#vcfeast2024 — Public Fediverse posts

@vcfederation has just posted my video from #VCFEast2024 showing the process of #coinop #gamedev at Atari in the early 1980s, using a #PDP11 as a cross-assembler. #retrogaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5JIm8z4xtw

Retrocomputing Mastobrain! I am am working with @cvwise to complete a video of my #pcjr presentation from #vcfeast2024. I am looking for somewhere to host it. Where do you think the best place to do this is?

Once upon a time I used a PeerTube host whose name I can't even remember anymore. But I want a location that can easily be shared across the #retrocomputing community. Now, a lot of us are here so that may work. [1/2]

Today, my goals are to work on my household finances a bit, and to work with @cvwise at making a YouTube-able version of my "Life and Times of the IBM PCjr" presentation from #vcfeast2024 that I can share here and try to submit to the IBM Archives.

We started work yesterday, and because there is a slight interference in the composite out from the #pcjr (making it warble slightly) and chroma-key bleed, it looks like it came off of VHS and has a slight analog horror vibe (which I love)

Here's a preview of the wonderful insanity that was VCF East 2024. Full video will be out sometime this week!🤞

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MPn0BHpoOE

#VCFEast #VCFEast2024

@cvwise is processing my #vcfeast2024 #pcjr video into OBS using the Junior's composite video out. There is some sort of minor interference in the line, giving it slight analog horror vibes.

The full video is a 30 minutes long.

@hannahpatellis @RonsCompVids @admin @mac84tv @burgerbecky @cvwise @Maclibrarian @arkaxow Close up views of my #pcjr presentation at #vcfeast2024

@hannahpatellis @RonsCompVids @admin @mac84tv @burgerbecky @cvwise @Maclibrarian @arkaxow Distance views of my #pcjr presentation at #vcfeast2024 . Visible are the Charlie Chaplin standee, a boxed PCjr joystick, a Cartridge BASIC ROM cartridge, a 5.25 inch floppy disk caddy with disks, IBM PC-DOS 5 manuals, boxed IBM manuals (from right to left: Storyboard Plus, PCjr BASIC, PCjr Technical Reference), a Mouse Systems optical mouse, the PCjr, and an IBM PC Graphics Printer (Epson MX-80)

@hannahpatellis @RonsCompVids @admin @mac84tv @burgerbecky @cvwise @Maclibrarian @arkaxow A #vcfeast2024 visitor looks at my #pcjr presentation.

@hannahpatellis @RonsCompVids @admin @mac84tv @burgerbecky @cvwise @Maclibrarian @arkaxow me posing with "IBM'd Odd Duck: The Life and Times of the PCjr", my #pcjr exhibit for #vcfeast2024. I have a hard time trying to smile for the camera (my wedding day was hell), so this is the best you're gonna get.

On the screen, Junior talks about Don Estridge's bad assumption about who would be purchasing IBM's "home" computer.

@hannahpatellis @RonsCompVids @admin @mac84tv @burgerbecky @cvwise @Maclibrarian @arkaxow 40-year IBM veteran and recent retiree Gary Strait showing my #pcjr exhibit to a visitor at #vcfeast2024. Gary wrote NOBEEP, one of the third-party TSRs (userspace DOS drivers) used to make the PCjr work properly with a bunch of software.

@hannahpatellis @RonsCompVids @admin @mac84tv @burgerbecky @cvwise @Maclibrarian

An IBM Marketing Charlie Chaplin stand-in that @arkaxow found in the VCF Mid-Atlantic warehouse. The banner on him took 20 minutes to print using Mouse Systems PC Paint Pro 2 #pcjr #vcfeast2024

@hannahpatellis @RonsCompVids @admin @mac84tv @burgerbecky @cvwise

Close up of me editing the mouth of Junior, the @Maclibrarian -inspired #pcjr character in my PCjr-based presentation on the PCjr #vcfeast2024

I got back safely from #vcfeast2024 in one piece a little over an hour ago. Oof, I am _exhausted_.

I had a really fun time this year, and I al stupid proud of my presentation. I still want to get a video of the whole presentation and submit it to VCF Mid-Atlantic, the IBM Corporate Archives, and post it somewhere to share here.

#vcfeast2024 is going well so far! My #pcjr self-driving presentation is _almost_ finished, but nobody has sat around for the whole thing to realize it. And my table has been very well attended!

I would LOVE to know who's doing the cable TV demo at #VCFEast #VCFEast2024 this weekend. A friend just sent me photos...!
Looks like a single channel NTSC scrambler with a pirate decoder, a bunch of cable modems and a CMTS, and an EAS message receiver/inserter? Cool stuff!