![]() 2-5 in National Harbor, Maryland, and the panel itself will be recorded and posted on YouTube in the weeks following the event.” “I also plan on bringing my Astrocade to the museum area and having it set up to play immediately following the panel with some BASIC games and homebrew/indie stuff on the ultimulti. We’ll be talking about how this scene coalesced, the kind of unique, even artful programs that were created, how it petered out, and if there’s time, even a bit about the current state of homebrew development for the platform. “For any enthusiasts who are going to Magfest or live on the east coast, Rachel Simone Weil and I will be running a history panel all about the independent developer/enthusiast scene that cropped around the Astrocade! Obviously quite unique for a game console to have vastly more unofficial, “bedroom coder” style software releases than official ones, and having enthusiast-developed and sold hardware is similarly incredible. Kevin Bunch posted the following to the Astrogroup subforum on AtariAge: ![]()
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