2023_House_of_Arts_etc_29April

The Computarium participated to the big organisation held in the evening hours. Several vintage games and a new "Retro Jukebox" were on display and could be used.
This is the official poster of the huge event, at which participated at least 100 of the students of the LCD (LycĂ©e classique Diekirch) The Computarium made a…
An old disused cabinet of a VHS system was modified to hold a PONG and an ATARI2600 game; the big and heavy vintage Philips CRT TV could be switched from CH2 to…
Several new dollies were bought, and this one holds a Philips G7000 console and a vintage Thomson colour TV. The game to play (by one or two players) is the…
A new important contribution was a "Retro Jukebox". I found a really impressive French software that runs on old computers. We had two old EPSON POS computers…
This is the second Jukebox, to be used with headphones only; it is meant as a backup.
We planned to display the Retro Jukebox on the 2nd level stage; a projector showed the computer screen above on the ceiling. Finally we had to change to…
A slideshow with pictures of Computarium equipment was projected through the glass windows out on the backside of the huge linnen tissues hanging down in the…
As the Computariums exhibition was on the 2nd floor, we planned to project a video in a loop (of the REZ game) in the stair case, just to show where we are. I…
A dolly with 2 beamers is used to project the video on two walls (the REZ 1 hour video was found by our member Ronny Heinz). The computer is a vintage HP t610…
Short video showing the display during the tests; the video runs in mute mode.
New posters were added in the staircase, and black shades used to dampen the lights that for security reason could not be switched off.
We needed a large screen to display Commodore C64 games; nothing was available, so I built a rolling screen using a disused cloth rack and a heavy white board.
Here the finished screen, moveable as all other equipment.
On the 2nd floor stage a collection of PONG consoles was to be installed, and the "Pong-o-Mania" signs displayed around.
This is the glass covered interior court where concerts with the LCD music band and choir will be hold...
The Computarium's exhibition is on the last floor, behind the white linnen tissues, on which we project from behind a slideshow (unvisible from the front side).…
Installtion finished, and this is how it looks!
Another look into the court.
The start was at 20:00, and at least a few hundred peple attended.
There were big concerts...