28 Sep 2015
I really hope that the Kickstarter campaign to create brand-new Amiga 1200 cases from new molds using UV-resistant (not yellowing) plastic succeeds.
When Petro Tyschtschenko announced, though, that he found original (never opened, sealed) Amiga 1200 repair kits consisting of top and bottom case, keyboard, and power supply unit, I could not resist and bought one of these kits. Just in case.
You may wonder why I need I need a new Amiga 1200 case and keyboard. At the Amiga 30 Years event in Amsterdam earlier this year, Jens Schönfeld of individual Computers announced that he is working on a new Amiga 1200 mainboard, the Amiga Reloaded. And I would like to build a new Amiga 1200 using this new mainboard, ideally in a new (translucent) case that I will hopefully get through the aforementioned Kickstarter campaign.
05 Aug 2015
Today I visited the gamescom fair in Cologne. The retro computing area had a booth that exhibited all classic Amiga models.
04 Aug 2015
Last year I backed Chris Huelsbeck’s Kickstarter campaign to create an album with piano renditions of his greatest hits. Tonight I attended the backer’s dinner in Cologne during which Patrick Nevian performed selected tracks from the album live. At the dinner I also received my copy of the album. Chris and Patrick were kind enough to sign my copy’s booklet.
The Piano Dinner was a nice event, the people I shared the table with were nice and the food was good. Unfortunately, though, the attendees of the Games Köpfe Dinner, a business mixer event colocated with our dinner, did not really show respect for the music and were quite loud.
02 Aug 2015
Yesterday I attended my first demoscene event in fifteen years, the Evoke 2015 party in Cologne, Germany. The organizers of Evoke had asked me to present a seminar on my Amiga retrocomputing experience at this year’s event. You can find the material that I used for my presentation here. A video of the seminar has been recorded and should be published on YouTube in a couple of weeks.
I had a blast at Evoke as the event presented me with an opportunity to catch up with some old friends from the demoscene in general and the Amiga community in particular. And somehow I now have this crazy idea to prepare a PHP-based demo competition entry for next year. Maybe using PHP-SDL? We’ll see.
