PAMC-2000 Accelerator: Tales of Weird Stuff Tests a Truly Odd Amiga 500 Upgrade
#Amiga #Amiga500 #RetroComputing #PAMC2000 #CMI #CreativeMicrosystems #AmigaHardware #68000 #68881 #Workbench #VintageComputing #HardwareHacking #VCFWest
https://theoasisbbs.com/pamc-2000-accelerator-tales-of-weird-stuff-tests-a-truly-odd-amiga-500-upgrade/?fsp_sid=1594
#VCFWest
Magicore Anomala Amiga Game Revealed at VCF West
#Amiga500 #MagicoreAnomala #VCFWest #RetroGaming #DanSalvato #CommodoreAmiga
https://theoasisbbs.com/magicore-anomala-amiga-game-revealed-at-vcf-west/?feed_id=5790&_unique_id=68e90882359bd
Rebuilding the Amiga A4091: Modern Hardware, Classic Spirit
#Amiga #VCFWest #RetroComputing #AmigaHardware #A4091 #OpenSource #Commodore #DIYRetro
https://theoasisbbs.com/rebuilding-the-amiga-a4091-modern-hardware-classic-spirit/?feed_id=5769&_unique_id=68e7b4aae9bcc
Living Commodore Memory: Dan Sanderson on MEGA65 at VCF West
#MEGA65 #Commodore65 #Commodore64 #VCFWest #RetroComputing #FPGA #BASIC65 #C64
https://theoasisbbs.com/living-commodore-memory-dan-sanderson-on-mega65-at-vcf-west/?feed_id=5117&_unique_id=68b59f2d2b83b
https://www.xodium.net/2025/08/vcf-west-2025-post-event-thing.html
Wrote a big text post about #VCFWest if you want to read. Also in light of my site kinda being my link aggregator I cleaned things up a touch.
Got my copy of Hackers signed by Lee Felsenstein at the Vintage Computer Festival! His chapters were some of the most meaningful in the book to me; will treasure it always. #vcf #vcfwest
(And, by the way, it turns out he has a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lfelsenstein)
Another quick video from #VCFwest 2025 starting with @tubetime ‘s Monster 6502 and showing how dense and busy it was on Saturday. I heard attendance was nearly double last year. Maybe because it was the Amiga 40th anniversary or just because it’s awesome and more people are there…. Oooor a little of both.
I did get a bit trapped in the far end of the room at one point but with patience I was able to get out. All thing considered they did a pretty good job is keeping flow all around the event… for the most part.
Embroidering Le Chuck: all the details, things to pay attention, colors, things that could go wrong, etc:
https://www.flickr.com/gp/anticitizen/6Re9qF0u1q
So #vcfwest was a pretty smashing success all things considered. Our Windows Megatable had a lot of people come by, not one person said what we were doing was “too new”, and we only attracted one Linux Guy™ who told us how much Windows sucks.
Want to do it again but next year is Apple’s 50th so I’m swapping back over to Macs.
The event itself was much better this go around too, we had *working air conditioning* even!
The Amiga stuff was whatever I guess.
After reading more about the computers from Poland that I saw at #vcfwest, I noticed that the Cobra 1 only had an article in Polish Wikipedia, so I used it as the basis of a new article in English Wikipedia. @mwichary, please let me know if I made any egregious errors (or, of course, you can fix them yourself 🙂). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_1
I was at #vcfwest at the Computer History Museum today, and I ran across a few computers from Poland. @mwichary, do you know about these?
Also found an empty box for a Powerbook (100-series? because it didn't say) modem in the free room, I thought this note was funny considering Apple's current packaging practices... #VCFWest
All 6 of my monochrome monitors made it through VCF West
6 Displays is the limit on a 68k mac unless you start adding display adapters on SCSI. This is a Quadra 950 with 5 nubus video cards and the the onboard video driving a desktop that is over 4400 pixel wide.
It is unfortunate that my career’s biggest cultural contribution shows up at the Computer History Museum in a visual context that very few people at the time would recognize. (Luckily someone at #VCFWest upstairs had AIM in its more common form, although on hilarious OSes.)
They even had an Amiga running Wipeout. This is an extremely uncommon version of the game as I understand it. It was totally playable and impressively high res. #VCFwest #retrocomputing
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