If you should be in the San Francisco area May 18-19, you are invited to the Bay Area 2013 Maker Faire at the San Mateo Events Center, 1346 Saratoga Dr., San Mateo, California. Join the thousands and thousands of people who attend this annual event. Maker Faire runs from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.  read more »

Nigel Parker has another issue of Commodore Free ready to download! Go to

     http://www.commodorefree.com/

Like always, this issue 70 of Commodore Free is a free-to-download magazine dedicated to Commodore computers available as PDF, ePUB, MOBI, HTML, TXT, SEQ and D64 disk image.

             CONTENTS
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* Editorial
* Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #5
* Readers Comments
* NEWS
  - Commodore: The Amiga Years
  - Gangnam_64-Style
  - Lotek64 Issue 44 Released
  - Commodore Gaming Party 2007 Video  read more »

Due to renovations at the Las Vegas Club Hotel, the Commodore Vegas Expo is being moved to the sister hotel across the street, the Plaza Hotel & Casino, 1 Main St., Las Vegas, Nevada. We will be in Ballroom 8, the third floor. To look at the floor plan, go to the bottom of the page at

http://www.plazahotelcasino.com/pdf/sales_kit.pdf

For more information, go to

http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

It's been a long time in coming, and there was publishing delay after delay, but now Brian Bagnall's new book, "Commodore: the Amiga Years", is set to be released on July 1. This is confirmed by Brian's website at

http://variantpress.com/books/commodore-the-amiga-years/

and by the latest e-mail from Amazon.com, which had this link -

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0973864990/ref=pe_259560_29109160_pd_re_dt_lm6  read more »

Back on July 12, 2007, after the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, Commodore Gaming had a party to celebrate their Commodore Gaming PCs that had just come out. Not only did they show off their gaming PCs, but they also exhibited a C64 and PET which the partygoers could use.

For the party, they invited several C= luminaries -- Seth "Naughtyboy" Sternberger of 8 Bit Weapon performed his music, and CBM engineer Bil Herd and engineer Jeri Ellsworth spoke. "Commodore Gaming Party 2007" can be found at

http://blip.tv/episode/6567339  read more »

Like the Star Wars movies which been re-edited and re-enhanced, the SX-64 commercial is now up to version 3. This time some young FCUG members are included. To see the "SX-64 commercial v3 (amateur)", go to

http://blip.tv/dashboard/episode/6559074

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZIbNcDxeCE

Like the Star Wars movies which been re-edited and re-enhanced, the SX-64 commercial is now up to version 3. This time some young FCUG members are included. To see the "SX-64 commercial v3 (amateur)", go to

http://blip.tv/dashboard/episode/6559074

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZIbNcDxeCE

Thanks to Larry Anderson, the website for the July 27-28 Commodore Vegas Expo v9 in now live and running. Go to

http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

and see what's going on. Remember that it's a work in progress, and changes will come to it as the show nears.

The CommVEx forum at http://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewforum.php?f=6

Having done his first successful repairs on early and late model RAMLinks, and finding a source for GAL chips, veteran Commodore repair technician Ray Carlsen is announcing that he will repair RL's. This is what he wrote:

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> Ray, are you now fully committed to doing RL repairs? Or are you still testing the waters?  read more »

Protovision has updates for you! Here are the headlines:

PROTOVISION NEWS

* Interview with the creator of Newcomer
* ByteBlaster MV on offer
* Freelance helpers and members wanted

NEWS FROM THE C64 SCENE

* New Shoutouts to PTV

Please find the detailed news at the Protovision homepage.

http://www.protovision-online.com/

Due to public demand, the amateur SX-64 commercial has been edited to include a woman (yes, men wanted a woman in the commercial, just like in the original 1980's commercial). So, after 3 more hours of editing, I've tweaked the commercial to v2. You can see it at

http://blip.tv/file/6519725

or

http://youtu.be/NZ4C71W2A30

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Commodore SX-64, in January we at the Fresno Commodore User Group filmed our SX-64 video over the course of 2 days. After 8+ hours of editing, it has finally been posted! It was filmed as a tribute to the original SX-64 video that is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PygDf6E94o

To see our commercial, go to

http://blip.tv/file/6515543

or

http://youtu.be/44QiqtxvDy8

The first Commodore show of the year, the Netherlands Commodore Show,
is this Saturday, February 16, at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21 in Maarssen, the Netherlands, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.. Enjoy the Commodore and Amiga computers (and the MSX, Atari, and Sinclair computers, too). The club day includes a hands-on soldering workshop and presentation.

For a map of the area, go to

http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/events/commodore-msx-atari-sinclair-en-amig...

Nigel Parker has released issue 67 of Commodore Free magazine, the free-to-download magazine dedicated to Commodore computers and available as PDF, ePUB, MOBI, HTML, TXT, SEQ and D64 disk image. Go to

http://www.commodorefree.com/

In this issue the contents are:

* Editorial
* Commodore Free E-Cover Tape #3
* NEWS
  - 2013 C64-Retroinvaders Calendar
  - Arc64 V2.3 Released
  - MiniMig and Arm Controller Back
  - New Articles on Obligement
  - Flimsoft News Update
  - SuperCPU Emulator Software
  - 4K Game Secret Tunnel
  - PDXCUG.org Meeting
  - VFLI - VIC-20  read more »

Protovision has updates for you! Here are the headlines:

PROTOVISION NEWS

* Metal Dust Download
* New Protovision Member

NEWS FROM THE C64 SCENE

* WinVICE emulates SCPU
* Mouse Game SpaceChem Nano

Please find the detailed news at the Protovision homepage.

http://www.protovision-online.com/