CommVEx v9 2013 guests and presentations

[rbernardo]

Jim Drew, creator of more 60 commercial products for Commodore and Amiga computers in the 1980's and 1990's and CBM educational/support representative for Oregon from 1983 to 1985, will be coming to the show for a second time. As creator of Supercard+ for Commodore drives and Supercard Amiga for the Amiga drives, last year he talked about his new project, Supercard Pro, among other things.

More details to come,

[rbernardo]

FCUG member Louis Mazzei will have a presentation on how to rebuild an Atari CX-40 joystick (of which the Commodore joystick is a clone) with new parts.

Truly,

[rbernardo]

We may have a video presentation on the use of the Briel Computer's micro-KIM, the KIM-1 clone.

Won't know positively until later,

[rbernardo]

I will be doing a presentation on the Relax Stress Reduction System produced by Synapse Software. With Relax running, you connect the C64 to your head via a special, cabled headband which has sensors.

Truly,

[rbernardo]

Kent Sullivan of Dr. Evil Laboratories, the makers of the 1988 SID Symphony Stereo Cartridge, will be in attendance at the show. Hey, I'm bringing my original SID Symphony Stereo Cartridge for him to see!

Truly,

[rbernardo]

John Ferrell will bring his Kryoflux and will happily image all original software people bring. He will even create re-imaged originals for the attendees if they bring blank disks. He would actually like people to bring as many originals as they have, so he can archive them.

Truly,

[rbernardo]

Tim Waite will have a presentation on Votalker speech software, which he says works better than S.A.M. (Software Actuated Mouth).

Speech the C64 way,

[rbernardo]

Keith Henrickson, creator of C= stuff for iPADs and iPODs, will be attending the show.

Perhaps with info on his new projects,

[rbernardo]

We may have a video presentation on the use of the Briel Computer's micro-KIM, the KIM-1 clone.

Won't know positively...

Unfortunately, that's a negative.

Truly,

[rbernardo]

Though more details will come later, Goog from the Portland Commodore User Group will be presenting one or two new hardware prototypes.

Truly,

[rbernardo]

John Ferrell will bring his Kryoflux and will happily image all original software people bring.

Here are further details from John -

"I'll have flippy modded Kryoflux and Supercard Pro compatible drives on hand for purchase as well as cleaned and aligned 1541's if anyone is interested.

In the interest of software preservation (SPS), anyone with rare or hard copy protected titles, please bring them with you and I'll be happy to make a Kryoflux dump with a G64 for you. If you'd like a remastered copy, please bring new blank floppy disks. I'll also have some available for purchase.

(My offer applies to 5.25" Commodore 64/128 titles only). I'll have a disk cleaning station on hand and several KF units ready to go.

This includes copy utilities & collections.

Speaking out of turn here, and Jim will correct me if I'm wrong, If Jim has the Supercard Pro's available at the show, bring your Amiga disks as well. His solution can make remastered backups of 3.5" disks as well.

Hope to see as many of you as possible - it will be a great time as usual!"

Truly,

[rbernardo]

Lars Nelson, Amiga user extraordinaire, has confirmed he will be coming to CommVEx. If I know Lars, he will be bringing his OS 4.1 machines.

Truly,

[rbernardo]

Chris, the "CommodoreMan," will be demonstrating his TextConvert32 which runs on Windows computers and converts Windows docs to PETSCII.

Truly,

[ShaneRMonroe]

Anyone interested in hearing tales of the U.S. ESCOM meeting in Philly back in the 1990s? When Petro and company essentially buried the last of the Amiga corpses in the ground? It's been documented and passed around, but I'm told I spin a pretty good tale (this one just happens to be true).

I could also talk about the early days of Dark Unicorn Productions; we did Scorched Tanks, the popular FMV games Tomcat and Desert Apache, Psycho Squares and some others on Amiga.

[rbernardo]

Anyone interested in hearing tales of the U.S. ESCOM meeting in Philly back in the 1990s?

I'd like to know about the ESCOM days.

I could also talk about the early days of Dark Unicorn Productions; we did Scorched Tanks, the popular FMV games Tomcat and Desert Apache, Psycho Squares and some others on Amiga.

I don't know anything about the history on those, so you'd have to bring us up to speed.

Truly,