Commodore Vegas Expo v13
July 29 & 30, 2017
Plaza Casino, Las Vegas, NV

COMMVEX 2017 PRESENTATIONS & GUESTS

Steve Davison, Commodore 8-Bit ubercoder presenting

Leonard Tramiel Video Welcome

Son of Commodore International founder Jack Tramiel, Leonard Tramiel will open this year's CommVEx with a few “factual” stories about the company.

Ray Carlsen

Though veteran Commodore repair technician, Ray Carlsen, cannot get to CommVEx, there will be a video presentation of him describing his work and other matters.

Lars Nelson

Lars returns to CommVEx as the resident expert on Amiga NG systems and software.

Latest C= / Ami Cores for M.I.S.T., Raspberry Pi

Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network's Matt Brewster returns to CommVEx, this time to demonstrate the latest Commodore and Amiga cores for the M.I.S.T. FPGA box and the Raspberry Pi.

First Look at Vampire 600

Matt Brewster goes over his first impressions of the Vampire 600 accelerator board in his Amiga 600.

Final Expansion 3 rev 11 for the VIC-20

Robert Bernardo will do a presentation on the latest cartridge for the VIC-20, the Final Expansion 3 revision 11.

Revisionist Gaming on the Commodore

FCUG v.p. Roger will show the latest in gaming on the C64 and VIC-20 - past games that have been updated with the most modern techniques

Richard Goedeken

Saturday only, Richard visits CommVEx for the first time. Richard was the developer of the first C128 Video DAC in 2008 and is a hardware hacker on Commodore 8-bit machines and the Amiga. He created the hack of the switchable NTSC/PAL Plus/4 computer (his computer being on exhibit at CommVEx, too).

The history of the classic Swiftlink-232 cartridge will be covered in a video taken of Kent Sullivan and Bryan Minugh of Dr. Evil Laboratories. (Video from the Pacific Commodore Expo NW)

How We Built a Commodore Cartridge w/o EPROMs

Noel Nyman will have presentation on “How We Built a Commodore Cartridge without EPROMs”. The prototype, wire-wrapped cartridge will be on exhibit. (Video from the Pacific Commodore Expo NW)

Opcodes... Schmopcodes... Commodore and Apple Similarities

Noel Nyman will talk about how Commodorians can learn from Apple II users in terms of opcodes. (Video from the Pacific Commodore Expo NW)

In a video presentation, Leigh Klotz, Jr. tells of how he developed Logo for the C64 and the Plus/4 computers.

Commodore 64/128 FM Radio Module

In this brief presentation, you will see the Commodore 64/128 FM Radio Module from Shareware Plus in action. It comes with a disk containing AudioEX 2.0 which also supports Commodore 128 in 128 mode and a FM Radio App for GEOS.