Expositions · VCF Montréal 2.0 · 7 et 8 novembre 2026
Voici les expositions confirmées pour VCF Montréal 2.0.
Exhibits · VCF Montréal 2.0 · November 7 & 8, 2026
Here are the confirmed exhibits for VCF Montréal 2.0.
| Gopher It: The Internet for Vintage Machines | The modern internet is scary and difficult for older computers. Using pre-HTTP (ex: Gopher) protocols can still make them useful! | Sébastien Bariteau |
| Canadian Computers / Ordinateurs Canadiens | Presenting the Dynalogic Hyperion computer and the Nortel DisplayPhone. | Pierre Renaud |
| NABU.CA - The NABU Network | Leo Binkowski's display of the NABU Network, the only Canadian consumer-based computer built for the home that delivered software over Cable in 1982. | Leo Binkowski |
| Retronic Design | Joystick adapter to connect all DB9 joystick and apparatus to USB as native HID devices such as Atari joysticks, C64, Amiga, Sega Saturn and more. Video Adapters for C64 and Amiga | Francis Gradel |
| C64 PAL demos and Transmission64 | Demo scene: Playing latest C64 PAL demos from Europe, Transmission64 online demo party information and c2 Cross Assembler showcase. | John Hammarberg |
| Legendary Failure? | A historical exhibit telling the story of the Newton and the various beats where it was a "failure" but also where it was very successful (for example, Apple buying stock in ARM). | Noah Leon |
| One Maybe Two Retro | Featured on his YouTube channel (youtube.com/@1Maybe2Retro) Aaron's display showcases a curated collection of fully restored systems, innovative new hardware and software projects, and even the return of his original BBS from the early 1990s. | Aaron Middleton |
| The Band. | Before MIDI or audio standards, making music meant hacking raw logic gates and bit-banging CPU cycles. Experience legacy silicon linked via custom interfaces—a live, unstandardized computer band! | Ze Cahue Machado |
| Griefenbunker LAN Party | Frag some n00bs at a four-player LAN Party setup. Multiplayer gaming with no need for an internet connection! | Ashley Hakker |
| Early British Personal Computing – Sinclair/Timex, Amstrad, Acorn/BBC, Enterprise | Early British Personal Computing – Sinclair/Timex, Amstrad, Acorn/BBC, Enterprise Come see and follow early personal British computing from “across the pond”. Featured computers from: - Sinclair/Timex - Amstrad/Schneider - Acorn/BBC - Enterprise | Andrew Bocchicchio |
| Dial-up/Networking | An assortment of 90s and 2000s computers interconnected via methods of the era - dial-up on an analog PBX, direct parallel and serial, 10BaseT Ethernet. Browse archived websites and listen to the modem sounds. | Matthieu Yiptong |
| GameTank - Homebrew 8 Bit Console | A new 8-bit game console and ecosystem designed for hobbyist tinkerers, hackers, and programmers to build, extend, and develop for | Clyde Shaffer |
| Mizuki Mobile | Exposition concernant la technologie cellulaire 2G (GSM,PDC), incluant la téléphonie mobile des années 1990 à 2010, la technologie web i-Mode provenant du Japon avec des téléphones "Keitai" | Guillaume Deroy |
| Les machines IBM | Une présentation de plusieurs machines IBM du début des années 80 à la fin des années 90 | Olivier Desautels-Lavoie |
| GalaxieMan | Début de la micro-informatique des années 1970-1980 | Jean-Pierre Lessard |
| MacPB | Exposition d’ordinateurs haut de gamme Apple du début des années 90. Exhibition of high-end Apple computers from the early 90s. | Paul Bernard |
| Have You Played Atari Today? | Display of vintage Atari home computers and their accessories. | Daryl Richards |
| Gemstone Warrior', a Canadian game! | L'exposition présente aux visiteurs deux jeux vidéos sur Apple II; Gemstone Warrior et Gemstone Healer. Tous deux développés dans les années 80 par Paradigm Creators, Inc., développeur canadien basé à Vancouver. | André Mantha |
| History of Portable Gaming | History of handheld gaming | Pierre-Armand Lalonde |
| Joseph Weisbecker Computers | Computers and devices from Joseph Weisbecker, including the RCA COSMAC 1802 and systems built with 1802 | Josh Bensadon |
| Brazilian Clones | A display of many Brazilian clones released in the early 80s, including "unofficial" clones of Radio Shack and Sinclair computers, and some "official" MSX machines. | Paulo Garcia |
| Texas Instruments Home Computer | Explore the evolution of Texas Instruments computing! This exhibit showcases a heavily modified TI-99/4A with modern upgrades, a fully loaded 99/22 system, and a modern ATX TMS9995 Power Basic Cortex system. See retro computing redefined. | Gary Bowser |
| Industrial vs Home computer | The goal of this exposition is to show the difference between very powerful industrial computer vs the affordable home computer of the same time period | Francois Lanciault |
| MGT RetroNET | Step back onto the old Internet with The MGT Unicorn. Use a Tandy 1000 SX, NABU and IBM PC 300XL to browse Gopher, read live news from Montreal and Montreal weather via Telnet and Finger, and hear live RealAudio radio on period hardware. | Dimitri Papadopoulos |
| 1Bit Fever Dreams | Programming projects on the black and white 68k Macs and on the 65816 based Wildbits/k2 (fmr. known as F256K2) using their sound chips possibilities and their endearing graphics limitations. | Michaël Juneau |
| Commodore 64 | Jeux et utilitaires pour Vic20 et Commodore 64 | Marc Lafrenière |
| Amiga - still making it possible | Amiga – Still Making It Possible exposes the modern pipeline behind retro game dev. See Visual Studio cross-development side-by-side with original Amiga hardware running live playtests of upcoming homebrew hits Grind and Hamulet. | Rémi Veilleux |
| Land of the Portables | Portable computers (Compaq/Osborne/Kaypro) | Christian Molson |
| Arcade et ordinateur | Comterm Max + arcade avec MiSTer FPGA & MiSTer cade | Philippe Thibault |
| From Mystery House to Colossal Cave: Adventure Gaming Then & Now | Explore the evolution of adventure gaming from the pioneering Mystery House and Colossal Cave to their modern reimaginings. See vintage hardware, historical material, and playable demonstrations connecting gaming’s past and present. | Marcus Mera |
| Sega Saturn | Des jeux de combat sur la Sega Saturn. | Daniel Lamothe |
| Applegui | Machines with historical predecessors to the current Macintosh GUI | Chris Rupnik |
| Game jam like it's the 90s again | Come develop games like it's the 90s! | Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc |
| MCGM & celgen studios colab | shared table between the MCGM and Celgen studios | adrian stoness |
| Premiers jeux d'ordinateur québécois | Venez essayer les tout premiers jeux édités au Québec sur un Apple II+ - Come try the very first video games published in Québec on an Apple II+ | Louis Rousseau |
| Planet of Stuff presents: Before the Laptop — Portable Computing & Canadian Innovation | From IBM’s 55-pound 5100 to Canada’s Hyperion and Waterloo-developed SuperPET, explore the ingenious years before laptops. Rare machines from 1975–84 presented by Planet of Stuff. | Kirk Nicholson |
| Retro NetBSD | Running old NetBSD today! | Michael Parker |
| A Snapshot of the Foulab Museum | A small selection of projects from the museum within Montreal's local hackerspace Foulab. Includes: A PDP-11/70, NeXT Machines hosting a demo of the worlds first website and browser, A CoCo 3 and NES Communicating with Meshcore, and possibly more. | Jake Hoppenheim |
| LGR Greets | Clint Basinger |