ECCC 2009 was held on September 26, 2009 in Chicago, and lived up to its reputation as a hotbed of Commodore creativity. All the cool kids were there, and there was much to look at and learn (click little pic for big pic).
Packing up my babies for the trip. |
Unpacking the second layer. |
DLH came to the expo, which gave us the chance to see how he does the scans he's become famous for. |
DLH scans my Abacus COBOL manual. |
Scanning the cover slip of the manual's binder... |
...and photographing the disk label. |
Hellion and Snogpitch man the ECCC table, where the 64NIC+ was sold. |
Hellion and Dragos take a lunch break. |
For many of us who couldn't stand to leave, this was lunch. |
Jasmaz and FireflyST sell off The Minnesota Hoard. |
DemongerX was the Stereo SID Kid this year. |
The demo schedule for this year's expo. |
WizardNJ drives for the demo of Cartograph, a new game mapper from Arkanix Labs. |
Fuzz-PSW takes a question about Cartograph from Burning Horizon. |
Schema showed a MIDI cartridge for the VIC-20, starting with a slide presentation. |
The setup for the demo portion of Schema's talk. |
The VIC-20 MIDI interface in action. |
The prototype board used in the demo. |
Jim Brain gives a talk about his projects. On the screen is the circuit diagram for ROM-el. |
Jim's table is hit by a cyclone. The card at upper left is a 64NIC+. |
The WIZ/Style showed us Xider, a xdev IDE he's working on that features symbolic debugging and VICE integration. |
Marty Goldberg gives a talk on the intertwined history of Commodore and Atari. |
An Atari machine gets a memory and video upgrade. |
Game time! |
Macbeth/PSW tries his hand at a VIC-20 game. |
A rare piece of Commodore audio hardware. |
Eric poses for a mugshot. |
Six/Style goes disk hunting. |
This 1541 drive keeps cool under pressure. |
A Minimig poses for the camera. |
This year's mystery item, believed to be for a kiosk display. |
The good, the bad, and... well, you get the idea. |
The restaurant list. I went my own way and suffered the Curse of ECCC when the Thai restaurant I was aiming for turned out to be long closed. |
As the expo winds down, the toys come out. |
After pounding on my code for most of the day with a packet tracer and a debugger.... |
...a very fragile prototype of what's believed to be the first networked GEOS program finally ran. |