Check out the pictures and video of our exhibit at the April 6 Los
Angeles Maker Faire 2024! We had many attendees come and talk about
the Commodore and Amiga computers that were on exhibit. Thanks to
SCCAN member Jerold K. for helping out through the day and also for
bringing his exhibit of using a MIDI keyboard with the C64 and
Nintendo Entertainment System. Those who knew music were fascinated
what was on display.
http://blog.retro-link.com/2024/04/los-angeles-maker-faire-2024.html
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
P.S. The day started off cold and breezy as we set up our systems at 6:30
in the morning. And we didnt get electrical power until the park
engineers switched it on at 8. When we did get power, we could test out
the equipment, and I found that I hadnt brought a VGA cable for the A3000
with 24-bit video card, and I was getting no picture through the RGB port
(I found out later that if I had gone through the early start-up, I could
bypass the load of the 24-bit drivers and thus use the RGB port). So, I
put A3000 away, and I used the back-up A600. The A600 worked all the way
to 3 p.m., but then it started having loading problems, gurus, and green
screens. I attributed that to heat problems; it had always run hot in the
past. Sorry, kids, no more gaming on this computer.
P.P.S. As usual, the kids loved the games on the computers. The parents
loved talking about how they grew up on the classic programs and
computers, and showing their kids that this was a floppy disk! The more
technically-minded loved to talk about the equipment and the programming
they did back in the day (I even met an engineer whose East Coast company
used the Video Toaster and Lightwave to make videos for corporations). A
few asked where was a Radio Shack/Tandy computer (I said my Santa Clara
friend had one at the Bay Area Maker Faire), a few asked for Texas
Instruments (I said I left my TI-99 at home), and a few asked for Atari (I
said I didnt bring one this year). Looking at the Commodore PC20-III,
several said they didnt know that Commodore Business Machines had made
MS-DOS machines.
To the interested, I passed out flyers that named the California Commodore
and Amiga clubs and that detailed the upcoming West Coast Commodore and
Amiga events. Of course, I plugged the April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles
Super Show, and some said they would check it out.