Greetings, all Commodore and Amiga aficionados!

The Commodore Vegas Expo v7 2011 is coming to Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on July 23-24.  Sponsored by the Fresno Commodore User Group and the Clark County Commodore Computer Club (of Las Vegas), this year's CommVEx will have plenty to tickle your C= or Ami fancy.  We have a line-up of guest speakers, great Commodore and Amiga raffle prizes (including an Amiga 2000 Video Toaster system), door prizes, freebies, and exhibits.

CommVEx hours are officially from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and on Sunday.  Late Friday afternoon is set-up time, and you are welcome to join us.  And on Saturday night, we unofficially go late into the early morning.

CommVEx costs $10 per person, whether you come for one day or both days.  Just $10.  If you want to set up an exhibit or presentation table, just pay your admission.  If you want to set up a vending table, just pay your admission and give an item for a raffle/door prize.

Our venue is the comfortable Las Vegas Club Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas, 18 E. Fremont St., right next to the dazzling Fremont Street Experience.  We'll be in the third floor, Left Field Room.  For a description of the hotel, go to

http://vegasclubcasino.net

You can book your rooms on that site or at Hotels.com (search for Vegas Club Hotel) or by telephoning the hotel and asking for the CommVEx rate.  Rates are as low as $33.60 (including taxes) per night for three nights.  (Hint: I got the lowest rates by going to Hotels.com , but the pricing is constantly fluctuating, so it is best to compare the hotel website with the CommVEx rate with Hotels.com).

To read up on all the CommVEx guests/presentations, exhibit, raffle, and hotel details, go to

http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

To read up on the latest and participate in CommVEx discussion, go to

http://www.commodore.ca/forum and click on ComVEX.

I want to thank all previous CommVEx attendees and supporters for your encouragement in the past.  I'd like to thank 5C's president Al Jackson and his club for his help and support.

Come join fellow Commodorians and Amigans who in the past have traveled in from Denmark, Belgium, England, Turkey, Italy, and Canada.  Come to learn and to have fun with the Commodore and Amiga computers.  Come to CommVEx!

Sincerely,
Robert Bernardo
organizer, Commodore Vegas Expo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

I just arrived in Vegas and will be here working for the next 4 months or so.
 
Looks like I will finally be able to attend one of the West Coast events after all.

That is good news.  I'm looking forward to you attending CommVEx.

In the meantime, if you want to attend the monthly Clark County Commodore Computer Club  meeting (third Saturday of the month), shoot an e-mail to commodorelasvegas(at)usa.com and you'll get more info.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
July 23-24 Commodore Vegas Expo v7 2011 - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

With one week to go, all the details are being finalized on the Commodore Vegas Expo.  We will have plenty of presentations, plenty of prizes, plenty of machines to use, and plenty of good, old C= fun.  As CommVEx approaches, there will be an update every day at

          http://www.commodore.ca/forum (and click on ComVEX)

and the website at

          http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

is being modified constantly to reflect what's happening.

Sunday and Monday, we'll be gathering the hardware, software, and prizes for the show.  Starting this Tuesday, I and others will be in Las Vegas, prepping for the show.

Come to CommVEx!

     The calm before CommVEx,
     Robert Bernardo
     organizer - Commodore Vegas Expo v7 2011

From the Port Commodore CommVEx site:

http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=commvex:exhibits

The Sam440 Flex and the Sam460 are modern hardware emulations of popular Amiga 68xxx machines.

You sure this Lars fellow even knows what it is he's going to be exhibiting?

And why would these machines be at a Commodore show in the first place, they have absolutely not a single thing to do with Commodore.

Perhaps you've noticed that as the years go by, shows in general carry more h/w in -general-. This is due to declining totals in patrons that would be attracted to just one platform. Surely you know this.

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I went to a local MOPAR show a couple of years ago. Attendance was down at the time but nobody was showing their Hondas.

Anyhow, I'm more interested in hearing the justification of why a SAM is referred to as hardware emulation of a 68K Amiga. Is this a mistake, or a deliberate misrepresentation?

I went to the Classic Gaming Expo (CGE) in Vegas last year and had a blast!  My wife came with me and it was our first time in Vegas.  Vegas was cool, but to have a specific reason to be there really rocks!
 
If you are going and have never been to Vegas, plan for a few extra days before or after or you'll be kicking yourself later.