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.
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Michael's Atari
area part one. Do you recognize the holy ABBUC
flag?
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Michael's Atari
area
part two.
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A real Stacy.
It doesn't matter that nobody could read the
monitor.
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At the right side
you can see my 800XL on top of the Atari 800.
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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.
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A MSX2 and a
Phillips G7000 on the right.
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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.).
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Something different.
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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.
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Some Amigas.
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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.
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Some stuff for
the next Commodore-throwing competition.
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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.
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Maybe Summer
Games
is twice as old as the player!
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Later we did
our traditional Cervi tournament. We really
played it a lot and had fun.
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Only two lines?
Looks that somebody died early.
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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
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