November 11 SCCAN meeting

Revival Studio's Mayhem on screen

Matt D. concentrates on Avalanche for the VIC-20

Though I had brought the SX-64 with SuperCPU and the AmigaOne XE G4, at the Nov. 11 Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network meeting we concentrated on the new games for the VIC-20, the NTSC versions of Avalanche and Mayhem from Revival Studios.  Fun!  Hopefully, member Matt D. will have a new bit of hardware to use with the VIC-20 for the January SCCAN meeting!

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network

http://www.sccaners.org

C128 VGA adapter development continues

After a long wait, the engineer on the C128 VGA adapter came back with good news. He recalculated resistor values and installed new resistors on the board. Now the 16 colors on the screen are brighter while still maintaining accuracy! This is what the engineer said, "...the color palette [is based] on the description of IBM CGA at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter#Color_palette . My new resistor values should represent this very accurately (with about 0.5% deviation, vs. up to nearly 70% deviation with the original values)."
To see the previous post to this, go to

http://retro-link.blogspot.com/2012/06/testing-continues.html

Light at the end of the tunnel,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

What's next to my C128DCR

Sometimes next to the C128DCR, sometimes on top of the C128DCR, it's the Master Replica 33-inch Enterprise NCC-1701.  After a long session on the Commodore, I find it nice to engage the NCC-1701 and relax.  :)

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

September 22 SCCAN meeting

NTSC A1200 with Blizzard '060 and OS 3.9

Dan and Thomas read through Retro Gamer #106

PAL C64C from the Czech Republic

Matt's MCC-216 with the new Spectrum core

Thomas checks ASSIGNS on PAL A1200 with OS 3.9

Thomas' A600 needs tender, loving repair.

Matt (center) buys and trades cartridges.

Yesterday at the meeting of the Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network, we gathered to talk and play Commodore and Amiga.  We especially discussed the upcoming Sacramento Amiwest Show on Oct.18-21.  I'll be at that show to videotape the presentations.

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network

http://www.sccaners.org

At the August FCUG meeting

Dick E. and Daniel S.

Vincent trying to figure out the Amiga 3000

Roger V. and Louis M.

At the August FCUG meeting, we were graced with a special guest, Daniel Strang, from the Netherlands. As our treasurer, Dick E., said, "It looked like a mini-CommVEx" at the meeting. Here are a few of the photos; more are near the bottom of http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group

http://videocam.net.au/fcug

MSDs galore!

Front

Back

Corroded caps and others from 2 drives

With Ray Carlsen repairing the last two MSD SD-2 drives I had, now I have an embarrassment of too many MSDs! The MSD SD-1 on the far left pictured above has JiffyDOS, as does the MSD SD-2 on the far right. The two center SD-2s have the CLD AutoCopy ROMs plus added memory for the convenient copying of disks without the need of Commodore computer.

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group

http://videocam.net.au/fcug

Commodore P500 revealed

(Photos by Ray Carlsen)

At the July 28-29 CommVEx we exhibited Larry Anderson's Commodore P500, the "Colour PET". Unfortunately, Murphy's Law struck, and the machine would not display anything; its green power LED didn't even come on. On Thursday, August 2, I left the P500 for technician Ray Carlsen to examine and repair. He e-mailed later, writing that the machine worked for him perfectly. He sent me the following pictures. Enjoy!

Writing from the Portland, Oregon area,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group

http://videocam.net.au/fcug