NAS
2003 REPORT
The bus stop flyers
Not unlike any other Saturday in Gothenburg, Sweden, people were walking from
point A to point B in the mid-day summer heat.
"Probably going from store to store to see what things has potential and/or
ambition to be bought next pay day", I thought to myself.
I, however had a more relevant goal with my transportation. I was going to
visit the NAS2003, my first Atari gathering. With a soda in my hand and a
rucksack on my back I strolled down the avenues, and finally found the premises
where the gathering was taking place.
Since I am little of a newcomer in this Atari business I was pretty astonished
when I entered the building. There were actually people with their old machines
there, and there was a guy coming there from the UK to sell all types of Atari
software and some hardware taking form of mostly Jaguar and Lynx game machines.
I paid a very reasonable entrance fee and got my name on a little pin to put on
my shirt and some numbers if i wanted to connect to the Internet. Of course,
this gathering was a work by the veterans at SAK (Svenska Atariklubben), and
they seemed to be happy to have some "fresh blood" visitors.
As I checked the place out I found Ataris connected to the Internet and to each
other, among others the guys from Nature were installing the "fresh out of the
oven" ct60, someone had brought an "Atari 2600 in a joystick". So, this was
definately the place where to spend the Saturday afternoon, playing retro
games and checking the progress with the ct60's.
Nature optimizing their 060-processor?
Of course, I couldn't resist asking Nature for previews of their productions,
so we spent some time checking Aces High, and when the ct60 seemed to be
working we tried to kick-start some cpu- demanding demos.
The hours I spent here went fast, but I had settled that I should see
"Reloaded" this evening with a friend of mine so I had to take farewell and
leave.
NAS2003 was an unexpected happening in my home-town that surprised me
positively. It showed that there are still some old Atari geezers left in this
country, and they seem to be in full control of the machine they are dealing
with.
-timbral
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