Note: This month’s meeting will be virtual only. We will not be meeting at Alderwood United Church.

During the week, he’s known as Bill Winters – Emmy Award winning Director of Photography. But on the weekends when it’s time to party, the Commodore community knows him as AmigaBill, the world’s greatest ambassador for everything Amiga. He founded the Westchester Amiga User Group (WAUG) in 1988, which is still going strong nearly four decades later. He was co-founder of the Guru Meditation YouTube channel, entertaining and educating Amiga fans worldwide. In recent years, he’s devoted his time to hosting an online Amiga party every Sunday throughout the year on Twitch. For Amiga users, it’s the hottest virtual gathering on the planet, a celebration that AmigaBill and his viewers call “Sunday Funday”!

TPUG normally doesn’t meet up in July and August, but we’ve made an exception this year as we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to chat with AmigaBill. TPUG and AmigaBill have collaborated before, so we’re pleased to be catching up with him. We’re trying something new this month, hosting the meeting through Google Meet instead of Zoom. Join us for a fun summer evening over the Internet, where you can watch, listen, and interact with AmigaBill.

The meeting takes place on Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 7:00PM ET. (Toronto)

Join Google Meet:
https://meet.google.com/wqi-xcmy-buw


Watch AmigaBill’s virtual tour of World of Commodore 2022:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKc1_gWPS8c

Subscribe and tune into AmigaBill’s weekly stream on Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/amigabill

Note: This month’s meeting will be virtual only. We will not be meeting at Alderwood United Church.

He delivered great presentations at World of Commodore 2022 and 2023, and now he’s back to give us an update on recent developments with Meatloaf, a Commodore IEC Serial multi-device emulator. Please join in for a riveting discussion with Jaime Idolpx and learn how you might benefit from his work in your own Commodore computing projects.

The Zoom meeting takes place on Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 7:30PM ET. (Toronto)

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/92807414758?pwd=nNZXPDiuReglj0CH0BBGzKVgxQ9MIn.1

Meeting ID: 928 0741 4758
Passcode: 704131


Meatloaf website: https://www.meatloaf.cc

Jaime’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@idolpx

Jaime’s World of Commodore 2022 presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POT7eugvWk4

Jaime’s World of Commodore 2023 presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eTijIMwo28

Jaime’s Commodore Users Europe presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXg2yNrSsgQ

Note: This month’s meeting will be virtual only. We will not be meeting at Alderwood United Church.

Please join us for an evening of discussion with a living legend – Mr. Dave Haynie. His career at Commodore began in 1983 as an engineer under Bil Herd. He was later promoted to chief engineer, and stayed with Commodore until the very end in 1994. Along the way, he worked on numerous Commodore projects including:

– TED systems – e.g. Plus/4, C16, etc.
– Amiga 2000
– A2620 CPU module
– A2630 CPU module
– Zorro III expansion bus
– Amiga 3000
– AGA chipset
– AAA chipset (Advanced Amiga Architecture)

He made a two-hour film of the last days of Commodore, from the West Chester Engineer’s perspective, called “The Deathbed Vigil and other tales of digital angst”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaTjwo1ywcI



The Zoom meeting takes place on Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 7:30PM ET. (Toronto)


Join Zoom Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/92914285269?pwd=N1gvaUVUdXRpdU9pWDZwUXd5OStrZz09

Meeting ID: 929 1428 5269
Passcode: 541145

Note: This month’s meeting will be virtual only. We will not be meeting at Alderwood United Church.

TPUG is pleased to reconnect you with one of the most intriguing entrepreneurs of the mid-1980’s home computing era. Brian Dougherty was the founder of Berkeley Softworks, the company that developed the GEOS graphical operating system for the Commodore 64, the C128, the Plus/4, and the Apple II series of computers. In addition to GEOS, the company also released complementary software and hardware such as geoPublish and geoRAM. GEOS and its ecosystem of products granted 8-bit computers the type of functionality previously only seen on more powerful computers, an ambitious feat that continues to be admired by retrocomputing fans worldwide.

Brian Dougherty will be interviewed by Toronto-based UI Designer Lucas Gramajo. The Zoom meeting takes place on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 7:30PM ET.

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88540639989?pwd=kQT21U9liMXeSP0xyFh2HjapOnbWpV.1

Meeting ID: 885 4063 9989
Passcode: 420195

Note: This month’s meeting will be virtual only. We will not be meeting at Alderwood United Church.

For C64 and Amiga gaming fans, this one’s for you! Chris Huelsbeck joins TPUG for an evening of immersive discussion on his amazing career as a video game music composer. You know him for his masterpieces from over 70 game titles such as Apidya, R-Type, the Turrican series, The Great Giana Sisters, and many others. Don’t miss out – the Zoom meeting takes place on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 7:30PM ET.

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87559512939?pwd=YVpxaXdXNGN6NTh3YTlCajV5TVErdz09

Meeting ID: 875 5951 2939
Passcode: 342774

Note: This month’s meeting will be virtual only. We will not be meeting at Alderwood United Church.

If you love programming or playing homebrew games, you won’t want to miss this presentation. Jessica Petersen is a Commodore enthusiast who specializes in the use of Turbo Rascal Syntax Error (TRSE), a complete cross-platform suite for developing retrocomputer games and demos. Learn her secrets for creating C64, VIC-20, and PET software using this amazing tool. The Zoom meeting takes place on Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 7:30PM ET.

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87851208770?pwd=bnJ0cGZsRngvUUpleXF6ZDdvbHo1dz09

Meeting ID: 878 5120 8770
Passcode: 581358

Please visit Jessica’s retrocomputing page here:
https://fuzzybad.itch.io/

To learn more about TRSE, please visit this page:
https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-but-begin/

Note: This month’s meeting is being held on the second Thursday of January, not the usual third Thursday of the month.

We’re kicking things off in the new year with a returning guest, Mr. Bil Herd. He was the principal engineer on the Commodore Plus/4, C16/116, C264, C364, and the Commodore 128. Come join us at our usual location, the Alderwood United Church, 44 Delma Dr., Etobicoke ON, M8W 4N6, Canada.

The meeting takes place on Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:30PM ET. If you’re unable to attend in person, please join us online via the Zoom link below. Thanks for attending!

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88059151457?pwd=RTEzUWM5bnc4cFpjVjZBYXNEMElEZz09

Meeting ID: 880 5915 1457
Passcode: 274933

Tonight is our annual Christmas Party!

Come join us at our usual location, the Alderwood United Church, 44 Delma Dr, Etobicoke ON M8W 4N6, Canada, starting at 7:30PM ET.

Feel free to bring snacks, food (potluck), and drinks. Christmas-themes Commodore games and demos are most welcome as well!

We are excited to host Jeri Ellsworth interviewed by Nico 64 on November 16. An American entrepreneur, computer chip designer and inventor. She gained fame in 2004 for creating a complete Commodore 64 emulator system on a chip housed within a joystick, called Commodore 30-in-1 Direct to TV. It runs 30 video games from the 1980s, and at peak, sold over 70,000 units in a single day via the QVC shopping channel. ^{(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth)}

Come join us at our usual location, the Alderwood United Church, 44 Delma Dr, Etobicoke ON M8W 4N6, Canada, starting at 7:30PM ET (plus or minus a few minutes, thank you traffic!) and online for those who can’t attend in person via the Zoom link below.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83894062666?pwd=TUZIYWNsQmVaQXIweWtDRHZId1ppZz09

Meeting ID: 838 9406 2666
Passcode: 257506

We are excited to host Albert Charpentier interviewed by Nico 64. Mr. Charpentier was Vice President of Engineering at Commodore Computers where he led the development team responsible for the C64.

Come join us at our usual location, the Alderwood United Church, 44 Delma Dr, Etobicoke ON M8W 4N6, Canada, starting at 7:30PM EDT (plus or minus a few minutes, thank you traffic!) and online for those who can’t attend in person via the Zoom link below.