CommVEx v14 guests and presentations

[rbernardo]

First one to sign in... It's Matt Brewster of Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network. As in past shows, Matt will be showing something in the way of Commodore and/or Amiga hardware emulation. He's thinking of something small.

More details to come,

[rbernardo]

Roger Van Pelt of FCUG will once again have a presentation on the latest games and enhanced games for the C64 and/or VIC-20.

More details to come,

[rbernardo]

Once again, Richard Goedeken, creator of the original C128 Video DAC (RGB-to-VGA converter), appears at CommVEx. Let's see if I can convince him to talk about his adventures in Commodore and Amiga gaming and his meticulous computer repair!

What an engineer he is!

[rbernardo]

As in past shows, Matt will be showing something in the way of Commodore and/or Amiga hardware emulation. He's thinking of something small.

More information trickling in. It has to do with the Raspberry Pi.

Truly,

[rbernardo]

Roger Van Pelt will have a presentation on how to connect on-line with the C64/128 and the WiFi64 modem from SharewarePlus and the Strikelink v1.1 wi-fi modem from Kevin Casteels. He'll be using the programs, CCGMS v6 and Novaterm 9.6.

[rbernardo]

I met Daniel Kaye and Kenneth Turecott, Newtek Video Toaster engineers, and got about their experiences during the heyday of the Amiga Video Toaster! This was just filmed at the recent Maker Faire Bay Area, and you'll get to see it at CommVEx.

Wishing for an even longer interview from them,

[rbernardo]

...Richard Goedeken...appears at CommVEx. Let's see if I can convince him to talk about his adventures in Commodore and Amiga gaming and his meticulous computer repair!

He has locked down a presentation on a new cartridge from Poland; he calls it the "New C64 Super-Uber-Mega-Multicart."

Writing from Portland, Oregon,

[rbernardo]

Lenard Roach, author of Commodore books, will speak on how to publish a Commodore book through Create Space.

Writing from Portland, Oregon,

[rbernardo]

Lenard Roach will have a second presentation on his C64 BASIC programs - the "Bonus 5 Pack".

Back in California,

[rbernardo]

Heh, we're starting to overflow on presentations! On video, Eric Hill has his two Amiga 1000 presentations -- the Rejuvenator Reloaded and Amiga 1000 Kickstart mods. Also on video, Don Elman, of the classic Commander magazine, speaks about his 1983-1984 tenure as editor.

Back in California,

[rbernardo]

Programmer and author, Derek Morris, will be on hand to show off his book, "Retro Game Dev" for the C64. https://www.retrogamedev.com/c64edition He'll be giving away/raffling off some autographed copies of the book.

Truly,

[rbernardo]

As in past shows, Matt will be showing something in the way of Commodore and/or Amiga hardware emulation. He's thinking of something small.

(snip)

More information trickling in. It has to do with the Raspberry Pi.

He will be bringing in his Pi-Top laptop which has a Pi 3 running Amiga OS 3.1. He'll also have two more Pi's - one with classic Amiga and the other with C64.

Truly,

[rbernardo]

Lenard Roach, author of Commodore books, will speak on how to publish a Commodore book through Create Space.

Lenard Roach will have a second presentation on his C64 BASIC programs - the "Bonus 5 Pack".

Due to unforseen circumstances, Lenard Roach has cancelled out of the show.

Truly,

[rbernardo]

From an e-mail, Nonefornow wrote:

Here is the preliminary list of new Amiga games that I'll bring to LV for people to try out - either on original machine or on emulation.

Worthy,
Block Off
Bombjack
Highway Sprint
Lumberjack Reloaded.

All generously provided by Simone.

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From another forum, Nonefornow wrote:

Through special arrangements I will be able to show a playable evaluation copy of this game [Worthy] at the 2018 CommVEx event in Las Vegas.
https://portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku ... mvex:start

Here some more info:
The game can be purchased at:
https://amiga.net.pl/index.php?kwt=4191&hss=1&lng=eng
Pixelglass page:
http://pixelglass.org/#worthy

Specs:
Disk version: Any PAL Amiga 512kb chip and 512kb other RAM Floppy Disk drive
CD version: Any PAL Amiga 1.5mb free RAM (512 free chip) CDROM drive (the CD version is bootable with CD32)
Hard drive version: Any PAL Amiga 1.5mb free RAM (512 free chip) Hard drive with 2.5mb of free hard disk space to install
PRICES
Digital: 9 Eur
Floppy + CD (digital included) : 19 Eur
Boxed Floppy + CD (digital and A3 poster included): 23 Eur

Soundtrack available on BandCamp!
https://jmdamigamusic.bandcamp.com/albu ... soundtrack

Full album buyers will have original mods available.

[rbernardo]

On Sunday of this year's CommVEx, I had an impromptu presentation of the 3D Construction Kit game, A Chance in Hell, along with the C64 and SuperCPU.

It was filmed,