The Swedish Commodore Club (SCK) had its annual show on September 5-7.  Check out the Commodore and Amiga computers and presentations in the following videos:

Walk-through of SCK Commodoreträffen 2025

https://youtu.be/ez2adY07r68

Anemo - SCK Commodoreträffen 2025

https://youtu.be/V4b1fdu7Ado

Mical - SCK Commodoreträffen 2025

https://youtu.be/Eqo36s4tndU

          Pictures to come,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group -
          http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network -
          http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

    Check out the photos and short video of the Commodore and Amiga computers at the HCC Commodore Show (Netherlands Commodore Show) that was held at the end of August.

Photos at

http://blog.retro-link.com/2025/10/photos-from-hcc-commodore-show-in.html

Video at

https://youtu.be/WX3MZYDcpWY

          Truly,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group -
          http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network -
          http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

Jeff Flitton is working on designing a mechanical keyboard for the C128 and C128D.  See

https://codeberg.org/jflitton/the-c128-keyboard-project

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

Oh, a new game release for the C128!  It's Stunt Car Racer 128, a port of the original SCR.  You can download it at

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=257046

And videos of its gameplay are at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTMKlGbLkk

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXfyBjkwwBc

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

Quote from: BigDumbDinosaur on November 13, 2025, 01:56 AM

I wonder to what extent this respun C-64 will look, smell, sound and feel like the original.  I guess it will depend a lot on what is being used for silicon.  Is this an FPGA recreation or something built with discrete devices?

It basically uses the same motherboard as the Ultimate 64 Elite-II board except upgraded.  It is FPGA.  See https://ultimate64.com/

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

Yes, over 12,000 Commodore 64 Ultimates have been pre-ordered, according to https://slapsoft.com/c64_sales.html

And the list of those associated with the new Commodore are at

https://www.commodore.net/team

The latest video from the Chinese factory where the Commodore 64 Ultimates are being built --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BffeaLbKHkw

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

------------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Garry


The BDB Project was recently announced on intfiction.org. The project has now released 6 new text adventures:

Wild West (easy) https://bdb-project.itch.io/wild-west
Tin Star (medium) https://bdb-project.itch.io/tin-star
Desperados (medium) https://bdb-project.itch.io/desperados
Caribbean Treasure (easy) https://bdb-project.itch.io/caribbean-treasure
The Wrath of Anubis (medium) https://bdb-project.itch.io/wrath-of-anubis
Unknown Dimension (hard, this was BDB's first game) https://bdb-project.itch.io/unknown-dimension

(snip)

The games can be played online, downloaded as a z5 file to play in your favourite Z-code interpreter or downloaded as a disk image to play in selected retro computers, including Atari 130XE, Atari ST, BBC, Commodore 64, Commodore 128 and Commodore Plus/4.

Check out the Commodores at the October 4-5 Interim Computer Festival at the Old Rainier Brewery, 3100 Airport Way S, Seattle, Washington. https://sdf.org/icf/


Check out the Commodores and Amigas at the October 4 Rocklin Maker Faire, Sierra Community College! https://rocklin.makerfaire.com Our exhibit is called Classic Sacramento Area Computers! (CSAC!), and I will be bringing in various Commodores and Amigas. https://rocklin.makerfaire.com/maker/entry/784/  Other classic computers will be there also!


Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group – http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network – http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

    I recently revisited the HomeComputerMuseum in Helmond, the Netherlands, and found the Commodore and Amiga treasures better organized and better displayed than ever before!  At the following links, you can find my photos taken at the museum.

    Google puts a limit on how many photos you can display per posting, so my pics are divided into 7 parts.

http://blog.retro-link.com/2025/09/homecomputermuseum-in-helmond.html

http://blog.retro-link.com/2025/09/homecomputermuseum-part-2.html

http://blog.retro-link.com/2025/09/homecomputermuseum-part-3.html

http://blog.retro-link.com/2025/09/homecomputermuseum-part-4.html

http://blog.retro-link.com/2025/09/homecomputermuseum-part-5.html

http://blog.retro-link.com/2025/09/homecomputermuseum-part-6.html

http://blog.retro-link.com/2025/09/homecomputermuseum-part-7.html

        Truly,
        Robert Bernardo
        Fresno Commodore User Group -
        http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
        Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network -
        http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

    Our Classic Bay Area Computers! (CBAC!) page has gone live! See us at

https://bayarea.makerfaire.com/#/booth/155002000001555261?lang=en

For a look at all the other Makers at the Bay Area Maker Faire, look at

https://bayarea.makerfaire.com/#/makers?lang=en

          Truly,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

Join us and the tens of thousands attendees at the Sept. 26-28 Bay Area Maker Faire in Vallejo, California!

https://bayarea.makerfaire.com

Our booth is called the Classic Bay Area Computers! (CBAC!). I've decided to bring the Ultimate 64 with all kinds of new/old games or Commodore 128 with TeensyROM 64/128, the Amiga 1000 with Firebird accelerator or Amiga 500 with Wicher accelerator, the AmigaOne A1222+, and a Toshiba T3200SX giant laptop! My other friends will be bringing in their machines, anywhere from Tandy's to Mac's to rare Japanese computers and/or game consoles.

Though location not confirmed yet, we'll probably be in one of the Coal Shed exhibit buildings. We'll be setting up on Thursday afternoon, and then the BAMF attendees will pour in on Friday, Sept. 26. It will be a long weekend!

Writing from Haywards Heath, England,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group -
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network -
http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

Kingston University had an 8-day show featuring retro computers and game machines from 1977 to 1993.  Included were Commodores and an Amiga.  To see the walk-through video, go to

https://youtu.be/L65elNurypU

To see photos, go to

http://blog.retro-link.com/2025/08/photos-of-archive-of-retro-computing.html

and

http://blog.retro-link.com/2025/08/photos-of-archive-of-retro-computing_28.html

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

In the past, C= repair tech Ray Carlsen sold a ribbon-type cable to replace an SX-64 keyboard cable. Now he sells replica SX-64 cables which are a close match to the original ones! To see both cables for sale, go to

https://portcommodore.com/rcarlsen/cables.html

and go to the bottom of the page.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

    Ah, the last set of videos from the Pacific Commodore Expo NW!  Go to

Owens and Commodore Business Machines -  PaCommEx 2025

https://youtu.be/v_EHXUzDUkk

Bernardo and the AmigaOne A1222+ (redux) - PaCommEx 2025

https://youtu.be/pS0fbucjNtM

        Truly,
        Robert Bernardo
        organizer - Pacific Commodore Expo NW
        http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex

    Another set of Pacific Commodore Expo NW videos!  This time they are

Innocenti and his SAM440ep - PaCommEx 2025

https://youtu.be/8hqPKArnyNI

Innocenti and the VCF South - PaCommEx 2025

https://youtu.be/ZPq4xYWWK8s

          Truly,
          Robert Bernardo
          organizer - Pacific Commodore Expo Nw

    Pacific Commodore Expo NW video-uploading has resumed!  The latest videos are

Jones, C64OS, and TeensyROM - PaCommEx 2025

https://youtu.be/krB2r2TeFdA

Bernardo and AmigaOS 4 demos, part 2 - PaCommEx 2025

https://youtu.be/YqPtgxJP6OU

        Truly,
        Robert Bernardo
        organizer - Pacific Commodore Expo NW
        http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex

    Take a look at the many computers I photographed a few weeks ago at the Interim Computer Museum in Tukwila, Washington, USA!  https://icm.museum/  And a few of the computers are Commodore and Amiga!  Part 1 starts at

http://blog.retro-link.com/2025/07/interim-computer-museum-exhibit-and.html

and there is a link there to Part 2 of the pics.

          Truly,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network

    Check out more Pacific Commodore Expo NW 2025 photos at

http://blog.retro-link.com/2025/06/more-pictures-from-pacommex-2025.html

    and the second PaCommEx video to be posted --

Katie and her MIDI wind Instrument, Round 2 - PaCommEx 2025

https://youtu.be/bBozWaGuqMI

          Truly,
          Robert Bernardo
          organizer - Pacific Commodore Expo NW
          http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex

    Bernie Innocenti, programmer and attendee to the Pacific Commodore Expo NW 2025, has provided the first photos and video of the expo.  Go to

http://blog.retro-link.com/2025/06/first-pictures-and-videos-from-pacommex.html

There is a link in the above page to the Youtube video.

          More PaCommEx media to come,
          Robert Bernardo
          organizer - Pacific Commodore Expo 2025
          http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex

Oh, that is nice!  Thanks!

On the road after the Pacific Commodore Expo NW 2025,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

The station wagon is packed.  The hotels are booked.  The room is ready for even more rare Commodore and Amiga equipment on set-up day this Friday.  The PaCommEx website has been updated again on the Exhibits page and the Guests and Presentations page.  Come join us at the show next Saturday and Sunday!  We will be at

The Old Rainier Brewery Intraspace
3100 Airport Way S.
Seattle, Washington 98134

http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
organizer - Pacific Commodore Expo NW

Despite the permanent closing of the Living Computers: Museum + Labs last year, there is another Seattle area museum to take its place – the Interim Computer Museum. A non-profit charity in partnership with the membership organization SDF Public Access UNIX System, Inc., the ICM counts on museum members/donors/sponsors in order to stay funded. The ICM boasts a collection of computers ranging from tube-type, analog computers used in corporations and universities to personal computers of the 1990's.


The museum is open by appointment on Sunday and Monday. Members get extra privileges at the museum, such as access to special members-only functions. For more information on the Interim Computer Museum, go to

https://icm.museum

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group – http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network – http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
June 21-22 Pacific Commodore Expo NW 2025 – http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex


P.S. Of course my main interest at the ICM would be the Commodore 8-bit and Amiga computers!

     The next-to-last CLASS video has been uploaded. See

Bernacchia and Amiga music - CLASS 2025

https://youtu.be/3LCUImrvl44

          Truly,
          Robert Bernardo
          organizer - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show

     Some more Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2025 videos -

Bernardo and the AmigaOne A1222+ - CLASS 2025

https://youtu.be/BeL2OKtxFLw

McWilliams, Cinemaware, and In-House Software - CLASS 2025

https://youtu.be/taPLHkQWDQE

          Truly,
          Robert Bernardo
          organizer - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show

    Yup, more Commodore Los Angeles Super Show videos uploaded!  Go to

Bernardo and Amiga OS4 demos - CLASS 2025

https://youtu.be/w_rvKvziBB8

Stern and Studio 64 - CLASS 2025

https://youtu.be/O9Vheagy9t4

        Truly,
        Robert Bernardo
        organizer - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show
        http://www.portcommodore.com/class