The 2025 Core War Tournament Weekend is over. Congrats to inversed who claimed first and second place in yesterday's 94 tournament:
1st "Twin Storms" by inversed
2nd "King Cobra" by inversed
3rd "smart clear" by Christian Schmidt
4th "Flaking Rust" by lain
5th "HELLHAMMER" by Drugganator
A few demos running on day one of the Retro Computer Fest in Cambridge. v5 of the Core War simulated annealing script on a Milk-V MARS, Core War on the FUSE #zxspectrum emulator on HaikuOS and Core War genetic algorithms on a Raspberry Pi 3B #retrofest #corewar
Final call for this weekends #RetroFest 2025 @TheCentreforComputingHistory #Cambridge, England - Saturday now fully booked - Limited tickets still available for Sunday - See you there (Weather permitting!)
Who will be joining us @ Centre for #Computing History #Cambridge next month for the #retrogaming edition of the #retrofest 25? 16th / 16th November 25
Tickets: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/74558/Retro-Computer-Festival-2025-(Gaming-Edition)-Saturday-15th-November/
Here’s my (later than planned) video on the Retrofest event held in Swindon/organised by
Short Circuit Events.
Follow me as I take some janky video footage of old tech 😅, and marvel at this great event and exhibitors.
(Also 1000 internet points if you spot my subtle ‘Arm’ joke. 🤦♂️)
A1 Hello #MakersHour, I'm sort of half-here and half-not again, but I'll attempt to follow along as I'm pootling about :)
(fun thing this week was making it to #RetroFest at the weekend which was pretty cool!)
First RetroFest Experience: Swindon Weekend with More Fun Fixing It
#RetroFest #Commodore64 #VintageComputing #RetroTech #MoreFunFixingIt #SwindonEvents #RetroCommunity #STEAMmuseum #RetroFestival
https://theoasisbbs.com/first-retrofest-experience-swindon-weekend-with-more-fun-fixing-it/?feed_id=3665&_unique_id=68419a04dddb9
Had a great day yesterday at #retrofest in swindon (uk) - shared some photos and a bit of a writeup here
https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/retrofest-2025-at-swindon-uk/5006
(What I didn't think to do was to promote the forum at the event. If I did that, I'd want to do it in a non-sleazy way. Share the enthusiasm!)
Had a nice trip to #retrofest but I’m shattered now, I forget how tiring I find large groups of people. It was worth it though :)
Had a brilliant time at #RetroFest today.
Didn't spent too much thankfully, but have added a few things to my wish list...
But did spend a lot of time finding out about some really, really obscure, and fascinating, technology!
Our very own member Eduard Garanskij is at #retrofest again today. Be sure to check out his stand.
https://www.tog.ie/2025/04/retrofest-2025-dive-into-80s-calculators-soviet-computing-with-eduard/
Off to #Retrofest about 11, should be there around midday, looking forward to a few nerdy hours and meeting some people I know from here :)
@DosFox @rc2014
Back from #RetroFest a fantastic event, well done to all involved.
It was lovely to chat with @morefunmakingit.bsky.social @leesmithsworkshop.bsky.social and @breakintoprogram.co.uk today at #retrofest. Dean showed some wonderful code on the Einstein that was compiled and shipped by cable to a Spectrum - and it then played music a-la Tracker. Very cool stuff.
@dakkar @KSGamingLife ooh you at #Retrofest?
On my way to #retrofest!
Off to #RetroFest today to see the wonders and delights of when computers felt fun to use.
So who else is going to #retrofest this weekend?
I'll be there tomorrow and hope to meet some of you I've interacted with over the years. Should be an absolute hoot.
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RetroFest UK - 2025
