If anyone is in the southwest, ABQ Retro Computers will be having our May meetup on Saturday May 14th from 10AM - 4PM. More info at our Meetup page.
ABQ Retro Computers May Meetup
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How did this go? I was hoping to go but my kids got sick just in time for Easter lol (Murphys law). Anyhow, hope it went well for you.
Great news! It's not for another few weeks on May 14th! Hopefully nothing stops you this time around!
Stopped by today & had a great time. I got to play Q3A, Unreal, UT, tons of awesome C64 games and got to play with a floppy emu which I think I definitely need for my plus - much better than aging and expensive magnetic media. Picked up a cool cheap mechanical kb (blues) for my son & his iMac. He’s 4.5y/o so will love the cool rainbow colored key caps.
I had SO much nostalgia fueled fun on this little C64 box.
This was a cool box - the owner Kyle had modded the ram (increased from 8 to 32mb iirc?) On the onboard gpu of this Duron box and it absolutely slayed on UT. Neat box!
Playing around with a floppy emu (there were 3 or 4 of them on different boxes at the lab.
buncha really nice ppl and got to meet the organizer - he had a really cool pentium 3 box pushing a voodoo 3000 and slayed on all the aforementioned games. The box was a neat pink translucent plastic - screamed 1999. In addition he had a neat front facing speaker system that installed through the cdrom drive bays but forgot to snap a picture of that one.
Looks like the next one will be this fall. Funniest thing is that whoever posted on TD evidently was not there or was shy. I asked who posted to TD because that’s how I learned about the ABQ retro computer event and they all looked at me like tin..k.. what???
Anyhow had a fantastic time and can’t wait for the next one.
I had SO much nostalgia fueled fun on this little C64 box.
This was a cool box - the owner Kyle had modded the ram (increased from 8 to 32mb iirc?) On the onboard gpu of this Duron box and it absolutely slayed on UT. Neat box!
Playing around with a floppy emu (there were 3 or 4 of them on different boxes at the lab.
buncha really nice ppl and got to meet the organizer - he had a really cool pentium 3 box pushing a voodoo 3000 and slayed on all the aforementioned games. The box was a neat pink translucent plastic - screamed 1999. In addition he had a neat front facing speaker system that installed through the cdrom drive bays but forgot to snap a picture of that one.
Looks like the next one will be this fall. Funniest thing is that whoever posted on TD evidently was not there or was shy. I asked who posted to TD because that’s how I learned about the ABQ retro computer event and they all looked at me like tin..k.. what???
Anyhow had a fantastic time and can’t wait for the next one.
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Whoops! I guess I didn't catch when you asked! I'm the owner of the pink VooDoo box and the president of the whole operation.
Haha, well I was just asking randomly like some awkward weirdo so entirely possible that you were busy doing other things while I was crushing the weird guy off the street bit. Anyhow, very cool box & thanks so much for hosting it!
Also got some great help about my ailing 1702 monitor whose crt when on is currently shades of brown and orange, so excited to get that fixed up. Had fun
Also got some great help about my ailing 1702 monitor whose crt when on is currently shades of brown and orange, so excited to get that fixed up. Had fun
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