Sniff! I wish I had been there... But happy for the ones who were there

Congratulations to the organisers...

Q!

"i am home"

Nice event!

Well Done!

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Thanks for posting all the pictures. Look like you had fun with a good turnout too! (~200)

The posters also look good!

TrevorD

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Great event, thanx for photos and videos ..

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The posters also look good! TrevorD

Thanks for them, again! ;) Good looking indeed.

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man that sounds like a blast! , great to hear how Saku has somehow managed to stay popular.


now its time to look for some demos+/intros i guess ;)

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great to hear how Saku has somehow managed to stay popular.

I'm pretty sure these kinds of events would work on other countries too. There's surprisingly much interest underneath, from nostalgists as well as from new retro people, even if amount of the active people would seem low (which is usually bigger than looks too). You just need small number of core people to kick things started... and then you'll see how other people get excited and offer to bring all kinds of stuff :) There certainly seems to be demand for these kinds of events, which offer vintage computing and gaming, but also present new things.

Saku as an user group has also managed to stay popular last years because of active native forum, but also because of its meetings and events. We've actually arranged and participated to more events than ever before in last years. Statutory annual meeting has kept the ball rolling and we've refined our classic gaming concept year by year in those meetings. In last few years we've also been asked to arrange Amiga gaming to several public mainstream events like lan parties (last time we even had compo arranged on bigscreen in main hall), national games day events, arts night events and even to some more private events. Retro/vintage gaming is getting more and more popular and we have something to offer, it's good to keep Amiga memories alive and also have an opportunity to show some new more marginal things too :)

Next year we're probably going to Tampere with biggish Saku event and keep our recent big city big Amiga event tour going :) Few other events can't be avoided either ;)

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And nobody took pictures of my tie. At least it's shown in one of the videos.

Check the first photo report, if you are referring to the tie here:

http://saku.bbs.fi/yhdistys/tapahtumat/saku2013/kuvat/index_10.html

Not a perfect picture of the tie, but still showing. :)

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I'm pretty sure these kinds of events would work on other countries too. There's surprisingly much interest underneath, from nostalgists as well as from new retro people, even if amount of the active people would seem low (which is usually bigger than looks too). You just need small number of core people to kick things started... and then you'll see how other people get excited and offer to bring all kinds of stuff :) There certainly seems to be demand for these kinds of events, which offer vintage computing and gaming, but also present new things. Saku as an user group has also managed to stay popular last years because of active native forum, but also because of its meetings and events. We've actually arranged and participated to more events than ever before in last years. Statutory annual meeting has kept the ball rolling and we've refined our classic gaming concept year by year in those meetings. In last few years we've also been asked to arrange Amiga gaming to several public mainstream events like lan parties (last time we even had compo arranged on bigscreen in main hall), national games day events, arts night events and even to some more private events. Retro/vintage gaming is getting more and more popular and we have something to offer, it's good to keep Amiga memories alive and also have an opportunity to show some new more marginal things too :) Next year we're probably going to Tampere with biggish Saku event and keep our recent big city big Amiga event tour going :) Few other events can't be avoided either ;)

Great post jPV. This is exactly what is keeping Saku young and fresh and on-going. Thank you to all the people who have made it happen.

I heartily recommend our concept to other countries as well. By combining retro, nostalgia, wider community (Saku these days includes other Commodore platforms like 8-bit and has always included all Amiga related "clone" platforms as well), demoscene, electronics/gadgets/programming hobbyists/geeks, newschool developments around these things etc., you can really bring something to the table that attracts a lof of people without looking or feeling like a museum. Old and new people doing new things with both old and new technology, but also showcasing past greats to those wishing to reminisce or learn old things anew. Plus some great retro entertainment.

Great stuff! Go Saku! :)

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Little Bitchard has a nice English blog post on Saku 2013 with pictures, in case you haven't checked it out yet:

http://littlebitchard.com/2013/09/saku-2013/

@jtsiren
It looks like I forgot or missed that one. The computer case has a nice reflection of the surroundings as well.

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The tie also shows in the distance in this picture from Little Bitchard's blog post ( http://littlebitchard.com/2013/09/saku-2013/ )

http://littlebitchard.com/files/2013/09/20130921-180924.jpg