Next SCCAN meeting - Saturday, January 8, 2022

[RobertB]

     Here is the preliminary announcement for our next meeting!  It seems early in the month, but January does have five Saturdays. 

          Merry Christmas!  Happy New Year!
          Robert Bernardo
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

[RobertB]

Happy New Year, C= and Ami comrades!
     The next meeting of the Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network is Saturday, Jan. 8, from 2 to 5+ p.m. at

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

Note: We are back to our bi-monthly (every other month) meeting schedule.
     For discussion, we'll talk about the Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2022. For hardware/software, the Ultimate 64 returns with new programs, like Sonic the Hedgehog, Scramble Infinity, Snowdown, and Snow Force. The refurbished Amiga 500 with v8 motherboard makes its first appearance and now has a Vampire 500 v2 accelerator. Spec.?s ? 2 mb Chip RAM, 128 Fast RAM, Gold 2.12 core, Kickstart 3.10 (three point ten), Coffin OS r59, 32 gig CF card, and a full complement of platform emulators, WHDload games/demos, and native HDMI games/demos/music/videos.
     If you missed them at CLASS 2021 and at the December SCCAN meeting, Wayne and Sonia Aller may be at this meeting to sell their VIC-20/C64 hardware and software.
     As always, feel free to bring any other Commodore and Amiga hardware/software that you wish to show off!

          Sincerely,
          Robert Bernardo
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

[JeffR]

Darn! The rev 8 A500 with Vampire would have been nice to see. The rev 8 motherboard was sold as the "A500 Plus", correct? Did it include a 2MB capable Agnus on board and did it still need some upgrades to get 2MB of chip RAM?

I say darn because I may not be making the meeting this time around. We'll see if I can reschedule another appt I have.

[RobertB]

     Yes, the rev. 8 motherboard is considered an A500 Plus.  It did include the Super Agnus, and the ram expander was added to give a full 2 Mb Chip RAM.

          See it at the next SCCAN meeting in March,
          Robert Bernardo
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan