TPUG Meeting for March 21, 2024: Chris Huelsbeck !

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

TPUG Meeting for February 15, 2024: Jessica Petersen !

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/

TPUG Meeting for January 11, 2024: Special Guest – Bil Herd !

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

TPUG Meeting For 2023-November-16: Nico Interviews Jeri Ellsworth!!

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

TPUG Meeting For October 19, 2023: Nico Gold Interviews Albert Charpentier

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.

WE’RE BACK!!! Monthly TPUG Meeting for September 2023 – I Adore My 64 and Leif’s MEGA65!!

TPUG is restarting our monthlies with the September 21, 2023 meeting starting at about 7:30PM EDT. We have two topics tonight. Firstly, Jeff Schaap is back with an update to his documentary, I Adore My 64! Secondly, Leif will bring his new MEGA65 for us to see.

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.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89739290012?pwd=M2drZ0VIdk42V1RBY2VkVWpQTHRyZz09

Meeting ID: 897 3929 0012
Passcode: 225262

Monthly TPUG Meeting for June 2023 – REPAIR NIGHT!!

TPUG Repair Night Thursday June 15, 2023 7:30PM EST. Zoom link in next post ! All systems welcome, Bring your vintage computer or Join us on Zoom ! We will be starting at 7:30PM EST on zoom with Joe Palumbo repairing Commodore 64s and Tom Luff electronica repair and play-by play with Nico Clone 64 at our usual place, the Alderwood United Church, 44 Delma Dr, Etobicoke ON M8W 4N6, Canada, starting at 7:30 (plus or minus a few minutes, thank you traffic!) and online for those who can’t attend in person via the Zoom link below.

Topic: TPUG Repair Night, June 2023
Time: Jun 15, 2023 07:30 PM America/Toronto

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88120382290?pwd=N25ybFlOSEp3MmsycHI4aTlBeFFJQT09

Meeting ID: 881 2038 2290
Passcode: 029920

We have TWO Meetings For May!!

This month we’re trying something different.

On Wednesday May 17th at 8:30PM EDT, Nico will interview Howard Scott Warshaw, creator of the ET game for Atari, amongst many others. This meeting will be ONLINE-ONLY; please do not go to the church. Zoom details:
Time: May 17, 2023 07:30 PM America/Toronto
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83003940638?pwd=MzNURHYrVnBmUUpqRSt3UnpqL3pmZz09
Meeting ID: 830 0394 0638
Passcode: 476264

On Thursday 18th at 7:30PM EDT we will have our Non-Commodore Appreciation Meeting. Bring out anything non-Commodore (or Commodore, we won’t judge) and show the world how we use to compute! This will be a hybrid meeting, physically taking place at our usual location, the Alderwood United Church (44 Delma Drive, Toronto, ON, M8W 4N6) and for those who want to attend but can’t, virtually world-wide to chat over Zoom, details below. We believe we can physically power around 5 computers this evening but even static displays can be appreciated!

Time: May 18, 2023 07:30 PM America/Toronto

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85630347727?pwd=UTdOemx4MS9rNUEvby8vS3FYTFZwdz09

Meeting ID: 856 3034 7727
Passcode: 547993

TPUG Meeting For 2023-April-20: Leonard Tramiel Who Will Be Interviewed By Nico

Recording available here

TPUG is proud to announce our special guest Leonard Tramiel (joining us over Zoom) who will be interviewed by Nico. Tramiel received his bachelor of science degree in physics from Santa Clara University in 1976 and earned his master of arts, master of philosophy, and doctorate of philosophy degrees—all in physics—from Columbia University. He worked in the Columbia Astrophysics Lab under advisor Professor Gary Chanan, now at the University of California at Irvine.

Fresh out of graduate school, Tramiel joined his father and two brothers when his father bought Atari from Warner Communications in 1984. For the next 12 years, Tramiel was involved in the development of Atari’s products as vice president of software, managing an internal group of a dozen programmers while interacting worldwide with software developers and contract programmers. Leonard Tramiel was involved in the early days of the Personal Computer and Video Game Industry, working on the Commodore PET and well as Atari ST/TT line of computers and the Atari Jaguar video game.

Since retiring from Atari at age 42, he has been concentrating on advocating science education (See Forbes magazine, Oct. 30, 2000, for his work to improve the quality of science textbooks with the California Department of Education). Tramiel has also been a volunteer eighth-grade astronomy teacher for the past 10 years and has been volunteering at the Chabot Space and Science Center since 2000.

Come join us 2023-April-20 at 7:30PM ET (GMT-4) at the Alderwood United Church (44 Delma Drive, Toronto, ON, M8W 4N6) and virtually world-wide to chat over Zoom, details below.