Commodore Clubs?

[rbernardo]

Happy summer, C= and Amiga aficionados!

The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 1+ p.m., Sunday, July 17, at --

The Pizza Pit Restaurant
2705 N. Blackstone Ave. (corner of Blackstone and Princeton)
Fresno, California

With only a few days until the July 23-24 Commodore Vegas Expo, we'll have an update on all the developments that will happen at CommVEx. I'll also report on my month in Europe with visits to the Lincolnshire Amiga Group, the Amiga North Thames club, the Netherlands Commodore Show, AmigaKit, and the Dienstagstreff Commodore Club meeting. For your hardware pleasure, we'll dig into the inner workings of a PET 8296-D computer, the last PET that Commodore produced in 1985-1986. And as usual, we'll try to catch up on our backlog of C= program presentations.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
July 23-24 Commodore Vegas Expo v7 2011 - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

[rbernardo]

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Subject: Reminder: PDXCUG.org Meeting - Thursday, July 14, 2011
From: "PDXCUG Admin" <pdxcug(at)pdxcug.org>
Date: Wed, July 13, 2011 2:54 pm
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Hello, PDXCUG Fans!

Virtual Commodore Club Meeting - LIVE
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Unable to attend the Portland Commodore Users Group Meeting?

Come chat with us on CommodoreServer using VICE or a real Commodore 64 or 128 . We'll be chatting with you from the meeting.

NEW: You can now use RR-NET with ChatteRR-Box to chat.
Download ChatteRR-Box at: http://bit.ly/nGYvJt

Or chat with Group Zork:
http://bit.ly/eKq5uP

Come join us in the c64 room
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PDXCUG.org Meeting:
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Thursday, July 14, 2011 @6:00 pm - come as early as 5:00 pm
More info & location: http://pdxcug.org/meetings.asp

Meeting Agenda:

This month is a full-on Tinker Time. Bring your hardware, software and other projects to work on, show off or play with.
- Soldering
- Hacking
- Coding
- Exploring new hardware
- Repair
- Cleaning of equipment

- Show & Tell: Bring anything you'd like to show off
- Gaming Time: We'll take a look at Omega if time permits

What you can bring:
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- Show & Tell item - have something neat to share?
- Equipment that you want to share, diagnose, fix, or just show off
- Cool Commodore gear or software to show off
- Your significant other - plenty for all to do and enjoy

See you there,
- Goog

________________________________________________________
PDXCUG is Portland's Official Commodore Users Group
Serving the greater metropolitan area - Portland, OR USA
Meetings every 2nd Thursday of the month
Twitter: @pdxcug
http://www.pdxcug.org

[rbernardo]

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Subject: Reminder: PDXCUG.org Meeting & Agenda - Thurs., August 11, 2011
From: "PDXCUG Admin" <pdxcug(at)pdxcug.org>
Date: Wed, August 10, 2011 10:36 am
To: "PDXCUG Admin" <pdxcug(at)pdxcug.org>
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Hello, PDXCUG.org Fans!


Virtual Commodore Club Meeting - LIVE

Unable to attend the Portland Commodore Users Group Meeting?

Come chat with us on CommodoreServer using VICE or a real Commodore 64 or 128. We'll be chatting with you live from the meeting.

NEW: You can now use RR-NET with ChatteRR-Box to chat.
Download ChatteRR-Box at: http://bit.ly/nGYvJt

Or chat with Group Zork:
http://bit.ly/eKq5uP

Come join us in the c64 room
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Missed Last Month's Meeting? Here's our meeting highlights:
http://pdxcug.org/meetings/02-07/


PDXCUG.org Meeting:
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Thursday, August 11, 2011 @6:00 pm - come as early as 5:00 pm
More info & location: http://pdxcug.org/meetings.asp


This Month's Meeting Agenda:
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This month we'll be showing you some of the things we saw and learned at CommVEx (Commodore Vegas Expo) in July:
- CommVEx Recap
o Photos of the event
o Hardware (SUX 6400, Chameleon, MCC, Easy Flash)
o Books (A Commodore 64 Walkabout, Run-Stop/Restore)
o Software (RCFS)
- Demo: The SUX 6400 (Sound Ultimate Xpander 6400) audio digitizer
- Sneak Peek: New Internet-based games
- Sneak Peek: New Commodore 128 Chat program
- Gaming Time: Castles of Dr. Creep (we didn't get to it last time)
- Tinker Time:
o Soldering
o Hacking
o Coding
o Exploring new hardware
o Repair
o Cleaning of equipment
- Show & Tell: Bring anything you'd like to show off
- Gaming Time


What you can bring:
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- Show & Tell item - have something neat to show everyone?
- Equipment that you want diagnose, fix, or just show off
- Cool Commodore gear or software to share
- Your significant other - plenty for all to do and enjoy

See you there,
- Goog

_________________________________________________________
PDXCUG is Portland's Official Commodore Users Group
Serving the greater metropolitan area - Portland, OR USA
Meetings every 2nd Thursday of the month
Twitter: @pdxcug
http://pdxcug.org

[rbernardo]

Happy end of summer, C= and Ami aficionados!
The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 1+ p.m., Sunday, August 21, at --

The Pizza Pit Restaurant
2705 N. Blackstone Ave. (corner of Blackstone and Princeton)
Fresno, California

This month we will briefly look at raw video footage from the July 23-24 Commodore Vegas Expo v7 2011. Also we'll have a demonstration of the new Sound Ultimate Xpander 6400 (SUX 6400) and its accompanying Digimaster 64 software. Under hardware, we get to try out the Multiple Classic Computer - MCC-216 from ArcadeRetroGaming.com and also look at the CommodoreOne with Indus GT disk drive built into the case.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[rbernardo]

Happy Labor Day, Commodore and Amiga fans!

The Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network (SCCAN) has its next meeting on Sunday, September 11, from 2 p.m. to 4+ p.m.. This month's meeting is at --

Panera Bread Restaurant
19662 Nordhoff St. (exit from I-405)
Northridge, CA 91324-2421
(818) 407-9400

For the September meeting I'm bringing my Amiga 2000 with 5 meg RAM. OS 3.1, ECS chips, CD-ROM drive, and 2 gig SCSI hard drive. Thanks to The Other Group of Amigoids member, Duncan M., for refurbishing the computer.

I'll also be bringing the ArcadeRetroGaming.com Multiple Classic Computer 216 (MCC-216), VGA version, with C64, A500, and Atari 2600 cores. If SCCAN member Matt brings his, we can compare machines! One more machine coming in... a PAL CD-32 newly obtained from England and including a good selection of games.

On the Commodore side, I'll bring the SX-64 and will show off Digimaster 64, the program that captures sound samples in 8-bit audio quality and that uses the new Sound Ultimate Xpander 6400 (SUX 6400) sound digitizer.

Don't forget to bring your Commodore and Amiga goodies to show off/demonstrate.

Speaking for SCCAN,
Robert Bernardo
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org

[Derxst]

I have searched around the Interwebs and haven't seen a CUG in Central Florida.

Anyone interested in possibly starting one?

[rbernardo]

--------------- Original Message -------------
Subject: Reminder: PDXCUG.org Meeting & Agenda - Thurs., Sept. 8, 2011
From: "PDXCUG Admin" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, September 7, 2011 12:48 pm
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Hello, PDXCUG.org Fans!


Unable to attend the meeting in person? No worries.

Come chat with us using your RR-NET or Comet64 (or use VICE). We'll be chatting with you live from the meeting.

Chat programs:
- ChatteRR-Box chat program with RR-NET (or VICE)
Uses DHCP - works without any complicated setup.
Download: http://bit.ly/nGYvJt

- Group Zork chat with a Comet64 (or VICE):
LOAD directly from the Internet or from a D64
More info: http://bit.ly/eKq5uP

Find us in the c64 chat room


PDXCUG.org Meeting:
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Thursday, September 8, 2011 @6:00 pm - come as early as 5:00 pm
More info & location: http://pdxcug.org/meetings.asp


This Month's Meeting Agenda:

We've got some new software and hardware to look at this month - come join us for some Commodore fun and relaxation!
- Unique Hardware:
o Commodore SuperPET / SP9000
o PAL Commodore 64
o SUX 6400 audio digitizer
o got some other cool gear? Bring it along!
- Gaming Time:
o A look at the 4-joystick version of M.U.L.E.
o Member favorites - got a request? We'll bring it along.
- Tinker Time:
o Soldering
o Hacking
o Coding
o Repair
o Cleaning of equipment
- Show & Tell: Bring anything you'd like to show off


What you can bring:
----------------------------------------------------------
- Show & Tell item - have something neat to show everyone?
- Equipment that you want diagnose, fix, or just show off
- Cool Commodore gear or software to share
- Your significant other - plenty for all to do and enjoy

See you there,
- Goog

___________________________________________________________
PDXCUG.org is Portland's Official Commodore Users Group
Serving the greater metropolitan area - Portland, OR USA
Meetings every 2nd Thursday of the month
Twitter: @pdxcug
http://pdxcug.org

[rbernardo]

Happy almost autumn, C= and Ami aficionados!

The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 1+ p.m., Sunday, September 18, at --

The Pizza Pit Restaurant
2705 N. Blackstone Ave. (corner of Blackstone and Princeton)
Fresno, California

This month we'll discuss news from the classic Commodore hardware company, Jason Ranheim. In software, we will study the new Scene World #17 disk magazine and MicroDesigns' C128 software, “Starship Battles 128” and “Space Pirates 128”. In hardware, (if they get here in time) we'll look at the newly-developed PETdisk and review EasyFlash 1 (now reflashed with a PDXCUG.org image which includes CommodoreServer.com software and lots of games). Also the Sound Ultimate Xpander 6400 (SUX 6400) should be back in-stock, and anyone who wants one can now buy it (and get its accompanying Digimaster 64 software).

Last month we took a brief look at a bare Amiga 2000 before it went under the upgrade knife; now, we look at the A2000 upgraded with 4 meg Fast RAM. OS 3.1, ECS chips, CD-ROM drive, 2 gig SCSI hard drive, and plenty of games and demos. Last month we took a brief look at a PAL CD-32; this month we'll look at a huge box of A500, A1200, and CD32 games brought back from England.

Too, too much,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[rbernardo]

...(if they get here in time) we'll look at the newly-developed PETdisk and review EasyFlash 1 (now reflashed with a PDXCUG.org image which includes CommodoreServer.com software and lots of games). Also the Sound Ultimate Xpander 6400 (SUX 6400) should be back in-stock, and anyone who wants one can now buy it (and get its accompanying Digimaster 64 software).

Everything has arrived in time! PETdisk came in the mail yesterday, and EasyFlash 1 and more SUX 6400 boards came in today.

Everything is falling into place,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[rbernardo]

Happy almost Halloween, C= and Ami aficionados!

The Fresno Commodore User Group has its annual picnic lunch from 11 a.m. to 1+ p.m., Sunday, October 16, at --

Tahoe Joe's Steakhouse
7006 N. Cedar Ave. (corner of Cedar and Herndon)
Fresno, California

In lieu of our usual monthly meeting with various Commodore and Amiga presentations, we'll be chowing down on some really good food. Usually little gifts are exchanged, but this year my car is loaded with the remainder of Commodore items from the Jason Ranheim Company, a well-known retail Commodore vendor from the 1980's and 1990's. Thanks to Judy Ranheim, widow of owner John Ranheim, these goods were donated to our club a week ago, and members at the lunch can pick out what they need. Photos of some of the items can be seen at

http://retro-link.blogspot.com/

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[rbernardo]

------------- Original Message --------------
Subject: Reminder: PDXCUG.org Meeting & Agenda - Thurs., October 13, 2011
From: "PDXCUG Admin" <pdxcug(at)pdxcug.org>
Date: Wed, October 12, 2011 3:29 pm
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Happy Fall, PDXCUG.org Fans!


Unable to attend the meeting in person? No worries.

Come chat with us using your RR-NET or Comet64 (or use VICE).
We'll be chatting with you live from the meeting.

Chat programs:

--== NEW VERSION of Group Zork Out Now ==--

- Group Zork chat with a Comet64 (or VICE):
LOAD directly from the Internet or from a D64
More info: http://bit.ly/eKq5uP

- ChatteRR-Box chat program with RR-NET (or VICE)
Uses DHCP - works without any complicated setup.
Download: http://bit.ly/nGYvJt

Find us in the c64 chat room


PDXCUG.org Meeting:
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 @6:00 pm - come as early as 5:00 pm
More info & location: http://pdxcug.org/meetings.asp


This Month's Meeting Agenda:
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While last month we focused on gaming, this month we'll be
focusing on individual projects and programming. If you have a project,
bring it to the meeting. We can help each other in BASIC, Assembly,
or other programming needs you might have.

If programming isn't your thing, there will still be plenty of other things
to do:

- Gaming Time
- Show & Tell: Bring anything you'd like to show off
- Tinker Time:
o Soldering
o Hacking
o Coding
o Repair
o Cleaning of equipment


What you can bring:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Show & Tell item - have something neat to show everyone?
- Equipment that you want diagnose, fix, or just show off
- Cool Commodore gear or software to share
- Your significant other - plenty for all to do and enjoy

See you there,
- Goog

_________________________________________________________________________
PDXCUG.org is Portland's Official Commodore Users Group
Serving the greater metropolitan area - Portland, OR USA
Meetings every 2nd Thursday of the month
Twitter: @pdxcug
http://pdxcug.org

[rbernardo]

Happy Return to Standard Time, C= and Ami aficionados!

The Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network (SCCAN) has its next meeting on Saturday, November 5, from 2 p.m. to 4+ p.m.. This
month's meeting is at --

Panera Bread Restaurant
19662 Nordhoff St. (exit from I-405)
Northridge, CA 91324-2421
(818) 407-9400

At our last meeting at Panera Bread, the employees and customers were very interested in the Amiga and Commodore materials being shown.

Once again, I'll also be bringing the ArcadeRetroGaming.com Multiple Classic Computer 216 (MCC-216), VGA version, with C64, A500, and Atari 2600 cores - this time with more Amiga games! Also, once again the PAL CD32 will appear with dozens and dozens of CD32 discs. I'll bring the SX-64, and we can look at the latest installment of Scene World #17, a reflashed EasyFlash 1, and hardware and software goodies which were donated from the Jason-Ranheim Company.

Don't forget to bring your Commodore and Amiga goodies to show off/demonstrate.

Speaking for SCCAN,
Robert Bernardo
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org

[rbernardo]

Happy Thanksgiving time, C= and Ami aficionados!

The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 1+ p.m., Sunday, November 20, at --

Dick Estel's place
(a second e-mail with map directions will be
sent to those who are attending)

Why the change in meeting place? Because we needed a tranquil setting for our special guest, CBM engineer Bil Herd, who will be video-chatting with us! Bil was involved in the development of the Commodore Plus/4 computer and was the lead engineer for the Commodore 128.

We plan to record this event for later viewing, and Bil will have a live feed from his end of the chat; just go to



Estimated time of the start of the chat - 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time.

We are still gathering questions for Bil, and even if you can't make the meeting, send those questions in, and we'll ask Bil.

Naturally, in keeping with the nature of our special guest, we'll have a presentation of the C128 Video DAC, the hardware which connects the C128 to a VGA monitor in 80-columns and in all of its 16 colors. We'll have a repeat presentation of the Megabit ROM adapter which adds 32K of programs into the empty socket of the C128.

Even with all of this on our plate, we might have another special guest (or two) walking in through the front door.

So though the end time of the meeting is 1+ p.m.., think more like 1+++. And we wouldn't let attending members go hungry... there'll be pizza and soda, pizza courtesy of our good friends at the Pizza Pit Restaurant of Fresno.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[rbernardo]

------------ Original Message ------------------
Subject: Commodore & Christmas - PDXCUG.org Meeting
& Agenda - Thurs., December 8, 2011
From: "PDXCUG Admin" <pdxcug(at)pdxcug.org>
Date: Mon, December 5, 2011 3:25 pm
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Christmas Cheer, PDXCUG.org Fans!

We'll have some great Christmas programs and tunes for our
Christmas PDXCUG.org meeting.

NEW: LIVE Online Video Presentation - see below


Unable to attend the meeting in person? No worries.

Come chat with us using your RR-NET or Comet64 (or use either in VICE).
We'll be chatting with you live from the meeting.

--== Online Chat Programs ==--

- Group Zork chat with a Comet64 (or VICE):
LOAD directly from the Internet or from a D64
More info: http://bit.ly/eKq5uP

- ChatteRR-Box chat program with RR-NET (or VICE)
Uses DHCP - works without any complicated setup.
Download: http://bit.ly/nGYvJt

Find us in the c64 chat room


PDXCUG.org Meeting:
--------------------------------------------------------------
Thursday, December 8, 2011 @6:00 pm - come as early as 5:00 pm
More info & location: http://pdxcug.org/meetings.asp


This Month's Meeting Agenda:
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Tinker Time
- Playing with the C128 Megabit Internal ROM Adapter
- C64/C128 Selectable Boot ROM

Live Video Presentations / Show & Tell
- LOAD a file over the Internet at blazing speeds - faster than JiffyDOS
using the Comet64 Internet modem and new version of V-1541
- New online game: Telechess via CommodoreServer

Show & Tell
- Enhancer 2000 / compare to 1541
- IEC Port Expander
- Nintendo NES console and games - comparing to C64

Other Presentations / Demos
- RikChat - a new online chat program for the Commodore 128

Gaming Time
- Canabalt
- NES gaming


As usual, we'll have plenty of time for these other activities:
- Gaming Time
- Show & Tell: Bring anything you'd like to show off
- Tinker Time:
o Soldering
o Hacking
o Coding
o Repair
o Cleaning of equipment


What you can bring:
--------------------------------------------------------
- Show & Tell item - have something neat to show everyone?
- Equipment that you want diagnose, fix, or just show off
- Cool Commodore gear or software to share
- Your significant other - plenty for all to do and enjoy

See you there,
- Goog

________________________________________________________
PDXCUG.org is Portland's Official Commodore Users Group
Serving the greater metropolitan area - Portland, OR USA
Meetings every 2nd Thursday of the month
Twitter: @pdxcug
http://pdxcug.org

[rbernardo]

Merry Christmas, C= and Ami aficionados!

The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 1+ p.m., Sunday, December 18, at --

The Pizza Pit Restaurant
2705 N. Blackstone Ave. (corner of Blackstone and Princeton)
Fresno, California

This month we take a closer look at a modded PET 2001 computer which came from the Jason Ranheim Company. This PET 2001 comes with a rare Expand-O-Mem board that gives another 32K of memory. On the fun side, we have the return of ArcadeRetroGaming.com's Multiple Classic Computer 216 (MCC-216), this time with the latest C64, Amiga, and Atari 2600 cores and even more games. We also have a brief look at the November Bil Herd interview video, the one filmed on our side of the chat and which has improved audio. Naturally, we'll talk about such Commodore topics as the next year's July 28-29 Commodore Vegas Expo and the ThunderDrive hard drive. Finally, in the spirit of Christmas, several Bombjack.org DVDs (filled with scanned C= magazines) will be distributed.

Truly
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug