Community Event / Creation LAVECON 2016

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Kerenn said:
I'll be at the Artemis Bridge Simulator. As an instructor. :D
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This shows almost exactly what I'm expecting the Artemis Bridge Simulator to be like (including dark glasses and Saturday night hangover) ...

[video=youtube;Bc7XtHJAPT0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7XtHJAPT0[/video]
Is that about right Kerenn? :D
 

stephen_usher

stephen_usher
Retro-Lave incoming.

Well, the machines I'm readying for Retro-Lave are all but ready. I've some documentation for running specific games that needs to be done though...

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Alex Brentnall

Alex Brentnall
Distinctly got to the "screw it" part and I'm now going to Lavecon... :D

See you all in a week!

Edit Edit: Driving up from Southampton area Saturday early morning and back Sunday after everything finishes. Anyone wanting to carpool in that direction give me a heads up. I'm not staying locally to Northampton though so getting to hotel etc whilst up there will be up to you :)
PM me anyone if you are interested.
 
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Baton

Baton
Bug report, green Reception is missing from the map - I have a white one, so I'm not friendly?

Anyway cannot wait :)
 
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stephen_usher

stephen_usher
List of games for Retro-Lave

Here's the complete list of games for Retro-Lave, taken directly from the "hand-outs" for each of the machines. I hope that there are a few of your favourites amoungst them.

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Amiga A1200
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Games: Reset computer using Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga with disk in drive if floppy based game.

Cybernoid IInh
Elitenh
Frontier: Elite IIch
F-16 Combat Piloth
Puttyca
SimCity 2000nh
Starglider IIca
Star Trek 25th Anniversarynh
Tornadoh
Wormsh
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a Requires the graphics (chip type) to set to original AGA rather than enhanced.
c Requires boot with processor caches turned off.
h Run game from hard disk.
n Best run in NTSC graphics mode: May need resolution in Prefs changed to NTSC High Res.

Changing boot settings

Reset Amiga using Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga and hold both mouse buttons down.
You will now get the boot menu.
Disable caches is a check box within Boot Options
Chip Type is a radio switch option within Display Options
NTSC is a Display Type radio switch option within Display Options

Atari ST​

Games: Place floppy into drive and press reset button.

Bubble Bobble
Carrier Command
Elite
Flight Simulator II
F15 Strike Eagle
F16 Combat Pilot
Gunship
Hard Drivin'
Lemmings
Marble Madness
Pacmania
Populous
P47 Thunderbolt
Quadraliand (Virus et. al disk)
Silent Service
Starglider
Starglider II
Stunt Racer
Thrust
Vampire's Empired (Virus et. al disk)
Virusd (Virus et. al disk)
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d Started from desktop by double-clicking icon within a folder.

BBC Micro​

Games: All disks 80 track unless noted. Shift-Break to run.

Elite [40 Track]
Star Wars
Aviator (Games 1)
Eagle's Wing (Games 1)
Hunkydory (Games 1)
Mr EE (Games 1)
Killer Gorilla (Games 1)
Painter (Games 1)
Moon Cresta (Games 1)
UXB (Games 1)
Q-Man (Games 1)
Blagger (Games 2)
Microbe (Games 2)
Arcadians (Games 2)
Jet-Pac (Games 2)
Neanman (Games 2)
Cybertron (Games 2)
Tracer (Games 2)
Zalaga (Games 2)
Invader (Games 2)
Mission (Games 2)
Martian Attack (Games 2)

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Alex Brentnall

Alex Brentnall
Ok Lavecon veterans!
As someone who is travelling to Lavecon for the first time and will possibly not make it there again for a few years is there anything you advise I take/don't take. Things I want to make sure I see/don't see. I'm travelling quite a few hours there and back and don't want to forget something that I later regret.

I've had a look at the schedule and so much is going off at once. I don't want to plan it out completely but I'm looking for some advice like: "Items 1, 2 and 3 are things you don't want to miss". and stuff like that.

Any advice is welcome! :)
 

Kerenn

Kerenn
Alex Brentnall said:
Ok Lavecon veterans!
As someone who is travelling to Lavecon for the first time and will possibly not make it there again for a few years is there anything you advise I take/don't take. Things I want to make sure I see/don't see. I'm travelling quite a few hours there and back and don't want to forget something that I later regret.

I've had a look at the schedule and so much is going off at once. I don't want to plan it out completely but I'm looking for some advice like: "Items 1, 2 and 3 are things you don't want to miss". and stuff like that.

Any advice is welcome! :)
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Bring Snickers & Stickers
 

brumster

brumster
Alex Brentnall said:
Ok Lavecon veterans!
As someone who is travelling to Lavecon for the first time and will possibly not make it there again for a few years is there anything you advise I take/don't take. Things I want to make sure I see/don't see. I'm travelling quite a few hours there and back and don't want to forget something that I later regret.

I've had a look at the schedule and so much is going off at once. I don't want to plan it out completely but I'm looking for some advice like: "Items 1, 2 and 3 are things you don't want to miss". and stuff like that.

Any advice is welcome! :)
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Wander around, mingle, chat... do a recce first, to figure out the stuff you want to see. It's hard to recommend stuff without knowing what you're into. There is quite a wide spectrum of activities which won't be to everyone's taste, but that's a good thing. There's role playing, LARP stuff, board games, casual PC/LAN gaming, retro games, lots of presentations and talks about a wide variety of topics. Artemis. Or just chatting with like-minded enthusiasts. And drinking, of course :D

Probably best thing to bring is an open mind :) you might find something new to enjoy!
 

Zeeman

Zeeman
stephen_usher said:
Here's the complete list of games for Retro-Lave, taken directly from the "hand-outs" for each of the machines. I hope that there are a few of your favourites amoungst them.

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Atari ST​

Games: Place floppy into drive and press reset button.

Bubble Bobble
Carrier Command
Elite
Flight Simulator II
F15 Strike Eagle
F16 Combat Pilot
Gunship
Hard Drivin'
Lemmings
Marble Madness
Pacmania
Populous
P47 Thunderbolt
Quadraliand (Virus et. al disk)
Silent Service
Starglider
Starglider II
Stunt Racer
Thrust
Vampire's Empired (Virus et. al disk)
Virusd (Virus et. al disk)
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d Started from desktop by double-clicking icon within a folder.
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Wow... I owned a big chunk of those. Some epic, epic games on that list. Falcon is missing, though...

Z...
 

Micha

Micha
Managed to upgrade to a Gold ticket due to a cancellation! Looking forward to this weekend!!

Like @Alex, first-timer here so would be great to get a list of must-see activities. Appreciate everybody's tastes differ but surely we're mostly gathering because of Elite, so that should top the list of things to experience compared to the other activities..
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
[re-worded post from another thread]

So who's looking forward to having numerous exchanges along the lines of ..

"Hi, I'm Steve"

"sorry, that name means nothing to me"

"oh right, err slightly hushed/embarrassed tone Commander StarB@st@rd"

"ahh OK ... how are you doing? I'm Brian"

"sorry, that name means nothing to me"

"oh right, err slightly hushed/embarrassed tone Commander Snugglebunny"

"ahh OK ... hi"

an uncomfortable silence follows

"sorry ... what was your name again?"

Do our official Lavecon name badges have our commander names on them?

Pity they don't have our forum avatars on there too. (at least - I assume they don't)
 
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Alex Brentnall

Alex Brentnall
Thanks for the advice.

I will bring snickers to trade for fuel :D

I'm into pretty much anything, very interested in the Elite stuff and very very specifically in VR so that will be my first port of call. I'm also 100% gonna hit up Artemis, may even have my laptop with me in case others bring ones to get a 3rd team in game :p
As above I didn't know if there are any "don't miss" events or things that everyone will be headed for..

Alec I fully expect the conversation to go:
I'm X.
Who is X?
Oh, its cmdr name Y?
Who is Y?
Ahh, my reddit name is Z?
Z?
Oh wait, you want my forum name :p
 
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