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Vintage Computer Festival 2010 – What a weekend!

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Last weekend saw the first Vintage Computer Festival in the UK. It was hosted at Bletchley Park by The National Museum of Computing.

Over the weekend, I was volunteering for The Centre for Computing History who are a computer museum that is currently situated in Haverhill, Suffolk.

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A few new machines added

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Ive picked up the following machines over the last few days. They are

Ive also managed to get ahold of a Multiface 2 for the Amstrad CPC. Ive wanted one of these since I was about 7. Im now 31!

The Multiface was a hardware peripheral released by Romantic Robot UK Ltd. for several 1980s home computers. The primary function of the device was to dump the computer’s memory to external storage, and featured an iconic ‘red button’ that could be pressed at any time in order to activate it. As most games of the era did not have a save game feature, the Multiface allowed players to save their position. However, this feature also allowed users to create backups or pirate copies of software. Copyright infringement was discouraged, yet possible in earlier models, but was made more difficult in later models by requiring the Multiface to be present when re-loading the dumps into memory.

New VIC-20 photos

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Here are some new VIC-20 photos taken today. I can now copy .D64 images from my old 486 PC to the 1541 drive using a program called Star Commander.

Click the images to see them in more detail at Flickr.

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Centre for Computing History – News Item

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Here is the recording of the news item from Anglia Tonight about the Centre for Computing History museum in Haverhill, Suffolk (East Anglia).

Centre for Computing History – News Item

Vic-20 Voice cartridge

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I was given a Maplin VIC-20 voice PCB today from my Dad. Its based on the SP0256-AL2 speech synthesizer. Ive got some basic documentation for it, and made it say Beer!.

Model number is GB17T.

Photo can be found here.

Guitar Hero for the Commodore 64

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I want, I want, I want!!!!! YouTube Video

More info at http://www.synthdreams.com/shredz64.php

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