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@bitstick.ripSep 14, 2026, 2:00 AM

Meshtastic and MeshCore were going off like crazy at #VCFMW

I can’t wait till next year!

@cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gySep 14, 2026, 1:56 AM

Goodbye, Chicago

You are very hot and damp. Please be less warm next time >:

Goodbye VCF Midwest. You were a blast and I made so many new friends <:

#vcfmw2026 #vcfmw

May contain graphic violence

@blitter.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 1:47 AM

Spotted not one, not two, but *three* playable Bandai Pippin AtMark consoles at #VCFMW this weekend. Bonus: a Pippin Concept Prototype on exhibit courtesy of @mac84.bsky.social and @maccy.me

A Pippin AtMark booted into Pippin Kickstart 1.1, indicating its 1.0 ROM and 13312K of RAM. Displayed on a Sony PVM.A Pippin AtMark booted into Pippin Kickstart 1.1, indicating its 1.0 ROM and 5120K of RAM (thanks Kyle and Danielle!). Displayed on an NEC AccuSync LCD71v and flanked by a pair of Altec Lansing Multimedia speakers.Macintosh Librarian’s placard describing their Pippin setup. Text: Introducing the Pippin Disk Emulator & Game Changer! The Pippin is back, in BlueSCSI Form! by Kate Fox, Macintosh Librarian & Eric Helgeson, creator of BlueSCSI Now you can hold the Pippins entire software library on one SD card. With the new Game Changer menu, you can play any game from the comfort of your sofa. The Game Changer • Written in C, built with Retro68 as one fat binary: 68k and PowerPC in the same file. • It started as Eric’s BlueSCSI Toolbox CD changer. I added the Pippin calls, the AppleJack pad, menu and box art. • Pick an image and the BlueSCSI swaps it in. The console restarts straight into it, CD or HD image! • Power cycle and you are back at the menu thanks to the Keith K. Bootloader! What is on the menu • Pippin CDs: Tamagotchi, Dazzeloids, Ultraman Action Designer, Power Rangers Zeo! • Mac adventures rebuilt on writable disk images: Myst, Dust, The 7th Guest, Iron Helix, Jump Raven, Gadget, Spaceship Warlock The Arcade disk! Load this one! • One hard-disk image w/ 35 Mac games • It runs under PEASE, Bandai’s own big-button Pippin shell. The menus were Japanese, so I patched the strings to English by hand. • Crystal Quest, Glypha III, Power Pete, Prince of Persia, Another World, Flashback, Monkey Island, Loom, SimCity 2000, Tetris Max, Snood, Oregon Trail, and two pinball games! Controller (Apple Jack Pad) • Trackpad is the mouse. D-pad is arrows. • I wrote a small pad-mapper program that swaps in a per-game layout the moment a game opens. Glypha III starts a new game on yellow. Power Pete switches weapons on blue. • Glypha III on this pad is, honestly, the best thing on the table. Try it! Bootloader: a fork of the BlueSCSI Toolbox CD changer. Shell: PEASE (Bandai). Boot: Pippin Kickstart (blitter.net). Debugging: DingusPPC.A Pippin Concept Prototype being exhibited under a clear acrylic cover at the Vintage Computer Festival MidWest 2026 Macintosh Librarian table. Guarded above by an army of tiny Maccys.
@andres.mafia.clSep 14, 2026, 12:58 AM

Of all the weird devices I saw this weekend, the weirdest wasn't at #vcfmw, but in my room: a TV embedded behind the bathroom mirror! And it wasn't even in front of the toilet. 😁

@andres.mafia.clSep 14, 2026, 12:31 AM

My bounty from #vcfmw !

@celgen.orgSep 13, 2026, 10:37 PM

One person left #VCFmw without a muffler.

One person left VCFmw with a new friend. 🥹

A rusty muffler. Presumably it fell off a car.....because it 's rusty.A rusty muffler. Now with "Emotional support Muffler" written on it.
@wafflenet.comSep 13, 2026, 10:08 PM

Awesome #vcfmw this year as always. And of course I left with more than I came with. As usual.

Here's a pic of some cold cathode lights I found on the free pile. I added them to the display rig right away. Neat!

@crsedinferno.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 9:29 PM

had a great time this year at vcf!!^^ made some new friends, got some new projects lined up, heard it was the largest turnout ever...

see yall next year!! :} 💚💙❤️

#vcfmw #vcf #vintagecomputers

@kenfager.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 9:03 PM

Testify! #vcfmw

@syscall.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 8:54 PM

Oh COOL, CDE! is that running on a.... Wait a second. What are you?! #vcfmw

@shimshamsimp.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 7:43 PM

Im at #VCFMW and someone on the con floor had a working replica of a pip boy 2000 with an ACTUAL CRT

#Fallout

@genericable.comSep 13, 2026, 7:25 PM

Walkthrough of our setup this year @ VCF MW 2026 #vcf #vcfmw

@sokudoningyou.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 7:21 PM

Cons can be fun, but when you're volunteering at it, it can be so exhausting by the end.
#vcfmw

Photo of Vintage Computer Fest Midwest.
@8bithe.artSep 13, 2026, 7:06 PM

Never thought I'd get to plug a Commodore 64 into a DJ booth and blast SID tunes, but here we are. #vcfmw #commodore

A view from the sound booth at Life Bar Arcade in Schaumburg, IL, featuring a moderately sized crowd and a Commodore 64 Ultimate plugged into the sound system
@kenfager.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 6:18 PM

Picked up an Apple FujiNet adapter, a TurboGrafx Express, a TurboDuo, a Famicom cartridge, and some stickers. The free pile provided a KVM switch and Bluetooth speakers.

It was an amazing #VCFMW this year. It was a pleasure to meet so many of you and present on the GameBoy Camera!

@eric.scsi.blueSep 13, 2026, 6:07 PM

Watching @engineersneedart.com talk at #vcfmw

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