Happy hot weather, FCUG members and guests!   
        The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 1+   
   p.m., Sunday, May 18, at  --   
      
      Bobby Salazar's Mexican Restaurant   
      2839 North Blackstone Ave. (corner of Blackstone and Michigan)   
      Fresno, California   
      
        Courtesy of Tim Harris at Sharewareplus.co.uk, we'll try out the   
   uCassette (microCassette).  As described in its flyer, "The uCassette   
   interface is a device that converts the audio signals from the   
   playback of .WAV files and/or .MP3 to TTL signals..." which are picked up by   
   the cassette port on the Commodore. So, the uCassette is usable by any   
   Commodore computer with a standard cassette port.  Load   
   cassette files without the need of a Datasette!   
        For the Commodore 128 in 80-column mode, we'll wade through the large   
   binder of instructions and the program itself, Family Roots from Quinsept.  It   
   is an extremely comprehensive genealogy program, the   
   best I have seen for the Commodore.  Thanks to Justin Jernigan. of the   
   Mid-Atlantic Retro-Computing Hobbyists for donating the program.   
        Speaking of MARCH, we'll see some raw footage from their Vintage Computer   
   Festival 9.1 which was held on April 6-8.  Just a taste of that footage... We   
   walk around the VCF East exhibit halls and vending   
   room, Mike Hill tells about his latest version of PETpix, CBM engineer Bil   
   Herd talks about monitor repair, interspersing it with CBM stories; CBM   
   engineer Dave Haynie talks about CBM's latter years, and Zach Weddington shows   
   off clips of his upcoming    
   Amiga film, Viva Amiga (o.k., maybe part 2 of all of this for the June FCUG   
   meeting).   
        Last but not least, we'll go through the process of installing the 256   
   meg ZorRAM memory board into an Amiga 3000 computer.   
      
             All that and talk of the July 27-27   
             Commodore Vegas Expo v10,   
             Robert Bernardo   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)