Friday through to Sunday I was in sunny Wolverhampton at the race course, not because of a newly-developed gambling habit or anything but due to it being the venue for an event called Revival. I had some of Oldschool Gaming‘s machines with me (a C64, Spectrum +2, Amiga 600 and Atari 800XL as well as a laptop with the previously mentioned Hissing Sid preview in an Apple 2 emulator and a desktop which spent most of its time running the fabulous Genetos). Some photos were taken as well, so here’s a member of OSG staff looking after the machines…
A lot of the hardware around the event had SD or CF card readers bolted into them; there was a HxC in one of the Amstrad CPC6128s which was running R-Type 128, most of the Amigas seemed to be CF converted, a ZXPand was bolted to the ZX81 and so on but the one I’d never seen before which was really clever was on an Memotech MTX512 and the interface had a VGA out going to a second display which was used to select the image to be loaded!
On the subject of clever things, a mention really has to go to the Fix It Felix Jr. machine; the cabinet and Jim Bagley’s code both looked the business and it quite rightly saw lots of use over the weekend.
There were quite a few rare machines scattered around the event (some of which are in the gallery) including two Bandai Pippins on display, one of which was actually connected up and running a game! I didn’t dare touch the thing…
And, although I’m honestly not making a habit of accosting cosplayers, this happened…
There are fifty images in the gallery itself which are mostly pictures of machines rather than people because, when talking to said people, they were far too interesting and the camera was forgotten!
Pictures taken during Revival 2013 at the Wolverhampton race course, 18th and 19th May.
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