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I would be interested! Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - www.portcommodore.com/sccan June 22-23 Pacific Commodore Expo NW 2024 - www.portcommodore.com/class

With the successful conclusion of our sister show, the Commodore LA Super Show, the Pacific Commodore Expo NW is gearing up for June! We have listed more presentations / guests, more exhibits, more door prizes! Keep up with the latest at http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex Truly, Robert Bernardo organizer - Pacific Commodore Expo NW

With the successful conclusion of our sister show, the Commodore LA Super Show, the Pacific Commodore Expo NW is gearing up for June! We have listed more presentations / guests, more exhibits, more door prizes! Keep up with the latest at http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex Truly, Robert Bernardo organizer - Pacific Commodore Expo NW

With the successful conclusion of our sister show, the Commodore LA Super Show, the Pacific Commodore Expo NW is gearing up for June! We have listed more presentations / guests, more exhibits, more door prizes! Keep up with the latest at http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex Truly, Robert Bernardo organizer - Pacific Commodore Expo NW

Happy Weekend after Commodore LA Super Show, C= and Ami aficionados! The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 2:30+ p.m., Sunday, April 21, at Panera Bread Restaurant 3590 W. Shaw Ave. (corner of W. Shaw Ave. and Marty Ave.) Fresno, CA 93711 (559) 271-0104 http://www.dickestel.com/met_loc.htm For discussion, we'll talk about how Commodore LA Super Show went, the usual things - equipment failures, presentations dropped, presentations added, attendees, the mood of the crowd, etc. Also we'll talk about our sister show, the June 22-23 Pacific Commodore Expo NW in Seattle, and even CLASS 2025. Like last month, we’ll try out some of the latest C64 games (Lock 'n Chase, Hermanos, Good Knight, Harharagon, Night Mission Pinball Extended, and more) and VIC-20 games (FiZZ, Chlopodia, Mars Planet Patrol, Petscii Breakout, Railyard, Victris #64738). And we'll check out some brand new Amiga disks-of-the-month from The Other Group of Amigoids (TOGA). We'll also examine the LittleSixteen v3 replacement board for the C16. Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Less than a week to the Commodore Los Angeles Super Show! If you haven’t checked out the CLASS website, go to http://www.portcommodore.com/class We have David Pleasance of Commodore UK in attendance, a special video from Trevor Dickinson of A-EON, raffle prizes like a CMD Hard Drive converted to CompactFlash via Zulu SCSI, presentations, exhibits, a great game competition for a great prize, and more. CLASS 2024 is at the Burbank Veterans of Foreign Wars hall, 1006 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, California, USA. Admission is $25 whether you come for one day or two days, April 13-14. Kids under 16 years old have free admission. I’d like to thank in advance the hard work of the members of the Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network for making the show possible. Truly, Robert Bernardo organizer – Commodore Los Angeles Super Show

Less than a week to the Commodore Los Angeles Super Show! If you haven’t checked out the CLASS website, go to http://www.portcommodore.com/class We have David Pleasance of Commodore UK in attendance, a special video from Trevor Dickinson of A-EON, raffle prizes like a CMD Hard Drive converted to CompactFlash via Zulu SCSI, presentations, exhibits, a great game competition for a great prize, and more. CLASS 2024 is at the Burbank Veterans of Foreign Wars hall, 1006 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, California, USA. Admission is $25 whether you come for one day or two days, April 13-14. Kids under 16 years old have free admission. I’d like to thank in advance the hard work of the members of the Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network for making the show possible. Truly, Robert Bernardo organizer – Commodore Los Angeles Super Show

Check out the pictures and video of our exhibit at the April 6 Los Angeles Maker Faire 2024! We had many attendees come and talk about the Commodore and Amiga computers that were on exhibit. Thanks to SCCAN member Jerold K. for helping out through the day and also for bringing his exhibit of using a MIDI keyboard with the C64 and Nintendo Entertainment System. Those who knew music were fascinated what was on display. http://blog.retro-link.com/2024/04/los-angeles-maker-faire-2024.html Truly, Robert Bernardo Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network – http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan P.S. The day started off cold and breezy as we set up our systems at 6:30 in the morning. And we didn’t get electrical power until the park engineers switched it on at 8. When we did get power, we could test out the equipment, and I found that I hadn’t brought a VGA cable for the A3000 with 24-bit video card, and I was getting no picture through the RGB port (I found out later that if I had gone through the early start-up, I could bypass the load of the 24-bit drivers and thus use the RGB port). So, I put A3000 away, and I used the back-up A600. The A600 worked all the way to 3 p.m., but then it started having loading problems, gurus, and green screens. I attributed that to heat problems; it had always run hot in the past. Sorry, kids, no more gaming on this computer. P.P.S. As usual, the kids loved the games on the computers. The parents loved talking about how they grew up on the classic programs and computers, and showing their kids that this was a floppy disk! The more technically-minded loved to talk about the equipment and the programming they did back in the day (I even met an engineer whose East Coast company used the Video Toaster and Lightwave to make videos for corporations). A few asked where was a Radio Shack/Tandy computer (I said my Santa Clara friend had one at the Bay Area Maker Faire), a few asked for Texas Instruments (I said I left my TI-99 at home), and a few asked for Atari (I said I didn’t bring one this year). Looking at the Commodore PC20-III, several said they didn’t know that Commodore Business Machines had made MS-DOS machines. To the interested, I passed out flyers that named the California Commodore and Amiga clubs and that detailed the upcoming West Coast Commodore and Amiga events. Of course, I plugged the April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show, and some said they would check it out.

Check out the pictures and video of our exhibit at the April 6 Los Angeles Maker Faire 2024! We had many attendees come and talk about the Commodore and Amiga computers that were on exhibit. Thanks to SCCAN member Jerold K. for helping out through the day and also for bringing his exhibit of using a MIDI keyboard with the C64 and Nintendo Entertainment System. Those who knew music were fascinated what was on display. http://blog.retro-link.com/2024/04/los-angeles-maker-faire-2024.html Truly, Robert Bernardo Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network – http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan P.S. The day started off cold and breezy as we set up our systems at 6:30 in the morning. And we didn’t get electrical power until the park engineers switched it on at 8. When we did get power, we could test out the equipment, and I found that I hadn’t brought a VGA cable for the A3000 with 24-bit video card, and I was getting no picture through the RGB port (I found out later that if I had gone through the early start-up, I could bypass the load of the 24-bit drivers and thus use the RGB port). So, I put A3000 away, and I used the back-up A600. The A600 worked all the way to 3 p.m., but then it started having loading problems, gurus, and green screens. I attributed that to heat problems; it had always run hot in the past. Sorry, kids, no more gaming on this computer. P.P.S. As usual, the kids loved the games on the computers. The parents loved talking about how they grew up on the classic programs and computers, and showing their kids that this was a floppy disk! The more technically-minded loved to talk about the equipment and the programming they did back in the day (I even met an engineer whose East Coast company used the Video Toaster and Lightwave to make videos for corporations). A few asked where was a Radio Shack/Tandy computer (I said my Santa Clara friend had one at the Bay Area Maker Faire), a few asked for Texas Instruments (I said I left my TI-99 at home), and a few asked for Atari (I said I didn’t bring one this year). Looking at the Commodore PC20-III, several said they didn’t know that Commodore Business Machines had made MS-DOS machines. To the interested, I passed out flyers that named the California Commodore and Amiga clubs and that detailed the upcoming West Coast Commodore and Amiga events. Of course, I plugged the April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show, and some said they would check it out.

Check out our Commodore and Amiga computers at the Los Angeles Maker Faire tomorrow! https://losangeles.makerfaire.com/ Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

Check out our Commodore and Amiga computers at the Los Angeles Maker Faire tomorrow! https://losangeles.makerfaire.com/ Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

Check out our Commodore and Amiga computers at the Los Angeles Maker Faire tomorrow! https://losangeles.makerfaire.com/ Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

Version 1.06 of C64OS has been released! This version has some new utilities including "Visualizer." To upgrade to your v1.05 to v1.06, go to https://c64os.com/c64os/softwareupdates To purchase C64OS, see https://c64os.com/c64os/#order Back in California! Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group – http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network – http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2024 - http://www.portcommodore.com/class

Dick Estel, famed for the GeoFont Compendium, will join us at the show! Last time we had Dick at a show was at the Commodore Vegas Expo years ago. Writing from Wellington, New Zealand, Robert Bernardo organizer - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show

Dick Estel, famed for the GeoFont Compendium, will join us at the show! Last time we had Dick at a show was at the Commodore Vegas Expo years ago. Writing from Wellington, New Zealand, Robert Bernardo organizer - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show

Dick Estel, famed for the GeoFont Compendium, will join us at the show! Last time we had Dick at a show was at the Commodore Vegas Expo years ago. Writing from Wellington, New Zealand, Robert Bernardo organizer - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show

David Pleasance of Commodore UK will be joining us at the show! He will be bringing his books (Commodore: the Inside Story; Vultures to Vampires volumes 1-3) to sell, and he could autograph them for you. Though not attending, Trevor Dickinson of A-EON has made for us a special video that shows off his huge collection of Commodore and Amiga computers in his New Zealand home. Then Trevor will give his thoughts about the AmigaOne X5000 and the A1222+. Check out our other guests and presentations at https://portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=class:presentations_guests Writing from Picton, New Zealand, Robert Bernardo organizer - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show

David Pleasance of Commodore UK will be joining us at the show! He will be bringing his books (Commodore: the Inside Story; Vultures to Vampires volumes 1-3) to sell, and he could autograph them for you. Though not attending, Trevor Dickinson of A-EON has made for us a special video that shows off his huge collection of Commodore and Amiga computers in his New Zealand home. Then Trevor will give his thoughts about the AmigaOne X5000 and the A1222+. Check out our other guests and presentations at https://portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=class:presentations_guests Writing from Picton, New Zealand, Robert Bernardo organizer - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show

David Pleasance of Commodore UK will be joining us at the show! He will be bringing his books (Commodore: the Inside Story; Vultures to Vampires volumes 1-3) to sell, and he could autograph them for you. Though not attending, Trevor Dickinson of A-EON has made for us a special video that shows off his huge collection of Commodore and Amiga computers in his New Zealand home. Then Trevor will give his thoughts about the AmigaOne X5000 and the A1222+. Check out our other guests and presentations at https://portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=class:presentations_guests Writing from Picton, New Zealand, Robert Bernardo organizer - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show

Happy Easter season, C= and Ami comrades! The next meeting of the Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network is Saturday, March 30, from 2 to 5+ p.m. at Panera Bread Restaurant 19662 Nordhoff Street Northridge, California (818) 407-9400 We’ll talk about exhibiting at the April 6 Los Angeles Maker Faire, and even more importantly, our April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show. Yup, this is the last meeting before CLASS, and we'll be finalizing all exhibits and presentations. Listen as I regale you with stories of the Melbourne Amiga User Group, the Sydney Amiga User Group, the Adelaide Retro Brisbane group, and the highs and lows of international travel. The Ultimate 64 returns with plenty of new C64 games released this February and March. THEA500 Mini returns with its slew of apps courtesy of the Aminimiga distro and now with external, wireless keyboard and mouse. Check out the sweet Green Pen MousE for the Amiga (courtesy of www.Amiga1.com), the TeensyROM for the C64 (now with the OneLoad64 Collection v5 on USB stick), and the pre-production expansion boards for the Mega65! Writing from Melbourne, Australia, Robert Bernardo Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

If you want more running speed, you can try the Abacus Basic 64 compiler which can compile down to machine code, not Blitz's P-code. I've found that Basic 64 does make for a faster program but is less compatible with making an error-free compiled program. For that, Blitz 64 is more compatible. (Not forgetting Blitz 128 and Basic 128...) Still in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2024 - http://www.portcommodore.com/class

The LA Maker Faire is edging closer, and our Classic Los Angeles Computers (CLAC) tables now have the computers to be exhibited -- an Ultimate 64, an Amiga 3000, a Commodore PC20-III, and from SCCAN member Jerold K., a brown C64. The computers will be set up for gaming, except for Jerold's which will be set up for music production/creation. See you soon at the LA Maker Faire! Writing from Sydney, Australia, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

The LA Maker Faire is edging closer, and our Classic Los Angeles Computers (CLAC) tables now have the computers to be exhibited -- an Ultimate 64, an Amiga 3000, a Commodore PC20-III, and from SCCAN member Jerold K., a brown C64. The computers will be set up for gaming, except for Jerold's which will be set up for music production/creation. See you soon at the LA Maker Faire! Writing from Sydney, Australia, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

Happy Deja Vous, C= and Ami aficionados! The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 2:30+ p.m., *Saturday*, March 2, at Panera Bread Restaurant 3590 W. Shaw Ave. (corner of W. Shaw Ave. and Marty Ave.) Fresno, CA 93711 (559) 271-0104 http://www.dickestel.com/met_loc.htm Note the date, Saturday, March 2! It will be a rare Saturday meeting for the club, due to other factors for us not having our meeting on the usual third Sunday of the month. For discussion, we'll talk about the April 6 Los Angeles Maker Faire and the April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show. Also we’ll talk about how filming went for Roger’s CLASS presentation. For our presentations, we’ll try out some of the latest C64 / VIC-20 games and demos. Not only that but we’ll look at some classic C64 disks-of-the-month from the defunct Commodore Hayward User Group (CHUG) and some brand new Amiga disks-of-the-month from The Other Group of Amigoids (TOGA). Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

And the BackSID has gotten better and better through the years, as evidenced by its firmware revisions' list at http://backbit.io/downloads/Firmware/BackSID/Revisions.txt The newest firmware being from January 24, 2024, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2024 - http://www.portcommodore.com/class