Dan Iacovelli

July 13, 2003

one quick note: the trip to safariland was cancled at last minute since I figured that we didn't have a firm confirmation on it and I didn't feel it would be right to collect the money.(plus we didn't have enough people interested in it anyways)

Dan

July 13, 2003

just want to say despite a low turn out the first annual VGS turned out pretty good.
(once again I forgot to bring my digicamera,but I belive some others took pictures though)

saddlythe schedule I had planned orginally didn't come out good

I still have lots of items left over.

it was good to see goat store and rpm-games. we had two people with tables outside the room. my orginal planned layout was passed soI just if people neeed the power and placed them by the outlets.

we did have three winners for touneys:

Dan loosen was the big winner of the jagfest prize package(AUN t-shirt,30.00 Giftcertificate from pack rat vg and a copy of the DP collectors guide)

others winners was paul zimmerman who won the space treat competition

(copy of space treat delux and a Atari age t-shirt)

Rob M won the 2k2 mwc edition of warring worms and an atari age t-shirt

(he didn't enter but he played space treat and I figured since nobody entered the Warring worms tourney I figured give the person who came in second in space treat)

Tom L had his Lynx collection displayed and brought a good drawl to jagfest area.

it was good hear bud melvin play his banjo along with his gameboy.

bohus had a good display.

over all it was pretty good for a first time for show.

(theres a chance I might have it again next year)

I'll have a full report up on my website in a three or four days.

Dan Iacovelli

if anybody from Atariage that came to the show took pictures please post them or put up at your website.

Dan

July 13, 2003

it was good to see some people from AA to come to my first try at the show.

if you guys wanted your AA names on the badges you could have told me I would have wriiten it down.

Re: next years show I am still working out the plans for it. (I'll prob have it at the same location)

Dan

July 13, 2003

just want to say despite a low turn out the first annual VGS turned out pretty good.

(once again I forgot to bring my digicamera,but I belive some others took pictures though)

saddlythe schedule I had planned orginally didn't come out good

I still have lots of items left over.

it was good to see goat store and rpm-games. we had two people with tables outside the room. my orginal planned layout was passed soI just if people neeed the power and placed them by the outlets.

we did have three winners for touneys:

Dan loosen was the big winner of the jagfest prize package(AUN t-shirt,30.00 Giftcertificate from pack rat vg and a copy of the DP collectors guide)

others winners was paul zimmerman who won the space treat competition

(copy of space treat delux and a Atari age t-shirt)

Rob M won the 2k2 mwc edition of warring worms and an atari age t-shirt

(he didn't enter but he played space treat and I figured since nobody entered the Warring worms tourney I figured give the person who came in second in space treat)

Tom L had his Lynx collection displayed and brought a good drawl to jagfest area.

it was good hear bud melvin play his banjo along with his gameboy.

bohus had a good display.

over all it was pretty good for a first time for show.

(theres a chance I might have it again next year)

I'll have a full report up on my website in a three or four days.

Dan Iacovelli

July 12, 2003

I don't think Carl is intentionally trying to overshadow the other JagFest stops (otherwise he could've announced this stuff long ago to discourage attendance at the other events), it just seems like he's putting a lot of effort into getting exclusive new content to the CGE Fest. There's nothing stopping other organizers from doing the same!

I know, I do what I can for the fests I'm heading up(MWC and VGS)

while fest at MWC was more down scaled,Fest at VGS will make up for that.

I really hope fest at CGE goes well.

Dan Iacovelli

July 11, 2003

man looks like carl is stealing the thunder from the other jagfest tour locations .

any ways looks like Jagfest at CGE is going be known as the granddady of of the Jagfest tour.

Dan Iacovelli

July 11, 2003

A quick update on the table locations:

there will be 35 tables inside the room

and 15 tables outside of the room in the hall way.

if you pre-paid or reserved a table you are guaranteed a table inside

(the people who didn't reserve or pre-pay you will get a choice of the remaining tables)

Dan Iacovelli

July 11, 2003

For Immediate Release:

July 11, 2003

Atari Video Club/Jaguar Community United is pleased to announce the following events

for The Video Game Summit:

Besides what was announced about the Jagfest on Tour Section in a previous press

release, we do have other events planned.

(For those who don’t remember here is a list of Jagfest tourneys:

Protector SE and 3 Lynx tourneys (to be announced at show time))

At the AVC/JCU table we will be having A number of 2600 games to be played ( if you

want to see a certain game all you have to is ask) there as well as three 2600 Tourneys for

that table:

Escape from the Mind Master, the prize for this tourney is NES Game Genie

supplied by Good Deal Games;

Warring Worms, the prize for this tourney is MWC 2002 Special edition of this game and

an extra large Atari Age. t-shirt supplied by Atari Age;

and Space Treat, the prize for this tourney is the deluxe version of this game and an extra

large Atari Age T-shirt supplied by Atari Age.

Other tourneys are also being planned and will be announced at show time.

(We will also be taking orders for issues of the Atari zone fanzine as well)

We welcome Goat Store to the show; they are the organizers of the annual Midwest

Classic show in Milwaukee, WI as well as being one of the best online stores for classic

games; they will be selling various Atari, Sega and Nintendo as well as other classic

gaming items as showing Feet of Fury for The DC. Also at the show will be Robert

Mundschau who runs RPM-games.com he will be selling Loadstar compleat for

C64:LOADSTAR magazine for Commodore 64 on floppy disk, now all on one CDROM.

Hundreds of games, puzzles, articles, artwork and SID music that you can enjoy

on your PC or Macintosh computer. Free emulator provided for Windows as well. And

if you missed seeing the 2600 game Gravity Ball at Midwest Classic then you will you

have another chance to see at VGS.

Also coming to VGS is The Suburban Chicago Atarian (SCAT) Users group who will be

running programs on the Falcon030, 130XE and ST (16/32-bit) computers as well as

selling disks from their 8-bit library. Also Dave Ross will be unofficially representing the

South West Regional Association of Programmers (SWARP) Users group for the C64

and 128; he will be running programs on these systems as well as flyers for their annual

Commodore computer Fall Expo show on October 11th (at the same hotel where VGS is

at).

We also have Harry Dodgson, Matt G, Paul Zimmerman and Andrew Bray selling or

trading their items.

We are also going to have music being played through out the show

either from the Jagfest section (Dan Iacovelli will be playing his Weird Al Yankovic CD’s,

as well as Pac-man fever and Tempest 2k sound track) or any other table.

Plus we are pleased to have the music styling from Bud Melvin as he plays

his banjo with his Game Boy towards the end of the show.

(Bud’s website can be found at http://www.budmelvin.com )

Join the Video Game Summit mailing list for updates on the event

([email protected])

For information on the Video Game Summit:

http://avc.atari-users.net/Events/FestVGS.html

Visit the official Jagfest website at

http://jagfest.atari.org

End Press Release

July 11, 2003

Atari Video Club Announces The Video Game Summit

For Immediate Release:

February 4th, 2003:

The Atari Video Club is proud to announce plans for their first Video Game Trade Show

to be titled as The Video Game Summit. The location for this event is in Suburban

Lombard, IL at The Quality Inn and Suites Hotel, (645 W. North Ave, Lombard, IL

60148-1109 (630)-629-1500). The date for the event is July 12th, 2003 from 9am till 4:30pm.

Admission costs are the following: General admission: $8.00 per person at the door (advance payment is $6.00) Visitor/ Dealer Tables (includes admission for two):15.00 for one table (extra tables $5.00 each) This event is open to all game systems (from old school systems to next generation systems that are out now) Advance payments start on February 10th,2003.

The Video Game Summit is also one of the stops on the Jagfest tour which will feature

the best of what the Atari Jaguar has to offer which includes demos of Proto’s and new

Atari Jaguar items as well as various tourneys. (Some Lynx and Nuon stuff will also be

thrown in to the mix as well)

Join the Video Game Summit mailing list for updates on the event ( [email protected] )

Visit the VGS website: http://avc.atari-users.net/Events/FestVGS.html

END PRESS RELEASE

A quick update about the show coming this saturday:

1st. we will have two main vendors at the show,

Goat Store.com from WI(if you missed feet of fury at MWC, you get another chance to see it and play it at VGS)

and RPM-Games(Gravity ball will be demoed, and they will be selling loadstar complete(a C64 magazine on CD (all 199 issues on one CD)

plus we will have indiviuals selling there own stuff

and we hope to have some sort of museum (not as big as MWC or CGE but we do plan to have somthing)

plus live music from bud melvin and his banjo and game boy.

Hope to see you all there.

(a full press release realese will be out tomarrow giving more deatils)

Dan Iacovelli

Event organiziner

(vgs site: http://avc.atari-users.net/Events/FestVGS.html )

(online payments for tables end today, GA payments ends tomarrow)

July 10, 2003

I orginally started programing games for the ti-99/4a back in the day.

Dan Iacoveli

July 9, 2003

The first computer I heard speech on was the TI-99/4A...sometime in 81-82. Just construct a simple BASIC program and the TI would speak anything you wanted it to.

...and don't forget the 'Speak and Spell'.

a quick correction on that statement:

to enable speech on the TI, you either need an ti-extened basic cart, Assembly language cart, or a Termial Emulator cart. the basic in the computer it self would let you do speech.

I know this because most of my games I progromed in Xbasic have speech (including laserman).

Dan Iacovelli

July 7, 2003

There's this used game store in my town called RePlay. Been in there before, and they didn't have much of a selection a few years ago. Went in there last nigh... WOW! They have just about EVERYTHING these days, including Dreamcast and 3D0! And a great selection of 2600 (they 52 and lynx selection could be better though)

Man it's an awesome store! They even had a pirate SNES console and games fror sale! Neat stuff!

where I live there isn't many stores like that(it's mostly in schiller park or ariglton park(sp) ).

and one more thing: you didn't tell the manager about VGS .

Dan Iacovelli

July 7, 2003

I got my systems (2600,7800,lynx and jaguar) when they first came out.

Dan Iacovelli

July 6, 2003

Joe,

table sales are pretty good total of 13 (counting my 3) out of 50 are set.

(11 are paid for 2 are being reserved to be paid at the show).

as for GA, we didn't as many as I wanted(I figure that we will get people

at the door(I posted a mention on cable comunity bulliten board here in IL for my area so that should bring some people plus we got a mention in the chicago suntimes friday section coming up)

I'm not planning it to be big as CGE more like the size of MWC.

argh, you had to remind about the colectors guides!!

I think I have few ideas for giving them away as prizes.

Dan Iacovelli

(yes I'l have a report onthe show afterwords(with pictures if I remeber to bring the digicam)

July 6, 2003

Just a quick update:

Video Game Summit is this Saturday.

You can still purcahse your tables and /or Genral addmission online

(cut off dates: GA July 11th, Tables July 10th)

and for those who wish to hang out after the show We are planning

to hang out a local ammusemt place called safari land (see above message for information(we are going for package #3 ,I'm going to contact the place tomarrow set it up(this is optional since most poeple

may not want to go here or have to get back home)

Dan Iacovelli

July 6, 2003

Never finished the masterpiece that is Rampart...

I'm thinking of getting a Rampart tourney going for the VGS coming to the Chicago area..

inky, if you want to do one let me know (I have 3 lynx tourneys secheduled but don't know what it's going be)

Dan

July 5, 2003

yeah they gave the brochure of the hotel (in fact I got the rooms layout in the yahoo group under photos(alsong with the pic of the tables) under VGS photos)

I didn't notice when I went there to look at rooms, I just saw A&B (right across from the deli)I did noticerooms on the upper level and I figured that was the other rooms.

Dan Iacovelli

July 4, 2003

actually you should try AHD it's a bit better for hacking games.

you can only hack a small handfull of games right now.

Dan Iacovelli

July 4, 2003

I think that room is located on the upper level.(A&B (which is the rooms VGS is using) are on the lower level)

Dan Iacovelli

ps. if your looking for a good buffet to eat afterwords your show

I would recomend China buffet in the north park mall (they have a good mongolian food they fry it them selves on the spot you just pick out what you want(beef,chicken or pork and the fixining and tell the cook what kind of sauce you want and he will fry it right there)

July 3, 2003

SWRAP is proud to announce the arrangements for our Fall Commodore Expo 2003!

ABOUT THE EXPO:

The Expo will be held from 9:00am to 7:30pm on October 11, 2003 at the

Quality Inn and Suites in Lombard, IL. Lombard is one of Chicago's western

suburbs, just 25 miles from the city!

Admission is $10 per family. Sales and demo tables are available on a first-

come, first-served basis. Please contact Dave Ross <watsonc64 at attbi.com> to

reserve a table. The room will be available at 8:00am for setup, and until

8:00pm for teardown.

We will probably continue our tradition of going out to eat at a local

buffet afterwards, so be sure to bring a little extra money for dinner.

ABOUT THE HOTEL:

Quality Inn & Suites

645 West North Ave

Lombard, IL. 60148

Phone: 630-629-1500

Fax: 630-629-2957

Our rate for rooms is $69.00 per night -- be sure to mention the Expo when

making your reservations. The hotel is just east of I-355 (exit at IL-

64/North Avenue) and features a "deluxe" continental breakfast with make-your-

own Belgian waffles. A fitness center and a hot tub are available 24 hours a

day.

Each room features a 27" TV, coffee maker, iron & ironing board, hair dryer,

and two phones with two phone lines for your voice and data needs.

The hotel is close to many stores, malls, and movie theaters. For

information on the hotel and surrounding areas, see

http://www.qualityinn.com/ires/hotel/il160 .

If you are flying in from out of town, Lombard is conveniently located 20

miles from O'Hare International Airport, and 30 miles from Midway Airport. If

you need a ride from O'Hare, please email Dave Ross <watsonc64 at attbi.com> to

see if one can be arranged.

We hope to see you there!

hmm, that hotel sounds familar now where did I hear from before.

OH yeah, that the same hotel where VGS is at .

what rooms are they using for the show?

(A and B are the largest room)

Dan

July 2, 2003

Gentlemen!

I was quite busy lately so unfortunately i've disappeared for a while... But please keep in mind that i'm NOT abandoning the development of AHD OR this forum...

thats good to hear lazz

First of all, congrats for the new hacks made by Dan Iacovelli (great job with the plane / missile!) and Dr. Dwack! It's good to see that you guys are actually using the AHD... :-)

thanks lazz, the hack is sort based on my second but unfinished game I did on TI-99/4a. I didn't want to call it laserman 1.5 though or just laser man, because the first laserman game is sort based on the tempest and space invaders is which I did on the TI. which mostly explains the story of laserman. and also since this is the first time laserman is done for the 2600 calling it 1.5 would sound dumb since the first one wasn't shown yet.

so I decided to call it laserman2k3. (the main reason why I made the orginal laserman game for the TI was because ther was no tempest game for the TI and I loved pl;aying tempest that it would be cool to make a simlar game for the TI). re: the plane /missile that one of the hardest things to fix for the game (the other was the cart/robot basicly had the simalr problem) thanks for the complement btw.

For the news:

1) I'm finishing the ".AHD how to", it will be posted on this forum this afternoon;

2) Dan Boris allowed me to distribute 2600gfx together with AHD... YEAH!

3) The creation of new .AHD files is "on hold" for this week, but i've already prepared 3 new ones and i'll finish a little pack for the next week

4) The ".AHD auto generator" will take a little longer to develop, i'm currently working on a bigger thing for AHD...

5) What in hell is Pele doing on Donkey Kong? Does it suggests that AHD v. 0.2b will have some basic color changing?!?

YES! I'm finishing basic color changing on AHD... Can't wait to release it!

Regards,

Lazzeri

Lazz, thats great to hear about the improvments in the AHD.

can wait to see it.

Dan Iacovelli

July 1, 2003

Hi,

Yes, my wife and I are planning to attend. Anything you want us to bring?

(leftover potato salad, perhaps)

Harry

Harry,

if you want to bring stuff you can.

if you need a table let me know. (so far we have 11 tables paid for(3 of which are mine of couse) and 2 are being reserved to be paid for at the show. we still have plenty left(but I think next week thats going change since I put a mention the comunity BB on our local cable system which is scheduled to be shown on july 8th)

Dan Iacovelli

(I hate potato salad(I can't stand mayo,even though I eat it when on a whopper)

July 1, 2003

Just to let you know that general admission is now at $8.00 per person.

you can still pay online for GA(as well as for tables).

(if you reserved your tables to be paid at the door then you don't

have to worry) Deadline for online payments are:

GA-july 11th Tables -july 10th.

Dan Iacovelli

July 1, 2003

like I said I lowered the graphics on the plane to make it work.
if you noticed on the orginal game the bi-plane has a hook on the bottom

of it, so I first decided to make the missile with hook but that dind look right so I lowered the missile to level of the hook on the plane on the orginal. and that worked.

Dan Iacovelli

heres a pic with the sed missile(being above the floor):

July 1, 2003

like I said I lowered the graphics on the plane to make it work.

if you noticed on the orginal game the bi-plane has a hook on the bottom

of it, so I first decided to make the missile with hook but that dind look right so I lowered the missile to level of the hook on the plane on the orginal. and that worked.

Dan Iacovelli

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