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   Happy National Creamsicle Day, C= and Ami aficionados!   
      
        The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to   
   2:30+ p.m., Sunday, August 20 at   
      
   Panera Bread Restaurant   
   3590 W. Shaw Ave. (corner of W. Shaw Ave. and Marty Ave.)   
   Fresno, CA 93711   
   (559) 271-0104   
   http://www.dickestel.com/met_loc.htm   
      
        Our last meeting ran for 7 hours, a record!  Let’s not try for another   
   record this time.  ;)   
      
        For discussion, we will talk about the October Amiwest Show in   
   Sacramento, the October Bay Area Maker Faire in Mare Island, and C=   
   repairperson Ray Carlsen.   
      
        In presentations, I’ll go over the process of converting Paperclip word   
   processing files (screencode files) on floppy disk to text files on SD card   
   and readable on a PC.  For that, I’ll be using Craig Bruce’s ZED 0.77   
   80-column text editor on    
   the Commodore 128, a 1541/1571 disk drive, a SD2IEC card drive, and a PC   
   laptop running DirMaster 3.1.5.   
      
        Also we’ll try out a fully functional Commodore PC20-III, newly   
   repaired and upgraded by Duncan M. of The Other Group of Amigoids. Upgrades --   
   NEC V20 CPU which replaces the 8088 CPU, DOS 6.0, a 3 1/2” floppy disk drive   
   alongside the standard 5    
   1/2” floppy drive, a Snarker Barker sound card (Sound Blaster clone) with   
   3D-printed volume control wheel, a RGBI-to-VGA video card, and a Compactflash   
   replacing the mechanical hard drive.  On the CF card, we’ll try out some of   
   the many PC games,    
   especially games that use sound through the sound card.   
      
        Finally, we try out an Amiga 3000, also repaired and upgraded by Duncan.    
   The Agnus chip socket is replaced (due to battery damage), and the SCSI   
   mechanical hard drive is replaced (too many errors on the old mech) by a CF   
   card.  Upgrades –    
   Spectrum 24-bit video card with CybergraphX drivers, an Ariadne-II network   
   card, and a fresh set of WHDLoad games.  Still running Amiga OS 3.1, this   
   A3000 also comes with a 256 meg ZorRAM.   
                
             Is this another 7-hour meeting?!   
             Robert Bernardo   
             Fresno Commodore User Group -   
             http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm   
      
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