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ECCC 2007

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The 2007 Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention was held at Heron Point in Lombard on September 29, 2007. The atmosphere was very relaxed; in fact, there wasn't a single demo! It was more like one continuous after-party :)

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The Mighty Heron
The mighty heron reads its head... 		level of discharge
...near the level of discharge.
 
crowd one
Some old faces and some new faces. 		crowd two
Shopping for the good stuff.
 
fun for all ages
Fun for all ages. 		VIC-20 multicart reset
The new VIC-20 multi-game cartridge gets a reset.
 
VIC-20 multicart wire-wrap
Wire wrapping on the bottom of the VIC-20 multi-game cartridge... 		VIC-20 multi-game cartridge top view
...and a topside view.
 
128D prototype
A rare 128D prototype that Eric got from the guys at CMD back in the day... 		128D prototype bottom view
...and a bottom view: space to stow the keyboard and prongs to wrap up the power cord.
 
Jack Rubin
Jack Rubin (left) stopped by for a while, but wasn't able to bring his KIMs. 		Amiga memory upgrade
An Amiga memory upgrade on offer.
 
Six making music
Six/Style making music with VoiceTracker. 		Mark Seelye
Mark Seelye doing some DTV hacking.
 
Snogpitch on Q-Link
Snogpitch chats on Q-Link. This was my machine, which used one of Doppleganger's RS-232 boards going to a USB-to-serial adapter on my laptop, which was running tcpser under SUSE Linux.		 Eric selling
Jeri, Jason, and Julian at Eric Kudzin's table. He sold off quite a pile of Commodore stuff because he's going to be moving.
 
Artillery Duel
Leif finds a willing victim for the networked version of Artillery Duel. Notice the RetroReplay/RR-Net boards connected to a hub. (This year's hardware hack was to get a strobe light to flash when there was an explosion in the game.) 		VIC-20 crew
The VIC-20 crew: Robin Harbron (Macbeth/PSW), Jeff Daniels of the Denial site, Leif Bloomquist (Schema), and Mark Gladson (Dragos).
 
electrician's nightmare
Somewhere, an electrician is having a nightmare... 		Plus 4 style="border: 0"/>
...but the Plus 4 (belonging to Jim Mazurek) worked great.
 
Commodore watch taken apart
Saraba helped me disassemble my Commodore watch so I can replace the battery... 		Joey checks Commodore watch battery
...and Joey Palumbo helped me identify it.
 
Jim Butterfield letter
A more serious moment as Joe read a letter from the late Jim Butterfield that was supposed to go with an HP calculator he wanted to give to Jeri Ellsworth. Joe also had copies of the program from Jim's memorial, complete with the famous picture of him in a velvet smoking jacket. 		dinner at Portillo's
Dinner at Portillo's, where the future of 8-bit machines for the next several decades was decided.
 
after-party
A more relaxed moment later that night. This year, we had the room till 01:00 Sunday morning. 		Six with power brick
As he packs up his gear, Six demonstrates the only good use for a "brick" power supply... as a weapon of self-defense :)
 

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