Well, I said I would have more details, but this is another quick report, after spending all day at the con. When I got to the gaming room at just after 10 a.m., I put aside the damaged 1541 and ran the C64 with the SD2IEC card drive. I found an appropriate video cable and combined the luma and chroma lines together with a y-cable which plugged into the composite jack of the LCD monitor I brought. I loaded up more games into the SD card for the C64. On the Amiga I ran a few demos in addition to the games.
Unfortunately, Notacon provided me with tv's that had no composite input but just RF connections; I didn't bring any RF adapter with me, and though two people yesterday said that they would bring me an adapter, they did not show up with any such thing. So, the Amiga and the C64 had to share the one LCD monitor I brought. That meant a lot of plugging and unplugging, depending on which system I wanted to show.
Shredz64, which I ran from a SD card on the SD2IEC, worked perfectly in conjunction with the PSX64 adapter and the Guitar Hero guitar. The C64 had JiffyDOS which made accessing the .D64s on the card easy.
For the Oldskool demo and music categories, there was no Commodore or Amiga representation. There were demos from an Apple IIGS and from the Apple Lisa (the first ever for that platform!).
I was on Notacon Radio for about 45 minutes, talking about Commodore and Amiga, and when Jason Scott called in, we conversed about the future Blockparty 5 in California.
More details tomorrow.
Attendance down this year at the con,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
July 23-24 Commodore Vegas Expo 2011 -
http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex