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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! :lol:

Just wait to see what VCF Midwest looks like 😜

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

coonsgm wrote: 13 Sep 2025 20:29 Just wait to see what VCF Midwest looks like 😜

What?!

I thought this *was* the one you guys were at? :lol: (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? :)

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

The one in Chicago is even bigger

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.

Wow. Looking great there.

The Ravenwolf Retro RPG story is fascinating too.

Hope you guys are having a blast! :D

coonsgm wrote: 13 Sep 2025 20:29 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...! :lol:

coonsgm wrote: 14 Sep 2025 04:17 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)... :lol: