Here is the 1541 disk drive autographed by actor/writer/producer/director William Shatner during the William Shatner Weekend in April, 2013.  As usual, Jane, the event organizer, explained to Bill what he was signing, but Bill had to peek under the post-it note covering the front so he could see the Commodore name. :)

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group

http://videocam.net.au/fcug

July 27-28 Commodore Vegas Expo v9 -

http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

The boards of a CMD FD-4000 and a CMD FD-2000

A FD-4000 drive (note that the FD-4000 DOS sticker is missing)

A FD-2000 drive

In a discussion at  http://www.commodore128.org/index.php?topic=4581.msg22353;topicseen#msg22353 , RCTech talks about how he modded a FD-2000 to be that of a FD-4000.  Above are photos of the top sides of the boards from my drives. The FD-4000 has a clock chip that sits under the FD-4000 DOS chip; the FD-2000 has no clock chip.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
July 27-28 Commodore Vegas Expo v9 -
http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

Photos from the March 9 SCCAN meeting

Simon B. and Richard G. try out the Video Game Museum

The Amiga 1200 Tower running OS 3.9

Specs on Richard G.'s Video Game Museum

The VGM unpacked and ready to go

The heart of the VGM with its solid-state drive

Guess the arcade game!

Richard packs everything in this big travel case!

At the March 9 meeting of the Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network, we were treated to Richard G. bringing in his Video Game Museum.  Very impressive!  Afterwards, the guys played around with the Amiga 1200 Tower.

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network

http://www.sccaners.org

Chocolate Commodore cake

The guys at the last FCUG meeting gave me a chocolate Commodore cake (courtesy of Goodies Bakery in Visalia).  Yum!  There was too much left-over, and so, the next day I brought it to school and let the students devour it.  :)

Truly,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group

http://videocam.net.au/fcug

A quartet of C64 video digitizers

ComputerEyes from 1985

Print Technik Video-Digitizer from 1986

Video Byte II  with Super Explode V5.0 from 1989

Scanntronik Video Digitizer from 1990

All four of the video digitizers

For the February 17 meeting of the Fresno Commodore User Group, we are trying out the four classic C64 video digitizers pictured above, from the very first one that I know - ComputerEyes - to the last, most sophisticated one - the Scantronnik Video Digitizer - which scans in red, then green, then blue and puts the 3 images together to form one, colored picture.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

FCUG celebrates SX-64 30th anniversary!

The members study their SX-64s.

Deep in thought

The SXes naked

On January 20, 2013, we gathered at our meeting of the Fresno Commodore User Group.  This was no ordinary meeting.  It was day of the Global SX-64 Party, an international celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Commodore SX-64, the world's first color transportable computer.  We started the meeting by Skype-communicating with Berry de Jager, organizer of the day, who was in the Netherlands.  Then after lunch, it was time to play with the SX-64s!

For my summary of the meeting, go to http://www.commodore128.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=a18968232686b6f0b51a1e44c98f932a&topic=4498.msg21966;topicseen#msg21966

More photos and video to come,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

January 13 SCCAN meeting

Matt B. and Dan L. look over the MCC-216 easy installer

The Capture II cart on a SX-64

The SX-64 displaying the Capture II menu

The Capture II menu

A close-up of the Capture II

At the January meeting of the Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network, Matt B. showed off v 0.9 of his easy-to-use installer for the Multiple Classic Computer 216 (MCC-216).  With his installer, it is relatively easy to add cores, menu files, and games into the MCC-216, all correctly placed within its directory structure. Screenshots of this installer to come later.

Also we looked at the operation of the Jason-Ranheim Capture II cart, one of the first program freezers for the Commodore 64.

Our next meeting is tentatively set for the March 9 weekend.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org