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

We'll be upgrading the forum software next weekend - there will be a short outage.
The changes for this version are:
PHP Support
* Raises the minimum supported PHP version from 7.0 to 7.1.
* Adds support for PHP 8.4.
User Profiles
* Fixes errors when profile fields using the "nohtml" mask are given values with Unicode characters or quotation marks.
* Adds a new, separate permission for using Gravatars.
Attachments
* Several fixes and improvements for the attachment upload UI.
* Sets Content-Disposition header correctly for attachments for mobile browsers.
* Improves handling of SVG image attachments
* Adds support for WEBP images.
Editor and BBCode
* The "Quote Selected Text" button is now more tolerant of "messy" selection ranges.
* Shows "Last Edit" info (if applicable) when editing a post.
* Improves smileys popup behavior.
* Improves image quality of previews for embedded attachments in the WYSIWYG editor.
* Fixes bugs in a few edge cases when parsing BBCode.
* Centers BBCode tables wrapped in the center BBCode.
* Fixes PHP syntax highlighting in BBCode under PHP 8.3+.
* Fixes issues with broken HTML entities in warning templates.
Calendar
* Shows multiple calendar events on the same day correctly.
Search
* Fixes undefined variable error in custom search API.
* Fixes a bug where the last character of a Unicode search term could be mangled.
* Returns correct search results when post moderation is enabled.
Email
* Notification emails always use display names, never usernames.
* Improved handling of SMTP errors when sending emails.
* Fixes a bug where undeliverable emails might never clear from the mail queue.
* Accepts wildcards in email-based ban triggers.
Admin
* Updates Unicode data files in a background task. (This ensures the forum will always have up-to-date support for the latest emojis and such.)
* Fixes bug where rearranging boards in the admin center could cause some boards to temporarily not be shown.
Other
* Fixes errors in RSS feeds for messages by members with commas in their usernames.
* Fixes the integrate_error_types integration hook.
* Fixes the integrate_attachments_browse integration hook.
* Fixes open_basedir warnings in PHP 8.
* Fixes some minor UI bugs.

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

Here's a small, interactive demo that allows you to move a softsprite across a screen in 160x100 resolution (64 kB VRAM required).

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Use keys IJKL to move the ghost, X exits the program.
You can also list the sourcecode, which shows that the main loop is a regular basic program.

This uses the VDC-Basic extension which focuses on leveraging on the hardware capabilities of the VDC-Chip (block copy and block fill).
In 160x100, one byte holds two pixels.
Fully transparent bytes are skipped from block copy.
Bytes with one transparent pixel require a slow OR operation.

Still, drawing the softsprite only takes about 2 jiffies at 2 MHz.
This is using double buffering, so there's no flicker.

Looking at this, I think the C128 could have been capable of running DOS ports that never made it to the C64. Or ports that really were beyond the C64's strengths (eg Ultima VI)

You can find more information about VDC-Basic here: https://github.com/the8bittheory/vdc-basic

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