It's only 9 hours... that's not very far.
We drove over 12 hours to VCF Midwest just 2 weeks ago. One friend flew in from the UK just to see the show.
And took a multi-day road trip out to VCF Southwest back in '23.
That doesn't even cover the coast-to-coast flights for VCF West I've done a couple ...

While there won't be one in Berlin, seems there will be one in Switzerland. Might be an option for some of you who were considering VCF Berlin this year.
https://vintagecomputerfestival.ch/en/home-en/

Seems that all of the small vintage computer community forums I frequent are feeling the pressure of the scraping bots lately. I know my own website's traffic records have been inundated with bots rotating their user agent strings to mask their scraping operations. It makes it more difficult to pay ...

Thank you, ArnoldLayne. That one link lead me to about a dozen galleries of VCF Europa and Berlin that I didn't have listed. Much appreciated!

Does anyone have any links to photo galleries from VCF Europa 2025? I'm compiling a directory of galleries, this is the first time I've encountered anyone who went to that show recently, figured it was worth asking.

https://www.commodorez.com/vcfarcgal.html

The one I know of is called the PERSEUS-8, as seen here:
https://hackaday.io/project/179196-perseus-8-homemade-6502-computer

The guy later added a second module to it refereed to as the PERSEUS-9:
https://hackaday.com/2022/07/29/perseus-9-the-dual-6502-portable-machine-that-should-have-been/
I'm ...

Cool machine. I don't speak Dutch, but I don't think there is any mention of this machine using a 6502 at any point within the thread you linked.

In the same vein as the Altair 8800 or Nova 1200 or other minis/micros have front panels, which historic (about 40 years or older) 6502-based machines contain front panels of that type? I'm not talking about the type of keypad designs seen on the KIM-1, or SYM-1, or the more advanced designs like ...

Not to zombie a thread too far dead, but alot has happened in the past few years with ol' prickly.

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I did finally get around to doing a PCB design, it just took some time to learn KiCAD well enough to make something that worked. First attempt was an awful SBC directly based on ...

I do believe I see an OSI300 remake on the table too...
Yes, I love my mini OSI-300. I've found it to be not only an inspiration, but also a good counterpoint to the significantly more complicated interface of the Cactus.

Sadly, I seem to have fried it during my time at DEFCON -- I've done tests ...

It's been awhile, here's the latest in the Cactus updates. You'll forgive me if I copy my text from elsewhere, as I've typed this up like... 6 times by now.

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I exhibited the Cactus at VCF West on August 4th & 5th in Mountain View California, at the Computer History ...

So I've made a few tweaks to the 6522 board. I've added a second set of headers, and made a little LED test connector. Next I've got to try my hand at using it for inputs.
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It's fun, and useful! I didn't expect it to be that easy to control, either in BASIC or in machine ...

I've made a bit of progress here and there...
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I decided it was time I took a crack at adding a VIA into the mix. Specifically, a 65C22 (although I do have some NMOS ones on hand too). I figured it would be easiest to start simple, and wire up just wire up Port A. I threw ...

65c52! That's right, thank you. I will keep an eye out for one in my travels. The typo on the 6551 has been fixed now... that's going to be the one I focus on.

I've seen modern storage alternatives, but the whole point of the project was to explore the intentionally inconvenient. I'm not going to ...

I've been slacking on making updates here, so I might as well.

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VCF East XIII was a blast. People really liked the Cactus, despite it not being a vintage computer.
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I ended up just swapping EPROMs as the day went. If I had 32K EPROMs on hand, I would have used ...