COMMVEX 2013 PRESENTATIONS & GUESTS

Jim is creator of more 60 commercial products for Commodore and Amiga computers in the 1980's and 1990's and CBM educational/support representative for Oregon from 1983 to 1985. As creator of Supercard+ for Commodore drives and Supercard Amiga for the Amiga drives, last year he talked about his new project, Supercard Pro, among other things. This year Jim will talk more about his latest projects.

Because this is the 30th anniversary of the SX-64, for every attendee who brings in his/her SX, he will give away a FREE SX-64 Ultra Reset!

Kent Sullivan of Dr. Evil Laboratories, the makers of the 1988 SID Symphony Stereo Cartridge, will be in attendance at the show, and he will take us back in time to when the famous SID Stereo Symphony Cartridge was made.

John will have flippy modded Kryoflux and Supercard Pro compatible drives on hand for purchase as well as cleaned and aligned 1541's if anyone is interested.

In the interest of software preservation (SPS), anyone with rare or hard copy protected titles, please bring them with you and he'll be happy to make a Kryoflux dump with a G64 for you. If you'd like a remastered copy, please bring new blank floppy disks. He'll also have some available for purchase.

(His offer applies to 5.25“ Commodore 64/128 titles only). He'll have a disk cleaning station on hand and several KF units ready to go.

This includes copy utilities & collections.

If Jim Drew has the Supercard Pro's available at the show, bring your Amiga disks as well. His solution can make remastered backups of 3.5” disks as well.

Keith Henrickson, creator of C= apps for the iPAD and iPOD, will be attending the show and may speak on his latest projects.

The host behind Retro Gaming Radio, Shane Monroe comes to CommVEx for the first time. He may be selling some of his RGR DVDs full of audio interviews.

Lars Nelson, dedicated Amiga user, returns to CommVEx with his Amiga OS 4.1 machines.

Chris “CommodoreMan” Zimmerman will show how to use this Windows program in converting Commodore PETSCII text.

Robert Bernardo will give a presentation on how to use VIC-VODER, the new speech synthesizer for the VIC-20, C64, C128.

First, there was the Comet64, a user port-to-Ethernet Internet modem. Now the engineer behind the Comet64 will show the next steps in the evolution of the Comet – the CometBBS and the CometDrive!

Have an old Atari CX-40 or its Commodore joystick clone? FCUG member Louis Mazzei shows you how to rebuild the classic joystick with new parts still available from vendors!

Robert Bernardo will demonstrate the use of the Relax Stress Reduction System which was produced by Synapse Software. Relax uses a special control box connected to the Commodore and a special, sensored headband worn by the user. He will invite attendees to “free their mind” with Relax.

Better than the Software Actuated Mouth (S.A.M.), Votalker does an impressive job in rendering speech on the C64. Tim Waite will present the software version of Votalker.