Get those entries in for Blockparty 2010

[RobertB]

Join the 300+ attendees who will be coming to Blockparty 2010, April 15-18, at the Wyndham Cleveland Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A..  And get those demo entries in!  As the biggest demo party in North America, Blockparty is looking for demos ranging from the most modern to oldschool.  For the Commodore and Amiga enthusiasts, your entries can be in the oldschool, wildcard, or music compos.  In fact, the music group named Project Ruori will be having a perfomance which includes C64 SID music.  Play with the other happy people in the Video and Board Gameroom.  Open 24 hours a day, the gameroom will have everything from the most modern consoles to Commodore and/or Amiga.  Listen to the various presentations from those at Notacon 7, the event which goes on at the same time as Blockparty.

For more information, go to the Blockparty 2010 website at

            http://www.demoparty.us

or to the Notacon website at

            http://www.notacon.org

                 Yes, FCUG will have a table there,
                 Robert Bernardo
                 Fresno Commodore User Group
                 http://videocam.net.au/fcug
                 The Other Group of Amigoids
                 http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
                 Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
                 http://www.sccaners.org

[Lando]

They have sceners in the USA? I thought that they were restricted to Europe

[a1200]

I would love to come, I am sure I am already away that weekend and I would need to plan a holiday around it! Have a great time all who enter/attend, I expect it will be awesome.

[RobertB]

They have sceners in the USA?

The sceners seem concentrated in the Midwest USA and the Toronto area of Canada.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org

[RobertB]

Join the 300+ attendees who will be coming to Blockparty 2010, April 15-18, at the Wyndham Cleveland Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A..

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            http://www.demoparty.us

or to the Notacon website at

            http://www.notacon.org

Join Jim M., Eric K, and myself at the Commodore/Amiga gaming table in the games room.  We plan to have two C64 systems (one of them running Shredz64 and the Guitar Hero guitar, and the other with plenty of C64 games), a VIC-20 system (with the Rittenhouse Multicart/Development Cart, Galactic Warriors, Denial Collection 3, and more), and an Amiga 500 (with lots of games).  If there isn't enough room in the gaming room for us, we'll spill into the Notacon Radio room.

Speaking of radio, we'll have a roundtable discussion of Commodore and Amiga on the Notacon Radio channel - planned time of the talk to be on Saturday afternoon.

Speaking of radio again, we plan to have another VIC-20 system in the N7C Notacon Ham Radio room; that VIC-20 will be running the Kantronics Hamtext cart.

          Next weekend,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group
          http://videocam.net.au/fcug
          July 24-25 CommVEx v6 2010 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum
          and click on ComVEX

[RobertB]

We plan to have two C64 systems (one of them running Shredz64 and the Guitar Hero guitar, and the other with plenty of C64 games)...

    After a bit of trouble getting the correct electrical adapter on the PSX64 board for Shredz64, we got it working... much to the delight of the attendees who visited the gaming room.
     There were extra monitors there, and I hooked up a C64 DTV 30-games-in-one joystick to one.

...a VIC-20 system...

    Up and running.  That system is running like a dream.

...and an Amiga 500...

    Most popular game with the attendees... Altered Beast.  Late tonight the A500 was lent to demo coders who discovered I had brought the music tracker, Octamed Pro.  Right now they are making a demo with OP and intend to enter it in the Old School category tomorrow.  When they finish using the A500 late tomorrow night, it goes back to its place of honor in the gaming room.

...we'll have a roundtable discussion of Commodore and Amiga on the Notacon Radio channel - planned time of the talk to be on Saturday afternoon.

I found more C= and Ami enthusiasts in the show crowd and invited them to the discussion.

...we plan to have another VIC-20 system in the N7C Notacon Ham Radio room; that VIC-20 will be running the Kantronics Hamtext cart.

    After trouble with the extra VIC-20, the keyboard contacts were cleaned and the computer reassembled.  It works well now, and all that is needed is for one of the Notacon ham people to attach his transceiver to it.

          Truly,,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group
          http://videocam.net.au/fcug
          July 24-25 CommVEx v6 2010 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum
          and click on ComVEX