VCF East 2025

[mrbombermillzy]

I dont know if its because Ive never been to any bigger scale vintage computer events, but anyway, this vlog by LGR had me absolutely salivating:



Im posting it here for the like-minded droolers. You know who you are!

[coonsgm]

Just wait to see what VCF Midwest looks like

It’s even bigger than last year. Darklord and I are having a blast!

[mrbombermillzy]

Just wait to see what VCF Midwest looks like

What?!

I thought this *was* the one you guys were at? (I watched to see if I would spot you there, but got carried away looking at all that.....stuff).

Are they both always on the same weekend?

@coonsgm @Darklord any videos for us to watch?

[coonsgm]

Nah the video posted there is from earlier in the year. Those YTer are here this weekend.

The one in Chicago is even bigger

[coonsgm]

Here are my tables set up. I took a fair amount of video yesterday and today. I'll get a video up in around a week. It'll be part VCF Midwest overview and part commentary on the social aspect of retro computing.

It was a mad house for about 8 hours today. I had a couple of the really big YouTubers stop by at least briefly (that I noticed): Sean from Action Retro spent some time tinkering with the Falcon, the 8-bit guy stopped briefly by, Ben Heck, LGR, Crazy Ken....these are just the ones I noticed. Spent quite a while connecting with the gentleman from Ravenwolf Retro Tech who picked up game code he wrote in the 80's again to finish an RPG off:

Anyone who was a self-described ST Atarian, I asked if they frequented this forum and pointed them this way if they weren't already connected. It was so great to connect with so many awesome folks! Had a gentleman stop by and walk me through programming a lines-like "screen saver" on my 800xl in basic, heard loads of fantastic Atari stories, sold both the extra ST's I had brought for sale (crazy pricing on the other ST's there...I was $100 cheaper and even then I felt like I was asking too much), picked up an Indus drive for my 8-bit Atari's, some new old stock Atari ST / 8-bit games and an Apple IIgs.

Although anytime @Darlkord dropped by, all my ST's seemed to crash....curse you and your bad luck.

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[mrbombermillzy]

Wow. Looking great there.

The Ravenwolf Retro RPG story is fascinating too.

Hope you guys are having a blast!

[Darklord]

Just wait to see what VCF Midwest looks like

It’s even bigger than last year. Darklord and I are having a blast!

We seriously are...!

[Darklord]

Although anytime @DarkLord dropped by, all my ST's seemed to crash....curse you and your bad luck.

Sorry about that! (they were just excited because I was there)...