alecu

Alejandro J. Cura

Retrofuturismo con alecu

Community and volunteer projects from Argentina: electromechanical games, tabletop megagames and vintage computer restorations, all built in the open.

A child plays a Ventilastation game with a controller while the spinning fan shows the game in lights Ultimate IndieMash 2025 winner Ongoing Ventilastation An open source, open hardware game console built into a spinning fan. Super Ventilagon glowing purple on a spinning fan while a spectator watches 2015 Super Ventilagon The spinning-fan game that Ventilastation grew out of. Reflektor, an electromechanical game with mirrors, a laser and red and green Meccano pieces 2013 Reflektor My first electromechanical game, made of mirrors, lasers and Meccano. Players gather around a giant world map during a megagame, one of them in a horned mask 2016 – 2022 Megajuegos Giant tabletop games for 50+ players. I founded the group and led it. A Microdigital TK85 connected to a Grundig television that shows a screen filled with the word ALECU Ongoing Restorations Bringing vintage computers back to life, for my collection and for EspacioTec.

How it connects

  1. 2013ReflektorMirrors, a laser and Meccano.
  2. 2015Super VentilagonA game on a spinning fan.
  3. NowVentilastationA console for circular games.

Restorations

The inside of an Apple Lisa with its main board exposed Restored Apple Lisa Belongs to: My collection Brought back to life, and the stage for a demo that placed second at FlashParty '26. Trying on a Virtuality headset at the workbench In progress Virtuality 1000CS Belongs to: EspacioTec An early-90s arcade VR cabinet built around an Amiga 3000. The computer boots again; the headset is next.

On the bench

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Demos and small projects

1st place · FlashParty '23 · oldskool demo

Vlad Farty

A demo for the Ventilastation console.

2nd place · FlashParty '26 · oldskool demo

Alisando el Camino

A demo running on an Apple Lisa I restored.

Python · no emulation libraries

numsid

A Commodore 64 SID, Amiga MOD and MIDI player, with the 6502 CPU and the SID chip emulated from scratch. Source

Talks

Nerdearla Buenos Aires 2025 · Spanish

Videojuegos en un Ventilador

Designing and building the first open source, open hardware video game console made in Latin America, which runs inside a fan, and the highs and lows of an amateur hardware project.

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PyDay Hurlingham 2024 · October 26, 2024 · Spanish

Juegos en un ventilador con MicroPython

Ventilastation, its history and how it works, and how to use MicroPython to write your own games for it.

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