Category: Scene News

Brisbane C64 Night 2012

Saturday, 24th of November 6:00pm – 11:00pm. At Petrie (North Side of Brisbane), the hall is about 5 minutes walk from Petrie train station. Make sure you bring $5 to help cover costs. Games, Demos + Hardware for all 8-bit Commodore computers. (feel free to bring and set up your own gear if you want) More info at Brisbane C64…

Commodore Free Issue 63

Free to download magazine dedicated to Commodore computers.Available as PDF, ePUB, MOBI, HTML,TXT, SEQ and D64 disk image. Download: issue63.pdf Source: http://www.commodorefree.com/issues.html

Bil Herd – VCF

On the last Vintage Computer Festival East Bil Herd has talked about his work at Commodore  just before the departure of Jack Tramiel to the coming of Amiga. The video is in three parts and lasts about 110 minutes. Website: http://c128.com/vcfSource: http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl 

Commodore 8 Bit Repair – VCF 2012

At the VCF East 2012 Rob Clarke and Bil Herd presented a workshop. In this workshop you can learn how to diagnose your vintage 8 bit computers. They told about methods and tools you can use to repair your 8bit Commodore computer. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXRvCnmLj7ASource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

BitJam #157

The most recent BitJam podcast is a Psygnosis edition. In this BitJam the following music: Menace, Blood Money, Shadow of the Beast, Anarchy, Awesome, Shadow of the Beast 2, The Killing Game Show, Leander, Lemmings, Agony, Aquaventura, Bill’s Tomato Game, The Carl Lewis Challenge, Ork, Shadow of the Beast 3, Globdule, Lemmings 2, Theatre of Death, Benefactor, Microcosm, Puggsy, G2…

ECCC / VCFMW 2012

On 22 and 23 of September the ECCC (Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention) was held in conjunction with VCFMW (Vintage Computer Festival MidWest) in Lombard, USA. You can see a collection of pictures of the meeting. A few examples of items on the show are: Flyer modem, CommodoreServer, Comet, VIC20 MIDI card, UNIVAC, SAGE, COSMAC, VAXstation etc. Website: http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/eccc-2012/index.htmlSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl