Issue 49: Nov 2004
Features
- | Foreword
- | Tip of the day
- | Atari QuickTime
- | E-JagFest 2004: A
- | E-JagFest 2004: B
- | Classic Computing 2004, Germany
M@ilbox
| Classic Computing 2004, Germany continued... Michael already filled up the whole Atari area with a 1040ST, 130XE, Jaguar, Lynx, Portfolio, Stacy and a PC (shame on you, Mr Vogt!). He was busy repairing an Atari 800 when we arrived, and we had to wait until he finished, because there was no room left for our system. But we simply put our 800XL on top of the Atari 800.
Michael's Atari area part one. Do you recognize the holy ABBUC flag?
Michael's Atari area part two.
A real Stacy. It doesn't matter that nobody could read the monitor.
At the right side you can see my 800XL on top of the Atari 800.
The MSX room was really exciting. The MSX2 maschine with an external keyboard and 384 MB RAM would have been a cool sysem if it had appeared earlier.
A MSX2 and a Phillips G7000 on the right.
There was also a very small French maschine in stange red color I never heard of before (Could be an early Rodolphe Czuba creation?! - Tech Ed.).
Something different.
The Amiga scene is still very active, and there was a member of a still-existing Amiga magazine (Amiga Future) around who left some magazines for the public. So I had something to read.
Some Amigas.
In the C64 Game Park they set up five computers. Everybody could play games on them. It was nice that they used Atarisoft games like Centipede and Ms Pac-Man as games.
Some stuff for the next Commodore-throwing competition.
There were rumours that a PC LAN party would also take place, but we didn't see any PC, maybe it was an Amiga LAN party and we did not recognize it. But at a retro party we don't need PCs, so I wasn't that interested in it. Besides all those machines, of course you also need something to drink and to eat. During the weekend a local butcher (a real butcher!) was responsible for the food and the drinks, so you could eat real German food like "Schnitzel" and "Kartoffelsalat". After installing our 800XL we soon get in touch with a lot of people and were talking a lot. To remember the olympic games, we started a Summer Games challenge. Everybody failed in the high jump, but had a lot of fun. Because I left the computer powered on, a lot of people come around and played Summer Games even when I was not around.
Maybe Summer Games is twice as old as the player!
Later we did our traditional Cervi tournament. We really played it a lot and had fun.
Only two lines? Looks that somebody died early.
Then it was late and it was time to drink a beer and sit near the fire, or projector and watch some movies. Then we slept some hours next to the machines. Next mourning Roland the president of the Classic Computing Club got some bread and we had a nice breakfast. After the breakfast we played Cervi again, talked again and at lunch time, we packed every together, got out, talked with some people for two hours at the entrance and then went home. thorsten@myatari.net
Useful link
Wiesbaden Gaming Lab http://mitglied.lycos.de/gunnarbusse/bajamar/wgl8.htm
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