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uCincinnati Commodore Computer Club
From: Cincinnati Commodore Computer
Club
Subject: Cincinnati Commodore Computer
Club Spring Expo 2007 May 5&6, 2007
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:37:13
-0500
Spring Expo 2007
Ft. Mitchell, KY Across the Ohio River
from Cincinnati, OH USA General Expo
Information C=4 is planning a super
weekend for your expo activities! The
Expo will be held on Saturday, May
5th; from 9:00 am until we decide to
call it quits on Sunday afternoon! We
understand some of you are early
birds; some of you are night owls.
We will let the demo folks tell us
when they want to present their demo!
Over 30 hours of official Commodore
activity the entire weekend! With a
room the size of 2352 square feet, we
are able to have demos and shops in
the same room, nobody will miss a
thing. Even though the C=4 Expo is in
Kentucky, it is just across the river
from Cincinnati, Ohio. The C=4 expo
will be held at the Drawbridge Inn
located at 2477 Royal Drive in Ft.
Mitchell, Kentucky. The Greater
Cincinnati Airport is a short distance
from the hotel. Airport shuttle
service is available courtesy of the
hotel. Demonstrations and Speakers
Commitments from guests will be posted
when they are confirmed: Local tourist
sites are also nearby:
http://www.drawbridgeinn.com/direction
s.asp
It is hoped that every Commodore Club
can send a representative to
experience the fun that expos create
on a regular basis. The community
welcomes like-minded hobbyists, and it
is your best opportunity to meet folks
you have yet to meet in person, or
meet again friends you have met in the
past. Spring Commodore Expo 2007
Reservation Information We hope you
decide to spend the entire weekend
with us and make it a great weekend
starting on Friday night with your
Commodore friends who decide to show
up early. Hotel Information The
Drawbridge Inn is located off I-75 and
I-71 in Ft Mitchell Kentucky. The cost
of the single rooms in the main
building is only $69 plus taxes. The
hotel is setting aside 10 rooms for
our group until April 4th. After that
date, any remaining rooms in that
block are released for general sale.
Reservations will continue to be
accepted for our group at the quoted
group rate, on a room available basis.
To make reservations for the C=4 Expo:
Name of the Event: Cincinnati
Commodore EXPO Toll Free: (800)
354-9793 In Kentucky: (800) 352-9866
(859) 341- 2800 There is an
International Airport located nearby,
with shuttle service provided by the
hotel. Expo Pricing Door Charge:
$10.00/person or $15.00/family Selling
Tables: $15/ table or $35/ 3 tables
(The hotel charges $10 in addition per
table for power usage) Tables are 6'
in length. All sellers and
demonstrators need to set up before
9:00 on Saturday morning, the doors
(for these only) will open at 7:00am.
Contact Roger Hoyer by phone, email,
or in writing.
Email:
thunderbird@iglou.com
C=4 Expo c/o 31 Potowatomie Trail
Milford, OH 45150
---
News
Star Commander A new beta of Star
Commander is out. For the changelog
see below. Probably the most
interesting improvement is that SC can
now access cbm4win under Windows
NT4/2000/XP/2003. So there is no more
need for GiveIO and alike. Simply
select "OpenCBM" as cable type at the
transfer options dialog. OpenCBM needs
to be installed for this of course.
Since this is a beta release, there
still might be bugs. Please send bug
reports to the Star Commander Mailing
List at sclist@yahoogroups.com. As
usual, the new beta is available at
http://sta.c64.org/scbeta.html.
Changes in SC 0.83.21 beta since SC
0.82: Fix: During file rename, already
existing target files are now detected
correctly under operating systems
other than real DOS, as well. Fix: The
number of sides is not detected for
disks in 1570 drives anymore. Fix: The
progress indicator counted blocks
incorrectly while copying a file from
a Commodore drive in normal transfer
mode. New: Introducing support for
accessing Commodore drives via the
OpenCBM driver (cbm4win 0.4.0 or
above) under Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003
- use the "OpenCBM" value for the
"Serial cable" option in the "Transfer
options" configuration screen.
http://sta.c64.org/scbeta.html.
DiskImagery64 0.6 released 23:17
DiskImagery64 is a portable (Qt
4.2.x-based), opensource D64 disk
image editor for Mac, Linux and
Windows. It offers a nice GUI with
drag-and-drop support between disk
images and the local file system. Runs
programs or mounts images directly in
your favorite emulator. Release 0.6
added network support: Download
programs or share disk images as
NetDrives with a single click to a
real C64 with RRNet and The Final
Replay ROM 0.6.Check it out:
http://www.lallafa.de/blog
---
BalSys v3.0
BalSys v3.0 - Valentino Zenari
released a new version of BalSys.
BalSys is a language, and development
system package designed for C= Plus/4
(or expanded C= 16). Based on the
B.A.L. (Business Assembler Language),
an existing standard for business
machines, the environment has been
improved with many high-level new
commands and features. The package is
a complete all-in-one tool: Editor /
Debugger / Executer
http://www.cbm264.com/svs/svsindex.htm
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---
Win UAE Amiga Emulator WinUAE 1.3.4
(30.12.2006)
Bugs fixed:
- Improved bsdsocket emulation
stability
- Winuaeclipboard crash fix
- Windows Vista compatibility problems
fixed
- Filesystem flag handling on FAT
volumes
- Page Down-key Input panel remapping
works properly
- Sound system improved - ECS
Denise/AGA borderblank feature works
properly
- Dualcore/SMP random freezes properly
fixed and more minor fixes.. Bugs
introduced in 1.3.3 fixed:
- AVIOutput out of sync fix
- CPU emulation condition code fix
- Fixed handle leak in bsdsocket and
AHI
- Sound pitch shifting in VSync-mode
and more..
- Catweasel MK4 mouse support New
features:
- Improved emulation of AGA sprites
outside display window
- uaeserial.device introduced.
Multi-port serial device, unit
numbers are directly mapped to PC
serial ports (unit 0 = COM0, 1 = COM1
etc..)
- Improved serial port
detection, virtual devices also
supported
- Improved Catweasel MK3/4
support without Windows driver
installed (requires TVicPort,
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/dev/port/i
ndex.shtm)
- Improved debugger features
- Sound system is not anymore
reinitialized when losing/gaining
focus
- 1M (1024KB) ROM image support
- Sound volume configuration setting
also sets AHI audio volume (previously
was Paula audio only)
- Custom chipset interrupt timing
improved And more..
http://www.winuae.net/
---
AmigaAMP a powerful realtime MPEG
audio player for Amiga computers. It
is based on the amp decoding engine by
Tomislav Uzelac and can do realtime
decoding on 50 MHz processors and up.
AmigaAMP is a completely free and
non-commercial project. Fraunhofer IIS
and THOMSON multimedia grant a free
license to use their MPEG Layer-3
audio compression technology for this
kind of software. GadTools rules!
The player comes with a fully
fontsensitive, style guide conformous
Amiga GadTools user interface and
features multithreaded non-blocking
windows for main interface, stream
information and playlist. WinAMP looks
nice, too! Too dull? Well, the same
executable can be made look and behave
like WinAMP just by ticking a checkbox
in the configuration window. It can
load all the WinAMP skins and can
display a realtime spectrum analyzer.
680x0 Realtime Decoding AmigaAMP can
do realtime decoding even on slower
680x0 processors using Stephane
Tavenard's highly optimized
mpega.library. On a 68040-40 you can
play Layer3 at half the sampling rate
and with reduced quality. Full quality
and sampling rate can be archieved
with a 68060-50. PowerUP and WarpUP
Compatible In addition to the 68k
decoder AmigaAMP comes with two PPC
native decoding engines one for
PowerUP and one for WarpUP. Both
engines feature high quality realtime
decoding of Layer2 and Layer3 streams,
graphic equalizer settings and full
visualisation.
On a PPC604e-200 you can play two
128kbps Layer3 streams with equalizer
switched on and crossfade between the
two without taking much CPU load! The
realtime analyzers will continue to
run smoothly without any latency
problems at all. AHI Compatible
AmigaAMP uses the widespread AHI Audio
System at device access level. You can
use it with any AHI compatible
soundcard as well as with the original
Amiga audio chipset. Current Features
(v2.18) MPEG Layer-2, Layer-3, AIFF,
and WAV playback MPEGit and MAS-PLAYER
hardware accelerator support
Visualisation plugin system GadTools
based font sensitive user interface
Alternatively WinAMP compatible user
interface Workbench application (Drop
icons on window) AHI device-level
access (uses default audio mode
automatically)
PPC (PowerUP and WarpUP) support
AmigaOS 4 support ID3 tag editor
(artist, title, album, etc.) and ID3v2
Playlists and Repeat mode Volume,
panning and crossfading Editable
playlists and shuffle mode with skin
support Graphic equalizer
Shoutcast/Icecast internet radio
support Planned features MPEG
decode-to-file
---
Cottonwood BBS
I've recently aquirerd a CMD HD-200
hard drive (thanks, Al!), as well as a
couple 1581's (thanks, Marco!), and
with this, I've vastly improved the
setup for my BBS. Until I get the
update for AA BBS from its author, I'm
only able to have one 16 MB partition
of the 245 MB hard drive on the BBS,
but even so, this is a VAST
improvement over what I was running.
And now, I can officially announce
quite happily that I have DIVORCED my
C=64c from the PC it was connected to.
Everything is now 100% original!
I've updated the photo of my setup on
the Cottonwood BBS website at
http://hometown.aol.com/cottonwoodbbs
Here's what the BBS is now running
on:
1 Commodore 64c Computer
1 Commodore 1084S Monitor
2 Commodore 1541 Disk Drives
1 Commodore 1541c Disk Drive
1 FSD-2 Excellerator+ Disk Drive
2 Commodore 1581 Disk Drives
1 CMD HD-200 Hard Drive (245 MB)
1 MultiTech MultiModem224 (2400 baud)
1 Black Rotary-Dial Desk Phone
1 All American BBS by Nick Smith
Check it out now at (951)242-3593.
Call and experience the world's last
remaining Commodore 64 dial-up BBS!
-Andrew(aka Balzabaar - SysOp)
http://hometown.aol.com/cottonwoodbbs/
Information from the WEBSITE +1
(951)242-3593 Located in Moreno
Valley, California, USA. Operating 24
hours a day, at 300/1200/2400 baud.
Running on a Commodore 64 with All
American BBS Possibly the only
remaining Commodore dial-up BBS in
the world!
For the best experience, call from a
Commodore computer with a Color
Graphics terminal program. To download
CCGMS 5.5 (my personal favorite), For
the best Commodore graphic experience
on a PC, call using C64Term by Greg
Pfountz. To download C64Term,
NOTE: This terminal runs in DOS using
a standard Hayes Compatible modem.
This will not run in Windows, nor will
it work with a "WinModem". For the
least desirable experience, you can
connect in ASCII mode using
HyperTerminal in Windows. Please note
that "modern" modems take longer to
connect than a modem on a Commodore
computer. Because of this, the BBS may
not appear to be doing anything when
you connect with HyperTerminal. Once
you've connected, just press enter,
and the BBS should "see" you. If you
get garbled charachters, the BBS may
have detected you as connecting at the
wrong baud speed. In this case, just
disconnect and try calling again. The
default settings in HyperTerminal
should work fine.
drewbrasil@yahoo.com.br.
---
Cottonwood BBS
Well... I did it... I've toyed around
in the past with switching to Color 64
software on my BBS. But, I've held off
in hopes that the "updated version" of
All American BBS would have support
for my CMD hard drive. After much
waiting, I've finally received that
update. However, much to my dismay, I
discovered that it has full support
for Lt. Kernal and ICT Data Chief hard
drives, but NO support whatsoever for
CMD hard drives. Well, that discovery
spelled the end of my association with
All American BBS. I will still be
releasing the final versions of AA BBS
for the 64 and 128, as well as the
source code for each, to the Public
Domain on Nick Smith's behalf,
for anyone who is interested in these
programs. More to come on this...
So it's happened, and Cottonwood BBS
is now running on Color 64 v7.37. This
was the final version written by Greg
Pfountz, Color 64's original author.
I've got a very basic setup right now,
but I have *full* hard drive support,
and all 240 MB are now online, with 26
directories of Commodore goodness. :-)
I'll be working in the coming weeks at
transferring much of my software
collection to these directories, as
well as contributions from former
Commodore BBS SysOps that are on their
way to me. I'll also be adding some
online games, and basically doing some
general "sprucing up" of the BBS. So
check out Cottonwood BBS today at
(951)242- 3593, and enjoy the "new
look". :-) -Andrew (aka Balzabaar)
DDD / DD\DD Cottonwood BBS / / \D/
+1 (951) 242-3593 \ \DD\D\ Open 24/7
at 300/1200/2400 baud \DDD\
http://hometown.aol.com/cottonwoodbbs
---
IDE 64 Happy New Year from the IDE64
staff. Hopefully we will release IDE64
V4 later this year! Thanks for the
patience to all who asked as about the
IDE64 availability and did not get
answer yet.
---
The Innercircle BBS After several
months of preparation, The Innercircle
BBS is online!!!
Telnet://innercirclebbs.com today!!
ANSI, C/G Mode, etc... Running on a C=
128D, SCPU (20Mhz), RAM Link, CMD 4GB
HD, 115,200 baud. Modified Centipede
BBS. I've put a lot of work into this
and hope it becomes a favorite amongst
everyone. Lots of files and message
bases!! Spread the word! Thanks!
telnet://innercirclebbs.com
---
Retro Vision Retro Vision 2007
International LLamasoft Jolly Retro
vision is a PRIVATE event for members
of YAKYAK and selected guests from
other forums. No General Public The
event is pub based and will use 3
areas aiming to run 20 machines at
least 1 cab and a large projector
screen. 11th -13th May 2007 Port Mahon
St. Clements Oxford Friday Opening
times 12 midday to 1am Saturday
Opening times 12 midday to 1am Sunday
12 midday V Handhelds only Ticket
booking
http://www.retrovision.org.uk/
...end...