How about that Commodore 64!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:50 pm

Boy, if only there were a convention in Vegas regarding it, with someone incurably crazy tagging along like Paul Panks.

Oh, well. A boy can dream!

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:23 pm

You know, it's funny you should mention that.

Some Guy on the C-One Mailing List wrote: Jeri Ellsworth, CommodoreOne and C64 DTV designer
Todd Elliott, GEOS programmer
Cameron Kaiser, HyperLink programmer
Earl Williams, editor of the Infinite Loop newsletter
Dick Estel, editor of the GEOS Fonts Compendium
Paul Panks, C= adventure programmer and book writer
Steve Dubois, leader of the Manteca Order of Retro-Gamers

Rolf Miller, writer of C= articles, has confirmed his attendance at the
July 30-31 Commodore Vegas Expo. CommVEx will be held at the Nevada Power
Company meeting room, 6226 W. Sahara Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Hours are
10 a.m to 9 p.m. Saturday and 12 noon to 9 p.m. Sunday. For more information,
go to http://members.shaw.ca/commvex05/ or write to CommVEx05(at)shaw.ca

Jeri's hot. And Paul Allen Panks is a fucking psycho.

So I think we should go, and drink ourselves stupid, and gamble some, and play with C-64s.

Bruce

Roody_Yogurt · Post by **Roody_Yogurt** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:59 pm

Sorry, I meant to respond to that e-mail but put it off. Anyhow, I was figuring a C64 convention's scope would be a little too narrow to make the trip worth my while; I'd rather just meet up in Vegas and fill all the time ourselves.

To meet Panks is actually tempting, but only the appearance of Troy Miles or Ed Bogas would truly induce me to go to one of those things.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:14 am

I bet it takes three times as long as normal to actually GET to the convention and when you do, anyone you talk to has to keep looking on a notebook for replies to your questions/comments. Then they will randomly freeze up and stare into space in the middle of a conversation, causing you to pound them on the side in frustration. You will then need to initiate the whole process over again.

THE
I'VE SEEN IT
HAPPEN
AARDVARK

chris · Post by **chris** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 5:26 am

Actually, you'll start a conversation with one of them, and it'll take 15 minutes to get an answer out of them.

Unless you stick your "Fast Load" cart in 'em.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:13 am

Roody_Yogurt wrote:Sorry, I meant to respond to that e-mail but put it off. Anyhow, I was figuring a C64 convention's scope would be a little too narrow to make the trip worth my while; I'd rather just meet up in Vegas and fill all the time ourselves.

Well, sure. It does pretty much become an excuse to carouse. Actually attending the C64-related items could be optional in Vegas, like pants.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:53 am

I ain't going to breakfast.

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:12 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:
Roody_Yogurt wrote:Sorry, I meant to respond to that e-mail but put it off. Anyhow, I was figuring a C64 convention's scope would be a little too narrow to make the trip worth my while; I'd rather just meet up in Vegas and fill all the time ourselves.
Well, sure. It does pretty much become an excuse to carouse. Actually attending the C64-related items could be optional in Vegas, like pants.

Yeah. Sheesh, Rudy.

OF COURSE we're going to show up late and drunk to the C64 events, heckle Panks, puke on his shoes, and jet.

Bruce

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:29 pm

pinback wrote:I ain't going to breakfast.

"It smells like ham in here."

"Oooooooo... kay!!!"

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:34 pm

bruce wrote:Yeah. Sheesh, Rudy.

OF COURSE we're going to show up late and drunk to the C64 events, heckle Panks, puke on his shoes, and jet.

Yeah, come on now Yogurt! Nobody is implying that there's going to be studying involved or that you have to take a test at the end of this. If it's been five minutes since downing indigo shit that could be anything from a blueberry martini to Ty-D-Bowl with rum in it then it's been far too long.

Is there even a keynote speaker here? Worth skipping, I'll guess. "Jack Tramiel -- Still Kind of an Asshole?" "30 Years Later, We Still Like a Shitty Platform," and "Hey, Who's Got an MP3 of The Blue Max Theme Song?" look like where the smart money is as far as I'm concerned.

Vegas has people who take an active dislike towards the hardware in question still dropping by. What a city!

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:41 pm

Nothing says "retrocomputing" like a plastic football full of beer.

Bruce

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 5:41 pm

What is there to convention about regarding the C=64 anyway? Is this like some high school reunion thingie where all the old school programmers get together, get drunk and whine about the lack of hi X bits in the Boulderdash series? seriously, what is new with the Commie these days? I remember seeing something about some kind of bastardized internet browser program, but really, why bother..

THE
EMULATOR
ABANDONWARE
LEMON
AARDVARK

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:25 am

AArdvark wrote:What is there to convention about regarding the C=64 anyway? Is this like some high school reunion thingie where all the old school programmers get together, get drunk and whine about the lack of hi X bits in the Boulderdash series? seriously, what is new with the Commie these days? I remember seeing something about some kind of bastardized internet browser program, but really, why bother..

Well, the C-One is totally cool. And Contiki--the graphical OS with the TCP/IP stack--is also totally cool.

So there.

Bruce