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Join us February 15-16, 2025 at Vintage Computer Festival SoCal in Southern California during Presidents' Day Weekend. Follow us for updates!
Scott Swazey / Lunar Lander: One Giant Leap for Video Games - VCF SoCal 2024 Presentations
One Giant Leap for Video Games
Scott Swazey - Founder of Tattler Solutions
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Scott shares his journey of restoring a DEC GT40 Graphic Display Terminal, first introduced in 1972. The GT40 played one of the earliest examples of computer graphics in a video game - Lunar Lander - showcasing the potential of computer simulations in entertainment along with its innovative use of vector graphics and physics-based gameplay.
Presented Saturday, February 19, 2024 at the Vintage Computer Festival SoCal at Hotel Fera in Orange, CA
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#LunarLander #DECGT40 #VCFSoCal #VCF #VCFed #VCFederation #Festivals #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #RetroGaming
Scott Swazey - Founder of Tattler Solutions
tempestfpga.com
Scott shares his journey of restoring a DEC GT40 Graphic Display Terminal, first introduced in 1972. The GT40 played one of the earliest examples of computer graphics in a video game - Lunar Lander - showcasing the potential of computer simulations in entertainment along with its innovative use of vector graphics and physics-based gameplay.
Presented Saturday, February 19, 2024 at the Vintage Computer Festival SoCal at Hotel Fera in Orange, CA
Join us at the next VCF SoCal! Visit VCFSoCal.com & sign up for the maili40444ng list for updates and more information.
#LunarLander #DECGT40 #VCFSoCal #VCF #VCFed #VCFederation #Festivals #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #RetroGaming
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VCF SoCal 2024 Inaugural Retro "Game Show" AKA Retro Chaos Unleashed Live
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VCF SoCal 2024 Inaugural Retro "Game Show" (this term should be used lightly) AKA Retro Chaos Unleashed Live AKA Where's Marc? AKA What was I saying? Featuring: Bil Herd Moderator Commodore Engineering Legend Levi Maaia Filmmaker, explorer, ethnographer and educator www.levimaaia.com VCF SoCal Exhibit: Levi's Retro Bridge Action Retro Extreme Amateur Vintage Computering actionretro.com VCF SoCa...
Randy Kindig / Modern Upgrades for Our Vintage Computers - VCF SoCal 2024 Presentations
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Getting the Most Enjoyment From Our Vintage Computers with Modern Upgrades Randy Kindig - Host of the Floppy Days Podcast - www.floppydays.com @floppydayspodcast7706 Co-host of the ANTIC Podcast - www.ataripodcast.com Co-host of the Next Without For Podcast - www.nextwithoutfor.org Randy reviews the myriad of modern upgrades for vintage computers - video, disk access, and even networking - tran...
Preserving Computing History Panel - VCF SoCal 2024 Presentations
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Preserving Computing History Panel Moderated by Sean Haas - Producer of Advent of Computing @adventofcomputing4504 adventofcomputing.com - Jim Trageser - Former Executive Director, Computer Museum of America - Anna Atkeson - Executive Director, Paul Gray PC Museum @thepaulgraypcmuseum research.cgu.edu/paul-gray-pc-museum/ - Sellam Ismail - Founder, Vintage Computer Festival The panel will explo...
Blue Sky Rangers / Intellivision Programmers 40th Reunion! - VCF SoCal 2024 Presentations
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Blue Sky Rangers - Intellivision Programmers - 40th Reunion! Moderated by Tom Boellstorff Enjoy an entertaining and informative panel of Blue Sky Rangers-the Intellivision game designers and programmers at Mattel Electronics in the early 1980s-as they share their memories and answer your questions about the pioneering days of video games. From the technical challenges of developing a game that ...
Paul Krizak / Wire Wrap Odyssey Computer - VCF SoCal 2024 Presentations
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Homebrew Throw-Back: Design and Construction of the Wire Wrap Odyssey Computer Paul Krizak Here's a secret: it turns out that building a computer from scratch (with no VLSI microprocessor) is not as daunting as one might think! We are in the midst of a renaissance in homebrew computer design, and UA-cam personalities like Ben Eater are showcasing the approachability of 1970s-era computer design...
Sellam Ismail / Founder of VCF - The Evolution of Computer Collecting - VCF SoCal 2024 Presentations
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The Evolution of Computer Collecting: Reflections Across Four Decades of RAM Sellam Ismail - Founder of the Vintage Computer Festival Sellam has been collecting and refining his expansive computer collection for nearly 4 decades, driven by a lifelong fascination with these wondrous machines. As founder of the Vintage Computer Festival and VintageTech, he's experienced firsthand the evolution of...
Thomas Cherryhomes / FujiNet - Where we've been, Where we're going - VCF SoCal 2024 Presentations
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FujiNet - Where we've been, Where we're going Thomas Cherryhomes - Firmware Developer of FujiNet fujinet.online Thomas Cherryhomes talks about the rapid progress of the project from its humble beginnings of making a WiFi Adapter for Atari systems, to how the team expanded the scope of the project to multiple platforms. He also shares lessons learned, and talks about the future roadmap. Presente...
Dan Watt / An Insiders View of IBM - VCF SoCal 2024 Presentations
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Dan speaks on the history of computers, with an insider's view of IBM. How engineering, design and manufacturing of the previous century made technology so common place for us today. How did "main frame" computing paved the way for personal computers? Or, how has Gen-Z never heard of IBM? #IBM #BigBlue #ThinkPad #TrackPoint #VCFSoCal #VCF #VCFed #VCFederation #Festivals #VintageComputing #Retro...
Lee Olivares / The Nuon Yak Twister - VCF SoCal 2024 Presentations
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The Nuon Yak Twister: Unlocking Abandoned Capability on an Obscure Console Lee Olivares - Owner, Destructive Services / LA 3D Printer Repair la3dpr.com Lee shares the story of the Nuon, developed by Atari Jaguar veterans as a "trojan horse" game-system inside an enhanced DVD player that aimed to rival PS2. Torpedoed by a strategic move by Sony, as well as limited game releases and few 'enhanced...
VCF SoCal 2024 Retro YouTube & Podcast Streamer Panel
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Commodore engineering legend Bil Herd moderates a fun discussion with a panel of retro computing & gaming UA-camrs & Podcasters, featuring (left to right): - Steve Diederich | The VintNerd on UA-cam www.youtube.com/@TheVintNerd - Sean Malseed | Action Retro on UA-cam www.youtube.com/@ActionRetro - Paul Nurminen | Intellivisionaries Podcast intellivisionaries.com - Amber | Tech Ambrosia on UA-ca...
Decuir & Cherryhomes / Atari & FujiNet - VCF SoCal 2024 Presentations
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Bridging Eras: Power of Atari OS through FujiNet Connectivity Joe Decuir - Former Atari Engineer, Lecturer at University of Washington Thomas Cherryhomes - Firmware Developer of FujiNet Joe and Thom talk about the Atari Operating system, highlighting its innovative features and architectural design. They explore how FujiNet, a modern networking device for vintage computers, utilizes the Atari O...
Evie Salomon / BackBit OS - VCF SoCal 2024 Presentations
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Porting BackBit OS to 32 Systems Evie Salomon - Founder and CEO of BackBit LLC www.backbit.io Evie, the creator of the BackBit Pro Cartridge & Chip Tester will expand upon the most interesting and frustrating parts of porting the BackBit Operating System to 32 different vintage computers and game consoles. Through brute force, fast iterations, and a little help from Google, she wrangled diverge...
ALL of VCF SoCal 2024 in a Fun Timelapse
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Missed VCF SoCal 2024?? Caught the show but still want more? Enjoy VCF SoCal 2024 end-to-end in just under 5 minutes. Including the overnight cleaning crew! 😂
Wonderful talk, and very moving to hear it. Thank you so much for the name check , Sellam, you changed my life! I really look forward to re-connecting. Stay well!
Some timestamps would be nice. The Aquarius has much better upgrades available than the two old ones mentioned here. Micro expander and MX give it incredibly more functionality with USB storage as well as Aqua pad controller and Aqua max tape loader solution from you make robots.
I love how Bill pronounces ANTIC as the "antique chipset" :-)
Thanks VCF SoCal and Bil for having me onstage for some reason!
50:09 I documented the procedure to uncover the Vectron Easter Egg and posted it on GameFAQs, though somebody else created the original indie disassembler and discovered the text in the ROM.
7:51 "The Award-Winning Kool-Aid Man" is one of the games I reverse-engineered. Fun to see what happens beyond Level 13.
Thanks for the great video! I watched and shared.
When I first started talking tp Sellam, I literally had no idea he was so pivitol in the vintage computer hobby. I just know him as the absolutely solid, funny and kind friend from the Apple II Facebook group but I now know my friend is a living legend! Great talk.
Some links of the things discuss would be really helpful
Terrific video! I have purchased numerous items from Sellam. Always top notch!!
Great talk, Sellam! I remember you from facebook, but i did not know who you really are..
Sellam, we need to hang out together more at the next Festival. This was a truly great presentation.
Thank you, I appreciate that. And yes, we do.
I swear I am swatting at an actual fly that was determined to interrupt my talk. Thank you to VCF SoCal for a fantastic event. I apologize if parts of my narrative seem confusing or are missing details but I was trying to fit at least three hours of blabber into one, and still recovering from an ER visit and antibiotics administered a couple days prior after I squared off with a feral cat on the farm (I won BTW).
The talk was fantastic! Thank you for contributing!!
I've been adjacent to the FujiNet project for 4 years now, and an Atari 8-bit user for over 40 years, but the fact that the FujiNet can just go "here's a new device called N:", and the Atari OS just goes "sure, whatever buddy", and suddenly you're OPEN #1,4...ing a file from 1000 miles away *still* blows my mind. 😂
The Defender leader board. MBR. That's me :).
Been waiting for this post, it was from Saturday which I missed due to conflict.
Great for me to finally see this video, Thom! I was stuck at my booth.
I know how you feel. I wait to see the talks when they're recorded, because I want to make sure that I can interact with everyone at the booth.
Great presentation! Thanks for the call out. Those were exciting times. Still use my nuon rotary controller with yak twister board❤
Great talk, was glad to say I was there. It can't be forgotten that it took a company the size of IBM to give the world core-memory and SLT logic. The development of OS/360 run over budget and behind schedule and cost something like $5B in the 1960s!
These panels are a great show highlight where multiple perspectives are available and introducing new names. Shows too that the best of the VCF isn't confined to the first day.
Such a great show
Thanks! We are so glad you enjoyed it, and hope we'll see you again at the next one. (Psst-Shhhhh... Think: Presidents' Day Weekend again, in the same venue. We just can't officially, Officially announce it yet. So, don't post it on the Interwebs.)
11:40 The "E:" editor device "didn't do anything important", Joe says! 😂 I know, I know, he's really talking about the 400 & 800 built-in Memo Pad. Still though, the Atari's editor was joy to work with, compared to the Timex Sinclair 1000 (ZX81), Commodore 64, and Apple II that I had also poked around on at the time.
Hey Bill! Funny lol -Cheers, Steve aka The VintNerd
Enjoyed finding me and my party. Cool!
Nice! 😃
Cool! Glad I remembered to set up the camera for it!
Yes! Thank You! It is funny watching the cleaning crew overnight. 😆 -Steve
As an 'early adopter' of the Backbit its great to see its capability come to so many of the retro platforms.
We agree!
Please post too the interview about the development history at IBM. It was Sunday afternoon as I remember.
We are working to get these edited-up and posted as soon as we are able to. Keep checking back! :)
Great to see these get to the web, even as well attended for its first show (VCF SoCal) not everyone could travel to hear this pioneering work on Fujinet.
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I had no clue what I was in before I went as I don’t have an Atari - but I am glad it went as it was a good presentation
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Great presentation, thanks for sharing it!
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