The 2008 Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention was held on September 27 in Lombard, IL (near Chicago). Attendance was excellent and so, as usual, was the show. As is customary, we retired to the hotel lobby for an afterparty that was still going when I left a little after 0300. You know the drill: click little picture for big picture.
Here's a PDF of the presentation I gave, called "Hacking the Q-Link Source: How to get involved in the Q-Link Reloaded Project".
 The emergency is over, but they just keep coming! Show organizer Jason Compton in the dark blue t-shirt. |
More of the faithful, including some new converts. |
 Several people walked in with mountains of Commodore equipment to sell, including this hoard, which included some choice CMD items. |
Reaction to Dragos' opening bid on a SuperCPU (it sold for $160). One more reason to come to the shows: buy low! sell high! recoup your travel expenses! |
 Among the items shown by the Chicago contingent were a Plus 4 and an Amiga 3000. |
 SWRAP, whose shows ECCC follows in the footsteps of, celebrated their 25th anniversary with a delicious chocolate cake with strawberries in. Taste the GEOS goodness! |
 Jim Brain showed us the latest developments in his uIEC project. |
 Jim assembled uIEC boards at the show, as he did at last summer's C=4 expo. Several people had the first version re-flashed at the show as well. |
 Toni Westbrook showed us Shredz 64, which brings Guitar Hero to the Commodore 64. The project grew out of his work with the PSX64 interface. |
 Shane (Saehn/Style) puts Prophet64 through its paces on my machine; Elwix/Style looks on. Prophet64 is plugged into one of Mangelore's stereo SID cartridges. |
 Look out! It's a monster VIC-20 cartridge! |
 Sean (Pegasus) answered the call to man a soldering station. A wide range of hardware underwent surgery in his clinic. |
 Leif Bloomquist (Schema), on the far left, showed his NetRacer game, played on a number of networked Commodore 64s over Ethernet. There are persistent rumors about a C64MMORPG... |
 The restaurant list for Saturday night. Of course, the group I was with went to the Taj, which had been closed by the health department. It was also conclusively proven that geeks with GPS units will invariably get lost while traveling short distances, presumably because they insist on second-guessing them. |