... and will probably visite again. :-)
On this page, you will find information about Atari 8 bit meetings I have been to. Chances are that I will visite these meetings again.
As at least my fellow European Atarian's know, numerous Atari 8 bit meetings have been and are still being organised in Europe. I've been to the last Unconventional, all Fujiama's (except 2009) and all NOMAM meetings. All these meetings start on Friday and end on Sunday. The Unconventional and the Scheiersgrün meeting have been replaced by the Fujiama. If you look at the pictures, please remember that the Fujiama is held in July, which often means it's hot. As most of these pictures are not mine, I'm just gonna put some up here to wet your appetit. The rest of the pictures can be found by clicking on the links. I'ld love to say: "I hope you have as much fun watching the pictures as we had during the meetings", but you can't really beat the real thing. So come and join us if you're ever in the neighborhood.
BTW NOMAM stands for "Not Only Magnificent Atari Machines" and has nothing to do with Al Bundy's "No Ma'am". Women are more then welcome. It's location can change each year, but will always be held in the northern part of Germany.
General information pages for the Fujiama and Nomam.
Since it's midsummer when the Fujiama is being held, sleeping outside is an option. But you'll have to bring your own tent. Sleeping in your car, inside the building or in a local hotel are other options. For all but the hotel option, you need to bring the stuff you need to sleep, your own towels (the building has a shower which we can use), etc.
The Schützenhaus is the building on the left. The last few years, we've used the left part of it, since the right part was getting too big. But if enough people accounce their presence long enough before the event starts, it might pay to rent the big room again.
The cars on the parking lot are the cars of the attendees. If you look real good, you can see the tents from the picture above through the small trees.
Sometimes, breakfast looks like this.
And sometime, breakfast looks like this.
Some pictures of how I looks like when when we're not just talking about Atari 8 bit computers.
Saturday evening means: "Sausages from the grill".
The NOMAM Fritztown 2008 and 2009 were held inside a school building.
Mainly here, in the mensa.
From left to right:
Standing in the back: Bunsen, R.I.K., Mr. V., Wizzard, Mathy, Atarixle, PLatari, dl7ukk, cas, Anke (dl7ukk's wife), Schmutzpuppe's brother, Schmutzpuppe, Zdenek Burian, Schmutzpuppe's son.
Front row: Bohdan, Krupkaj, Beetle, Pepax, Sleepy.
From left to right:
Sleepy, atarixle, Melvin (Beetle's son), Beetle, Vasco and his wife, BigBen, dl7ukk, Alexandra (dl7ukk's daughter), Mathy, Anke (dl7ukk's wife), Mr. V., AndreasB, HARdwareDoc, FloppyDoc a.k.a. Atreju, Uncle Harry, cas, ... , Pepax, Raster
From left to right:
Standing in the back: mega-hz, HARdwareDoc, ZX81Amiga, BigBen, Kratznagel (C64), Mathy, Sheltem (C64), Daffy (C64), Dietrich, remaxx (C64), Stefan_Ki (Atari ST), GoodbyteXL, Beetle, tfhh.
Front row: Tuxie, Ghost, cas, Yellow_man, Bunsen, u0679
FloppyDoc chose to hide behind Daffy.
The movie was made by Hit-TV.
Ok, video is back. Now all I have to find out is why the video will play in Camino and Firefox, but not Safari.
From left to right:
Standing: Sheltem (C64), GoodbyteXL, Tuxie, Bunsen, skriegel, Sleepy, Anke (dl7ukk's wife), Mathy, Alexandra (dl7ukk's daughter), dl7ukk, thorsten_guenther, Dietrich, Beetle, HARdwareDoc, Bille, BigBen, mega-hz.
Sitting: Cash, Yellow_man
u0679 isn't in the picture, because he was taking a short nap in his car.
Fujiama 2009
Since my birthday is on the 17th of July, I couldn't be at the Fujiama 2009, which was held from the 17th untill the 19th of July 2009.
Here is the link to krupkaj's pictures.
From left to right: Cash, ??, montezuma, Dietrich, thorsten_gunther, u0679, Goodbyte_XL, dl7ukk, Mathy, Sleepy, Alexandra, Yellow_man, Anke, Retr0fan, Sheltem, Atreju, Bunsen, HARdwareDoc, m0n0, skriegel, BigBen.
From left to right: Wolfgang (president of the ABBUC), Marga (our first lady), dl7ukk, mega-hz, Anke (dl7ukk's wife), Atreju/FloppyDoc, R.I.K., Dietrich, Sleepy, Montezuma, u0679, Mathy, Bunsen, mp-one, norbert, Yellow-Man, Matti1104, Jac, cas, mr-waseo, Merlin (Smeili?, Beetle's son), HARdwareDoc, Wizard, BigBen, Rockford, ???, atarixle, thorsten_guenther, skr.
Missing on the picture are: GoodbyteXL and his wife, Alexandra (dl7ukk's daughter), Beetle (who had an unfortunate encounter with gravity while riding his powered mega skateboard (the thing with the yellow tires on the picture) and had to visite a doctor), Mr.V (because he knows which doctor's in office), Deyta (Beetle's daughter), Raster, Fandal, Pepax and Zdenek (they arrived later that day), Tuxie and two friend (who only visited us on Saturday), Schmutzpuppe (same as Tuxie I guess), Artax and Uncle Harry (they came in later), nilquader (Schneider CPC), insane (Spectrum), andreasb. Looks like I forgot some names. I'll add them later.
Here are the links to atarixle's, norbert's and rockford's pictures.
The Fujiama is always held at the Schützenhaus, Schützenhausweg 11, 08485 Lengenfeld, Germany.
See you at the next Atari 8 bit meeting.
More information will be added later.