Thursday, 9th of October 2025, 19:54
The photo is taken on my way to OFAM Atari Meeting in Southern Germany. Due to the train ride I didn't take bigger hardware items. The joystick is for eagerly playing "Midnight Resistance" on some Atari ST during the weekend for this months STOT round. Will be interesting to visit this long going event for the first time.
Also, the event is an occasion for us Paradox-guys to meet up after many years of missed chances. So we booked a proper housing and begin the weekend a day earlier. RaZen is here already, The Paranoid and ZWF are going to join this evening and tomorrow morning.
But let's wrap for now... Pizza time!
Friday, 10th of October 2025
We are still stuck at the Paradox Party villa here in Münchberg in a lovely park like surrounding in autumn colors. Despite other plans, we have mostly been using the sofa corner for exchange, chilling and talking through anything Atari for hours. A few lines of code have been written and some bugs could be fixed, mostly by raZen, but as it's all so cosy we have a tendency to rather speak about what could be done than actually doing things. Coffee, shopping, the usual bits.
We had a little FaSTEr racing battle on ZWF's STE and some first rounds of playing Midnight Resistance without notable highscore.
We are about to chose and visit a restaurant soon and then we will head over to the OFAM party place.
After same proper and rather meaty food at Schützenhaus Münchberg we walked to the OFAM location, a nice two room facility, where the hosts MacFalcon, Ektus and probably other helping hands had arranged drinks, network connectivity and power supply for all tables.
There were quite few visitors there, around 12 including us which was said to be less than usual for the Fridays where the seats usually get taken quickly. We have been told some people are sick, e.g. the Czech department (hope you get better soon) while many others are to be expected tomorrow. Record visitor count in previous years was 38, as we were told.
We could spot some interesting hardware, lots of boxes for tinkering, building and soldering. A Falcon 060 was in place, a 130 XE setup, a Mega ST and also a Suska 3B board, among lots of other stuff.
Bottom left: Getting goosebumps seeing such a desktopper case after decades, as one of these boxes of disputable beauty was housing my first 1040 STE (a long lasting love story with 4 MB, two diskdrives and TOS 2.06) many years ago.
Also, quite thrilling to finally meet some of the people from German atari-home.de forum with their renowned hardware expertise in real life.
Anyway, after a long and intense last night, we were all quite tired so that we decided to head back to our Paradox Party villa for the rest of the evening.
There we also had left our equipment which led to a sudden burst of unexpected productivity in various disciplines: raster code, maxYMiser activity and sync command implementation and a couple of lousy Midnight Resistance high score failures.
After this laid back and rather unproductive day (which was obviously necessary for restoration matters) it was good to end the day with that feel of satisfaction. Let's see what tomorrow brings.
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