Dick Estel, famed for the GeoFont Compendium, will join us at the show! Last time we had Dick at a show was at the Commodore Vegas Expo years ago.

          Writing from Wellington, New Zealand,
          Robert Bernardo
          organizer - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show

     David Pleasance of Commodore UK will be joining us at the show!  He will be bringing his books (Commodore: the Inside Story; Vultures to Vampires volumes 1-3) to sell, and he could autograph them for you.
     Though not attending, Trevor Dickinson of A-EON has made for us a special video that shows off his huge collection of Commodore and Amiga computers in his New Zealand home. Then Trevor will give his thoughts about the AmigaOne X5000 and the A1222+.

     Check out our other guests and presentations at

https://portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=class:presentations_guests

         Writing from Picton, New Zealand,
         Robert Bernardo
         organizer - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show

Happy Easter season, C= and Ami comrades!
     The next meeting of the Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network is Saturday, March 30, from 2 to 5+ p.m. at

  Panera Bread Restaurant
  19662 Nordhoff Street
  Northridge, California
  (818) 407-9400

    We'll talk about exhibiting at the April 6 Los Angeles Maker Faire, and even more importantly, our April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show.  Yup, this is the last meeting before CLASS, and we'll be finalizing all exhibits and presentations.
    Listen as I regale you with stories of the Melbourne Amiga User Group, the Sydney Amiga User Group, the Adelaide Retro Brisbane group, and the highs and lows of international travel.
    The Ultimate 64 returns with plenty of new C64 games released this February and March.  THEA500 Mini returns with its slew of apps courtesy of the Aminimiga distro and now with external, wireless keyboard and mouse. Check out the sweet Green Pen MousE for the Amiga (courtesy of www.Amiga1.com), the TeensyROM for the C64 (now with the OneLoad64 Collection v5 on USB stick), and the pre-production expansion boards for the Mega65! 

            Writing from Melbourne, Australia,
            Robert Bernardo
            Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

     The LA Maker Faire is edging closer, and our Classic Los Angeles Computers (CLAC) tables now have the computers to be exhibited -- an Ultimate 64, an Amiga 3000, a Commodore PC20-III, and from SCCAN member Jerold K., a brown C64.  The computers will be set up for gaming, except for Jerold's which will be set up for music production/creation.  See you soon at the LA Maker Faire!

     Writing from Sydney, Australia,
     Robert Bernardo
     Fresno Commodore User Group -
     http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
     Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network -
     http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

     My friend Duncan gave me an A-Max II external module to be used with an Amiga.  Not another one (the last one being the module he worked to get running on an A2000 that was shown at the Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2023).  It's a nice hardware bit if you want to run classic Mac on the Amiga, but it's not nice to go through all the difficult process to have an A-Max partition on an Amiga hard drive.  I'd have to think about putting this on one of my Amiga big boxes.

          Truly,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
          April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show - http://www.portcommodore.com/class

    I've found out that a 3.2.2 chip is not compatible with the 3.2 install on the CF card.  Also, I discovered that the 8-meg RAM expander is interfering with the PCMCIA port, even though 3.2 is supposed to cure that conflict.  I've reduced the expander to 5.5 megs, and all is well with the PCMCIA port.

          Truly,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
          April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2024 - http://www.portcommodore.com/class

Happy Deja Vous, C= and Ami aficionados!
     The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 2:30+ p.m., *Saturday*, March 2, at

Panera Bread Restaurant
3590 W. Shaw Ave. (corner of W. Shaw Ave. and Marty Ave.)
Fresno, CA 93711
(559) 271-0104
http://www.dickestel.com/meet_loc.htm

     Note the date, Saturday, March 2!  It will be a rare Saturday meeting for the club, due to other factors for us not having our meeting on the usual third Sunday of the month.
     For discussion, we'll talk about the April 6 Los Angeles Maker Faire and the April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show.  Also we'll talk about how filming went for Roger's CLASS presentation.
     For our presentations, we'll try out some of the latest C64 / VIC-20  games and demos.  Not only that but we'll look at some classic C64 disks-of-the-month from the defunct Commodore Hayward User Group (CHUG) and some brand new Amiga disks-of-the-month from The Other Group of Amigoids (TOGA).

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

     Long lost video? Nah, just never got around to editing it! Now it's on-line! "Bernardo on How to Film a Commodore Commercial" See it at

https://youtu.be/rtJdENmOWX4

          Truly,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
          April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2024 - http://www.portcommodore.com/class