The CommVEx room for 2016

The entry to Ballroom 9

The spacious Ballroom 9

For the July 30-31 Commodore Vegas Expo v12, we have a larger room for our activities.  It is Ballroom 9, the entrance being in the center of the third floor, a bit farther from the third floor garage in comparison to the other rooms we have used in the past.  You enter the doorway to Ballroom 9 and go through a foyer before coming to the ballroom.

The round tables will be replaced by 8-foot rectangular tables,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Photos from the Amiga 30th in California - Saturday, July 25

Now ready for an audience 

Before the crowds enter 

Still before the crowds 

Now very crowded for the first speakers

My favorite Amiga cake 

My next favorite cake 

All the Amiga cakes! 

The Hahn Auditorium fills for the banquet. 

All those working on the Amiga - past and present 

From Dale Luck's collection

With all the video-recording I'm doing, there isn't much of a chance to photograph during the show.  So, here are some more photos before the Saturday start of the show and a little bit during the banquet.

Too many hours behind the videocamera,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group

http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Amiga 30th in California - pre-show photos

The moving vehicles line up to bring in Amiga goods

Gathering the goods

The many food trucks providing yummy food

Waiting to enter the Computer History Museum at 5:30

Hey, that's Dave Haynie with the sunglasses (left) 

Still talking, still waiting

Trevor working on the scaffolding

We set up, and the previous Linked-In group gets out.

Too much stuff to set up! 

And more! 

Deciding on the positions of the tables. 

Amiga-powered arcade machine 

And behind the curtain... 

Bill Bosari (right) greets European guests 

This will be the speakers's area for Saturday and Sunday. 

Dave Needle sets up his system. 

Dave's A1000 

Working to get the machines ready 

Dave Needle, Dale Luck, Bob Burns 

We head to the Sports Page Bar across the street.

Whew!  We tried to get everything ready from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m., but we only got about halfway done for the show on Saturday and Sunday.  Yes, we had to be out of the Computer History Museum by 9 tonight, or they would charge us much more money.  We'll try to finish the set-up's tomorrow morning before the doors open!

Writing from Mountain View, California,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group

http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Some CommVEx v11 2015 photos

On the way to CommVEx, at Alien Fresh Jerky in Baker, CA

It's like it's like a Gerry Anderson production!

Can you guess the real car?  I figured it out.

FCUG v.p. Roger wondering what $1 will do in the slot

We saw this on Thursday at the L.V. Pinball Museum. 

Friday set-up with Roger watching over John Ferrell 

Louis, Vincent, and Josh hovering over A.J.'s UNIX machine

Corey, Rik, and Greg at the PDXCUG.org table

A close-up on the PDXCUG table 

Steve Davison and Jim Drew getting things ready 

Chris Zimmerman preps his table. 

Yul Haasman, Leonard Tramiel, and a photo-bombing Bil Herd 

This is the silhouette of....  :)

Saturday's sign-up.  Leonard came with Bil.

Missing the Carlsen/Wright + Brewster talks

Though I took few photos during the show, I did take photos before the event.  I humbly present what I have, because other attendees took far more than I.

Still in Las Vegas after CommVEx,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group

http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Star Trek: TOS boot!

Here is one of the Star Trek: the Original Series boots presently being constructed by Luis Jovel Boots in Fresno, California.

https://www.facebook.com/p/Luis-Custom-Shoes-Cowboy-Boot-Maker-100057184311123/

Currently writing from Las Vegas,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group

http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Production model of the C128 VGA adapter

Engineer John Carlsen is now producing his C128 VGA adapter, albeit in limited quantities.  The production model, seen above, will be sold at the July 18-19 Commodore Vegas Expo v11 2015.  His webpage is

http://www.bit-c128.com

His adapter is said to be the most accurate in color rendition, because he measured the signals being received in a Commodore 1084 monitor.

For previous news on his adapter, see

http://blog.retro-link.com/2014/01/c128-vga-adapter-latest-prototype.html

http://blog.retro-link.com/2013/09/c128-vga-adapter-prototype-final-colors.html

http://blog.retro-link.com/2012/11/c128-vga-adapter-development-continues.html

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

C128 VGA adapter pricing to be announced,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group

http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

July 18-19 Commodore Vegas Expo v11 2015 -

http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

World of Commodore 2014

The people from the Toronto Pet User's Group did it again: Exactly two decades after the demise of the company of which the user group owes its raison d'etre, they've kept the flames of a computer industry legend alive with another annual World of Commodore.

Great turnout at this year's World of Commodore

This year's World of Commodore took place once again at the Admiral Inn, conveniently located off the Queen Elizabeth Way in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Inconveniently for me, I had three other obligations on what turned out to be one of the busiest December the 6th's of my life, and there was to be no Commodore festivities to follow on the 7th. Fortunately, I managed to re-align my schedule so that I could spend a little bit of time re-acquainting with old friends and pay my annual membership dues.

The turnout was very good, with plenty of people attending. Jim Brain was unfortunately not in attendance again this year, but the itinerary was nicely filled with Glenn Holmer demonstrating Abacus Super Pascal, Rob Alders demonstrating the Kerberos MIDI cartridge for the Commodore 64, Chiron Bramberger demonstrating his musical experiments with Arduino and Commodore, Leif Bloomquist demonstrating his motion sensing game glove for the Commodore 64, and a behind the scenes "Meet me at Starbucks" commercial featuring TPUG.

As usual, people out on the floor had on-going demonstrations of the really neat things they're doing with their Commodore equipment, like bitmapped graphics on the Commodore PET, or connecting an old 8 bit Commodore to the Internet. There were also rare machines, like the colour PET.

There was the freebie table with lots of goodies; I scored some Compute!'s Gazette magazines I was missing from my collection. There was also the raffle table. Add in Steve Gray's collection, some interesting machines from others in attendance, as well as perusing Joseph Palumbo's wares, and the price of admission ($5 for members, $10 for non-members) became an excellent value for my dollar.

In all, it was a great time with great people. My only regret was that I was unable to spend the entire day there and take in the demonstrations; but then again, there's always TPUG 2015 to look forward to. Hope to see you there next year!