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PaCommEx 2018 | You can now watch photos from the Pacific Commodore Expo NW 2018 meeting in Seattle, WA.

Amiga Mania - Retromania.pt | Retromania.pt organizes an Amiga party in Gaia - Portugal. The event will take place on May 19 with computers, games, competitions, demo’s and music. The entrance is free of charge.

X-2018 | The organisation of the X party has announced the new dates for 2018. The X-2018 will be held in the city of Someren in the Netherlands from the 2nd until 4th of November 2018. This year there will be a demo, graphics, PETSCII and a music competition.

VCF East XII videos | You can now watch videos from the recent Vintage Computer Federation East XII meeting: Dean Notarnicola - Tandy TRS-80, Jeff Salzman - Commodore 64 PAL Assembler, Evan Koblentz - VCF Tales, Brian Stuart - Forth, Dave Test - Vintage Computing with Raspberry Pi, Todd George - Commodore PET Repair, Corey Cohen - Apple II Repair and David Gesswein - DEC PDP-8 Overview.

Syntax 2017 | The Syntax 2017 party will be on 25 and 26 November 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. This year a combination of a retro computers, programming, chip music, graphics and hardware projects.

RetroKomp / Load Error 2017 | The RetroKomp / Load Error party will be on 20-22 October 2017 in Scena Muzyczna GAK, Gdańsk, Poland. This year a combination of a retro computing event and an oldskool demo-party with a GameDev compo for all retro platforms.

Pacific Commodore Expo NW | You can watch the following presentations of the Pacific Commodore Expo NW. SwiftLink RS-232 cartridge by Kent Sullivan and Bryan Minugh. Opcodes and the Commodore Cartridge without EPROMs by Noel Nyman.

BCC Party #11 - Compo results | C64 Demo: Trafolta, Vega & Lollipop. C64 Graphics: Secret of the Forbidden City, Love in Time of Laser Raptors & Compufreak. Wild Demo: Angracer & BASIC 2.0. Mixed: Slipstream, Super Marioahner Sisters & Fruchtbärchen. Mixed Demo: Nomad, HF Empire Intro & Monitori Te Salutant

Revision 2017 | Revision is a Demo party which takes place from April 14th until April 17th 2017 in Saarbrücken, Germany. The competitions are: PC, Amiga AGA/ECS, C64, VIC20, Atari XL, Atari ST, NES, SNES, Master System, Mega Drive, ZX Spectrum etc. Other categories are: Music, Graphics, Web browser, Game, Animation/Video, Wild and ASCII/ANSI.

Retro gaming party - retromania.pt | On the 13rd and 14th January there was a retro gaming party, organized by retromania.pt, at an university in Portugal. Several retro computers were there ready to use by the visitors, including the Commodore 64 and the Amiga.

X-2016 | The results of the X-2016 competitions are available.
C64 Demo:
1 - The Phoenix Code (Bonzai)
2 - Lunatico (Lft)
3 - Wonderland XIII (Censor Design)

C64 Music:
1 - Rastaline Dub (LMan)
2 - High Roller (Flex)
3 - The Ugly Arpling (Stinsen)

C64 Graphics:
1 - Song for the Dead (Duce)
2 - Them Apples (ptoing)
3 - No Shit (Mermaid/redcrab)

Mixed Graphics:
1 - We Are All Ejected (SHAPE)
2 - Pipe of Picard (Extend)
3 - BOSSE (Genesis Project)

Bunkerparty 2016 | Dienstagstreff organises a Commodore meeting from 9 until 11 September in Bochum - Germany. You can stay for three days and the food and drinks are included in the entrance fee. You can also participate in the Mixed-compo (demos, graphics or games).

Explora Commodore 2016 | You can now look at the photos of Explora Commodore 2016. This meeting was held on 7-5-2016 in Barcelona Spain. They had a line-up of almost all Commodore computers: PET, VIC-20, Max Machine, Commodore 64/128, Commodore 16, Plus / 4, Amiga 1000, 500, 2000, 600, 1200 and the 4000.

AROK - 2016 | The AROK party for this year is scheduled for 29-31 July 2016 in Ajkarendek, Hungary. This year: exhibition, live concert (SIDRip Alliance), 8-Bit generation: The Commodore Wars is all about the rivalising platforms of the 80s, seminars and competitions for game, graphics, music and demo.

Dutch KickOff 2 Championship 2016 | On April 2nd 2016 the Dutch KickOff 2 Championship will take place in Amsterdam. The game will be played on classic Amiga's and you can compete in 2 halves of 5 minutes each. The location of the championship is the Cafe Batavia in Amsterdam.

1989 Party | HK, Jetset and Desire are organising the 1989 Party in the Utrecht, the Netherlands on Saturday 30 April 2016. The competitions will be Demo: C64 and Amiga 500 (512 KB FastRAM). Music: Paula or SID (Maximum of 3 minutes.). Graphics: C64 and Amiga 500. Story with characters: PETSCII C64 and Topaz 1.3 Amiga.

World of Commodore 2015 | The Toronto PET Users Group published a series of photos from the World of Commodore 2015 meeting. The meeting was attended by: Bob Yewchuck, Jim Brain, Joe Palumbo, Zbigniew Stachniak, Leif Bloomquist and Trevor Grove.

Amiga 30th Birthday - California | Robert Bernardo made videos of the 30th birthday of the Amiga meeting in California. In the videos: RJ Mical, Dave Needle, Joe Decuir, Ron Nicholson, Jim Mackraz, Peter Cherna, Spencer Shanson, Colin Proudfoot, Allan Havemose, Trevor Dickinson, Arne Blix, Hogne Titlestad, Bill Bosari, Zach Weddington, Jason Scott, Joe Torre, Steve Solie, Perry Kivolowitz and Eric Lavitsky.

Forever 2015 awards | The results of the Forever 2014 party are available. The winners are C64 demo: Rainy Days by Singular, C64 music: Hexadragon by Factor6/Trophyx, C64 graphic: Fish & Wish by Leon/Chorus/Resource/Singular, C64 1kb intro: Rotzom01 by Busy & Noro.

Amiga: 30 Years | On June 27th 2015 there will be a meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to celebrate 30 years of Amiga history. There are more people added to the guest list: Team Hoi, Petro Tyschtschenko and John Hare.

Amiga: 30 Years | On June 27th 2015 there will be a meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to celebrate 30 years of Amiga history. There will be many Amiga computers on display but also the KryoFlux team, Dave Haynie, David Pleasance, Christian Bartsch, István Fábián, Ultimate PPC team, Franck Sauer, Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott.

Happy 2015 | I wish all of you Commodore users a very happy 2015. I hope that we all can enjoy our Commodore hobby in 2015, play games, develop software or hardware, watch demos, visit meetings or just chat about Commodore.

Richard

X-2014 | The results of the X-2014 competitions are available. C64 Demo: (1) Comaland by Censor Design, (2) Uncensored by Booze Design, (3) RGB by Fairlight. C64 Music: (1) 64 Forever by Linus, (2) Featuring Daft Punk by Randall, (3) Title Needed by 6R6. C64 Graphics: (1) Duck it! by Pal, (2) Tentacles by redcrab, (3) Fakers Home Boobs Palace by Yazoo.

Commodore C64 - ZX Spectrum | At the Play Expo 2014 one of the biggest battles took place. The big question which one is better the Commodore C64 or the ZX Spectrum. In this debate for the ZX Spectrum are: John Gibson and Ste Pickford, and in for the Commodore C64: Andy Walker and Jeff Minter.

CommVex 2014 videos | You can watch videos from the CommVex 2014 meeting in Las Vegas USA. In the videos you can see Matt Brewster with the MIST (FPGA hardware emulator for the Amiga), Jim Drew with the Supercard Pro and Greg Alekel with C64 screen casting.

Home Computer Show - 2014 | The Home Computer Show is a show for retro computer users. You can visit the show or present your own computers on the show. The activities are hardware and software demonstrations, presentations, game competitions and a market. The meeting is on the 17th of May 2014 in Hilversum, the Netherlands.

X-2014 | The organisation of the X party has announced the new dates for 2014. The X-2014 will be held in the city of Someren in Holland from the 24th until 26th of October 2014. This year there will be a demo competition (real machine), graphics competition (still picture) and a music competition. And Dane from Booze Design will keep everybody awake with his DJ set.

1991 Party | The results of the 1991 party are published. Amiga demo: Subi's 1991 Mix, Magic happens in 1991, Ricktro/Mellow. C64 demo: 1991, Panda power! PC/Wild: WOOP WOOP!, 1991 donut, BBS intro. Graphics: Plan B, Dakmannen, Stilleven. Music: Dirty new foot, African Smile, Fannypack. ASCII/PETSCII: 1991, Desire neon-frame. You can read all the details on the 1991 party web page.

1991 Party | HK, Jetset and Desire are organising the 1991 Party in the Hague, the Netherlands on Saturday 16 November 2013. This will be an underground reunion of the demo scene from 20 years ago. The competitions will be music, pixels, Amiga and C64. You can read all the details on the new web page (Dutch language).

RetroKomp / LOAD ERROR 2013 | The RetroKomp / LOAD ERROR party was held on 26 &27 October 2013 in the Polish town of Gdansk. You can now view all entries: Wild demo: Limon REU WAVE Player v3.0d by Data, Forever Young by Tropyx, 50 Shades of Grey by Elyta. Mixed Graphics: Back Home by JSL, Cashback by Sebaloz, Kind of Magic by Data. Mixed Music: No More Italo by Factor6, Wasted Time by Genesis Project, Ye Ba Ny by Surgeon.

AmiWest 2013 | AmiWest 2013 is an meeting for Amiga users in Sacramento, USA. You can watch videos from this meeting on YouTube, the topics are: Cyrus plus board, Score, Codebench, Rebol, Full Motion Video, A-Eon update, X1000, Panel discussion and the Amiga games from last year.

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