Posted By
RobertB
on 2017-01-21
05:24:59
|  Next SCCAN meeting - Saturday, January 28
Happy New Year, C= and Ami comrades!
The next meeting of the Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network is Saturday, January 28, from 2 to 4+ p.m. at
Panera Bread Restaurant
19662 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, California
(818) 407-9400
Richard will be bringing his Amiga 600 with Vampire 2 accelerator. I'll be bringing in the new Ray Carlsen power supply for the VIC-20 (early model) and the new C128 Video DAC from Pyrofer of England. Bogdan will bring in a couple of Commodore calculators and a Commodore book on calculators. The AmigaOne XE G4, VIC-20, Plus/4, and SX-64 will be available for the members' use.
Discussion will revolve around the Viva Amiga film that was just released; the film, From Bedrooms to Billions: the Amiga Years; the .PDF release of the early chapters of the book, Commodore: the Amiga Years; the Ultra Reset for the SX-64, the Pacific Commodore Expo NW, and the Commodore Vegas Expo.
Bring anything else you wish to share!
Back from the Caribbean,
Robert Bernardo
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
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Posted By
MMS
on 2017-01-22
05:45:34
 | Re: Next SCCAN meeting - Saturday, January 28
Aaaah, that Vampire2 card. It is unbelievable.
It is soooo much faster than anything we called classic Amiga, even faster than the fastest A4000 with 68060 card.
Why I am so interested in, though I have no Amiga yet? (I mean I have a non-working A500, but after Vampire 500 will appear, may consider repairing it)
I think that the A600 is the real successor of the Plus/4, if you have ever seen one in black mod, you will understand.
It has no improved AGA video chip (so a little behind A1200), but already had native HDD and PCMCIA support.
So with proper CPU speed, (compact flash) HDD and now with HDMI video it is a perfect small home Retro PC you just connect to your TV, and ready to go  .
If you look for this video on the Vampire2, (one of the developers (Majsta) speaks about the design challenges on Balcan Computer Congress), you will be surprised, what computer he has on his right:
A Plus/4+1551 :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNjuulAWntc
He said: "when using wit DDR3 memory, the upgraded Amiga 1200 can be on par with modern computers." :-)
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2017-01-25
01:52:19
| Re: Next SCCAN meeting - Saturday, January 28
MMS wrote:
> I think that the A600 is the real successor of the Plus/4, if you have ever seen one in
> black mod, you will understand.
I've never seen that. Was it spray-painted?
> He said: "when using wit DDR3 memory, the upgraded Amiga 1200 can be on par with
> modern computers."
That's amazing!
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
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Posted By
MMS
on 2017-01-25
10:55:42
| Re: Next SCCAN meeting - Saturday, January 28
FYI
http://imgur.com/z5dJ161
I prefer matte paintings, but harder to keep it clean :-)
Anyhow the Vampire card is not a cheap one, and a second hand one may go up to 500USD too.
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Posted By
Richard42
on 2017-02-15
01:26:46
| Re: Next SCCAN meeting - Saturday, January 28
Yep I showed the A600 with the Vampire 2 at the last meeting. I had prepared some software to demo the power of the CPU card - a few really impressive fractal rendering programs (one was an iterated function solver and another was a mandelbrot zoomer) and 32-color Wolfenstein 3D, which attracted some attention. I had also prepared Gloom 3D but forgot to bring the floppies. 
Robert, I missed your showing of the C128 Video DAC. Maybe next time, I would like to see the new design.
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2017-02-15
02:24:27
| Re: Next SCCAN meeting - Saturday, January 28
Richard42 wrote:
> ...I missed your showing of the C128 Video DAC. Maybe next time, I would like to see the new design.
Heh, I'll have to dig it out again.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
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