Commodore Vegas Expo v9
July 27 & 28, 2013
Plaza Hotel, Las Vegas, NV

COMMVEX 2013 PRESENTATIONS & GUESTS

Steve Davison, Commodore 8-Bit ubercoder presenting

Jim Drew

Jim is creator of more 60 commercial products for Commodore and Amiga computers in the 1980's and 1990's and CBM educational/support representative for Oregon from 1983 to 1985. As creator of Supercard+ for Commodore drives and Supercard Amiga for the Amiga drives, last year he talked about his new project, Supercard Pro, among other things. This year Jim will talk more about his latest projects.

Because this is the 30th anniversary of the SX-64, for every attendee who brings in his/her SX, he will give away a FREE SX-64 Ultra Reset!

Kent Sullivan + History of the SID Symphony Cart

Kent Sullivan of Dr. Evil Laboratories, the makers of the 1988 SID Symphony Stereo Cartridge, will be in attendance at the show, and he will take us back in time to when the famous SID Stereo Symphony Cartridge was made.

John Ferrell

John will have flippy modded Kryoflux and Supercard Pro compatible drives on hand for purchase as well as cleaned and aligned 1541's if anyone is interested.

In the interest of software preservation (SPS), anyone with rare or hard copy protected titles, please bring them with you and he'll be happy to make a Kryoflux dump with a G64 for you. If you'd like a remastered copy, please bring new blank floppy disks. He'll also have some available for purchase.

(His offer applies to 5.25“ Commodore 64/128 titles only). He'll have a disk cleaning station on hand and several KF units ready to go.

This includes copy utilities & collections.

If Jim Drew has the Supercard Pro's available at the show, bring your Amiga disks as well. His solution can make remastered backups of 3.5” disks as well.

Keith Henrickson

Keith Henrickson, creator of C= apps for the iPAD and iPOD, will be attending the show and may speak on his latest projects.

Shane Monroe

The host behind Retro Gaming Radio, Shane Monroe comes to CommVEx for the first time. He may be selling some of his RGR DVDs full of audio interviews.

Lars Nelson

Lars Nelson, dedicated Amiga user, returns to CommVEx with his Amiga OS 4.1 machines.

TextConvert32

Chris “CommodoreMan” Zimmerman will show how to use this Windows program in converting Commodore PETSCII text.

VIC-VODER

Robert Bernardo will give a presentation on how to use VIC-VODER, the new speech synthesizer for the VIC-20, C64, C128.

Comet prototypes

First, there was the Comet64, a user port-to-Ethernet Internet modem. Now the engineer behind the Comet64 will show the next steps in the evolution of the Comet – the CometBBS and the CometDrive!

Rebuilding the Atari/Commodore Joystick

Have an old Atari CX-40 or its Commodore joystick clone? FCUG member Louis Mazzei shows you how to rebuild the classic joystick with new parts still available from vendors!

Relax with your Commodore 64!

Robert Bernardo will demonstrate the use of the Relax Stress Reduction System which was produced by Synapse Software. Relax uses a special control box connected to the Commodore and a special, sensored headband worn by the user. He will invite attendees to “free their mind” with Relax.

Tim Waite and Votalker

Better than the Software Actuated Mouth (S.A.M.), Votalker does an impressive job in rendering speech on the C64. Tim Waite will present the software version of Votalker.