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Atariada
2003 Convention
TXG revels in
the party season
Mid-April Hmm,
this time we had to plan our meeting in such
way that I could travel on Friday and be back
in the Netherlands on Sunday evening, because
I had to work on Monday. The complete trip to
the Czech Republic and back was 2,860 km.
On Friday TWW/MNX
arrived at my place about 11:30 then we drank
some coffee and started our trip to the Czech
Republic. First we drove to Wiesbaden in Germany
to Mad Butscher/F2, who would be travelling
with us. After that we drove to Erfurt to pick
up tWh/F2, then we could travel to the Czech
Republic to meet Zdenek in Prostejov. We crossed
the border at Dresden and drove to Prague then
to Brno and then finally to Prostejov. We didn't
bring a map of the route to Zdenek's house
so we had to think hard to remember how to get
there. We arrived at 04:30 at his place and
we slept there. A few hours later at 10:00
we had to get out of bed to get ready for Atariada
2003. We drank some good black coffee to
get awake and then we drove to the meeting place.
![[Photo: TXG, TWH and TWW at Zdenek's house]](images/aa1.jpg)
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Left
to right: TXG/MNX, tWh/F2 and
TWW/MNX.
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![[Photo: The party location above a shop and pub]](images/aa2.jpg)
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The
location was a restaurant
above a shop and a pub.
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![[Photo: TXG holding an Atari flag]](images/aa3.jpg)
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We
showed the Atari flag we brought,
before unloading the car.
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![[Photo: TXG and Mad Butscher unloading the car]](images/aa4.jpg)
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Mad
Butscher on the right.
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![[Photo: TXG and Funny]](images/aa5.jpg)
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When
we entered the room we saw we
had the same tables at the same
place as last year. As soon
as I connected my Atari computer
somebody began to talk to me.
It was Funny.
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![[Photo: Screen-shot of memory addresses]](images/aa6.jpg)
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Funny
is a very active Atari freak.
He asked us many questions about
the memory map of the 8-bit
Atari.
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![[Photo: Black 800XE]](images/aa7.jpg)
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When
we were at this meeting I saw
a nice 800XE. Someone changed
the look a little bit look at
the pictures to see what I mean.
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![[Photo: Black XC12 data recorder]](images/aa8.jpg)
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Matching
Atari XC12 data recorder.
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![[Photo: Customary gratuitous bare motherboard shot]](images/aa9.jpg)
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Then
I saw this nice XE system with
a lot of hardware expansions.
A memory SIMM, SIO2PC, SIO2IDE,
second Pokey (stereo),
switchable OS ROM and a
Mega-CD interface.
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Not all of
the expected visitors were there - we missed
Jiri from BeWeSoft. XI/Satantronic was there
and brought some computers to show their 1 MB
SIMM upgrade for the 8-bit. There were two versions,
one for systems with Freddie and one for
systems without a Freddie chip. More information
on: http://www.atari.sk/satantronic/
Then someone
told me I had to take a look in the car park
because there was a car that didn't belong there...
Hehe
![[Photo: Opel Commodore in the car park]](images/aa10.jpg)
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It's
an Opel C********...
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![[Photo: Mad Butscher and Raster]](images/aa11.jpg)
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Mad
Butscher/F2 (left) and Raster,
programmer of several MultiJoy8
games.
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![[Photo: Bohdan Milar and TXG]](images/aa12.jpg)
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Bohdan
Milar (left, one of the organizers)
and I.
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![[Photo: Screen-shot of the outdoor barbecue scene from the Unconventional 2002 video]](images/aa13.jpg)
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Then
we showed the Video CD of
the Unconventional 2002.
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![[Photo: People watching the video]](images/aa14.jpg)
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The
people watching...
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![[Photo: Zdenek with a new issue if FLOP]](images/aa15.jpg)
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Zdenek
gave me a copy of FLOP 46 that
was finished on this day. On
this disk is a new game called
Sniper. It's a cool game and
free...
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![[Photo: Starting to pack away]](images/aa16.jpg)
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About 21:00 the
day was over so we began to pack...
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![[Photo: Loading the car]](images/aa17.jpg)
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Putting everything
in the car...
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![[Photo: F2 and MNX holding Atari banner]](images/aa18.jpg)
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Then a picture
of Foundation Two and MNX just before we leave...
tWh/F2 , TXG/MNX,
TWW/MNX and Mad Butscher.
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![[Photo: Group picture]](images/aa19.jpg)
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Then a nice group
picture.
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![[Photo: Everything back in the car]](images/aa20.jpg)
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After the group
picture at 21:30 we started to travel back to
Ilmenau near Erfurt. Finally we managed to get
everything in the car again...
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![[Photo: TXG looking really tired!]](images/aa21.jpg)
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And then at 05:00
on Sunday we arrived in Ilmenau and I could
drink my first beer... after 2,000 km driving...
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About 13:00 I
was awake again and we looked at the pictures
of Atariada 2003 and viewed the Video CD of
Unconventional 2002 again... Then about 15:00
we drove back home, first to Wiesbaden to bring
Mad Butscher/F2 home and after that we drove
to the Netherlands and arrived there at 22:30.
Yes we did it
again... we managed to drive the comple trip
2,860 km and spend a whole day in the Czech Republic within two-and-a-half
days... The next
trip for me will be to Error In Line 3 next
weekend...
txg@myatari.net
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