• Vintage Computer Festival West - Aug. 6-7, 2022

    From Robert Bernardo@3:770/3 to All on Mon Aug 1 02:56:21 2022
    The Vintage Computer Festival West is almost here! VCF West will be Aug. 6-7 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. See

    https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

    Here is a list of the presentations. Note the Commodore presentations!

    1. Ben Zotto – Sphere 1: The First Modern Microcomputer
    2. Bobby Livingston/Corey Cohen – Vintage Technology: Search, Identify, Authenticate
    3. Berger Becky – DOOM 3DO: Or how I survived hell
    4. Johan Grip – 128Neo
    5. Byron Stout – Developing 8-bit Commodore programs using a modern IDE.
    6. Bruno Marchon – Iconography of Early Apple Logos
    7. Mike McGann – Adventures in Emulation (Commodore)
    8. Leonard Tramiel – In Search Of … the original Wooden PET
    9. Logan Greer – My Journey in Electronics
    10. Lee Felsenstein – The Pennywhistle
    11. John Floren – Reproduction Depraz mouse

    Below is the description of the C= presentations:

    Saturday

    1:00 pm – Developing 8-bit Commodore programs using a modern IDE – Byron Stout

    While you can still program directly on the original hardware, it sure is nice to have the conveniences of a software development environment running on a modern PC. Let’s use CBM PRG Studio to write BASIC and ML programs for our favorite 8-bit
    Commodore machines.

    5:00 pm – In Search Of … The original wooden PET – Leonard Tramiel

    The twisted story of the long and, ultimately, fruitful search for the original Wooden Pet.

    Sunday

    2:00 pm 128Neo (Virtual – live) – Johan Grip

    Johan Grip will talk about the Commodore 128 and the story of how repairing the first computer he owned went a bit astray. Topics covered by the talk includes PCB reverse engineering, silicon reverse engineering, tools and techniques and other things
    learned during the process.

    3:30 pm – Adventures in Emulation – Mike McGann

    Do you enjoy using emulators to tinker around with computers of the past? Have you ever wondered what it would take to develop an emulator yourself? In this talk, Mike McGann will detail his adventures taken, from start to finish, in building a
    rudimentary Commodore 64 (6502) and Pac-Man (Z80) emulator. Topics will include memory layout, CPU instructions, text-based graphics, basic sound, and plenty of implementation bloopers. A demonstration and Q&A session will follow the talk. No quarters
    required.

    Here is a list of the record number of exhibits. Note the C=/Amiga exhibits!

    Exhibit ID
    Exhibit title
    Name (first/last)

    1
    Acorn Computers and Teletext
    David Glover-Aoki

    2
    Video-Sprite with TMS9918A card for Apple II & TM990/189 University Board Jerome Calvo

    3
    2000s Apple computer
    Jordan Q Hayes

    4
    The Compact Macintosh Garden
    Steve Brunwasser

    5
    Acorn Econet
    Steve Crozier

    6
    Silicon Graphics Presenter Presentation
    Nicholas Bustamante

    7
    ReA4091 - Back to the SCSI
    Stefan Reinauer

    8
    s100 bus and ieee 696 computers
    Jay Cotton

    9
    Core Memory Interactive Core64
    Andy Geppert

    10
    Early Apple Computer Iconography
    Bruno Marchon

    11
    Vintage Circuit Board Recapping & Repair
    Arion Paylo

    12
    VME Unix Systems
    Rico Pajarola

    13
    Sun Diskless Workstations
    Zachary Hardesty

    14
    From Kodak to Steve: The Journey of Digital Photography and Macintosh Clones of the 90s
    Chris Satterfield

    15
    Prodigy Reloaded
    Phillip Heller

    16
    BackBit simplifies retro computing!
    Evie Salomon

    17
    Just A Collection Of Computers
    adrian chadd

    18
    The Motorola 6809 MIcroprocessor: Let's TACOBOTt It
    Steve Toner

    19
    Motorola 6800 Exorciser Development kits
    Stanley Ruppert

    20
    British 1978 - 8080 Triton Home Computer Project rebuild : Original & Recreation
    Ian Lockhart

    21
    CoCoVGA - Adapting 68xx Systems to VGA Displays
    Brendan Donahe

    22
    Commodore PET progression 1977-1986
    Charles Hutchins

    23
    Commodore 8-bit/Amiga computer exhibit
    Robert Bernardo

    24
    Commodore 64 - 40 Years anniversary of the greatest home computer ever made Joeri van Haren

    25
    Relay based Computers, the Sound of Computation
    Francis Bauer

    26
    C64i - Commodore 64 improved
    Francis Bernier

    27
    60 Years of DEC Linc
    Ryan Schiff

    28
    Tele-Typin' Zone
    Dustin Williams

    29
    "THAT" - THE ANALOG THING
    Lyle Bickley

    30
    Heathkit H8/H9 Estate Sale Find and Resurrection
    Cole Erskine

    31
    Tektronix 4054A Graphics Computer
    Monty McGraw

    32
    Apple ll Rev. 7 & Apple-1 Replica
    Logan Greer

    33
    Sun2, Sun3, 10BASE5 and 10BASE2 hardware
    Robert Harker

    34
    IBM or Apple--Why Not Both?
    Eric Schlaepfer

    35
    Apple & Early Computing
    Jon Siefken

    36
    ROMulator and PETpix - new gadgets for old computers
    Michael Hill

    37
    Radio Shack Micros and Cousins
    David Henderson

    38
    Rare Computers From Japan
    Duncan Mac Dougall

    39
    A Depraz Mouse Reproduction
    John Floren

    40
    Multiprocessor Workstations From The 1980s
    Steve Jones

    41
    The First Apple 1
    Liza Loop

    42
    Overkil Classic Macs!
    Ryan Gehret

    43
    Pen Based Computing
    Tom Conrad

    44
    QWERTZ: German Computing
    Erik Johnson

    45
    CA80 the first Polish trainer computer kit of the 80s
    Kris Sekula

    FOPAL
    Friends of the Palo Alto Library (FOPAL)
    David Cortesi

    See you at VCF West!
    Robert Bernardo
    Fresno Commodore User Group – http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
    Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network – http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

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  • From KP KP@3:770/3 to Robert Bernardo on Mon Aug 1 07:09:40 2022
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 2:56:22 AM UTC-7, Robert Bernardo wrote:
    The Vintage Computer Festival West is almost here! VCF West will be Aug. 6-7 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. See

    https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

    Here is a list of the presentations. Note the Commodore presentations!

    1. Ben Zotto – Sphere 1: The First Modern Microcomputer
    2. Bobby Livingston/Corey Cohen – Vintage Technology: Search, Identify, Authenticate
    3. Berger Becky – DOOM 3DO: Or how I survived hell
    4. Johan Grip – 128Neo
    5. Byron Stout – Developing 8-bit Commodore programs using a modern IDE. 6. Bruno Marchon – Iconography of Early Apple Logos
    7. Mike McGann – Adventures in Emulation (Commodore)
    8. Leonard Tramiel – In Search Of … the original Wooden PET
    9. Logan Greer – My Journey in Electronics
    10. Lee Felsenstein – The Pennywhistle
    11. John Floren – Reproduction Depraz mouse

    Below is the description of the C= presentations:

    Saturday

    1:00 pm – Developing 8-bit Commodore programs using a modern IDE – Byron Stout

    While you can still program directly on the original hardware, it sure is nice to have the conveniences of a software development environment running on a modern PC. Let’s use CBM PRG Studio to write BASIC and ML programs for our favorite 8-bit
    Commodore machines.

    5:00 pm – In Search Of … The original wooden PET – Leonard Tramiel

    The twisted story of the long and, ultimately, fruitful search for the original Wooden Pet.

    Sunday

    2:00 pm 128Neo (Virtual – live) – Johan Grip

    Johan Grip will talk about the Commodore 128 and the story of how repairing the first computer he owned went a bit astray. Topics covered by the talk includes PCB reverse engineering, silicon reverse engineering, tools and techniques and other things
    learned during the process.

    3:30 pm – Adventures in Emulation – Mike McGann

    Do you enjoy using emulators to tinker around with computers of the past? Have you ever wondered what it would take to develop an emulator yourself? In this talk, Mike McGann will detail his adventures taken, from start to finish, in building a
    rudimentary Commodore 64 (6502) and Pac-Man (Z80) emulator. Topics will include memory layout, CPU instructions, text-based graphics, basic sound, and plenty of implementation bloopers. A demonstration and Q&A session will follow the talk. No quarters
    required.

    Here is a list of the record number of exhibits. Note the C=/Amiga exhibits!

    Exhibit ID
    Exhibit title
    Name (first/last)

    1
    Acorn Computers and Teletext
    David Glover-Aoki

    2
    Video-Sprite with TMS9918A card for Apple II & TM990/189 University Board Jerome Calvo

    3
    2000s Apple computer
    Jordan Q Hayes

    4
    The Compact Macintosh Garden
    Steve Brunwasser

    5
    Acorn Econet
    Steve Crozier

    6
    Silicon Graphics Presenter Presentation
    Nicholas Bustamante

    7
    ReA4091 - Back to the SCSI
    Stefan Reinauer

    8
    s100 bus and ieee 696 computers
    Jay Cotton

    9
    Core Memory Interactive Core64
    Andy Geppert

    10
    Early Apple Computer Iconography
    Bruno Marchon

    11
    Vintage Circuit Board Recapping & Repair
    Arion Paylo

    12
    VME Unix Systems
    Rico Pajarola

    13
    Sun Diskless Workstations
    Zachary Hardesty

    14
    From Kodak to Steve: The Journey of Digital Photography and Macintosh Clones of the 90s
    Chris Satterfield

    15
    Prodigy Reloaded
    Phillip Heller

    16
    BackBit simplifies retro computing!
    Evie Salomon

    17
    Just A Collection Of Computers
    adrian chadd

    18
    The Motorola 6809 MIcroprocessor: Let's TACOBOTt It
    Steve Toner

    19
    Motorola 6800 Exorciser Development kits
    Stanley Ruppert

    20
    British 1978 - 8080 Triton Home Computer Project rebuild : Original & Recreation
    Ian Lockhart

    21
    CoCoVGA - Adapting 68xx Systems to VGA Displays
    Brendan Donahe

    22
    Commodore PET progression 1977-1986
    Charles Hutchins

    23
    Commodore 8-bit/Amiga computer exhibit
    Robert Bernardo

    24
    Commodore 64 - 40 Years anniversary of the greatest home computer ever made Joeri van Haren

    25
    Relay based Computers, the Sound of Computation
    Francis Bauer

    26
    C64i - Commodore 64 improved
    Francis Bernier

    27
    60 Years of DEC Linc
    Ryan Schiff

    28
    Tele-Typin' Zone
    Dustin Williams

    29
    "THAT" - THE ANALOG THING
    Lyle Bickley

    30
    Heathkit H8/H9 Estate Sale Find and Resurrection
    Cole Erskine

    31
    Tektronix 4054A Graphics Computer
    Monty McGraw

    32
    Apple ll Rev. 7 & Apple-1 Replica
    Logan Greer

    33
    Sun2, Sun3, 10BASE5 and 10BASE2 hardware
    Robert Harker

    34
    IBM or Apple--Why Not Both?
    Eric Schlaepfer

    35
    Apple & Early Computing
    Jon Siefken

    36
    ROMulator and PETpix - new gadgets for old computers
    Michael Hill

    37
    Radio Shack Micros and Cousins
    David Henderson

    38
    Rare Computers From Japan
    Duncan Mac Dougall

    39
    A Depraz Mouse Reproduction
    John Floren

    40
    Multiprocessor Workstations From The 1980s
    Steve Jones

    41
    The First Apple 1
    Liza Loop

    42
    Overkil Classic Macs!
    Ryan Gehret

    43
    Pen Based Computing
    Tom Conrad

    44
    QWERTZ: German Computing
    Erik Johnson

    45
    CA80 the first Polish trainer computer kit of the 80s
    Kris Sekula

    FOPAL
    Friends of the Palo Alto Library (FOPAL)
    David Cortesi

    See you at VCF West!
    Robert Bernardo
    Fresno Commodore User Group – http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
    Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network – http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

    Will this event be streamed on the YouTube channel?

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  • From KP KP@3:770/3 to Robert Bernardo on Mon Aug 1 07:20:25 2022
    Will this be streaming on the YouTube channel? Can't wait to watch this.

    Ken


    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 2:56:22 AM UTC-7, Robert Bernardo wrote:
    The Vintage Computer Festival West is almost here! VCF West will be Aug. 6-7 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. See

    https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

    Here is a list of the presentations. Note the Commodore presentations!

    1. Ben Zotto – Sphere 1: The First Modern Microcomputer
    2. Bobby Livingston/Corey Cohen – Vintage Technology: Search, Identify, Authenticate
    3. Berger Becky – DOOM 3DO: Or how I survived hell
    4. Johan Grip – 128Neo
    5. Byron Stout – Developing 8-bit Commodore programs using a modern IDE. 6. Bruno Marchon – Iconography of Early Apple Logos
    7. Mike McGann – Adventures in Emulation (Commodore)
    8. Leonard Tramiel – In Search Of … the original Wooden PET
    9. Logan Greer – My Journey in Electronics
    10. Lee Felsenstein – The Pennywhistle
    11. John Floren – Reproduction Depraz mouse

    Below is the description of the C= presentations:

    Saturday

    1:00 pm – Developing 8-bit Commodore programs using a modern IDE – Byron Stout

    While you can still program directly on the original hardware, it sure is nice to have the conveniences of a software development environment running on a modern PC. Let’s use CBM PRG Studio to write BASIC and ML programs for our favorite 8-bit
    Commodore machines.

    5:00 pm – In Search Of … The original wooden PET – Leonard Tramiel

    The twisted story of the long and, ultimately, fruitful search for the original Wooden Pet.

    Sunday

    2:00 pm 128Neo (Virtual – live) – Johan Grip

    Johan Grip will talk about the Commodore 128 and the story of how repairing the first computer he owned went a bit astray. Topics covered by the talk includes PCB reverse engineering, silicon reverse engineering, tools and techniques and other things
    learned during the process.

    3:30 pm – Adventures in Emulation – Mike McGann

    Do you enjoy using emulators to tinker around with computers of the past? Have you ever wondered what it would take to develop an emulator yourself? In this talk, Mike McGann will detail his adventures taken, from start to finish, in building a
    rudimentary Commodore 64 (6502) and Pac-Man (Z80) emulator. Topics will include memory layout, CPU instructions, text-based graphics, basic sound, and plenty of implementation bloopers. A demonstration and Q&A session will follow the talk. No quarters
    required.

    Here is a list of the record number of exhibits. Note the C=/Amiga exhibits!

    Exhibit ID
    Exhibit title
    Name (first/last)

    1
    Acorn Computers and Teletext
    David Glover-Aoki

    2
    Video-Sprite with TMS9918A card for Apple II & TM990/189 University Board Jerome Calvo

    3
    2000s Apple computer
    Jordan Q Hayes

    4
    The Compact Macintosh Garden
    Steve Brunwasser

    5
    Acorn Econet
    Steve Crozier

    6
    Silicon Graphics Presenter Presentation
    Nicholas Bustamante

    7
    ReA4091 - Back to the SCSI
    Stefan Reinauer

    8
    s100 bus and ieee 696 computers
    Jay Cotton

    9
    Core Memory Interactive Core64
    Andy Geppert

    10
    Early Apple Computer Iconography
    Bruno Marchon

    11
    Vintage Circuit Board Recapping & Repair
    Arion Paylo

    12
    VME Unix Systems
    Rico Pajarola

    13
    Sun Diskless Workstations
    Zachary Hardesty

    14
    From Kodak to Steve: The Journey of Digital Photography and Macintosh Clones of the 90s
    Chris Satterfield

    15
    Prodigy Reloaded
    Phillip Heller

    16
    BackBit simplifies retro computing!
    Evie Salomon

    17
    Just A Collection Of Computers
    adrian chadd

    18
    The Motorola 6809 MIcroprocessor: Let's TACOBOTt It
    Steve Toner

    19
    Motorola 6800 Exorciser Development kits
    Stanley Ruppert

    20
    British 1978 - 8080 Triton Home Computer Project rebuild : Original & Recreation
    Ian Lockhart

    21
    CoCoVGA - Adapting 68xx Systems to VGA Displays
    Brendan Donahe

    22
    Commodore PET progression 1977-1986
    Charles Hutchins

    23
    Commodore 8-bit/Amiga computer exhibit
    Robert Bernardo

    24
    Commodore 64 - 40 Years anniversary of the greatest home computer ever made Joeri van Haren

    25
    Relay based Computers, the Sound of Computation
    Francis Bauer

    26
    C64i - Commodore 64 improved
    Francis Bernier

    27
    60 Years of DEC Linc
    Ryan Schiff

    28
    Tele-Typin' Zone
    Dustin Williams

    29
    "THAT" - THE ANALOG THING
    Lyle Bickley

    30
    Heathkit H8/H9 Estate Sale Find and Resurrection
    Cole Erskine

    31
    Tektronix 4054A Graphics Computer
    Monty McGraw

    32
    Apple ll Rev. 7 & Apple-1 Replica
    Logan Greer

    33
    Sun2, Sun3, 10BASE5 and 10BASE2 hardware
    Robert Harker

    34
    IBM or Apple--Why Not Both?
    Eric Schlaepfer

    35
    Apple & Early Computing
    Jon Siefken

    36
    ROMulator and PETpix - new gadgets for old computers
    Michael Hill

    37
    Radio Shack Micros and Cousins
    David Henderson

    38
    Rare Computers From Japan
    Duncan Mac Dougall

    39
    A Depraz Mouse Reproduction
    John Floren

    40
    Multiprocessor Workstations From The 1980s
    Steve Jones

    41
    The First Apple 1
    Liza Loop

    42
    Overkil Classic Macs!
    Ryan Gehret

    43
    Pen Based Computing
    Tom Conrad

    44
    QWERTZ: German Computing
    Erik Johnson

    45
    CA80 the first Polish trainer computer kit of the 80s
    Kris Sekula

    FOPAL
    Friends of the Palo Alto Library (FOPAL)
    David Cortesi

    See you at VCF West!
    Robert Bernardo
    Fresno Commodore User Group – http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
    Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network – http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

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  • From Robert Bernardo@3:770/3 to All on Mon Aug 1 22:16:41 2022
    I haven't heard of any streaming. Nevertheless, I will film the Commodore/Amiga presentations.

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

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  • From KP KP@3:770/3 to Robert Bernardo on Tue Aug 2 07:08:20 2022
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 10:16:43 PM UTC-7, Robert Bernardo wrote:
    I haven't heard of any streaming. Nevertheless, I will film the Commodore/Amiga presentations.

    Truly,
    Robert Bernardo
    Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
    Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
    Ok
    Thanks!

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  • From KP KP@3:770/3 to KP KP on Mon Aug 8 16:37:45 2022
    On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 7:08:21 AM UTC-7, KP KP wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 10:16:43 PM UTC-7, Robert Bernardo wrote:
    I haven't heard of any streaming. Nevertheless, I will film the Commodore/Amiga presentations.

    Truly,
    Robert Bernardo
    Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
    Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
    Ok
    Thanks!
    Saw the videos, looked like a good turnout.

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  • From phigan@3:770/3 to All on Fri Aug 12 12:50:54 2022
    I haven't heard of any streaming. Nevertheless, I will film the
    Commodore/Amiga presentations.

    Saw the videos, looked like a good turnout.

    Could someone post them here?

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