole on the > > 'left' side towards the back). if you have a bad drive but a good case > i'd > > be very interested in that too.. > > > > If anyone has one they'd be willing to sell, please let me know. I know > > someone on the list had one but i failed to follow up (a year or two > ago..) > > > > Thanks! > > John > >

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Latest toy(s)
by Herb Johnson 19 Nov '19

19 Nov '19

> [ebay] for 2 1979 Motorola 68B09 boards (looks to be an Exorset > board). Neil, I think you and I have talked about these boards before, and I saw the auction. I have an EXORbus system myself and some interest otherwise in these early 8-bit busses. Consider bringing a board for some show-and-tell at Festivus; we can figure it out and show how that used to be done. Regards, Herb "we don't need no steenking schematics" Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT info

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Festivus Table of Freedom
by dillera＠gmail.com 19 Nov '19

19 Nov '19

I will have a Festivus table with fun systems and misc stuff for sale- all good deals, almost everything works, $10 to $50 max. Dell Server, Sun Ultra10, Mac Classic, Atari 400 and more. Come by my table and get some bargains and free me from this stuff. It's not SGI- so I'm getting rid of it! -andy

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Festivus Buying/Selling/Trading of items
by Jeffrey Brace 18 Nov '19

18 Nov '19

Hello Everyone, I'm excited that everyone will be selling/buying/trading/giving away during Festivus. I just want to keep it controlled. 1) Let me know how much you are bringing and if you need one or two tables. I have extra tables available. 2) Put what you are bringing here on this spreadsheet < https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KLLnzRbOeO0ck0DS6MS6iraqa6XlSGuP-KF… > 3) I plan on putting everyone in a separate adjacent room to keep the flow of the cafeteria going. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Festivus potential first timer
by Ethan O'Toole 18 Nov '19

18 Nov '19

Hello all, I'm thinking about coming to my first Festivus. I don't really know much about it or the processes around it. Would driving in on Saturday morning and leving mid-day Sunday provide me a good Festivus experience? When do people usually arrive to start the Festivus? Is it a workshop type of thing? Or more social? (I have never been to a workshop in NJ, just one at System Source.) I do have an IMSAI 8080 that troubles me. I saw the food sign up sheet, and saw there is the local accomodations overnight. How late to people usually stay up? Thanks! - Ethan O'Toole

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