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For those that are in the vicinity of The Netherlands: We're preparing for the 8th edition of our annual 'Atari Invasion' of the HCC Commodore sig meeting in 'het Schuurtje' (Zwanenkamp 1301, 3607NZ Maarssenbroek). This year we're going back to an early era in the history of Atari, the 70s. We will cover a lot of the early consoles, such as the Touch Me, (home) Pongs and others. There will be icons like the VCS aka 2600 and of course the early home-computers known as the Atari 400 and 800. It is also highly likely that modern reproductions like the '2600+ ' and 'The Atari 400 mini' will be part of our presentation, along with modern home-brew games, demos and Rasta conversions. As every year, 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 just want to take a look around, we will be in 'het Schuurtje' (Zwanenkamp 1301, 3607NZ Maarssenbroek) all day on April 20th 2024. Doors open at 10.00 and close at 16.00. Hope to see you in Maarssen! The Atari Invasion team An impression of what we bring to the party can be found on our flickr space
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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
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Season greetings! The preparations for the first lustrum edition of our annual 'Atari Invasion' are in full swing: #5 is alive! The take-over of the HCC Commodore Club meeting has 'Systems with guides' as working title and as details are still under wraps -in fact they are so secret we do not even know them yet- all we know is that each invader will present his/her system of choice to the crowd. With new additions to the crew, we seem to have all bases covered. As every year, the museum rack and display cabinet will be present, filled with new/different content. The info-beamer presentation is being updated with new code and content. Support has been added for dynamic updates so we can add and update content during the invasion. Hopefully the cameras for the live stream and time-lapse will stay put during this event, we ordered some new stands to ensure they do. 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 just want to take a look around, we will be in 'het Trefpunt' all day on February 15 2020. Doors open at 10.00 and close at 16.00. Hope to see you in Maarssen! The Atari Invasion team
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Season greetings! The preparations for the 4th annual 'Atari Invasion' of the HCC Commodore Club meeting are in full swing. As we send out updates to the crew, the Invasion plans take shape: celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Atari 8-bit homecomputers will be our main focus. AI2k19-Flyer by Atari Invasion, on Flickr Without spoiling too much details, here are some of the ideas we have for the Invasion: The museum rack and display cabinet will be there as usual. We will take you on a trip through time, with our 'eXperience Locations'. We will have online, multi-platform, multi-user events. Not just the info-beamer screens will show moving pictures and information: our own E.R.I.C. - if time permits - will have a spot amongst Atari 8-bit home computers performing tricks they were never designed for. Ofcourse we will make sure that there is still plenty of space available to play games on Atari computers and emulators. Want to join in on the fun as part of the crew, let us known. If you just want to take a look around, we will be in 'het Trefpunt' all day on february 16 2019. Doors open at 10.00 and close at 16.00. See you there! The Atari Invasion team
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All, With the holidays almost over, it's time to look ahead... In a few weeks, on February 17th to be precise, we will take over 'het Trefpunt' in Maarssen (NL) again. Preparations are ongoing, like our raspberry pi powered hardware slideshows that will be installed in our small museum cabinet: There is plenty of space to play games on retro, modern and home-brew hardware. We will show classic and modern demos during the event on several systems. Speaking of demos, we have some space reserved for the makers among us so they can take the stage and show everyone their product(s). If everything works out, our time at the invasion can be put to good use by preserving tape and disk software. Want to join in on the fun as part of the crew, let us known. If you just want to take a look around, we will be in 'het Trefpunt' all day. Doors open at 10.00 and close at 16.00. See you there! The Atari Invasion team
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Looks like vdsteenoven.com went over a bandwidth for his image host. Can someone post the various magazines/books related to the Aquarius? i.e. http://www.vdsteenoven.com/aquarius/pfuser-vol1.php p.s. If you haven't already, join our Aquarius group on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1816932675303748/ Thanks Carlos
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All, Posting this here mostly because we want to thank the Atari home brew scene that is doing a great job in keeping the Atari legacy alive. Having said that, it is also posted here as most of the people that were making the invasion possible are 8-bit fans. Background Every two months the dutch commodore club gathers in Maarssen to tinker and socialize. As the retro community in the Netherlands grew thinner over the last say ten years, they were joined by the dutch MSX and Sinclair clubs. Only a few years ago some die-hard Atari fans joined their ranks as well. It was last year, these die-hard Atari fanboys (and some friends) teamed up to do their first Atari Invasion of the commodore event, which was a great succes (even to the commodore club board), so it was agreed to do this again in 2017. Preparations Fast forward to september 2016 when we sent out a reminder email and to lay out the plans for this year's theme: 'Brew @ Home'. The theme was well received and although we don't have all the bases covered with regards to home brew, we figured we had enough to fill a display and a lot of table space. And some of us even started scouring the forums looking for new items to add to our collections. Others were busy preparing for the Silly Venture event or started creating lots of paperwork like folders, articles and the creative ones among us started preparing new projects (one of them is currently on sale in this forum). We were joined by a great guy and avid collector from Israel and things started taking shape by the end of December, when we gathered during the last commodore club meeting to finish some boards and looked over the folders that were created. At the last minute we were contacted by someone that was willing to bring a jaguar kiosk, so we really had all the bases covered. The event Saturday February 18th, 8.30 the first arrived at the meeting location and started unloading the cars. They were joined by the others a little later and the Invasion took shape. We had a rack which we planned to use as a museum and display for the things we brought (using an LCD, a Raspberry Pi with info-beamer software and a private WiFi network). The rack contained a light sixer, some boxed 8-bit hardware, a boxed 5200, a boxed jaguar console and an 1040STe. We had a display cabinet to hold our precious home brew hard- and software (and some more things). And we bluntly copied something we saw at the ABBUC JHV: binders with Atari related articles, corporate memos, manuals, schematics, etc. which we lovingly named our Library. One of us printed A0 sized posters and someone else printed the 7800, Lynx and Jaguar encyclopedia. And we should not forget about the paper foldables of E.T., Berzerk, Pitfall and a VCS/2600. Besides stuff to look at, we also had a lot of stuff to play with: A VCS/2600 woody with AtariVox+ and Harmony cart, a 2600 Jr running 'Defend your castle' of another Harmony cart. A 7800 with the Mateos' multicart, that was mostly running Frenzy. As I said before, most of us are 8-bit fans and we had plenty of 8-bit things to play with: An 800XL running 'Lost in Space', complete with custom controllers, An 800XL with Ultimate 1MB and a newly designed MultiJoy8, running Multijoy games of course, 3 64k modded 600XL's running Multidash with the Multilink hardware, yet another 800XL demoing the stereo mod, turbo freezer 2011 and Sio2SD. Almost forgot about the grandchildren, as we had a 600XL that was fitted with the Sophia, Antonia and Veronica! To show off the 16-bit side of things, we had the CosmosEx in the display cabinet, but had a 4MB STe running software (mostly demos) of a GoTek USB floppy emulator with HxC firmware. And finally in our petting zoo we had the McWill modded Lynx, a falcon showing off its desktop and the Jaguar kiosk where people took a shot at Tempest. For those that use facebook, there are some posts covering the event at the Atari 8-bit Computers facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/181644898539691/ A small impression... An overview of the Invasion space... Our display cabinet with home brew items and more. Our museum Some of the posters that we used (note the falcon that holds all paperwork) Displays with information on the various Atari computers. !!! Once again, we would like to thank everyone working on Atari home brew !!! Be it by creating software/games or hardware. Be it by coming up with modifications to existing things. The artists (the posters were a huge (not just by size) success), but also those that wrote the encyclopedia, created the paper folds. The historians that keep archiving what they find, publishers that continue to publish games for a niche market. Without all of them we would not have been able to create such a successful event in the first place. And let's not forget all those that continue to support them by buying (almost) everything that is completed and finds its way to our hands. Thank you all... and maybe until our next Atari Invasion!
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