Vcfe

VCFe25.0 has been awesome, as always. This time, all the talks have been recorded and will be available soon.

The slides for our talk about our ATF150x toolchain are available here

We talked to Martin Wolf from Golem.de about our Project, how it came to be, and of course about our version of Pacman.

Listen to our Episode (in German) here!

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!