Next Year's show - VCF East 2021
Our next show is planned for April 9, 10 & 11, 2021. The theme is : 1) 4004/8080 microchip 2) Text adventure games Everyone is free to do any (approved) exhibit outside of these themes. Some are doing the IBM PC 5150 anniversary Some are doing the USA release of the Commodore Vic-20 We have some exciting possibilities for speakers for this show. Michael Tomczyk - confirmed Bill Mensch - confirmed Harry Bawcome - not confirmed Scott Adams - not confirmed Willian Crowther - not confirmed David J. Bradley - not confirmed Ken Williams - not confirmed More to come! We still have t-shirts available here: http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/ -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783
Though very few of us are quite old enough for it to be revisiting our youth, next year is also the 75th anniversary of the unveiling of the ENIAC. I don't know if there's room for observing the event in the formal proceeding, but I'm planning on another ENIAC-related exhibit for next year and if anyone else would like to do something along that theme, I'll be glad to work with you. Thanks, BLS On Monday, October 12, 2020, 2:45:25 PM EDT, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: Our next show is planned for April 9, 10 & 11, 2021. The theme is : 1) 4004/8080 microchip 2) Text adventure games Everyone is free to do any (approved) exhibit outside of these themes. Some are doing the IBM PC 5150 anniversary Some are doing the USA release of the Commodore Vic-20 We have some exciting possibilities for speakers for this show. Michael Tomczyk - confirmed Bill Mensch - confirmed Harry Bawcome - not confirmed Scott Adams - not confirmed Willian Crowther - not confirmed David J. Bradley - not confirmed Ken Williams - not confirmed More to come! We still have t-shirts available here: http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/ -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783
Brian, I was unaware of that anniversary, but it is most welcome! In fact, I may ask Mauchly’s son to do a talk. Any other speakers that you recommend? Jeff On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 12:13 PM Brian L. Stuart <blstuart@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Though very few of us are quite old enough for it to be revisiting our youth, next year is also the 75th anniversary of the unveiling of the ENIAC. I don't know if there's room for observing the event in the formal proceeding, but I'm planning on another ENIAC-related exhibit for next year and if anyone else would like to do something along that theme, I'll be glad to work with you.
Thanks, BLS
On Monday, October 12, 2020, 2:45:25 PM EDT, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Our next show is planned for April 9, 10 & 11, 2021.
The theme is : 1) 4004/8080 microchip 2) Text adventure games
Everyone is free to do any (approved) exhibit outside of these themes. Some are doing the IBM PC 5150 anniversary Some are doing the USA release of the Commodore Vic-20
We have some exciting possibilities for speakers for this show. Michael Tomczyk - confirmed Bill Mensch - confirmed Harry Bawcome - not confirmed Scott Adams - not confirmed Willian Crowther - not confirmed David J. Bradley - not confirmed Ken Williams - not confirmed
More to come!
We still have t-shirts available here: http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783
Jeff, I think Bill Mauchly would certainly be an excellent choice for a speaker. I know at least one of Bill's sisters is also nearby. Eckert's son Chris lives in GA, I believe, but I don't know if he'd be interested in giving a presentation. As for others, two of the authors of "ENIAC in Action," Tom Haigh and Mark Priestley do give talks on ENIAC, but I know that recently their work has been focused on other things. BLS On Thursday, October 15, 2020, 1:11:08 PM EDT, Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> wrote: Brian, I was unaware of that anniversary, but it is most welcome! In fact, I may ask Mauchly’s son to do a talk. Any other speakers that you recommend? Jeff On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 12:13 PM Brian L. Stuart <blstuart@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Though very few of us are quite old enough for it to be revisiting our youth, next year is also the 75th anniversary of the unveiling of the ENIAC. I don't know if there's room for observing the event in the formal proceeding, but I'm planning on another ENIAC-related exhibit for next year and if anyone else would like to do something along that theme, I'll be glad to work with you.
Thanks, BLS
On Monday, October 12, 2020, 2:45:25 PM EDT, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Our next show is planned for April 9, 10 & 11, 2021.
The theme is : 1) 4004/8080 microchip 2) Text adventure games
Everyone is free to do any (approved) exhibit outside of these themes. Some are doing the IBM PC 5150 anniversary Some are doing the USA release of the Commodore Vic-20
We have some exciting possibilities for speakers for this show. Michael Tomczyk - confirmed Bill Mensch - confirmed Harry Bawcome - not confirmed Scott Adams - not confirmed Willian Crowther - not confirmed David J. Bradley - not confirmed Ken Williams - not confirmed
More to come!
We still have t-shirts available here: http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 2:45 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Our next show is planned for April 9, 10 & 11, 2021.
Roger.
The theme is : 1) 4004/8080 microchip 2) Text adventure games
Nice. I've exhibited on text adventures before. The hard part is choosing a focus.
Scott Adams - not confirmed
I've wanted to meet him for some time. I was a beta tester for one of his Windows games a few years ago. I missed out on his appearance at, I think, Tandy Assembly, 2-3 years ago. His Pirate's Adventure for the PET was the first text adventure I ever played (Adventureland was the second, because the tape was mismarked). If anyone wants to pool ideas on covering different aspects of Text Adventures (not perhaps as involved as UNIX Town, but at least coordinating a bit), I'm up for that. -ethan
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 2:45 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Our next show is planned for April 9, 10 & 11, 2021.
Roger.
The theme is : 1) 4004/8080 microchip 2) Text adventure games
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If anyone wants to pool ideas on covering different aspects of Text Adventures (not perhaps as involved as UNIX Town, but at least coordinating a bit), I'm up for that.
I can run Mystery Mansion on either an HP 1000 or HP 3000 system. Something very few of our visitors will have seen. The problem will be keeping Alex Bodnar off of it. :-) Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 5:15 PM Mike Loewen <mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us> wrote:
If anyone wants to pool ideas on covering different aspects of Text Adventures (not perhaps as involved as UNIX Town, but at least coordinating a bit), I'm up for that.
I can run Mystery Mansion on either an HP 1000 or HP 3000 system. Something very few of our visitors will have seen. The problem will be keeping Alex Bodnar off of it. :-)
I was unfamiliar with it (since I have little experience with old HP machines) but I did find a port of it to C. https://github.com/garnett1966/Mystery-Mansion I'll have to check it out. I think having numerous platforms running Text Adventures is fantastic. In addition to the usual minicomputers and 80s micros that can run Scott Adams' games and Infocom games, I can provide some oddball, not-originally-covered machines, including the 1802, and we'll see what else I can manage by Spring (I have two specific ones in mind in progress I don't want to reveal until I'm a lot closer to done, but suffice it to say, they are among my favorite types of machines and are under-represented in the Text Adventure world). With the semi-recent release of all the Infocom Source, there's a lot of material available that was formerly closed. It's one of the reasons I'm having a hard time focusing on the Theme because there are so many angles. I'm a long-time fan of Scott Adams' work, and of course, a mega Infocom fan. And then there's all the rest of the stuff... -ethan
I’d be happy to participate with text adventures on SunOS, on my Sun 3/60 or my Sparc 2. Both would have been common computer lab gaming platforms. We should definitely have at least one system running PDP-10 Zork. - Alex On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 21:38 Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 5:15 PM Mike Loewen <mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us> wrote:
If anyone wants to pool ideas on covering different aspects of Text Adventures (not perhaps as involved as UNIX Town, but at least coordinating a bit), I'm up for that.
I can run Mystery Mansion on either an HP 1000 or HP 3000 system. Something very few of our visitors will have seen. The problem will be keeping Alex Bodnar off of it. :-)
I was unfamiliar with it (since I have little experience with old HP machines) but I did find a port of it to C.
https://github.com/garnett1966/Mystery-Mansion
I'll have to check it out.
I think having numerous platforms running Text Adventures is fantastic. In addition to the usual minicomputers and 80s micros that can run Scott Adams' games and Infocom games, I can provide some oddball, not-originally-covered machines, including the 1802, and we'll see what else I can manage by Spring (I have two specific ones in mind in progress I don't want to reveal until I'm a lot closer to done, but suffice it to say, they are among my favorite types of machines and are under-represented in the Text Adventure world).
With the semi-recent release of all the Infocom Source, there's a lot of material available that was formerly closed. It's one of the reasons I'm having a hard time focusing on the Theme because there are so many angles. I'm a long-time fan of Scott Adams' work, and of course, a mega Infocom fan. And then there's all the rest of the stuff...
-ethan
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 21:38 Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
If anyone wants to pool ideas on covering different aspects of Text Adventures (not perhaps as involved as UNIX Town, but at least
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 10:45 AM Alexander Jacocks <jjacocks@gmail.com> wrote:
I’d be happy to participate with text adventures on SunOS, on my Sun 3/60 or my Sparc 2. Both would have been common computer lab gaming platforms.
The InfoTaskForce Z-machine goes back to the late 80s and would definitely have been run on workstations in the Sun 3/60 era. https://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/itf/ There's Frotz, of course, but in the late 80s, there was only the ITF interpreter. I got it working on VMS. It was a trip playing Infocom games on a $120,000 VAX. I also have a working ZAP assembler for SunOS 3 that runs on the 3/60, original from 35 years ago. The code is so crufty that it doesn't compile on modern compilers and even with some basic standard tweaks to modernize it, it does not produce sane output. It will take quite a bit of work to bring it up to date, so for me, it was easier to set up a real Sun 3/60 to test the veracity of the original binary. It's able to take authentic ZAP source and produce functional game files.
We should definitely have at least one system running PDP-10 Zork.
36-bit hardware is one of my gaps, but I've run original MDL Zork via emulation, plus there's also the modern MDL runtime Confusion. With some minor patches to the original code, it works fine. There's also ZDungeon, my module-for-module port of MDL Zork to Inform 6 that I did close to 20 years ago. That runs on anything with a V5 Z-machine. https://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/zdungeon.z5 Looks like it's been 16 years since the last release. Good excuse to dust off the source and fix (at least) one last bug I know about. -ethan
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Mike Loewen