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- THE 2004 LUCKI SPRING EXPO
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- New Albany, IN
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- The LUCKI Expo 2004 got off to a
- great start as Commodoreans gathered
- on Friday afternoon at the Holiday Inn
- Express in New Albany, IN. Taking over
- the lobby, they greeted new arrivals
- and talked about programming,
- hardware, and history.
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- That night, the LUCKI Club served a
- buffet supper with three "mile-long"
- sub sandwiches. Bill Fowler led the
- older crowd in a merry sing-along.
- Then Seth "8-Bit Weapon" Sternberger
- fired up a C-64, a C-128, and a drum
- machine to bring us classic Classwerks
- music from Germany.
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- The night slipped away as everyone
- busily set up stuff and visited. K.
- Dale Sidebottom called EXPO Proper to
- order at 9 am Saturday morning.
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- First up was Roger Longhorn, from
- the LUCKI Club who demonstrated the
- "Linux Server." The box was a nifty,
- hardbound book sized PC, running SUSE
- Linux. The important thing is that
- through this server, a C-64/128 can
- access the inexpensive inkjet printers
- now on the market. GEOS/WHEELS people
- who use Maurice Randall's PostPrint no
- longer are tied to pricey PostScript
- printers.
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- But there is MORE! The Server can do
- anything USB -- including scanners and
- digital cameras. Roger pulled photos
- off a camera and used Steve Judd's JPZ
- to put the JPEG image on the C= screen
- in IFLI format.
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- The memory in the camera can as
- easily be used to store programs and
- data -- making transporting C=
- software extremely easy.
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- Next up was Greg Nacu, whose
- Modernity Group is dedicated to
- pushing the C= envelope. To that end,
- he is marketing a couple of hardware
- devices from Europe.
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- The first was the Micromys PS/2
- mouse adapter. With this plug, any PC
- mouse, track ball, etc, can be used
- with the C= machine. Even the middle
- button and scroll wheel is supported.
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- Then he demoed the IDE64 card for C=
- computers. The card plugs into the
- expansion port and allows connection
- to up to two IDE devices such as PC
- harddrives and CD-ROM units.
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- But the card has more than that. A
- Compact Flash memory card can be
- attached (as one of the drives),
- offering multi-megabytes of RAMDrive
- capacity. Another port on the card
- connects to a PC RS-232 or LPT port to
- incorporate massive storage in the C=
- environment.
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- The IDE64 comes complete with
- software, firmware, and a file
- management utility.
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