Commodore Computer Club – USA

Here are some of the highlights from our March 4, 2011 Commodore Computer Club and Users Group meeting:

• CDTV Commodore Dynamic Total Vision Presentation by John Hancock
• Tinker Time: Hacking, Coding, Exploring new hardware, Cleaning of equipment
• 1541 disk drive maintenance (clean, lube and align)
• Replaced a bad 906114-01 PLA chip in a Commodore SX-64
• Discussed the 2nd Annual Cowlitz Gamers for Kids Expo
• Watched various retro Commodore computer TV commercials
• Commodore PET 4032 (Known as the Fat 40) demonstration
• Played video games via the Amiga, VIC-20, C64 and SX-64 computers
• UPCHUG members from Tacoma, WA once again in attendance
• A lot of great Commodore buy, sell, trade and free deals took place
• Enjoyed tasty food and drinks provided by Pied Piper Pizza

In the coming days after a little editing, I’ll post the video of the CDTV Commodore Dynamic Total Vision Presentation we had at the meeting.

For now why not check some of the photos taken at our recent PDX Commodore Users Group meeting in Vancouver, WA:

John Hancock getting ready for his CDTV Commodore Dynamic Total Vision Presentation:

Here’s an up close picture of the Infrared Commodore CDTV Remote Control Unit:

Dinosaurs For Hire, a video game for the CDTV Commodore Dynamic Total Vision:

Commodore Computer Club members and guests listening to John’s CDTV Commodore Dynamic Total Vision presentation:

Another picture showing the great attendance for the CDTV demonstration and presentation:

Chuck Van Pelt (Recycled Gamer) playing Pac-Man on the Commodore VIC-20:

Steve (Agent Friday) playing Frogger II: Threedeep on the Commodore SX-64. Apparently he scored the game complete in box off eBay for a really good price:

Gregory playing the arcade classic video game Gyruss on his Commodore 64C computer:

John Hancock, Ivan and Dan working on some buy, sell, trade and free deals for various Commodore items:

Chuck winning at the video game Frogger being played on the Commodore VIC-20:

Gregory playing Grid Runner on a Commodore Executive SX-64 computer:

Chuck setting up his LCD projector for the Commodore TV commercial presentation:

Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Because the Commodore is keeping up with you:

Club members and guests watching the Commodore Computer TV Commercials from the 1980′s. We all had some good laughs watching these vintage commercials:

Tom and his son Ian playing the game Artillery Duel on the Commodore 64 C64 computer:

Dan checking out our Commodore computer buy, sell, trade and free table:

Here’s a picture showing some of the retro computer items on the buy, sell, trade and free tables at the meeting:

Steve (Agent Friday) and Gordon messing around with the random number test program on the Commodore PET 4032 computer:

Up close and personal with the PET random number test program:

Jeremy, Brandon and Gregory relaxing have some food and Commodore related discussions at the meeting:

Commodore Computer Club member Jeremy playing Space Taxi which is sort of a Lunar Lander meets Crazy Taxi game for the Commodore 64:

John Hancock loves his Commodore Amiga 1000 computer as seen by him giving it a big hug:

Seth playing Punch Out on Ivan’s Amiga 1000 computer:

Ryan, Gordon and Les discussing machine language programming (book by Jim Butterfield) on the Commodore PET 4032 computer:

Tom working on his Commodore 1541 disk drive. After a little cleaning, lubing and alignment, it works perfectly again:

Testing Tom’s 1541 disk drive by doing some loading and saving of various programs before we button it back up completely:

Les and his Commodore SX-64 computer. It had a bad PLA but we replaced it and got him up and running again:

Commodore Computer Club members getting some good scores from the games free bin provided by Chuck Van Pelt aka the Recycled Gamer:

“Thank you” to everyone who came out to the Commodore Users Group meeting in Vancouver, WA. Your continued support of the Commodore Computer Club is much appreciated.

Our next scheduled meeting will be Friday April 1, 2011, so mark it down on your calendar. As always we hope to see you at the next meeting! Come to learn, come to share.

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