Atari Invasion (NL)

Atari Invasion 2k18 On February 17th, at approximately 8.45 the first invader arrived at ' het Trefpunt ' in Maarssen. He was soon joined by the other invaders and at 10.00 the buildup was well underway. By the time the general assembly of members of the HCC Commodore ig was finished, most of the gear was hooked up and the Invasion started. The museum rack was back again. This year we had it filled with our custom Atari homecomputer stands, one with XL computers, the other with XE machines. A light sixer with Quelle's Universum keyboard, a Lynx and 7800 on another shelve and finally an 800 and the Sears Tele-Games. Next to the museum our custom display case was filled with a broad range of home-brew items for the 2600, 7800 and 8bit range of Atari systems. We brought along some binders, books and magazines. The podcast station - an old tablet with the ' retro atari podcast ' app - was not used at all, unfortunately. Something we also didn't put to use wa...

ABBUC JHV 2017 Elk jaar houdt de Atari Bit Byter User Club (ABBUC) haar ‘Jahreshauptversammlung’ (JHV). Tijdens een JHV zijn er tafels beschikbaar waar leden Atari gerelateerde zaken kunnen demonstreren, of hun (dubbele) hard en software verkopen. Verder krijgen de verschillende ‘regionalgruppe’ het woord en is er ruimte voor discussie over club gerelateerde zaken. Er wordt bekendgemaakt wie de ‘ABBUC Bundesliga’, hard- en software competities hebben gewonnen. Inmiddels zijn we aangekomen bij JHV nummer 32, gehouden op 28 oktober 2017 in het ‘Bürgerhaus Süd’ te Herten. Met het verstrijken van de tijd is het publiek veelal grijzer en kaler geworden, zo ook de vier Atari Invaders die zaterdagochtend vroeg aan de reis begonnen. Rond 8u werd Ivo door Dennis opgehaald en samen zetten zij de reis voort richting Hilversum, waar Freddy en Nir (overgekomen uit Israël voor de gelegenheid) al op hen zaten te wachten. Spullen voor de verkoop en ter demonstratie werden in de auto geladen en...

Atari Invasion on Tour (UK) The 16th and 17th of September the ‘Retro Computer Festival 2017’ took place in the ‘ Centre for Computing History ’ (CfCH) in Cambridge, meant as a fundraiser for the museum. During the festival several exhibitors showed their products, collections and even replicas to the museum’s visitors. One of our members jokingly suggested to visit the festival a couple of months ago, but surprisingly there was genuine interest within the team and even with the organisation of the festival itself. So we started preparations by deciding on a travel budget and started creating a preliminary planning: What to bring with only hand luggage available? As bringing luggage was out of our budget. So, we reached out to the CfCH and asked if we could borrow machines, screens and joysticks for the weekend. This turned out to be no problem at all, so our packing list was now limited to peripherals like memory expansions, video mods, cartridges. Hardware aside, we also wanted...