Greetings retro computer hackers and enthusiasts, here are the highlights from our March 1, 2019 Commodore Computer Club and Users Group meeting:
- Played games via the Vectrex console, Plus/4, Amiga 600 and C64 computers
- A lot of great Commodore buy, sell, trade and free deals took place
- Commodore Club members, friends and guests socializing about all things retro
- Commodore 64 Direct-to-TV C64DTV with hardware designed by Jeri Ellsworth
- Showcased a fully restored IBM XT 5160 computer
- Tinker Time: hacking, coding, exploring new hardware, cleaning of equipment
- We had 3 working Commodore Plus/4 machines on hand. Amazing!
- Lots of tasty food and beverages provided by Pied Piper Pizza
- More details, meeting pictures and recap notes below
A really nice turnout of C64 Club members, guests and friends socializing at the First Friday of the month Commodore Computer Club meeting:
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Check out all the awesome retro Atari 2600 Activision cartridges, VIC-20, C64, Amiga and other goodness on the Commodore Computer Club’s buy, sell, trade and free tables marketplace:
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Here we have a Commodore Plus/4 computer serving up a homebrew game port of Pac-Man called Pac-Pac (July 11, 2016). Nice graphics and sound with good gameplay:
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C64 Club member Andrew playing the really fun homebrew Pac-Man clone Pac-Pac on the Commodore Plus/4 computer:
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Adrian and Ian having a great time at the Commodore Computer Club meeting. Good drinks, good food and of course retro computers:
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Justin, Tommy and Chad discussing the vintage IBM XT 5160 computer, while Doug and Steve check out the Vectrex video game console and Commodore PET 4016 computer:
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Commodore Computer Club member Martin playing games on the C64 computer using the EasyFlash 3 cartridge loaded with hundreds of classic games:
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C64 Club members, guests and friends playing games on the Plus/4, Amiga 600, Sony PlayStation Classic and IBM XT 5160 computers:
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Ian digging through a huge plastic bin filled with C64 computers, multiple 1541 and 1571 disk drives and a bunch of other retro computer stuff at the Commodore Computer Club meeting:
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Commodore Computer Club members Chad, James and Adrian having some beers while chatting about the Commodore PET 4016 computer:
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Steve from Longview, Washington enjoying playing various games on Doug’s fully restored Commodore Amiga 600 computer:
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C64 Club members, guests and friends socialing at the meeting. Such a great turnout of people from the Pacific Northwest:
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Morgan playing the game Xplode Man (December 9, 2014) which is a Bomberman homebrew clone for the Commodore Plus/4 computer:
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Adrian and Chad firing up the Vectrex game console. You can see the IBM XT 5160 and Commodore PET 4016 computers in the background:
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Jared and Andrew playing Street Fighter on the Sony PlayStation Classic game console. You can see the Amiga A600 in the background:
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C64 Club member Mark playing HERO by Activision on the Commodore 64 computer. Apparently this is one of his favorite games:
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Commodore Computer Club member Adrian helping Andrew out with his two broken C64 breadbin computers. End result… a couple of bad PLA and RAM chips:
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Check out the huge crowd of C64 Club members looking at all the buy, sell, trade and free table goodies which included a Atari Lynx I portable game console:
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C64 Club member Cory from Salem, Oregon all smiles along with Adrian who scored the Activision game Hacker for the Commodore 64 computer:
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We had three Commodore Plus/4 computers at the meeting. These two belong to Ian (left unit) and Adrian (right unit) who recently did a KERNAL modification to his personal machine:
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“Thank You” to everyone from the PDX and surrounding areas who have continued to support and attend the Commodore Computer Club and User Group meetings. It’s really appreciated.
We hope to see you at the next meeting! Come to learn, come to share.
Original article: Meeting Recap and Photos: March 1, 2019
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