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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 l --- 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...