Photos of the July 18 FCUG meeting

After not meeting since November, 2020, the Fresno Commodore User Group had a meeting, resuming its schedule of monthly meetings.  All of us were fully COVID-vaccinated!  We were eager to discuss!  And we had 2 guests, Kevin Staszkow and Mike Samboy, who drove many hours to get to the meeting.  Below are photos of the event. (First 3 photos courtesy of David Smith)

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group -

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

Robert with guests Mike and Kevin

Bruce N. listens while Robert points

Dick Estel ponders.

Most of the group gathers.

The UltraCart 128 from Shareware Plus

And its reference sheet for what's on the cart

Kevin explains the carts.

Documentation for the Black Magic cart

...which is another Shareware Plus product

A look inside at 2 of the 4 eproms

Oh, I don't think I have this book!

Behr-Bonz cart running on Roger's VIC-20

And Roger playing a game from it

From the Black Magic webpage

From the UltraCart 128 webpage

Photos of the July 10, 2021 SCCAN Meeting

The Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network has resumed meetings!  The Northridge, California club had its first meeting since January, 2020.  Jeff showed his s-video modded VIC-20. Matt showed his MiST box with the latest cores. Thomas showed off the Atari 2600 (!) and Amiga accelerators. I showed off demos, games, music, and utilities on the Ultimate 64. Jeff, Thomas, and I had boxes of freebies for any of the members to grab! Below are photos of the July 10, 2021 meeting.

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

 

Some members crowded in the corner

Atari 2600 (!) running Synthcart and C64

Latest Furia accelerator for the Amiga 600

The latest TerribleFire 536 for the A500/2000Je

Pics from the June 19, 2021 TOGA Meeting

The Other Group of Amigoids has resumed meetings!  The San Jose, California club had its first meeting since early 2020.  Below are some photos from that meeting.

 

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

The Other Group of Amigoids - http://togausergroup.com

Randy Abel tries a new game on his A3000.

The box for TheC64

TheC64 in VIC-20 mode

Amiga 570, caddy, RAM expander, SCSI adapter

TheC64 playing in C64 mode

Having Hawaiian pizza at the meeting

A computer surprise - the FM Townes

Burbank VFW Hall photos - the CLASS 2021 venue

Some tables for our use

 And more tables

 How can we use that tv/monitor?

 Another tv/monitor in the corner

 Looking at the far end (note the stage)

 Looking toward the street

 One of the restrooms at the far end

 On the other side is the full bar!

 Plus pool table!

 Jukebox and sports

 An overall view

 Here's the exterior of our venue.

 An another view

    The brave veterans honored

 Looking east on W. Magnolia Blvd.

More stuff from Ray Carlsen

Ray Carlsen picking up a package of parts

 

Three SX-64's repaired/upgraded by Ray

Upgrade ROMs in the 71's, device switches in the 41's

Ray Carlsen power supplies and C64-to-s-video cable

In an October visit to Ray Carlsen, I left him Commodore SX-64's to repair and upgrade and disk drives to clean, lube, and upgrade.  In a few days I came back, and all was repaired!  Ready to go!  I also bought a bunch of Commodore/Amiga external power supplies from him and a C64-to-s-video cable. http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network -

http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

My Visit to the Amiga User Group of Victoria (Melbourne)

Paul hauls his gear in this truck.

And here is the C= gear!

Peter Weuffen and Paul Nicholls, the leaders

The back area of the meeting space

Vampire standalone!

Another view

And another view

The meeting place, Wadham House

Setting up

For sale or trade

The meeting is underway.

Repairing a big-box Amiga

XBox next to A1200

Another A1200 system

Amiga 1200 next to Commodore 8-bitters

Part of Paul's gear

A look inside

Nice monitor!

Paul's C64 set-up with plenty of disks!

Inside the Vampire

Xbox again

It's a new ZX Spectrum Next!

The back ports

Stylish!

Games in the machine

The side ports

A Spectrum game running

Nice joystick

I ordered the combo fried rice...

...from here for dinner.

Amazing!  I've never seen a game system in a monitor!

Whoa!  Another oldie!

Peter loves this game.

Yup, I brought A.L.I.C.E. to this meeting.

The OS options screen on A.L.I.C.E.

Looking around the room

Examining items

Showing off A.L.I.C.E.

Relaxing

Watching the driving game as Peter explains

Back to relaxing

Very studious

Paul and Peter close down the room.

(photos 38-44 by Peter Weuffen or by Michael Mavracic)

On March 15, 2020, I visited the Amiga User Group of Victoria at Wadham Place.  Paul had picked me up at my hotel, and we arrived at the meeting place at about 12:30 p.m., way before anyone else was going to arrive.  He and I immediately started moving things out his truck, and soon others came in to help us and to set up their gear.

The meeting kept going until 10 at night!  Not quite as long as the previous meeting I had attended in 2016 (at 11 hours long!).  ;)  It was a very busy meeting.  There was a lot to see and to talk about.  I was very pleased with this meeting, and I'd like to thank Paul, Peter, and everybody else at AUG for a grand time.

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan