Pictures of the Dec. Netherlands C= Show
Ron van Schaik has announced that there are 7 pages with pictures on-line of the successful Netherlands C= Show of Saturday, December 20th.
The Innovation Awards 2008 were won by the Vice team and the 1541-Ultimate.
For the pics:
World of Commodore 2008 video
DigitalQuirk has posted a video of the opening of the Dec. 6 World of
Commodore 2008. Go to
Innovation Awards at C= Show december 20th
On saturday december 20th is our yearly Christmas C= Show at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland from 10:00AM till 16:00PM.
There's a big Commodore fleemarket, a C= lottery with big prizes and AmigaScene is present.
For the first time we will give away our Innovation Awards.
The Vice team has won the Software Innovation 2008 Award by 21.7 percent of the votes. Second place is for Acid64 (16.7%) and ex aequo on the third place OWB Webbrowser and WINUAE with both 11.7 percent of the votes. read more »
World of Commodore 2008 pictures
Glenn Holmer has released his photos of the Dec. 6 World of Commodore 2008 in Toronto. Go to
Second Commodore Computer Club UK meet in Jan. '09
Shaun Bebbington has announced the second Commodore Computer Club UK meeting to be held in January, 2009. Here is the original announcement:
We at the Commodore Computer Club (UK) will be holding it's second meeting from Friday the 23rd of January 2009, through to Sunday the 25th inclusive.
It will be held in Birmingham, B23 area, just of Junction six of the M6 (and don't worry about what Multi-Map or your Sat-Nav tells you, that really will be the easiest way to travel to the venue in most cases). read more »
More Photos of the June Netherlands Commodore Show
My photos of the June 21, 2008 Netherlands Commodore Show are now posted at
http://www.dickestel.com/netherlands.htm
Many hardware photos adorn the page, including those of the rare PDC Clipper!
Next Netherlands Commodore Show - Sat., Dec. 20
The next Netherlands Commodore Show will be Saturday, December 20, at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21 in Maarssen from 10:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m. There will be a prize given for the most innovative hardware and software creation of the last few years. Amiga sceners will be there, demonstrating Amiga OS 4.x, in addition to the C= flea market, lottery, and workshop. For more information, go to
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
Jeri Ellsworth photos and podcast from Austrian University
On October 14 Jeri Ellsworth gave a presentation at the University of Applied Technologies in Vienna, Austria. Christoph Veigl of the university has informed me that photo pages of her and rest of the event are at:
http://embsys.technikum-wien.at/staff/veigl/GenderDay/webgallery/
A podcast with parts of Jeri's talk is also available at:
http://www.technikum-wien.at/podcasts/Podcast_JeriEllsworth_final.mp3
He'd like to include the Powerpoint slides of the presentation at the university and also a videostream, as soon as authorized by Jeri.
Pics of the Oct. 18 Retro Game and Computer Show
Photographs of the October 18 Retro Game and Computer Show in Maarssen, the Netherlands have been released. To see the many pages of photos (including all the Commodores and Amigas), go to
Jeri Ellsworth at U. of Applied Technologies, Oct. 14
On Tuesday, October 14, from 10:15 to 11:00 a.m., Jeri Ellsworth is scheduled to speak at the Institute of Embedded Systems, University of Applied Technologies, Vienna, Austria. Her presentation is part of the Gender Day '08 event, which also includes an exhibition, other talks in German, and a lunch. Though the target audience is pupils, especially girls from the age of 14, the general public is invited to this free event.
Jeri's topic will be her personal experiences/ambitions with technology (which include the CommodoreOne and the C64 DTV). read more »
SC3 Arcade Party - Sept. 2008
Photos from the September 27, 2008 SC3 Arcade Party have been posted. Go to
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&fr...
Van Pong tot Playstation: october 18th
Only one and half week and than starts our yearly Retro Game and Computer event: Van Pong tot Playstation. read more »
Jeri Ellsworth at VCF East 4.0
Last year CBM engineers Bil Herd, Dave Haynie, Bob Russell, and a teleconferencing Chuck Peddle gathered at the Vintage Computer Festival East 4.0 in order to honor 25 years of the Commodore 64. The CBM engineers had their talk on Saturday, June 9, and I was fortunate to be there. Dave Haynie combined his video and my video
footage of the event and placed it on-line at YouTube.com
On Sunday, June 10, freelance engineer Jeri Ellsworth made her presentation at VCF East, and it is now available on-line. Go to
NEW Commodore 64 Album by 8 Bit Weapon!
Greetings Program!
After 5 years in the making, 8 Bit Weapon's Commodore 64 Remix album "Confidential 2.0" is now available with 5 bonus songs and all tracks completely remastered! read more »
SC3 Arcade Party on Sept. 27!
The SC3 Arcade Party comes around on September 27, 2008. Not only are there plenty of video arcade machines and modern consoles to play, there will also be Commodore and Amiga systems set up with games. The Southern California Classic Collectors Arcade Party starts at 6:00 p.m. and ends "sometime after midnight." The location -- Claremont (Los Angeles area), California. read more »
