Vintage Computer Festival South West and VICs

[JonBrawn]

A few weekends ago, I took Victor (6560/61 FPGA replacement) and the associated gubbins to the VCF SW in Dallas, Texas. VCF is a USA-wide organisation that set up pretty significant events where people exhibit "old" computer-related equipment and paraphernalia (there was a modern valve computer, for example). Commodore equipment is abundant. One chap had a prototype 16KB VIC made by Commodore and a "brown board" VIC-20, where the PCB is unlike any other commonly found.

VCF SW information can be found at vcfsw.org; there is a YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@VCFSW, and a video of my exhibit there is here at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu8HzBcfQoE

This is a picture of CommodoreZ's 16KB and Brown Board VICs. It's deliberately at a high resolution so you can zoom in on those RAM chips on the 16KB board. Unfortunately, it's not a brilliant shot of the brown board.

[highinfidelity]

Following your suggestions' request here, which games have you chosen to carry at the expo in the end (except Centipede, of course!) and how did the audience receive them?

Any pictures of the contemporary valve computer, perhaps?

[JonBrawn]

This is Usagi Electric's 1-bit valve computer. For much more info, hunt for "usagi electric" on YouTube

[JonBrawn]

Following your suggestions' request here, which games have you chosen to carry at the expo in the end (except Centipede, of course!) and how did the audience receive them?

In the end I was limited to whatever I had on the multi-game cartridge I took with me.

[CommodoreZ]

Oh hey, I'm a bit late to the party. This was my exhibit at VCF Southwest 2023:

2 tables, 3 monitors, and up to 3 VICs running at once.

Here is the 1001 and the early US model:

Here's the 16K prototype:

On top of the TV is the "brown board" prototype, and on the table is my favorite Rev E machine:

It was a good time, I'm glad I got to meet JonBrawn and see his Victor project in action, it's mighty fine work!

There were a few other VICs floating around at various tables. This one was running a simple Mastodon client on an unexpanded system with a NIC:

And here are 4 of those modified ones: