Hi everyone! This summer is looking big for TASVideos' Ambassadors and the TASBot team at upcoming events!
Earlier this month I presented my talk on rgbscaler.com for JSWorld Amsterdam's online portion. The talk reworks
this presentation for a more web development oriented audience. This talk has now also been accepted at
React Summit! You can see a talk abstract in my speaker bio under Travis McGeehan. We don't know yet whether this will be another online talk or in person in Amsterdam. Hopefully these talks help push forward the state of retro video on the modern web and lessen the need for some of the hacks used on rgbscaler.com to make it all work. I've also since encoded
one of ShesChardcore's TASes as a new demo that should be more cross-platform compatible from a single URL. I hope to do more encodes like this as publications relevant to the site's tech come up.
In July TASVideos and TASBot may get the opportunity to have a booth at
LTX! The Linus Tech Tips expo LTX runs July 29-30 in Vancouver. We plan to bring setups there to show TASBot to the event attendees as they review a lot of retro tech equipment that we also use in the TASVideos/speedrunning/TASBot scene to capture video from original consoles and we expect the scene to have a lot of interest overlap with TASVideos and TASing in general. We plan to show live console verifications of the Game Boy library there with a matching setup for attendees to try to play the same games in real time.
In August TASVideos and TASBot will visit Long Island! We plan to have a booth and panel discussion at the
Long Island Retro Gaming expo on August 11-13. The panel will feature SMASHBot, which is pioneering some of the TAS verification possibilities on the GameCube working around the inconsistency in a disc based system, and the booth will feature live TAS playback of the extensive Game Boy TAS verification library just as at LTX.
