Amiga User Group of Victoria (Melbourne) meeting - Sept. 18, 2016

Battlestation II game controller

The back of the Battlestation

Close-up of all the ports in the Battlestation

A binder from David Broadbent

Textured cover

Micro 68000 bottom half of casing

The brochure that goes with the computer

Micro 68000 top half

Carrying case for the Micro 68000

Top and bottom halves joined together

With its semi-transparent cover

Developer David Broadbent

Close-up on the LED's

Application ROM's for the Micro 68000

Pico Tutor in a custom wood case

Pico Tutor written about in this magazine

Start reading!

And more reading

Computer board from Atlas-Titan rocket

Back of the board

Edge connector

All chips radiation-hardened

Commodore 64 in a new case

Paul's C64 set-up ready to play music

Game playing on the C64

And on the Plus/4

Set for 4-playing game play

Robert Bernardo and Kevin Tilley

Damien Stewart's Commodore 16

The C16 playing Thrust

Damien Stewart's Amiga 4000

Figuring out the start-up sequence on the A1200

Carrying case for the game controller (see the 1st three photos)

James Plummer

Robert Bernardo, Paul, Damien Stewart

The 3 Muskateers!

Damien's A4000 which runs too hot

The Amiga User Group of Victoria (Melbourne) meeting began at 2 p.m. (I was one hour late) and didn't end until 2 a.m.!  http://www.aug.org.au/  The longest club meeting I had ever attended.  Thank goodness there was a break for dinner, and friends Damien Stewart and James Plummer brought me to a nearby restaurant for take-away lamb and chicken shwarma.

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

Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event - Sept. 16, 2016

Italian MIDI keyboard for the Commodore 64

Can you read Italian?

Jane M. Voskamp of JMV Graphics and Robert Bernardo

AmigaOne X1000 on the left, Tabor on the right

The lower-cost Tabor board from A-EON

The Amiga CD32 ready to play a game

Various boards for big-box Amigas

Trevor Dickinson of A-EON overlooks the video from the Tabor

Amiga 600

Another A600

SDK-85 single board computer

Yes, another CD32

Amiga 500 with AdRam

Commodore items

Altair 8800

A.L.I.C.E. laptop with Amiga OS 4.1

George Foumakis with his SX-64

Commodore 16 resting in its original packaging

Gaelyne Gasson of The Internet For Commodore Users and Jane M.V.

A C16 power supply not seen in North America

The C16 box damaged from moisture

Near the end of the event

Playing Amiga games

A fine example of a Holden Commodore 2004

Keeping it clean

Look at that label on the dash!

Yessss!!

Courtesy of my friends, Gaelyne and Rod Gasson, I arrived at the Adelaide Amiga & Retro-Computing Event on-time at 7:30 p.m..  http://adelaideretrocomputing.blogspot.com/  However, many attendees were already there, having arrived earlier.  Trevor Dickinson of A-EON greeted me, as did organizer George Foumakis.  For the next 3 hours, we had lots of Commodore and Amiga fun!

The next day I was privileged to have a ride to the airport in George's Commodore car!

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

Sydney Amiga User Group (SAUG) meeting - Sept. 11, 2016

Checking for the train to Epping

Tony Wyatt's AmigaOne X5000 in the boing ball

Some checks were left unpainted so you can see the insides.

Free goods!

More freebies!

Tony with an older poster

Looking on as Ross V. tests out a freebie C64

Watching the test results on the monitor

Amiga 600 (sans keyboard) in a briefcase

What you see with the briefcase closed

Unpacked

Packed

Everybody at the meeting

After a fairly long train ride from the King's Cross area of Sydney, I finally found the SAUG meeting in a church community centre in Epping.  Great group, great people!  http://www.saug.org.au/  Wish the Chinese music in the next room were a bit less loud.  ;)

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