Nigel Parker has released the magazine, Commodore Free issue 42, as TXT, PDF, HTML, SEQ, and D64. Go to

http://www.commodorefree.com

This month the contents include

* Editorial
* NEWS
- MorphOS 2.5 & eMac Support
- Spectacular Copy - Turbo To Disk
- Mass Storage Device C64SD
- Third Club Info Issue of 2010
- Aladdin 4D Forums on Amiga.org
- DIY Action Replay Card
- Genealogy Newsletter and C64
- BasEdit - Basic Editor on Windows
- Alpha Release of Timberwolf
- New Commodore Club
- Chicago Creative Extreme Expo
- Descent Freespace 2 / AmigaOS4.1  read more »

Brisbane C64 night

Anyone interested in coming to a C64 night in Brisbane on 4th of September?

5:00pm - 11:00pm on the 4th of September
At Petrie (North Side of Brisbane), the hall is about 5 minutes walk from train station.

$5 entry to help cover costs.

Everything & anything C64.

Anyone interested please let me know (email: thestingray64@gmail.com) so I can finalise the booking of the hall.

Seth S. and wife, Michelle, have re-released Silo 64. Silo 64 is a two player, simultaneous, action shooter extravaganza for the Commodore 64/128 personal computer!

The Earth has been destroyed by nuclear armageddon. Your family, as well as other families in your home town, took refuge in the local underground fallout shelter, Silo 64. Only your trusty robo-companion is all that's left of your life before the blast. All your rations and supplies have been depleted. There's just one thing left to do…  read more »

Greetings Commodore Computer enthusiasts and hackers from the Vancouver,WA and Portland, OR PDX metro area, our next Commodore Computer Club meeting will be Friday August 6, 2010 at approximately 6:00 pm PST.

We meet at Pied Piper Pizza, an awesome local pizza place located in Vancouver, Washington which is approximately 20-30 minutes from PDX - Portland, Oregon:

Pied Piper Pizza
12300 NE Fourth Plain Rd.
Vancouver, WA 98682  read more »

Payton Byrd has released the file manager, CBM-Command for the VIC-20. Go to

http://cbmcommand.codeplex.com/releases/view/48615

Here are his notes on this version.

SPECIAL RELEASE
This release should only be considered a preview release for VIC-20
functionality.

New Features
* 32K Expanded VIC-20 now supported

Changes
* (VIC20) Panels are not displayed side by side, only one panel is
displayed at a time.
* (VIC20) D64 support is removed, the RAM was needed elsewhere.
* (ALL) The screen has been made more scalable.

Known Issues  read more »

On April 15-18, Blockparty 2010 was held in conjunction with Notacon 7, at the Wyndham Cleveland Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.. Photos, video, and reports have been posted. For choice photos, go to

http://www.dickestel.com/blockparty10.htm

For more photos, reports, and video, click on the links at

http://notacon.org/writeups.html

Greg A. has announced the next meeting of the Portland Commodore User Group (PDXCUG). This is what he says --

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder that our next Commodore Users Group meeting will be this upcoming Thursday.

Thursday, July 8, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Sunset Lanes
12770 Southwest Walker Road in Beaverton (just off Hwy 26), Oregon

We'll have:
- A Vic-20
- 2 Amigas
- The usual Commodore 64's
- An MSD Dual Disk Drive (so bring any disks that you want to copy - 19 seconds per copy, verified!)  read more »

There is a new update at Protovision. This time the headlines are:

- Pieces II News
- EVA-1 - One more Newcomer related artwork by Leon

Please find the detailed news at our homepage: http://www.protovision-online.com/

Nigel Parker has released Issue 41, June 2010, of Commodore Free magazine. The free-to-download magazine
is dedicated to Commodore computers and is available as PDF, HTML, TXT, SEQ, and a D64 disk image. Go to

http://www.commodorefree.com

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CONTENTS
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* Editorial
* Readers Comments
* News
- A Floppy End
- Introducing CBM-Command
- CBM-Command Released
- A-EON / AmigaKit
- Maniacs Of Noise
- Commodore 128 Tower Project
- Adventures In Time  read more »

Last Saturday the bi-monthly Netherlands Commodore Show had another exciting expo. You can see the show photos at

http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/jun2010col1.htm

There are two new Commodore clubs in the Pacific Northwest. First is the Portland Commodore User Group (PDXCUG). PDXCUG meets at 7 p.m. every second Thursday of the month. It's at the Sunset Lanes bowling alley in Beaverton (west Portland, OR area). And it's in a private meeting room there. The website is http://pdxcug.org  read more »

There is another SCCAN meeting on Sunday June 13, from 2 p.m. to 4+ p.m. in Southern California. If you need to know the exact location, send me a message.

Demonstrations include a look at various C= card drives for attendees to compare - uIEC/SD, uIEC/CF with IDE, and SD2IEC - and hundreds of Amiga floppy disks to try out. If you are coming, don't forget to bring your stuff to show off/demonstrate. See you at the meeting!

The bi-monthly Netherlands Commodore Show strikes with a vengeance! Saturday, June 12, the show concentrates on Commodore, Amiga, and Robots! See the original announcement (in Dutch) and get directions to the show venue by going to

http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl

and gaze at the robot photos that grace the webpage. The place -- the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21 in Maarssen, the Netherlands. The time -- from 10:00 until 16:00. Don't forget that a sales table will also be at the show.

The Fresno Commodore User Group and the Clark County Commodore Computer Club (of Las Vegas) present the sixth annual Commodore Vegas Expo (CommVEx) on July 24-25 at the Plaza Hotel, 1 Main Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.  read more »

More photos of the C4 Expo 2010 are now at

http://www.everything64.com/pictures/c4expo2010

http://65.111.241.171/arg/arg.html