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THE 2004 LUCKI SPRING EXPO
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The IDE64 comes complete with
software, firmware, and a file
management utility.
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