Join the 300+ attendees who will be coming to Blockparty 2010, April 15-18, at the Wyndham Cleveland Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.. And get those demo entries in! As the biggest demo party in North America, Blockparty is looking for demos ranging from the most modern to oldschool. For the Commodore and Amiga enthusiasts, your entries can be in the oldschool, wildcard, or music compos. In fact, the music group named Project Ruori will be having a perfomance which includes C64 SID music. Play with the other happy people in the Video and Board Gameroom.  read more »

Photos of the February 20 Netherlands Commodore Show that was held in Maarssen are now posted. Go to

http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/feb2010col1.htm

Another Netherlands Commodore and Amiga Show will be held on Saturday, February 20, at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland from 10:00 till 16:00. The annual general meeting will be from 10:00 to 10:45. After the meeting, the show will continue. As always, there will be a Commodore and Amiga sales corner. Ruud Baltissen will conduct a Tinker Workshop and also demonstrate his 6 GB hd connected at the 1541. For more information on the show, go to

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

Deep from the coffers of RB Productions comes another historical video - Jeri Ellsworth at the Chicago Commodore Expo 2000. She was making her first presentation of the C64 24-bit graphics board, which eventually became the CommodoreOne.

See other renown Commodorians at the presentation, too -- Dave "Snogpitch" Witmer, Dale Sidebottom (who is doing most of the questioning), Steve Grassman, Per Olofsson, Linda Tanner, Ryan Czerwinski, Nate Dannenberg, Raymond Day, Steve Judd, and the voice of Roger Lawhorn.  read more »

PURE-CBM presents: Next round of the Commodore Vienna happening - 16th and 17th of January, 2010 in the heart of Vienna!

Planned program:

• Presentation of the current AmiKit version including new programs and features
• Exhibition of Commodore and Amiga computers
• Dissertation of the alternative operating system MorphOS (English language)
• Garage sale of various Commodore computers
• Sale of Commodore merchandising products
• Presentation of current PURE-CBM projects
• Talk with like-minded people
• And much more...

When:  read more »

On our website are pictures online of our C= Show of december 19th. It was, inspite of the snowy weather, a well visited show with a fleemarket, lottery and the innovation awards 2009. Look at http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/
We wish you all a happy Christmas and a good, Commodore and Amiga, New Year !

This year’s innovation prizes are won by Acid64 and MiniMig. It was a very close finish between the MiniMig and Retr0bright but after counting the votes (and cleaned up the false ones) at Sunday, MiniMig has beaten Retr0bright with one vote…… On our C= Show of December 19th we will distribute the trophy to the winners of this year. Look at http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/

A two-minute video of the Dec. 5 Toronto World of Commodore 2009 has been posted at YouTube. Go to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIE8o6aEZGA

Glenn Holmer has posted his photos of the December 5 World of Commodore show, held in Toronto, Canada. Go to

http://lyonlabs.org/commodore/woc-2009/woc-2009.html

The sixth annual World of Commodore Show will be held at the Admiral Inn Hotel in Mississauga (Toronto area), Ontario, Canada, starting at 10 a.m.. Come see the demos, vendors, and guest speakers in regards to new and innovative products for Commodore and Amiga computers. The WoC website is at

http://www.worldofcommodore.ca

The Admiral Inn Hotel is located at 2161 N. Sheridan Way, phone number 905 403-9777.  read more »

The last C= show of the year is upon us! It's the Netherlands Commodore Show on Saturday, December 19. As usual, the entrance is free! As usual, the location will be at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland from 10:00 until 16:00. As usual, there will be an Amiga scene, too, with a lot of Amiga computers present. As usual, there will be a big C= flea market. This time there will a C= "lottery with beautiful prizes". Also, prizes for the most innovative hardware and software creations of the last few years will be given out.  read more »

Pics from the Oct. 17 Retro Game event (a.k.a. Van Pong tot Playstation) have been posted! The first page starts at

http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/okt2009col1.htm

Video has also been posted of the event which was held in Maarssen, the Netherlands. Check out the Commodores! Go to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59BG42Xk_3M

On October 10-11 Retrogathering 9 was held in Stockholm, Sweden. Among the various classic computers and game consoles, there were Commodores. Find them among the photos at

http://www.retrogathering.se/gallery/

http://www.ganheden.com/links/rg2009.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liftarn/sets/72157622557646514/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/closebutnocigar/sets/72157622557968592/

INFO:

http://www.jbrain.com

Jim has made a new deal with Mark Fellows for New Jiffy Dos products etc.

Mark Fellows Btw was the original founder of CMD.

More news about this on Jim Brains website.

BIOS has posted two videos of the Sept. 12-13 Vintage Computer Festival East 6.0. The first is a look at the activities which include an excerpt of the 8static Chip Tune Concert held there, a look around the exhibit hall at the various computers (including Commodore and Amiga), various attendees trying out Shredz64 (Guitar Hero for the C64), an excerpt from Evan Koblentz's talk on Computer Development and the U.S. Army Evans Signal Laboratory, the full presentation given by Bill Degnan on the evolution of local computer clubs in the 1970's and early 1980's, and more.  read more »