At this year’s installment of the Vintage Computer Festival Europa we talked about how the Steckschwein came to be in its current incarnation. Marko presented his feature complete implementation of Pacman - the only one for 6502 based systems that replicates the look and the behaviour (including bugs) of the original arcade almost completely.
In case you could not attend our talk or even VCFe, you still can download the Steckschwein slides and the Pacman slides.
This year’s installment of the Vintage Computer Festival Europa is - again - a special one for us: VCFe 24.0 will be focused around “50 years of 6502”!
So be prepared for lots of 6502 related and also unrelated exhibitions and talks!
We will of course be there, too, presenting Marko’s Pacman implementation - the only one for 6502 based systems that replicates the look and the behaviour (including bugs) of the original arcade almost completely.
We are reflecting on a very special VCFe, as it marked the 10th (or 10 1/2th) birthday of the Steckschwein.
Reconnecting with old friends, making new friends, and celebrating and eating our 12 cycle muffin NOPslide together were all incredibly enjoyable experiences.
Additionally, Marko allowed an exciting sneak peek into his nearly complete Pacman implementation, the first ever on a 6502 that closely replicates the behavior of the original Namco Pacman Arcade.
The 23th annual European Vintage Computer Festival will take place on 7./8. September 2024!
The special focus of this year’s VCFe is _50 years of 8080 and 6800 with a lot of exhibitions and talks around those CPUs.
Also, the Steckschwein will celebrate it’s 10 year anniversary (more like 10 1/2 now) with you!
We will be showing all Steckschwein incarnations from its humble and nameless beginnings on a breadboard to the current 512k SBC version! Also, we will host a talk about the most important milestones and challenges in the last 10 years, and of course we’d like to celebrate!
VCFe 23.0 has been postponed until September 7th due to issues with the building.
Save the date! The 23th annual European Vintage Computer Festival will take place on 7./8. September 2024 !
And of course there can be no VCFe without Steckschwein. This time is special, as we first presented the humble beginnings of our (then nameless) favourite homebrew computer at VCF 15.0 in 2014. So this year not only marks the 10th anniversary of the Steckschwein, but also the 10th anniversary of the VCFe being “home” of the Steckschwein.
After some troubleshooting, we finally finished Revision 0.6 of our boards, and the new boards are finally there, ready to be assembled.
We managed to fix all the issues we found, and also did some cleaning up, used better footprints for the resistors and the mini DIN jacks.
Soldering session coming up..
Revision 0.6 boards are there