Atari Invasion 2k23

[SenorRossie]

Season greetings!

 

The preparations for the next edition of our annual 'Atari Invasion' are in very early stages still. The seventh Invasion - if we stick to Maarssen editions only - will take place on April 15 next year.

 

The theme of the HCC Commodore Club meeting take-over has 'Remakes and Demakes' as a working theme, but rest assured there will be plenty of OG Atari around as we aim to cover a lot of the Atari spectrum. There will be games, demonstrations and lots of time for socializing.

 

Want to join in on the fun as part of the crew, let us known. If you are interested and just want to take a look around or have a chat, we will be in 'het Schuurtje' all day on April 15 2023. Doors open at 10.00 and close at 16.00.

 

Hope to see you in Maarssen!

The Atari Invasion team

 

P.S. More news as events warrant

[Mclaneinc]

Hope it's a wonderful event, let's hope COVID does not affect it (can't imagine it will be considering how things are more open now).

 

Looking forward to any releases but you guys and gals (and kids) have a great time..

[Thelen]

8 hours ago, SenorRossie said:

If you are interested and just want to take a look around or have a chat, we will be in 'het Schuurtje' all day on April 15 2023. Doors open at 10.00 and close at 16.00.

Cool! Looking forward to see other Atarians there!

[SenorRossie]

A small update,

 

Yesterday we participated in the HCC!Kennisdag, where several sigs were present, that shared the expo location with railroad fair. We saw a lot of interest for our 'little' retro setup. We shared the tablespace with the Commodore sig, hence the Commodore flag under(!) our Flashback 9 with Atari Museum NL skin (thanks @Fred_M).

 

A quick reminder we will be in 'het Schuurtje' all day on April 15 2023. Doors open at 10.00 and close at 16.00.

 

 

[ClausB]

I hope someone will bring more tape for that Atari flag.

[SenorRossie]

5 hours ago, ClausB said:

I hope someone will bring more tape for that Atari flag.

The Commodore sig member that put the flag up there didn't put much effort nor tape in it. We fixed it immediately after taking the pictures and the flag stayed up until the end of a day.

 

Lesson learned: don't ask a commodore guy if you want to have something done properly

[Mathy]

Hello SenorRosie

 

2 hours ago, SenorRossie said:

Lesson learned: don't ask a commodore guy if you want to have something done properly

 

What did you expect?  These guys chose a computer years ago:  The wrong one!

 

Sincerely

 

Mathy

 

 

[SenorRossie]

Good morning (local time),
 

<propaganda>

The seventh (official) edition of our commodore club invasion was successful, we occupied the building in the early hours when none of the commodore members were present

</propaganda>

 

On Saturday morning at 8.30 we entered 'het Schuurtje' with a small reconnaissance crew to start the build up. As every year, we told everyone we would bring less stuff and - just like all previous years - we failed (some more than others), but I digress. Most of the buildup was done by the time the meeting officially started, however, we were still waiting for the rest of the troops that were being held up for various reasons.

 

The theme for this year 'remakes and demakes' meant that we could sneak in other systems (as long as they would run Atari related games/software), so the vectrex with piTrex was showing off Atari Vector games like Battlezone. The stunt cycle proved to be very picky as to which TV system it would work on. Our 2600 consoles ran both Harmony and Pluscarts to load games, while the 7800 was running homebrews from its Concerto cartridge with Pokey chip. @Lamer Deluxe tm brought several Lynx consoles and a MiSTer that randomly loaded games to demonstrate. Ofcourse there were several homecomputers, ranging from the classic 400 to an Arabic 65XE (which makes some of the text of the in-store demo very hard to read). We had several Homebrews on display, a Video Music, Atari 800XL and 130XE mainboard remakes and as we are too lazybusy unpopulated 1088XEL and 576NUC mainboards. The info-beamer presentation was showing classic advertisements, a demoscene timeline and a remake and demake presentation. The museum rack was filled with remakes like some the AT Games flashback consoles (the Flashback 9 was running the same sd card we used in the pre invasion), a boxed TV Boy, a Coleco Gemini console Japanese Atari 2800 Console lend to us by Atarimuseum.nl.

 

As the HCC Commodore sig meetings are attracting more people, we had to give up some of our space, hopefully by the time of the next invasion this will be resolved. Either that or we finally learn not to take too much stuff with us.

You can find pictures of this and past events in our FlickR albums. A few shots of our corner of the meeting space:

 

Edited April 16, 2023 by SenorRossie
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