RetroMadrid will be held on Saturday 13 March 2010 in the facilities of the Computer Science building of the Universidad Complutense at Madrid. We will have more room, technical facilities and resources available to develop the aim of the fair: the popularization of the interest in classic computers. The new location is perfect for our intention.

You will see many innovations at all levels, as the staff is bigger and partnerships with other groups have flourished. Our hope a is to make RetroMadrid 2010 a memorable meeting of vintage computers users.

So here is our invitation to enjoy the fair at all levels –if your desire is  to participate actively, you are always welcome. And now you can find us in Facebook and other social nets!

Note: Exhibitor registration is open since October 31th. New regulations are available in the incumbent link.

 

 

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We are very proud to announce 25th commemoration of the most selled and popular videogame of all times, cast by one of most loved and famous characters of videogames, our dear:  Super Mario Bros, para NES.

To get this, Retromadrid will be transformed, offering an space in order to the old children (thirtiers of now) will get into Mario's World in real-size.

Computers University will be converted in an space full of surprises related to Mario. We will organize a contest of "cosplay" in which Nintendo will gift a Wii black edition with five games of Mario to the visitor with the best costume based in Mario's Universe. In the same way we will have the chance to create new scenaries of this game and be photographed with Mario, so don't forget to take your camera this day.

So, AUIC will inaugure the fair with-in an special way, so we will be ver proud to present you "1UP duet", composed by the musicians Luis Miguel García Bailón and Victor Barbero Romero, so with their violin y cello, will sync  "Super Mario Bros" levels (recorden in a video edited by  Guillermo Cerdá) with their music played in live, a piece called by them "Mushroom suite" (adapted and amplied from this video).

Complementing this concert, the artist Paola Tognazzi will present  Wearable_Supernow, thanks to brazalets developed with Wii pads and an specific software to communicate with them will let us to play "1UP duet" with their own instruments and their own bodies.

To all of this, we add the talk "Mario, del andamio a las 3D. Quién te ha visto y quién te ve...",  in such we have made with all of our illusion with humour and special moments. By the way, we have invited to our favourite plonder plumber to join us, we hope he accept our invitation, because we have prepared a pie to receive him and sing "Happy Birthday". You are commited to join us next  13 de Marzo to celebrate it with all of us.

 

RELEVO Videogames will present at RetroMadrid its new production, Invasion of the Zombie Monsters, an action game for Spectrum and MSX to remeber the old times in a presente event.

Jon Cortázar, known for managing under Karoshi the videogame La Corona Encantada (illustrated by Alfonso Azpiri) is surprising us again,  this time with  RELEVO Videogames (www.relevovideogames.com) presenting us his new videogame for 8 bits systems: Invasion of the Zombie Monster, a motion shooting videogame based in classic b-series movies.

In the musical side,  is where the game is going to surprise to all the platforms retro videogames lovers , so Invasion of the Zombie Monsters is the return to the most known music componer of the Golden Age of Spanish Software: César Astudillo, aka Gominolas, that is a an active collaborator of Retromadrid.

It will be produced by Matra Computer Automations (www.matranet.net), and it will be available in a First Class Box for Spectrum (cassette) y MSX (cartridge).

Retromadrid is very near. Very soon, all classic computing fans will join in a new and different edition of one of the most famous Retrocomputing event. It will be as the other times, because it will be an excellent chance to meet our friends and colleagues, talk with the experts and to share a journey where classic computing will be the main thing to all of us.

In the other side, it will be new, and different, and not only due the new ubication, but RetroMadrid is more than never a big event where many people will work so hard to get that this 2010 edition mean a conceptual change than will transform this event in "something more". We hope that our effort will have the necessary feedback to make real all the goals of all of us.

Bring all your friends, partners and family and try to help us spreading the sign. The sign will change along the time with new sponsors.

It's always a little sad moment to say goodbye to a place that has harbored for years at a show that from a simple gathering of friends MSX system, started to have an open and glue, resulting in 7 years have overwhelmed all expectations year after year, the organization manages to sustain its growth.

Several persons who have enabled us to advance RetroMadrid offer their views on the show and its future.

And then comes the turning point, interviewees and other team members pick the 2009 RetroMadrid of RetroMadrid poster to take to a new destination: The School of Informatics, University Complutense of Madrid.

It's a hard road we face with the hope that the collaborative approach will continue working and unselfish as the key engine in RetroMadrid, which hosts the fair is a love above all.

If you want to participate in the short lift of the poster in the faculty write us and we will inform the date of recording.

 

 

On September 25 constituted the organizing committee of RetroMadrid 2010, with the collaboration of members and supporters to support the project. The Constituent Assembly was very positive and productive, she contributed many initiatives as they are coming to fruition conveniently posted on the website.

We want to publicly thank the sponsorship and support of the Universidad Complutense, especially to the Dean of the Faculty of Informatics, who have provided us means and support managed by Fernando Saenz. We likewise encourage you to collaborate with the project, any help, especially the day of the show, is welcome to do so please contact us at colabora@retromadrid.es