A Quick Trip to Amsterdam!

Trevor, Marvin, Chris, and Robert...

...at the fancy Van der Walk Hotel

Saturday at the distillery

Lemony one on the right was good (no, not the glass of water)

Too many of the lemony ones!

Chris finds the Amiga Boing in the distillery!

Leo, Chris, Marvin, Marcel, Trevor, Robert, Omar

The canal near my hotel

Another look down the canal

Birds!

Those are not the Amsterdam houseboats!

The breakfast/lunch diner a few blocks from my hotel

With a full English breakfast!

The wall of waving cats at HappyHappyJoyJoy

Supperclub before the performances begin

Karl and Kiki at Supperclub

Last night at a nearby restaurant

I wonder how well it goes around corners?

Kruidvat discount store next to Primera stationary

A pile of Dutch chocolates from Kruidvat!

On Oct. 31 I left California for a quick visit to Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  Objective -- to meet up with Commodore and Amiga enthusiasts (who were also my friends).  The whirlwind trip had me busy on Nov. 1-3, and on the 4th and 5th I was able to slow down and see the sights around the neighborhood of my hotel, the Hotel Flipper.  On the 6th I was back in California!

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network -- http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

A Visit to the Seattle Commodore Computer Club

Which way to the meeting?

An original Amiga 1000 mouse

With the metal ball... but it tracks terribly!

In one room, huddled around to play Archon

It's down to the last two players!

In another room, hacking to happen

Free stuff from Ray Carlsen!

Pizza time!

The delicious pizza went fast!

Geoworks running on the Commodore PC20-III.

The C= PC20-III in all its glory!

GeoWrite now on the PC20-III

And now Atari GEM on the PC20-III!

A close-up of GEM

The back of the PC20-III with AdLib sound card

Amiga 2000 ready to be opened up

Amiga 3000 under repair

Operating on 2 machines - SX-64 and A2000

Fine soldering required

Disassembled A3000 brought in to connect to monitor

More freebies - disk box and Tunnels of Armageddon

The Compaq powers up but nobody has a DOS disk.

I visited the Seattle Commodore Computer Club on Sept. 11, 2019, in the trendy Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA.  Here is what I captured on that evening.  My thanks to Eric Hill, leader of the club.

http://www.sea-ccc.org/

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Mario's pics of CommVEx 2019

Freebies on the admissions table

Debbie running the table

The goodies in the raffle

Amiga 2000 Video Toaster set-up

Matt Brewster's 3 MiST FPGA boxes in action

64 Mini to the left

From a distance

Robert Bernardo's Ultimate 64

Robert's SX-64 with homemade joystick

Amiga 600 with Amiga CD32

Nearer to the A600

Loading up Street Fighter II Turbo

Lenard Roach's set-up

Displaying his suite of C64 productivity programs

Justin Pope's Amiga 1000 plus Transformer

Inside... a Rejuvenator, accelerator, SCSI hard drive

Repairs needed

But what a machine!

One last look at it

Josh Shiflet's MiST set-up

Joeri's Ultimate 64 Elite disassembled

And his U64 Elite reassembled

Tim Waite's t-shirt sales

And his set-up's -- Amiga CD32, Ultimate 64...

...and Commodore 128DCR.

PETpix streaming a video (identify that .MP4!)

PETPix part of Saj Awan's tables, including this...

...and this...

...and this...

...and this...

...and that.

Part of Jeff Eckmann's table (I think)

But definitely on Jeff's table... a Moog synth board

The Ensoniq keyboard... Very SID-sounding !

Robert Down's set-up with AmiKit running

Jeff Krantz's C128DCR

Mario Luppi's Amiga 1000...

...and his C128DCR with RAMLink

Science fair project!

Tech Sketch Music Port keyboard

VR64 glasses near wireless controllers + Unijoysticle 2

VIC-20 system

But those aren't VIC-20 carts!

Still to be assembled (including Plus/4)

The projector set-up

Free stuff from California!

Digging through it all

What it says

Carts right-side up

Gathered for the Video Toaster presentation

Behind the camera

Ultimate 64 bared!

The room before it is torn down

Mario Luppi took these pictures of the August 10-11 Commodore Vegas Expo v15 2019.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Commodore Vegas Expo - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex