Varese Retrocomputing 2024 is just around the corner! L'evento si terrà il 15 settembre a Tradate, in provincia di Varese, presso la storica Villa Truffini, situata in Corso Paolo Bernacchi 2. L'orario di apertura al pubblico sarà dalle 10:00 alle 17:00. L’ingresso è libero, quindi non c'è motivo di non partecipare!
L'evento offrirà una straordinaria esposizione di computer vintage e console da retrogaming, che permetterà di rivivere la storia tecnologica, dal passato fino alle ultime novità del mondo digitale, con qualche computer moderno e potente per il gaming e la grafica 3D.
Ecco l'elenco degli espositori presenti al Varese Retrocomputing 2024
- ESCoP
- Steve Jobs' Significant Machines:
- Apple II
- Macintosh
- Next Cube
- How "live" BBS worked
- Steve Jobs' Significant Machines:
- Gabriele Petino
- "Pong" and similar:
- Philips Odyssey 2100 console (colour) late 70s
- Italian Re-el Consul late 70s
- Tenko PP-150 Italian console late 70s
- Consul New-Vidf 8 French late 70s
- Atari 2600 "darth vader" + games
- Sega Master System II + games
- "Pong" and similar:
- Davide Barlotti
- Photo editing with the Spectrum. Two ZX Spectrums with both Opus Discovery units. The first acquires in real time from the camera, transferring the frames per second via the network where it will be possible to edit them with the optical pen
- Varese Retrocomputing 2023 ZX Spectrum guest book with recorder that "copies" from tape to monitor the guests immortalized in the previous edition
- Mario Prato
- ZX Spectrum 128 "One Hundred and Twenty-Eight K" Clone
- FIZ Floppy Interface
- Racunari turbodrive floppy interface
- IF4 Multifunction Interface
- Kempston Disk Interface mini
- Andrea Contato
- Numerous books and pieces from the Cabel Electronic device collection
- Simone Nasa
- Commodore Vic20, Commodore 64, Commodore 64C, Commodore 64G
- Amiga 500 gotek display mod
- 1541 PI Raspberry 2/3
- Modded joystick 4 button C64
- Gerundo Retrogaming Group
- Arcade station
- Commodore 128 dual screen
- Vectrex
- Vintage consoles
- Giuseppe “Saxabar” Papa & Chiara “Kika” Carrara
- Two Japanese computers among: Sharp X68000 XVI, FM-Towns 80H, Sharp X1 Twin, NEC PC-9821
- Retrocampus
- Intellivision Keyboard Component
- Olivetti Prodest PC1
- Olivetti M10
- Commodore PET
- Minitel
- BBS
- Matteo Toia
- Mesaton (Mesa 2 Spa, 1978)
- Commodore Vic-20 (1980)
- Commodore 16 (1984)
- NES (Nintendo, 1985)
- Game Boy (Nintendo, 1989)
- Amiga 600 (Commodore, 1992)
- Game Boy Advance (Nintendo, 2000)
- Commodore 1084 Monitor
- Color TV Mivar 14"
- Michele Petino
- Workstation with latest generation graphics workstation, 3D modeling and real-time rendering
- Comparison with software available for Amiga
- Amiga 500 with 68030 card
- FDM 3D Printer
- Lorenzo Bolla
- C64 SX with a self-made expansion cartridge that allows you to expand and give new life and new features to old machines
- Eugenio Ciceri
- Three different ways to take the Spectrum with you by tram:
- ZX Spectrum 128K Toastrack Laptop
- ZX Spectrum N-Go Laptop
- Acer laptop in Spectrum theme with simulator and stickers with keywords on the keys
- Three different ways to take the Spectrum with you by tram:
- Karl Voltolini
- Apple II Plus
- Amstrad CPC464
- Commodore 64
- ZX Spectrum 48K
- All with the Ghostbusters game and a vintage poster from the movie
- Frank
- Apple IIc
- Macintosh Se/30
Conferences at Varese Retrocomputing 2024
- A memory of Gianni BBK 10 years after his death. Bruno Grampa.
- In Search of the Lost Game: The Sumerian Game 1963. Andrea contact.
- The project of the magazine RetroComputer. Luciano Costarelli, Fabio Massa, Carlo Santagostino.
- From Altair to Amiga – 15 years of successes and failures: small stories for big innovations. Sergio Gervasini.
- 30 years of evolution of 3D modeling and rendering, from the Amiga 500 to the Nvidia 4090. Michele fifth.
- Ghostbusters: a film that leaves a mark on the culture of the 80s, including home computers. Karl Voltolini.
Per vedere gli highlights dell'edizione 2023, click here.
Il Varese Retrocomputing 2024 è una celebrazione del passato tecnologico che unisce appassionati e curiosi di tutte le età. Non perdere questa occasione di viaggiare attraverso il tempo dell'informatica e vivere un’esperienza unica.
The appointment is for September 15, 2024, at the splendid Villa Truffini, in Corso Paolo Bernacchi 2, in Tradate, in the province of Varese - ITALY. Admission is free, we are waiting for you!