Atari festivals and meetings announced in Poland
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Poland will host two major events in the coming months that will bring together fans of classic Atari consoles and computers, the AtariOnline.pl portal announced.
The nearest activity isIrony 2017, third edition of theAtari partyannual event, which this year will take place from 11 to 13 August at the fire station in the village of Wysoka, located in the Piła district of the Wielkopolska Voivodeship.
Mark "Iron" Jurków, organizer of the event, advanceson their website that there will be four competitions
GFX Compo- graphics for Atari 8-bit computers as executable files (XEX, EXE, COM); work done on PC is also supported viaRasta Converteror G2F.
Game Compo- Atari games: there are no restrictions on the requirements to run them (expanded RAM, stereo POKEY, Rapidus cards, VBXE, etc.).
Crazy Compo- any project not included in the previous categories.
World Karate Championship / International Karate Compo- fighting contest in the famous Epyx game (1986).
The entry fee is 40 Polish zloty - about eleven dollars. Those interested in participating can contact Jurków at:
. By the way, the eye-catching "invitro" (invitation+intro) is the work of Marek "Koala" Oglodek (code), Wojciech "Bocianu" Bocianski (music); Robert "sOnar" Szerniewicz (logo); and Marek "Iron" Jurków (text).On the other hand, yesterday the call for the ninth edition ofSilly Venture 2017, the largest retrofestival of the year in Europe related to the different Atari platforms.
Peter "JAC!" Dell produced the graphics and code for the Atari 2600 in-vitro game for the event, which runs December 8-10 in Gdansk, Poland. Michal "Grey" Michalowski (text) and Glafouk (music) also contributed.
According to the Silly Venture websiteThe festival will be dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Atari 2600 console and the 25th anniversary of the Atari Falcon 030 - the last computer marketed by Atari.
AtariOnline.plhighlights that, among other activities, the event will include a concert by gwEm, a talented English musician and creator of maxYMisera, considered the bestchip trackerfor the Atari ST.
It is worth remembering thatSillyVenture 2016 brought together nearly 300 enthusiastsfrom the United States and various European countries. In addition, more than 100 programs competed in categories such as Atari VCS, XL / XE, ST and Falcon computers.
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