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Pictures from Seattle's Classic Gaming Weekend

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-fun-to-check-out dept.

Cyberroach has pictures from last week's Classic Gaming Weekend in Seattle. The pictures include an "Obsolete Media Festival" with a guy who makes music with an Atari 2600, Commodore C64, and a dot-matrix printer; old hardware from the NorthWest Classic Gaming Enthusiasts' Meeting; and the 6th Annual Atari Championship.

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  1. My Classic game by ch-chuck · · Score: 5, Interesting

    here is my classic game - Space War on a MITS Altair (8080), two DAC channels, a 'scope, and two 4 switch boxes for CW, CCW, Fire and Thrust and a lot of assembly language. Get the quicktime movie to see it in action.

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    try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
  2. I recognize that musical printer! by chuckgrosvenor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    An old Epson LQ-500.. all the Epson dot matrix printers were very good quality (for their time), and noisy as hell.. they also seemed to have a much higher pitch in noise than most printers, especially when you'd stick them in a graphics mode, or something funky..

    but listening to one for more than 5 minutes would probably drive me insane once the nostalgia wore off.. I certainly don't miss the jammed paper, the noise, the low dot-pitch which screamed "Done on a computer"..

    actually, I think it would have been more interesting if he sampled a lot of different printers.. like an old VAX line printer.. chunga-chunga-chunga..

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    ChuckyG