Next FCUG meeting - VIC-20 gala!

[RobertB]

(ordinarily, I don't make announcements here of FCUG meetings, but this one is special)

Merry Christmas, C= and Amiga aficionados!
     The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, December 20, at

         The Pizza Pit
         2701 N. Blackstone Ave. (corner
         of Blackstone and Princeton)
         Fresno, California

     For this month we concentrate on the VIC-20.  We'll investigate the new VIC-20 Multicart/Development Cart from Kent Rittenhouse, the new Planet X1 game from David Murray, and the new Denial Collection 3 (seven games on tape!) from Jeff Daniels.  If there is time, we'll look at Plus Term, a VIC-20 terminal program that works with 16k ram expansion.
     Also the Molly Friedrich-designed Steampunk C64 (o.k., you can change it to a Steampunk VIC-20) will be unveiled/unwrapped.  To get a sneak peek at the Steampunk C64, go to

http://porkshanks.deviantart.com/art/Commodore-64-Base-Unit-138254704

            Truly,
            Robert Bernardo
            Fresno Commodore User Group
            http://videocam.net.au/fcug
            The Other Group of Amigoids
            http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
            Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
            http://www.sccaners.org

P.S. For you Amigans, I'm bringing the Amiga CD-32 plus SX-32 attachment.  A work in progress!

P.P.S. We will be also discussing the disposition of Autumn Techonologies' Digimaster (audio-digitizing program) for the C64.  More details at the meeting.

[RobertB]

The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, December 20, at

        The Pizza Pit
        2701 N. Blackstone Ave. (corner
        of Blackstone and Princeton)
        Fresno, California

A last minute change in the meeting location... we will now meet at

          El Bajio Restaurant
          2320 N. Blackstone Ave.
          Fresno , California

    The change was to accomodate our filmmaker friends, Rory and Jerold, who are coming from Hollywood to visit our group again.  El Bajio has better interior lighting and better interior sound properties, which are so important for filmmakers.

           Truly,
           Robert Bernardo
           Fresno Commodore User Group
           http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[RobertB]

Happy New Year, C= and Amiga aficionados!

The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, January 10, at

The Pizza Pit
2701 N. Blackstone Ave. (corner
of Blackstone and Princeton) Fresno, California

This month we finish looking at various items for the VIC-20 -- the new Planet X1 game from David Murray and the new Denial Collection 3 from Jeff Daniels. Also we will examine the rare and mysterious Hamtext cart for the VIC-20, complete with instruction binder and accessory interface cartridge (ooo, blinking lights).

Not to leave the C64 out in the cold, we'll look at the David Haynes' Commodore Archive DVDs, 20 discs full of .pdf's of Commodore magazines and .d64s of those magazines' programs. Copies of the Archive DVDs will be distributed, as well as the club newsletter.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[RobertB]

Also we will examine the rare and mysterious Hamtext cart for the VIC-20, complete with instruction binder and accessory interface cartridge (ooo, blinking lights).

The Hamtext cart and accessory transceiver are now fully functional!  After contacting the company Kantronics (still in business after all these years!), Rmv was able to get the necessary info for the transceiver's power supply and connecting cable to the VIC-20.  Power supply bought... cable made... Everything works well.

          Truly,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group
          http://videocam.net.au/fcug
          The Other Group of Amigoids
          http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
          http://www.sccaners.org

[RobertB]

     Photos of the Hamtext presentation are now at

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

               Truly,
               Robert Bernardo
               Fresno Commodore User Group
               http://videocam.net.au/fcug
               The Other Group of Amigoids
               http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
               Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
               http://www.sccaners.org

[RobertB]

Happy Springtime, C= and Ami aficionados!
     The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 1+ p.m., Sunday, March 21, at

           El Bajio Restaurant
           2320 N. Blackstone Ave.
           Fresno, California

Note the change in our meeting place for this month.
     This month we have a special guest coming all the way from Toronto, Ontario, Canada; it's Leif Bloomquist, Commodore programmer and enthusiast extraordinaire!  He'll be bringing library CDs of the Toronto PET User Group to sell.  Prepare to ask him about Commodore, TPUG, Toronto, or Canada in general! 
     In keeping with this meeting's Canadian theme, we'll looking at the VIC-20 programs on cassette from Canadian Tire - programs such as Depth Charge, Rocket Command, and Miniature Golf.
     As if that's not enough, we still have leftover programs from last month that we did not get to - Wolfman for the C64 and Micrograms' Super Student programs for the C64.
     More copies of David Haynes' Commodore Archive DVDs will be distributed as will be the latest newsletter.

          Whew!
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group
          http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[RobertB]

Greetings, C= and Ami aficionados!
     The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 1+ p.m., Saturday, April 10, at

         The Pizza Pit Restaurant
         2705 N. Blackstone Ave. (corner of Blackstone and Princeton)
         Fresno, California

We're back to our regular place, but note the change in our meeting date for this month, Saturday instead of Sunday.
     This month we will look at Andrew Martin's new Hi-Res Workstation v2.0 for the C64 (v1.0 previously was released in Loadstar #175). Also we'll investigate the AEASoft MBAText (Morse, Baudot, ASCII) cartridge, included AEA Computer Patch Interface, and supplementary
disks for the C64.  (Yup, more ham radio stuff.)  The last batch of the David Haynes' Commodore Archive DVDs will be distributed. Finally, if there is time, we will take a peek at the load of VIC-20 software obtained from Jim Scabery of Portland, Oregon -- software
like Rescue at Rigel and Quick Brown Fox.

            Whew!
            Robert Bernardo
            Fresno Commodore User Group
            http://videocam.net.au/fcug
            CommVEx v6 2010 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum and click on ComVEX

[RobertB]

This month we will look at Andrew Martin's new Hi-Res Workstation v2.0 for the C64 (v1.0 previously was released in Loadstar #175).

Andrew wants the word spread on his newest version of Hi-Res Workstation for the C64.  It can be downloaded at

         http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/download.php?id=113408

              Blockparty 2010 on April 16-18,
              Robert Bernardo
              Fresno Commodore User Group
              http://videocam.net.au/fcug
              July 24-25 CommVEx v6 2010 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum
              and click on ComVEX