Retro Market Club
Last fall meeting in South Australia
June 15, 2016
A moment of the meeting in June 2016 - Epsilon
Nuon, mounted on a Samsung DVD - Epsilon
George, president of ARCG, and Dave RetroSpekt - Epsilon
Music production system based on Sega MegaDrive- Epsilon
The tournament winner (i) receives the award from Epsilon (d) - Epsilon
It was last Friday June 10, 2016, about to enter the Southern Hemisphere winter, when there was the last meeting of Adelaide Retro Computing Group in the city of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.
A year and a half of activity in Adelaide
As explained to Market Retro Club, Adelaide Retro Computing Group, ARCG, she organized its first event in January 2015, thanks to the interest of George Foumakis, its current president, who promoted a meeting called the Amiga Meeting. The group then gave an associative conventional structure, with board, and since then organizes public events small format once a month, open to review and discovery of all kinds of systems and not only Amiga.
New developments in hardware and exhibition of rare equipment
This time, there were lectures and presentations of new developments on classical systems, plus exposure, homebuilding and a tournament game.
Among the most original equipment exposed, wackiest was Nuon, appeared in 1990 and based on the Samsung DVD player that can play from disc arcade games ported from previous consoles and the launch of that rarity.
In the same space, we could see and test a system currently under development, which lets you compose musical creations by Sega Genesis, mixers and other peripherals, controlled by a cartridge made specifically for it.
From Japan came a console Casio PV-1000, launched in 1983 for the Japanese market only, which became not sold outside the country and for which only fifteen games were released.Meanwhile, someone brought a small collection of Pac-Man miniconsolas a fully functional Hanimex Pong and many other curiosities.
RetroSpeckt presentation to those attending the meeting
One of the guests to chat was Dave, the RetroSpekt group, an organization dedicated to the recovery and dissemination of classic videogames, who spoke about their social activities and subsequently set up a console the Amiga CD 32 for the tournament two players, who had followed.
The tournament consisted of two players games Skidmarks 2, a racing game with isometric, colorful and addictive perspective that allows complete games quickly. Epsilon, ARCG vice president, explains that he chose that game with the intention of opening the competition to the maximum possible number of players in a short time.
The tournament winner received hand Epsilon, a "Atari Flashback 3 'console that is the modern equivalent version of the Atari 2600 console, sixty original Atari games pre-loaded.
The next meeting is scheduled for next July 2016, which promptly inform in Market Retro Club.
