Roy Templeman

 @loudscotsbloke.bsky.social

Roy Templeman is a retro computing enthusiast with a passion for preserving and demonstrating classic 8-bit machines. Fascinated by the diversity of early home computers, he enjoys exploring and collecting the wonderfully obscure underdogs and oddballs.

The Carter Brothers

 @c-carter-cmas.bsky.social

Dave built his first Newbear 77-68 (Motorola 6800 based micro computer kit) in 1978. At the time the Newbear was nicknamed The Electric Twit which is an expression from an old radio Goon Show where Bluebottle says that he got An electric twit for Christmas.

For Retrofest 2026, a BBC B Micro and a Newbear 77-68 should be controlling a small model railway (with at least one GWR loco, of course) plus a PiDP-11 2/3 scale replica DEC PDP-11 blinking its lights in the background.

The Big Red Arrow Club

 @BigRedArrowClub

The Big Red Arrow Club are a global network of retro tech YouTubers who like nothing more than to be recognised in public and have their egos stroked. We mean, to share our passion with like-minded people, yeah, that’s it.

They’ll be bringing along projects from their own collections (and channels) for you to look at, talk about, and play around with!

Visiting over the weekend will be:

Spencer Owen

 RC2014.co.uk

A selection of RC2014 retro computer kits based on the Z80, which will be demonstrating some of the things you can do with CP/M, BASIC and Z80 assembly code, along with a few kits for sale so you can build your own Z80 computer from scratch!

Derek Knaggs

 FlameLily.co.uk

Flamelily Retro Store

New stuff for your old tech. If you love modern hardware for old systems you will know about the Raspberry Pi Pico. We are the UK reseller for a few Pico devices, the BlueSCSI, the PicoGUS and the PicoMEM. We have wallet friendly kits and fully assembled units for purchase. Come and see all these in action at our table. We also now sell the Denise which is a Mini-ITX Amiga recreation motherboard and great for restoring a damaged Amiga A500+.

We will have a prototype, of the brand new not yet released, PicoCPC to show and demo so if Amstrad CPC's are your thing came and see it in action.

Peter Howkins

 www.marutan.net/rpcemu/

"How about a nice game of chess?"

Peter has fallen down the rabbit hole of computer chess, and will be bringing along some of his collection of Acorn machines running various versions. There will also be some guest machines vying to see which machine is victorious.

Sean Billings

 @seanybillings.bsky.social

Sean will this year mostly be showing his collection of small things.

He has always been interested in computing in his pocket long before it was cool to carry around.

Mobile devices running DOS, Windows CE, Symbian, Early Linux devices and some obscure devices including pre-smartphone smartphones.

He is also hoping to re-create the Programming setups he used to use to write commercial software for some of these.

Museum of Computing

 museumofcomputing.org.uk

The Museum of Computing is devoted to the history of computing and digital development. It was the first physical museum of its kind in the UK and is based in the centre of Swindon at Theatre Square. You will find many hands-on exhibits, allowing you to experience computers and related items as they were in the past.

John Brown

 @RetroBytes

We can't grantee that the weather in Swindon will be sunny, but we can say at least one table will be. We can all have fun fun fun, with some Sun, Sun, Suns. It will be like a 90s computer science lab, with a variety of Sun workstations, including the last model of UltraSparc Workstation Sun ever made, and some usual Sun machines, and some of the classics.

John has been bringing differing Retro Machines to events for a while now, and has a great time talking to everyone, meaning his voice is usually going by the Sunday. A few years after he started coming to the events, he also made the mistake of starting a YouTube channel (RetroBytes), so you might recognise his voice from there. Although typically by the end of Sunday even his own mother would not recognise what’s left of his voice.

Michael Shilabeer

 GeekyArt.co.uk

Electronic components preserved in a unique way - in their natural habitat of a Printed Circuit Board.

Nic Chester

 @ellsworthbeast

Ain’t no party like a first party: Linux on a PlayStation, Unix on a classic Mac, and DOS on an Amiga; each machine running exactly as its manufacturer intended. No hacks, no tricks, and no voided warranties (in theory). Just perfectly normal behaviour from three legendary platforms.

Paul Gregory

 IndigoBeetle.co.uk

Paul will be showing his new retro game creation tool, Kwyll, and some of the games created with it running on The Spectrum. He has a history of similar creation tools, having cut his teeth on The 3D Construction Kit at Incentive back in 1991. He'll be on hand to answer any questions about Kwyll throughout, and to demonstrate how it works and how you can create the Spectrum games you always wanted to make but didn't know how.

Matthew Harrold

 CuTEL.net

Communications Failures - Celebrating communications hardware from the late 20th century that never quite caught on

Rick Lumb

 PuttyCAD.itch.io

PuttyCAD Presents a collection of original budget games, featuring art by Ric Lumb (PuttyCAD). Includes games from Jeff Murray (PsychicParrot), Nigel Critten (100TinSoldiers) & Rich Hanson (Rich Pea) As featured in RETRO GAMER, PIXEL ADDICT and CRASH magazines

Gareth Qually

 SlowlyMakingSmoke.com

Gareth likes to focus on the creative uses of vintage tech, so he will be exhibiting some of the creative tools that were available on various platforms. Page through some of those classic ring bound manuals, while Gareth demonstrates everything from pixels to 3D rendering. Even have a go with the features of the software packages we all know along with a few hidden gems.

Greg Siddons

 electrongreg.itch.io

Lover of 8bit Acorns (and many other 8bit systems), text based games and programming tech demos.

Wayne Young

Wayne Young will be exhibiting for the first time this year. He earned the nickname Slartybartfast (sic) after creating computer generated fjord-like landscapes while at university in the 1980s. Perpetually pushing pixels ever since, he will be bringing along his first computer; a heavily modified Ohio Scientific Instruments C1/P, and his prize winning graphics accelerator card designed and built in 1987, capable of drawing perspective projected wireframe objects at full video frame rate.